Over the past five years, Penn State Football has recorded a 51-13 record (.79688), giving them the 7th highest winning percentage in college football. Included in those 5 seasons, are two Big Ten Championships and a 4-1 bowl record (1-1 in BCS bowls) with wins over Florida St., Tennessee, Texas A&M and LSU (loss to USC in the 2009 Rose Bowl).
But do Penn State fans expect more? (more...)
Here's something to get you over another miserable Penn State hoops loss. Some publications and websites are already putting out their rankings for the 2010 college football season. Never too early.
Here is the one done by Andy Staples at SI.com. Looking at the rankings, it has the usual suspect, and also some usual interesting teams in unusual places.
This is an awkward time of year for college football. Bowl season is over and we’re left to debate the fairness of the BCS. Fans are tuned into 17 & 18 year old kids waffling on their recruiting commitments. My least favorite event is the annual “Coaching Carousel” that is spinning round and round. Next year, Twenty-One FBS schools will have a new head coach. That number will grow as the few remaining vacancies are filled with men currently employed as a head coach and with a signed contract that pays him well. To put into perspective, as a Steelers and Penn State football fan, I’ve only had 4 coaches (Noll, Cowher, Tomlin, & Paterno) over the past 34 years to cheer for. (more...)
Now that the season is over, it is time to start concentrating on the ‘second season’, which is recruiting. While Penn State has consistently done well in recruiting over the past few decades, getting classes that are ranked somewhere between 15-25 overall in the nation, this year seems to be special. Penn State is on pace to have a Top 5 recruiting class this year, one that is on par with teams like Alabama, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma.
This might be the best recruiting class Penn State has ever had and it has all been established with Joe Paterno not taking one in home visit (something he stopped a few years ago). While there is no doubt Joe Paterno plays a huge roll in luring these kids to Penn State, it is his assistants like Larry Johnson Sr., Tom Bradley and Ron Vanderlendin, who pound the pavement and get these kids to sign with Penn State. (more...)
The Big Ten finally stepped up and had a solid bowl season, in fact I think they might of had the best bowl season of all the major conferences. Now, at first glance you might say a 4-3 record is not that impressive. But consider this, the Big Ten beat the ACC champion, the PAC-10 champion, the 3rd best team in the SEC, and the 5th place Big Ten team dominated a similar team from the ACC.
Now, let's consider what the other conferences did: Big East 4-2 (beating UCF, S. Carolina, NIU, UNC), SEC 5-4 (beating A&M, ECU, Cincy, Northwestern, Okie St.), ACC is 3-4 (beating WVU, Tenn, Kentucky) Big 12 is 4-3 (beating Stanford, Minnesota, Michigan St.) Pac 10 is 2-5 (beating BC, Temple)
I wish the rest of the Big Ten would step up and represent the conference during bowl season; living here in the south, in the middle SEC and ACC country, I am sick and tired of getting so much grief about the Big Ten's lack of conference success; we have not had a wining bowl record since 2002. But if you look at Penn State's record we are 17 - 7 since 1980 and 7-2 against the mighty SEC. (more...)
![images[10]](http://www.pennstatecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/images10.jpg "Bowl Season: SEC is Overrated")
For as much crap the Big Ten has gotten about recent bowl performances, and deservedly so as they have not had a winning bowl season record since 2002, the SEC looks very mediocre to me thus far this bowl season (2-3 heading into the Sugar Bowl). For a conference that supposedly has the most talent, most speed, best coaches (absolutely the highest paid), etc, let's take a look at what they have done this far: (more...)
There is no doubt, the Capital One Bowl is a huge game for the Big Ten and Penn State, but it might be most important to the legacy of a certain starting QB, which is Penn State's Darryl Clark.
BIG TEN: The Big Ten has not had a winning bowl record since 2002 and are off to a solid start with Wisconsin beating Miami. And based on the Pac-10's performance thus far (yet to win a bowl game), the chances of Ohio State finally winning a bowl game are looking better and better, when the play Oregon in the Rose Bowl. The conference could absolutely use a signature bowl win against a tier 1 conference opponent and to most the SEC is the top of that tier 1 category of conference. (more...)
Many older coaches, like older executives at companies, do more delegating than coaching. Bobby Bowden at Florida State is probably the best known older coach that really delegated to his assistants as he got older and became more of a figure head for the program.
Think that is the case with Joe Paterno? Not necessarily. If you don’t think he actively coaches, take a look at this video. He's not on some golf cart or up on some tower looking down from above with a mega-phone. He's on the field telling it like it should be.
And by the way, he turned 83 this past Monday. (more...)
Not for Destinee Hooker, who is Texas leading hitter, she had the Horns rolling up two sets to zero, but Texas choked again and goes down to the best team in women’s volleyball ever. Texas choked last year in the semi-finals, going down to Stanford after also being up two sets to zero. That makes it three straight National Championships and back-2-back undefeated seasons for Penn State, both have NEVER been done before in collegiate women’s volleyball. (more...)
Finally, someone else is on board with the Big Ten stepping up to the plate, adding a 12th team and a championship game. Personally, I think the ‘co-champion’ scenario that we have had many of the past 10 years is ridiculous and it is time we step up to the plate like the SEC and Big 12 and have a true conference champion (note: Penn State was ‘co-champions’ with Ohio State in 2005 & 2008, even though we beat them head to head both years). (more...)
Bowl announcement Sunday doesn't seem to have the same amount of anticipation or surprises as NCAA tournament selection Sunday, probably because there aren't many surprises. However once the match ups come out they are interesting to analyze, and most college fans start looking for the games that look most intriguing, especially if they are games that have significance in terms of conference superiority.
In the case of Penn State and the Big 10, the news was mixed. The conference received a second BCS bid when Iowa was selected to play Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl, which was not a surprise but a mild disappointment for PSU fans. However in the end, which match up do you prefer? Would Penn State fans rather be playing Georgia Tech in the ACC on January 5, or LSU from the SEC on January 1? At worst this is probably a wash. (more...)
So as a Big 10 football fan, do you feel deprived of a conference championship game? Chances are view of fans in Big 10 country are mixed because in reality, there are pros and cons to this argument. It also depends on your perspective and if you have the overall conference best interest in mind.
Conference championships, like those of the SEC, Big 12, and ACC, are big spotlight games that teams in those conference aspire to. Granted, the ACC version so far as been a disappointment, but that is likely due to the nature of that conference and the fact that some ACC schools are private with small alumni base (not great for selling tickets). But the SEC and Big 12 games have established themselves as prestigious rewards for teams in those conferences. (more...)
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