SB Nation User Blog: platnumkid

Obama's a playoff fan.

platnumkid — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:13:17 -0000

So in case you haven't heard last night on MNF Obama and McCain were asked to comment on how they would change sports today if they were elected. McCain went vanilla and said he'd eliminate steroids. Obama on the other hand came out with guns blazing and said he'd institute a college football playoff system.

I didn't see this last night but a colleague of mine told me about. I couldn’t believe it. I proceeded to explain about the hose job that Penn State got the last time a President stuck his nose in the National Championship picture. I went to hunt the interwebs for a suitable Paterno vs. Nixon article and I found this gem:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D9133BF937A35752C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

You should note that it’s from 1987 and it still highlights how often PSU gets the raw deal with undefeated, untied, uncrowned teams. I especially love how the second page of the article degenerates basically to anticommunist ranting.

Paterno says Evans and Koroma to play on saturday

platnumkid — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:17:44 -0000

Paterno says Evans and Koroma to play on saturday

looks like our D-Line will get get a shot in the arm.

Directional Michigan

platnumkid — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:43:30 -0000

I was just checking out the lines for next saturday's games and I noticed that Directional Michigan + THEM + Michigan State are all favourites in their games. I wonder when the last time all 5 of those teams were favourites was.

Incidentally our Nittany Lions are favoured by 27.5 at Syracuse. And in the most lopsided spread of the week we have LSU -41 for a night game in Death Valley vs. North Texas.

ESPN is comparing our offense to '94

platnumkid — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:42:31 -0000

ESPN is comparing our offense to '94

this is just ridiculous after one win over a Div IAA team.

Question to BeaverNation

platnumkid — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:20:30 -0000

Or whatever you guys call yourselves (I'm sorry for my ignorance).

What is the general consensus that the outcome of this Saturdays game is going to be? Over at the PSU blog everyone thinks it's going to be 3 TD+ blowout. Personally i think it could go that way if OSU gets overwhelmed by the hype/crowd or if they fall a touchdown or 2 behind and then give up. However i don't see how that would happen; a team doesn't beat USC one year and then totally panic about playing the #19 team in then nation. I think it will be a 7-21 point win for PSU totally dependent on how open the playbook gets. The way stanford ran the ball on you guys i just dont see how you're going to be able to control the line of scrimmage enough against us to win.

Some info on the players that will be missing as a result of what has been dubbed "the 5204 incident" (since "the apartment incident" was taken last off season).

TE - Andrew Quarless - very talented guy but has been in trouble before and been successfully replaced before. Also the team should be going farther and farther way from relying on a TE to begin with. Conclussion - wont be missed much at all.

DE - Maurice Evans - Very very talented player, pre-season All-American, All-Big10, had a metric assload of sacks last year. Is the best player on our defense. Luckily we have many talented DE's waiting in the wings (watchout for #59 aaron maybin and #5 Jarome Hayes). Conclussion - Will definitely will be missed, but with depth at the position not devastating.

DT - Abe Koroma - Good runstopper, and solid cog in our DT rotation. We went in the offseason from being 6 deep at DT down to 2 good ones and 1 serviceable one (all due to off-field shenanigans). Conclussion - Not the best player missing but may be the most missed. If the PSU offense can keep the D off the field this wont matter, but if time of position is split, our DT's could be tired come the end of the game.

11th commit

platnumkid — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:32:50 -0000

From the front page of bwi.rivals.com there is a link to a subscribers only article about who the 11th commit is.

I know what you're thinking, dang they going to hold all the good info back. Well, they didn't hide the title of the article that is "Felder makes a decision".

Brandon Felder, a 6'3" WR from Oxon Hill, MD appears to be either 165 or 164 pounds and run a forty in either 4.43 or 4.5 s. Other than that couldn't find anything.

I'm guessing others will be able to post much more shortly

Penn State Football Story Opening

platnumkid — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:12:22 -0000

Penn State Football Story Opening

Classic LB clip

platnumkid — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:08:22 -0000

Classic LB clip

LB highlight clip

platnumkid — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:05:33 -0000

LB highlight clip

A Classic over at the Nittany Line

platnumkid — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:04:10 -0000

check it out.

http://thenittanyline.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-lesson-of-be-careful-what-you.html

the lack of details makes it feel like leaked secret. Would have been better if it was a more believable candidate. Also cuz he got this up so early the other bloggers have to come up with a different april fool's joke.