Sporting News has come out with it’s list of college football teams they feel have the easiest schedule in all of the land this coming season.
The good news for Penn State fans, Mississippi State is No. 1. The bad news? Penn State checks in at No. 2 on that list.
Interesting note, no other Big Ten [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 30, 2009
PSU No. 2…easiest schedule
June 25, 2009
Weekend mailbag
Mail call. Thanks to all who chimed in.
Larry writes: “Does Joe really care about that wins record? And do you think Bobby Bowden should be punished at FSU and lose the games?”
Larry, thanks for writing. It’s simple. Yeah, I do think Joe cares about that record. It’s not what will define him ultimately, his [...]
June 24, 2009
PSU first three games on BTN
The Big Ten has announced it’s football television schedule for the first couple of weeks of the 2009 season. Penn State’s first three games of the 2009 season will be carried by the Big Ten Network.
The BTN covers a minimum of one non-conference and one conference game for each of the 11 teams, so that [...]
June 20, 2009
Live Big 33 Blog
HERSHEY — We are at halftime the game is tied up 17-17. The PA MVP has been Curtis Drake.
Drake doesn’t have the best throwing motion, but he is a playmaker, and they make plays.
He’s accounted for just about every yard PA has and if he wanted to kick the field goal to tie things up, [...]
June 15, 2009
Hill could miss Big 33
Penn State recruit Jordan Hill (Steel-High) injured his ankle during practice today according to Bob Flounders of the Patriot-News and could miss this weekend’s Big 33. (Note: my bad for earlier saying he was out)
A clarification of his status is expected sometime tomorrow according to the story.
According to Flounders, Hill injured the same ankle he [...]
June 14, 2009
Lions pick up verbal
Rivals.com is reporting tonight that Penn State has picked up a verbal commitment from Kyle Baublitz.
Rivals reported the verbal via its text message alert.
In a story written by BWI’s Sean Fitz on Thursday, Baublitz wasn’t tipping his hand one way or another.
“Penn State, Baylor, Florida State, Virginia, Pitt, UConn, Miami, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and [...]
June 13, 2009
Saturday mailbag
Every Saturday starting today I will sort out the inbox and pick some of the hot topics and respond here.
Matt in State College writes: “Why is Ohio State getting all the love in the preseason previews. What is so different about their reloading season than Penn State’s?
Matt, I think it’s pretty simple. There’s a [...]
June 12, 2009
Continuing the shift
Today’s news that the Rose Bowl has joined the other BCS games on ESPN starting in 2011 is not a surprise.
It was long rumored that when Disney/ESPN/ABC pulled the BCS away from Fox that eventually, all games would shift over to cable. It was thought that ABC would keep the BCS title game or the [...]
June 12, 2009
Friday links
Here’s a handful of links to today’s stories out of the media session with Joe Paterno and captains Sean Lee and Daryll Clark from yesterday.
Altoona Mirror beat writer Cory Giger writes that the PSU players do not get the summer off.
PPG’s Ron Musselman writes that PSU is cleaning up in the WPIAL when it [...]
June 11, 2009
Paterno, Captains, meet media
Joe Paterno and Penn State captains Sean Lee and Daryll Clark met with the media today at the Lasch Building.
For full recaps on all parties, here’s a few links for you.
Fight on State has a recap of what Paterno talked about, mentioning that the poor non-conference schedule is not a concern of his, Navarro Bowman [...]
