Blue & White Roundtable: The Beginning Of The Beginning
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 1:46 PM EDT
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Almost forgot, didn't you? You're wasting time in Blogfrica (Blogbabwe? Blogistan*?). It's a Wednesday. It's football season**. That means it's time for the 8,395 Penn State blogs to put their pasty heads together for Blue & White Roundtable.
Also, before we begin, allow me to plug Kevin's Penn State Bars post. Find a viewing spot in your neighborhood, or help a fellow Penn Stater locate a place to watch the weekend's slaughter.
This week's questions are written by our old friend, William F. Yurasko.
Joining in are the usual jokers:
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The Nittany Line
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There Is No Name On My Jersey
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Tangled Up In White and Blue
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The Nittany Notebook
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Nittany Whiteout
- Zombie Nation
If there are more participating, let me know in the comments. It's often hard to keep track of this mess.
1. What are you optimistic about this season (Anthony Morelli running out of eligibility does not count)?
I'm certain that Evan Royster is going to have a tremendous year. I'm optimistic that Daryll Clark will play well. The running game should take pressure off him during the non-conference schedule. Hopefully, that will give him an opportunity to get comfortable throwing the ball. There will be days in the Big Ten when he'll have to move the team with his arm.
2. What are you pessimistic about this season?
The back seven of the defense. The linebackers scare me until further notice, and the secondary really needs to rebound from a poor 2007. They'll be fine this week, but Oregon State's Mike Riley is a very good offensive coach. He'll do his best to create confusion and mismatches next Saturday.
3. Who is the most important player on either side of the ball?
I almost went with Gerald Cadogan, but it has to be Maurice Evans. With Sean Lee out of the lineup, Evans is the true game-changer on defense. If he goes down, the pass rush gets to the quarterback a second or two later, and the secondary likely gets fried.
Lightning Round
How many games are you going to this season?
Three, for sure. Maybe more, unless my Saturdays are scheduled away by The Future Mrs. Up The Score*** spent totally humping on Scarlett Johannson.
Do you have Big11Ten Network?
Yessir, I'm a new DirecTV subscriber and loving it. Even if I have to watch the same crappy Big Ten promotional ads.
Where is Coastal Carolina located?
South Carolina. Proximal to a bunch of golf courses which are usually infested by chubby, pale northerners.
What record will Penn State have on January 9?
9-4.
* Southwest Blogistan Tech may be on Penn State's 2010 schedule.
** This is for real. When it's 50 degrees at sunrise in central Pennsylvania, you know it's football season.
*** I lack descended testicles.
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Watch out going to Nittany Whiteout
looks like http://www.nittanywhiteout.com/ has been hacked and trys to send out a virus. my AV caught it but I just wanted to warn everyone.
by jetskijoe on Aug 27, 2008 2:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yes, I think I've been getting that too.
There are virus alerts there. Not sure why.
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Are these your answers RUTS?
Or did you three combine your powers like Captain Planet? J / W.
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 27, 2008 2:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Just me.
The others are working on separate posts.
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Non-descended testicles
They have an operation for that: they sew your nut to your scrote with dissolving stitches. You’ll heal up in about 3weeks, and be back on Miss Johannson in no time.
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Aug 27, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Is that true? And why do you know that?
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 27, 2008 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is true, they should be pulled down. If left up they are prone to cancer. SO you my friend she see a urologist.
I don't know, Mello Yello is pretty awful. What's the worst that could happen?
by psu on Aug 27, 2008 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Coastal Carolina
is in South Carolina. It should not be confused with Coastal Dakota.
by Cairo on Aug 27, 2008 2:22 PM EDT reply actions 10 recs
Yes.
I don’t know what recommending comments does in the grand scheme of things, but i rec’d it.
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
How about the Actions button?
I accidentally clicked on it once and it didn’t seem to do anything.
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 27, 2008 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You should get...
options for Flag | Rec
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, well look at that.
Fancy green asterisk.
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I recommended it too....could be the most recommended post ever!
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Aug 27, 2008 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thank you, Thank you.
I plan on making one for every game. The “Mo Evans wearing the Abe Lincoln Beard Land Grant Trophy” spurred my imagination.
by Cairo on Aug 27, 2008 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You Sir
are a man of genius.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 27, 2008 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Indeed, a Real Man of Genius
Here’s to you Mr. Photoshoping Cool Pictures Man
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 27, 2008 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
RUTS
do you plan on using the DTV satellites for tailgating as well? I’ve heard of that but not sure how the service is in the cow fields. It may determine if a switch to FIOS or DTV.
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 27, 2008 2:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You're asking the totally wrong guy
I’m sure the service is fine if you can get the thing pointed in the right direction. I don’t know how that works, though. Wish I did.
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Reception
You have to have a buddy stand on one foot with a 3/4 full beer can in one hand and the satalite dish in the other with a bent coat hanger stuck in his ass.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 27, 2008 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmm. Interesting, because we do the 3/4 beer + coat hanger thing at our tailgate, and we don’t even have a satellite dish.
by Tailgate Shogun on Aug 27, 2008 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, I saw you guys when
I was cruising the lots last year. I was wondering what that was all about – “NO WIRE HANGERS!!”
www.pinkertonpark.com
by rahpsu92 on Aug 28, 2008 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
DTV
My friends and I have used DTV for our tailgates for the past two years and aside from the initial idiot technological difficulties, it’s worked out perfectly. FWIW, we’re always at the Park and University grass lot, so I don’t know what the reception’s like anywhere else. It’ll take you 5-10 minutes every time to find the satellite direction, but that should be the time it takes to get your first beer in anyway. Hurray multitasking! Hurray beer!
by GreggS on Aug 27, 2008 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did any of you
have to stand on one foot with a 3/4 full beer can in one hand and the satalite dish in the other with a bent coat hanger stuck in his ass? If not, Mike’s a liar.
Thanks, might be worth looking into.
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 27, 2008 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
2 Words - KY Jelly
and yes, the coathanger in the ass does work. Just be sure not to stab the gerbil.
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Aug 27, 2008 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Isn't that Three Words?
And what happens if the gerbil gets stabbed? Commentators speaking blogistanish? You start to pickup games from Uranus?
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Aug 27, 2008 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Never had to use the coat hanger
out of necessity. Only for entertainment value because it’s more enjoyable than listening to Mark May and Lou Holtz.
by GreggS on Aug 27, 2008 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
reception is fine
out in the overnight RV lots as well. I, myself, have never done the set up work – so I’m absolutely no help there.
by PSUgirl on Aug 27, 2008 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Me neither
But we had a first hand view of Cedric Jeffries’ dad setting his up. We’re all settled in in our little fortyfooter and just stumbling out for Beer One at the nd game last year, when this big honkin bus-like rig pulls up. Out jumped a tall, softspoken dude in his forties with a Jeffries jersey on. We asked and he confirmed the relation. He climbed up on top of that bad boy, smoothe as a cat, and effed around up there for a good 12-18mins, pointing the dish this way and that. Finally got her working. No sign of coat hanger at all.
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Aug 27, 2008 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
dtv and tailgating
From what I know and seen, the service is pretty good. After the wisc game last year I remember watching the lsu lose to kent on a directtv setup. I have dish network at home and from what my dad and I figure all you have to have is a tripod stand, and “a view of the southern sky”. you basically hook up the system like you have it at your house. Its just a matter of aligning the dish just right so you get in touch with the satellites. I don’t know how hard or how to to that though.
"Boy that student section now is up and really making a gigantic amount of noise. You see the sea of white, the white out. Well they are 2 minutes and 28 seconds away from the whiteout of the Buckeyes here tonight." - Ron Franklin
by rmcmillen50 on Aug 27, 2008 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't all of the tall trees surrounding the
stadium create a challenge?
www.pinkertonpark.com
by rahpsu92 on Aug 28, 2008 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was curious how he got that.
9-4 that is. Hopefully he will expand upon what games he thinks the Lions will lose.
Right now I’m thinking Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State.
by DrDetroit on Aug 27, 2008 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Came up with that in about 10 seconds
Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Illinois are indeed correct. I counted a bowl loss with a possible “interim” head coach situation looming after the season.
The defense just looked so helpless against Illinois’ option game last year, Juice Williams will be a better QB, and our linebackers aren’t nearly as good this season. But we’ll see.
by Run Up The Score on Aug 27, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We will not lose to Illinois...
Mark it down, circle it, highlight it and put a check mark next to it.
by Screen Name 20 on Aug 28, 2008 7:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
One sign that the tailgate is near...
When I read “Kevin’s Penn State Bars post” – I was expecting a recipe.
by PSUgirl on Aug 27, 2008 4:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
WE WILL NOT LOSE TO ILLINOIS
Yes, I shouted. But I learned no remorse from gumbercules (see Traditions fanpost…), so I have no remorse. That game is gonna be so much fun. Yes, of course, fun from a party standpoint. From even more so from a football standpoint. Gawd, I hope they sqeak out a luckyarse win over Mizzou and somehow arrive at the Beav untarnished. Cuz we will promptly tarnish them, I assure you. Tarnish em but good.
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Aug 27, 2008 5:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
well find out a lot more
but I still stand by my comment that losing mendenhall is more significant than people are realizing, although I may also be underestimating the loss of connor and lee, so who knows.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Aug 27, 2008 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
With Connor, Lee, Baker and Taylor
Illinois went for 216 yards on the ground. Yes, Mendenhall is gone, but he only had 76 yards against Penn State last year. The QBs had 95 yards rushing and Juice improved as a runner throughout the year last year.
Additionally, Juice was 11/24 with 2 INTs that game. After the Penn State game he only had 1 game where he completed less than 50% of his passes. He really improved as a QB last year.
And Benn was a freshmen last year, he will be better this year. Last year he had the kick return for a TD and a reception for a TD.
The loss of Mendenhall is huge, but everyone else improved so much on that team that Illinois will still have an effective offense. And since its Ron Super Recruiter Zook, you know the new RB will be a talented one. Illinois isn’t going to be putting some absolute bust of a nobody out there.
And the guy replacing Leman is already on the Butkus award watch list (either sheer stupidity on their part or a great prognostication). He has never started a game, but is supposed to be some super stud MLB.
If Penn State is going to lose one at home, it’ll be against Illinois.
by DrDetroit on Aug 28, 2008 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't buy it
Because Mendenhall was such a great runner they had to pay attention to him and could get fooled by QB runs. Dufrene and Pollard are Jr and rFr respectively and Pollard didn’t even play in the spring. I’m not sold on their RBs. Benn will be good again and their OL will be experienced. Losing J Lehman will be a huge blow in terms of production and leadership. Vonte Davis will shut down one WR but I think we have enough weapons to get around. I really think we beat Illinois at home.
by psuphiman80 on Aug 28, 2008 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Penn State
will not lose any home games this year. In fact they should be favored in every game except @ tOSU and Wisconsin. I’m thinking a 1996 type season, powerful running game and 11-2 record.
by Joe 96alum on Aug 27, 2008 10:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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Haven’t had an opportunity to get my answers up, but they should be up by Thursday night.
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by Happy Hour Valley on Aug 28, 2008 2:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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