Support the team as they tipoff season
by PennStateBasketball on Nov 13, 2008 9:29 AM EST
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PrintEvery week, nearly 110,000 fans pack Beaver Stadium to cheer on the Penn State football team. It's a raucous atmosphere, for sure, but when winter arrives and pigskin gets put on hold, the fandom of most students and alumni goes into hibernation.
What many seem to forget is that there's a 15,000-seat arena across the street that's itching for some affection, too...
Check out today's Collegian editorial. This applies to every Penn State fan.
The season begins Friday night at 6:30pm against William & Mary.
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What is this?
Is the baksetball team going to start spamming us? Is that you Ed Dechellis?
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
If you show up tonight
You can get autographs from some Pirates including one guy who is mainly just a AAA player.
Way to splurge on the promotion there PSU.
JoePa in '09
Do you mean real Pirates, that would be cool, but it seems a little dangerous.
I don't know, Mello Yello is pretty awful. What's the worst that could happen?
Nope, I'm just a fan
If posting a relevant article from our school newspaper and trying to rally support for our hardwood peers is spamming, then by all means I’m guilty as charged.
by PennStateBasketball on Nov 13, 2008 9:49 AM EST reply actions
Just givin' ya a hard time
welcome to BSD. Hope to hear more from you about the team.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
PSU Basketball
It is surprising that we do not field a nationally competitive men’s basketball team (the women seem to have better luck). We have top notch facilities and a university that loves athletics.
I really think if fans backed the BJC, HS ballers would take notice. All we need is 1/7 of a Beaver Stadium crowd to sell that bad boy out. Make it an atomosphere similar to Cameron Indoor.
We should be realing in 5 star recruits, hell i’ll take a 4 star recruit. It is time the fans help PSU basketball catch up to the football program.
PSU Softball
according to an article that ran on ESPN a bit ago on Dechellis
the basketball facilities are apparently NOT top notch. I think they even said something about how they bring basketball recruits and tour the football facilities instead…
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 13, 2008 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
well I would have taken it as a usual ESPN hack job
but it was rather complementary if I recall correctly. Basically Dechellis doing a lot with not much.
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 13, 2008 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
Top notch facilities = Urban legend
From that article, which was tremendous:
If Beaver Stadium is the house that Joe built, the Lasch Building is the coach’s ivory tower.
It is a building in homage to a team that owns a campus, a football-only complex that includes a practice field, a 13,000-square-foot weight room, a video room sweeter than your neighborhood Cineplex, a players’ lounge complete with leather sofas and pool tables and, of course, a spacious office for the man whose craggy face long has personified the university.
When Ed DeChellis, an alum and former assistant, returned to Penn State as head basketball coach five years ago, he and his coaches shared a 1,600-square-foot space tucked in a nondescript corner of the Bryce Jordan Center. There were no pictures or artwork telling you that this was the basketball section of the building, just prison-cell-cinderblock white walls leading to a space just down the hall from the softball team.
With no designated spaces, coaches stuffed envelopes in the hallway and broke down film in a space akin to a small walk-in closet. Without a video room or player lounge, the team watched film in the locker room.
The team had its own private practice court, a bright and airy space that looked like it could have been at the local Y. Neither the floor nor the walls were painted with Penn State logos.
The whole thing screamed afterthought.
“You take them over to see Coach [Paterno] and it was, ‘Wow,’” said DeChellis, who frequently bypassed his own office space when giving recruits campus tours. “Then you brought kids here and it cemented the image you knew the other teams were giving kids — ’Don’t go to Penn State. They don’t care about basketball.’ That’s exactly how it looked.”
DeChellis didn’t fault the administration. It wasn’t that no one cared. It’s simply that before him, no one asked. There was no alumni champion of college basketball arguing that the team needed upgrades, no one on the previous coaching staffs begging for renovations in a building built only in 1996.
Heck, the team didn’t even have a director of basketball operations or video coordinator on staff.
by Run Up The Score on Nov 13, 2008 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
So has it gotten better?
I would have assumed with the Jordan Center the Basketball facilities would have gotten an upgrade. I did notice the shoddy nature of some of the facilities in a few of the penn state basketball stories last year, they seemed sort of cramped and it looked like they were exercising in a hallway on one clip.
I don't know, Mello Yello is pretty awful. What's the worst that could happen?
Hey BSD Mike....
I just started reading BSD back in May and I’m not sure what happens during Basketball season…do you, Kevin or someone do any basketball reviews.
Just asking, because I would like to keep up with the BBall team a little more and I’m hoping we can put together an even more competitive team than last year.
"We are Penn State. We are not normal. We are Legends." - Deon Butler
by Stately NOVA Lion on Nov 13, 2008 12:17 PM EST reply actions
There will be basketball coverage
When hell freezes over. Or in the next week or two, whichever happens first.
by Run Up The Score on Nov 13, 2008 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
Yes
There will be plenty of basketball coverage this year. Not as much during the out of conference part of the schedule since I don’t get to see as many of those games and we’re kind of focused on football right now. Once the Big Ten schedule starts up football will be out of the way and all of the games will be televised on the BTN where I can watch them.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
Eddie keeps bringing in better talent
Last year could have been a lot better if it wasn’t for injuries. This year I think we can finish in the Top half of the Big Ten and make it into the tourney as an at large bid. Hopefully potential will turn into results this year. I try to watch every game that’s on tv. We’ve got a good group of kids and some depth on the bench finally. This is the year we should see things turn for the better. The students better get their butts in the BJC and support this team!!
If the Big 10 network is good for anything
it will be that I can actually, finally watch some Penn State basketball
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 13, 2008 12:53 PM EST reply actions
Move back to Rec Hall
Ok, maybe it’s not realistic, but I’d love to see at least a game or two played there like the good old days. If we only get 6,500 people to go to a game at the BJC it seems empty. That same crowd at Rec Hall creates an entirely different atmosphere. Games there were a lot more fun to watch than they are at the BJC.
by psuquinn on Nov 13, 2008 2:01 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
the good about this is also a bad
since we’d probably want to do it for a biggish matchup, in which case there’d be more seats available at the BJC. Would be nice to make it feel “packed” though
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 13, 2008 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
Messing with other schedules...
You start running the risk of overlapping with other sports. I know volleyball, wrestling, and gymnastics all use Rec Hall for home meets, and trying to force them elsewhere will get hard. Not to mention you start to render the BJC useless. Unless they decided to turn the BJC into an ice rink….
…So how quickly can we get basketball back into Rec Hall?
easy solution
move volleyball, wrestling, and gymnastics to the BJC :-P
I would also support renovating the BJC to support an ice rink
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 13, 2008 5:21 PM EST up reply actions
Part of the HMA (group behind the scenes)
from 2003-07. Still active (where possible) when I can get back up to State or when the new stats people are confused as to what to do and email me with questions. Otherwise, I’m just another booster member. :)
Cool...
I worked many an Icer game as ice rink staff those exact same years 03-07. Im sure we’d recognize each other, small Web.
Some day, maybe we can at least get rid of those nauseating yellow lights.
Onward to the Rose Bowl!!!!!
Traped in the SF Bay area.....nothing like kickoff at 9 am.
Can't wait!!
My roommate is on the team so I follow them fairly closely. I think Mike ranked us appropriately to start off, but you have to take into account we return 80% of our scoring and rebounding, so we can only go up from what was a solid year with 2 upsets. And to psuquinn, I’ve been trying to get my roomie to suggest to DeChellis that we hold a “throwback” game in Rec Hall for the same reasons you listed, but with old school jerseys and everything.
I was out in the trenches, which enables me to paint such a powerful picture, like Apocalypse Now.-Cormega
a game at Rec Hall would be perfect in the non-conference slate
would add some pizzaz to one of the meh games against podunk eastern liberal arts colleges.
Can’t be done for a Big Ten game, though. The conference would never go for it.
I'm fairly optimistic
Yeah, injuries hurt us last year – not literally, just the players. Would like to see them back in the Final Four tourney…
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