I had been growing pineapple plants for seven years, keeping them in our heated garage over the winter for six of those years. Jessedotsmom, this winter, decreed that these ugly, dirty waste-of-time plants were no longer welcome in our garage over the winter. So, I took them into work, near a large window with plenty of sun.

Krishna be praised, they flowered at Christmastime and produced lucsious fruit late this spring. This post is dedicated to the death of these three pineapples, and what a complaining woman can do to right her wrong.

P.S. For all you newlyweds, before we got married she "loved hockey". Haven't seen a game on my home TV in 35 years.

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The B1G Scheduling Gods have finally smiled on Happy Valley. BOB is going to get plenty of opportunities to develop this team for the two late-season tough games. Plus, the highest-rated B1G teams, Michigan State and Michigan, are not on the schedule.

The NFL draft results showed the team lost numbers but did not lose irreplaceable quality with last year's graduating class. Penn State will have a speedy and talented roster, with plenty of experience at the skill positions. One very important PSU advantage is the very-experienced Matt McGloin, who moves the sticks better than any of PSU's B1G opponents's QBs.

PSU will be double digit favorites against most of the schedule, including the Ohio State Game at home, and will be a favorite in all games next year, except for a tough contest at Nebraska, and a tossup with Wisconsin at home.

I suggest that anything less than 10-2 will be a disappointing season, and 11-1 is a possibility.

Of course, there will be a few maniacs who predict 12-0 before PSU wins it's bowl game, but I am not one of those crazies.

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Ever since the development of color television broadcasting, physicists have ceased generating any useful information, and are, instead, becoming more and more like Mullahs and Priests.

They have developed theories (mostly mathematical equations) to explain and predict natural occurances. But sometimes, they take the math, and completely abandon logic and common sense, to propose outlandish theories that five-year-olds find bizarre. For example, we have….

-Big Bang Theory

-Parallel Universes

-Wormholes for Time Travel

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This article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer claims that most schools in the B1G have begun offering 4-year scholarships.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/01/big_ten_offering_recruits_secu.html

Does anyone know if PSU is one of the schools doing this?

BCS National Champion Rule-Bender Alabama has managed to sign 27 recruits this year, making it the only 'school' in the country to have exceeded the 25-recruit limit intended by NCAA rules for five consecutive years. That run is even more impressive than the SEC-dominated BCS farce. LSU even managed to hold itself back to 25 recruits in one of the last five years!

B1G ten teams, at the other end of the spectrum, have been hell-bent-for-compliance under the 85 total, 25 annual limits. Now, Jim Delaney is showing his leadership abilities again in encouraging B1G schools to grant 4-year scholarships, instead of the 1-year deals required by the NCAA. The man continues to make the B1G proud.

Giving Alabama some credit, it has come a long way from the 1930 to 1945 period, when approximately 3000 freshmen football scholarships were offered. That's right, 200 per year for 15 years. They used to brag about their farm system being better than the New York Yankees, and throw hundreds of players out of school each year.

Also, give Alabama credit for improving over the debacle in 1963 when Georgia Tech left the SEC in disgust, because Bobby Dodd refused to compete against a school that would not stay in compliance with the 140 scholarship limit for football/baseball combined then in effect.

The unbalanced playing field in big-time football continues to get worse, and ESPN and the media celebrate it every day of the year.

History tells us that Alabama, and the rest of the SEC, just can't help themselves. Somebody has got to go down there and do it for them. It will take the NCAA to enforce compliance with decent recruiting practices for this situation to change. The SEC, and their stool-pigeon lackeys on ESPN are not capable of doing this good for themselves.

Meanwhile, I look forward to learning that PSU has taken Delaney's lead in this 4-year scholarship matter. Unfortunately, it will affect the B1G very little, since that is standard practice in this Conference of Universities. It is the Football Factory Conferences that need to be changed, starting with the SEC.

For the Glory of the B1G!

Joe from Boalsburg

The longer you live, the more you know. Darwin theorized that you either get smarter as you get older, or you tend to self-exterminate. Stable civilizations have taken advantage of this simple fact of life, and revered the knowledge of their tribal elders for eons.

With age comes experience and knowledge that cannot be replicated with internets or Ipads. In general, everything fundamentally important in life that young folks are dealing with now are things that have been dealt with by their elders a generation ago, and so on.

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Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 16-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

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Ever since the Steelers picked Franco Harris over a much-more-heralded Lydell Mitchell as a first-round draft choice back in the early Seventees, I have been a Steeler Fan.

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Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

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Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

Continue reading this post »

Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

Continue reading this post »

Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

Continue reading this post »

Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

Continue reading this post »

Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

Continue reading this post »

Oversigning is a clear-cut competitive advantage that drastically tips the playing field in favor of the, for lack of a better word, Cheater. (I realize that there are glaring loopholes in this rule, so cheating is not the legally correct word.)

The results of oversigning on competitive balance are clearly shown by analyzing the results of this year’s bowl games. Teams offering more scholarships than their opponents went 15-4 in this year’s bowls. Almost all of these bowl winners are oversigning cheaters.

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The last time a PSU football team lost a game in the state of Texas, Buddy Holly was still in Lubbock High School.

Since losing to Texas Christian 20-6 in 1954, Penn State has not lost a football game in the state of Texas, winning all nine games played there. Throw in the 38-15 1996 Fiesta Bowl win vs Texas and PSU is 5-0 all time versus Texas Teams in Bowl Games.

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The B1G needs bowl wins, lots of them, for several years, in order to upgrade the notion that the conference is top notch. So, what do they do? Deliberately snub the Leaders Co-Champion in favor of Northwestern, who has not won a bowl game since the last big asteroid hit Mexico, and the worst Iowa team in memory to play Oklahoma.

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Congrats to Purdue on their BOWL WIN over a pass-happy Western Michigan in the Mitch Rider Bowl. They have shown PSU the roadmap to beating a team with good passing game, even without a good defense!

That is, recover two on-side kicks, recover several fumbles, hold of for dear life, and win by five!

Anyway, that's better than most B1G teams do in bowls. Next, comes Iowa and Northwestern, two teams that were picked over Penn State. Here's hoping that at least one of these double-digit dogs will surprise the Vegas crowd.

Tired of poor B1G bowl performances, and a lot of other crap that I can't control, predict, or understand.

Bowl Game? Out The Door, To The Left, One Cross Each!

For The Glory, and Boiler Up!

Joe From Boalsburg

Not only is PSU (with Iowa a distant second) a lonely bright spot in the B1G Bowl record (see previous post on B1G plumb pitiful bowl performances). There are about fifty teams that have appeared in at least 20 bowl games. In this group, the Nittany Lions are number one bowl winning percentage.

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The Bowl season is upon us, and Adam Rittenberg posted some bowl record information in his blog. I have taken the information, re-arranged the data and presentation, and have it listed below.

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WIth apologies to Cheech and Chong, unlike last year, where the teams were B1G-time dogs in most contests, this is a year where,,,,,

Iowa and NW will pay big time for PSU being passed over....

and the rest of the B1G has a shot at winning.

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In August, I posted a  "Sleazebowl" Fanpost, smugly wondering which of these schools was worse.  Now, PSU made both of these schools look like little-leaguers. Comparing their 'misadventures' with the downright evil doings going on at PSU has been a learning experience in many ways, but perhaps the most important lesson is in Humility.

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PSU fans who are feeling the disbelief, denial, anger, disgust, pain, dismay, and bewilderment caused by the apparently criminal and morally decrepit actions of the most prominent men at Penn State should take a moment to think about their feelings, and compare them to the feelings the victims of the molestor Jerry Sandusky.  No matter how bad we feel, these people are feeling a lot worse.

It is going to take a lot of tough love to clean up this mess.  Time and a good independent prosecutor will go a long way to help us all, victims and PSU, move forward.

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Is it possible that the NCAA will, when the dust has settled, and the legal system has played out, and the 'Special Comission' does it's job, that the NCAA will find institutional problems large enough to give the Lions the Death Penalty?    This Just In from a Bar In Pittsburgh from Jesse.   San Antonio DA looking into charges against the Pervert Sandusky.   2nd offense Child Molestation in Texas is a Capital Offense.  They execute people down there for shooting quail while they are still on the ground.   Much more interesting than NCAA!

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Jessedots' mom wants to know.

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Every ‘person of interest’ in this Crime is a member of the highest economic strata in the county. They are the Masters of this small Universe. They covered up a crime by one of their home-grown demi-gods, because exposure would be harmful to their image, and because it was very easy to do. Stonewalling the local media was easy. Stonewalling the victims was easier.

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The 2977 total yards LSU has matriculated leaves them as #84 in the country in total offense.  Just pointing this out to the Jackwagons who complain about PSU's offense, which is ranked in the same neighborhood as the Bayou Bengals.

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