Saturday review

A couple of thoughts from yesterday’s 66-10 thumping of Coastal Carolina, and some other Big Ten thoughts.
Catching the replay on the Big Ten Network, I love how cordial and much more friendly Joe Paterno seemed in talking to BTN sideline reporter Kenny Jackson. For those of you scoring at home, Jackson is a former PSU [...]

Postgame update

Joe Paterno confirmed that Daryll Clark will indeed start next week’s game against visiting Oregon State.
Penn State allowed just 1.6 yards per rush in the 66-10 victory.
Clark and Pat Devlin finished a combined 16-of-22 for 229 yards and a touchdown.
Stephf Green ended up the leading rusher with 89 yards and two touchdowns, while Brent Carter [...]

Friday night update

Live at the Lancaster Catholic-Trinity game in Lancaster, Trinity’s up 14-0, but the note of interest, Christian Kuntz, the wide receiver verbal to the Nittany Lions scored on a 35-yard sweep around the right end on the very last play of the first half.
Trinity has a 14-0 lead.
Kuntz had a rough first quarter, to the [...]

Richardson will start for CCU

In what comes as little surprise, at least to me, William Richardson was named the Coastal Carolina starter for tomorrow’s season opener against Penn State.
Richardson told me last week in my interview with him that both he and Zach MacDowall received the same amount of reps in practice the last two weeks.
Richardson of course is [...]

Looking at tomorrow, ahead

I’ll get to Coastal Carolina in a minute, first some thoughts on watching Oregon State last night. Not impressed. I thought they played pretty well in the first half against Stanford, but too many mistakes and weren’t poised enough in the final 30 minutes despite a late last ditch effort in falling to the Cardinal.
So [...]

Hotline recap

Surprise surprise…nothing new out of NLH tonight.
I have to admit, I do like the player segment, tonight Mark Rubin opened the show. He had some interesting things to say about his tenure at PSU, moving to safety, being Zack Mills’ favorite target (speaking of which, where is Mills these days??) as a wide receiver, and [...]

Some sad news

It’s an off day for me, that means a round of golf,  and a little Nittany Lion Hotline later, but there is some personal news on my end I figured I’d share because some of you know will know who I am talking about. This blog isn’t dedicated to personal chatter from me, it’s designed [...]

Orange shoes?

Yesterday during his teleconference with writers, Penn State cornerback Tony Davis was asked about his relationship with roommate and best friend Deon Butler.
Back when Butler was a freshman, Davis met him, didn’t think the two would get a long and wouldn’t you know it, they are like brothers now.

“If you really want to know, when [...]

Devlin, Clark speak

Pat Devlin and Daryll Clark just wrapped up their conference calls with reporters.
Devlin, you could tell was frustrated, and admitted he was, with the news that Clark will start this weekend when Penn State opens with Coastal Carolina.
Devlin said he was told he needed to work on accuracy and that he didn’t feel as though [...]

Chants to play two QBs as well

According to MyrtleBeachOnline.com, Coastal Carolina’s official depth chart lists William Richardson as its starting quarterback for Saturday’s opener against Penn State.
Funny thing is, according to beat writer Travis Sawchik, if the season started today, Zach MacDowall would be under center for the Chanticleers first offensive series.
According to the story; “It’s day-to-day,” said the CCU head [...]