IT'S 6:58 PM AND MICHIGAN STILL SUCKS!!

It's Hate Michigan week and it's time to get it started. We all know that Ann Arbor is still a dirty whore, that the Referines will be out in force next week, Michigan's better than last year, Rich Rod is a douche, yadda yadda yadda. It's time for your best anti-Michigan jokes, rants, etc until Cairo does his Hate Week post.

GO STATE BEAT MICHIGAN!

This loss hurts like hell.

It burns. But Iowa was the better team and they deserved this win and their rank now in the Top 25. We were overrated, we all suspected after the 3 creampuffs.

But you know what? We have the rest of the season! Yes, it'll be tough, we got @Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Minnesota, @Michigan, @Northwestern, Ohio State, Indiana, Michigan State. No gimmes but I believe that we can go over .500 over the rest of our schedule. Next game is @Illinois and we have to be ready to play. There are more games and more teams will have losses. We probably won't win the Big Ten but you know, if we can play spoiler, so be it.

I'm down but I'm still bleeding blue and white.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings

This week, Penn State is #5 in the AP and #4 in the USAToday/tWWL Coaches Poll.

Next highest Big Ten team is OSU at 13 in the AP, 11 in the USAToday. The 3rd and last Big Ten team is MIchigan at 23 in the AP, 22 in the USAToday.

USC dropped to 12 in the AP, 10 in the USA Today, the U is now ranked at 9(WTF!!!) in the AP, 13 in the USA Today. Boise State is the only BCS buster left in the Top 10 (next closest is TCU).

Anyway, where would YOU rank PSU this week?

Because I'm anal and I want to nail down a meet up during Artsfest. Please make a poll choice if you're going to be there. Make a BSDiva happy, fill out the poll.

Plus, if you going to be in on Thursday, 7/9, feel free to drop a line. I'll be in town but most of my peeps are coming in Friday night so I'll be free to hang out, chill, talk about CORNLEY SMASH and how much Terrelle Pryor sucks.

When DWill signed with PSU back in December 2004, four years ago, PSU was in year 5 of the Dark Years. The Dark Years were 2000-2004, 4 seasons of losing seasons with one winning year (2002). That 9-3 team was a senior-laden team that had too much talent to lose to lesser teams but no intestinal fortitude to beat teams that had more talent/more will to win than them. 2004, the team went 4-7, winning the last 2 games after an improbable 4th down stop at Indiana before blowing out Michigan State. All of us point back to that 4th down stop as a turning point but this team needed offensive power. Enter Derrick Williams.

He could have gone anywhere. Many expected he would head to Florida but he decided to come here. PSU, a team that was now living off of its legacy, fallen from the top to the mire. Derrick Williams decided to begin the resurrection of the program and recruited other players to come in with him: Justin King, Sean Lee, A.Q. Shipley. Butler was a redshirt at the time, Norwood came in as a kid that no one else wanted.

With DWill as their leader, these players all played in their freshman year, 2005 as another senior-laden team fueled by the leadership of M-Rob beat OSU, won the Big Ten and the Orange Bowl. In 2006 and 2007, under the non-leadership of Morelli, the team still went 9-4. During these years, DWill was instrumental in recruiting as the 2006 recruiting class was a top 10 class. 2007 and 2008 were good as well, not as highly ranked but filled with guys who were eager to continue putting PSU back on the map.

This year, with a real QB, D-Clark, leading the team, PSU went 11-1 again, finally beating Michigan and OSU and is now awaiting USC in the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl will be DWill's last game but the legacy of what he has done is now part of PSU lore. 40-10 the last 4 years after going 26-32 during the Dark Years. Renewed national profile, momentum going into the future.

I know people have mentioned him a lot in different comments but I feel that he deserves his own post. He's not God or anything but he has meant a lot to this program.

GO STATE BEAT USC!

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Posted here because I don't have a link, image, or quote for the fanshots.

Rumor: Devon Smith has committed. (no link yet) Plus, JeRon Stokes is reportedly thinking of decommitting from Tennessee. (no link yet)

I think Devon Smith was one of the recruits who was at the Illinois game. I know that the struggles of Tennessee may have made JeRon Stokes reconsider his committment. We have a hole here at PSU at WR in 2009, perfect opportunity for some freshmen to jump in.

I got this off of the EMB where some Scout writers post. I'll update with links when they come out.