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An Upset Victory? No, Chants.

We tracked down Travis Sawchik (Ohio State graduate!), who covers Coastal Carolina for The Sun News in South Carolina, and asked him three quick questions about the Chanticleers.

1.  CCU head coach David Bennett recently said, "That's a tall task, Coastal Carolina going to beat Penn State … It would be nice at halftime not to be getting obliterated." Is that a reasonable goal for the Chants on Saturday, or is Coach Bennett trying to lock his team into a "nothing to lose" mentality?

Coastal is talking about winning little battles …. Picking up first downs, forcing Penn State to punt … CCU is well aware of what it is up against. Even Bennett will tell you that this CCU squad is not up the level of Appalachian State.

2.  Which Coastal players are likely to give Penn State the most trouble?

Marrio Norman is an excellent corner with the potential to play on Sunday. Right tackle Britt Leggett is also of interest to NFL scouts.

3.  Any idea on a starting quarterback yet?

No official word. My guess would be that Zach MacDowall starts, but both MacDowall and Will Richardson will play.

For more on CCU's game preparations, head over to his "Inside CCU Sports" blog.  He's reporting from State College right now ("Wet and gray" in Happy Valley?  Never!) and has some additional tidbits regarding CCU's personnel.

See you tomorrow morning in the game thread. 

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And, yes...

…I will be submitting this post title to Mellon Bank as part of my application to make up next season’s game buttons.

by Run Up The Score on Aug 29, 2008 3:35 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Wow

It’s like interviewing Lloyd Carr. Hope he didn’t kill himself answering those questions.

by BSD on Aug 29, 2008 5:09 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

In fairness

He’s an Ohio State graduate, and therefore working with a much smaller vocabulary.

by Run Up The Score on Aug 29, 2008 7:43 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Zing!!!!!!!

Who didn’t see THAT one coming?

"Dig In....Hit Hard"

by TexasLax on Aug 29, 2008 11:45 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Question

Can someone please help me? I don’t think there has been a single game the past two or three seasons that I have missed on the radio, I always listen to 890 AM I believe and watch on TV at the same time. I don’t have the BTN and plan on staying in tomorrow so I’m stuck with only radio, the problem is that I am seeing a bunch of weird station listing for the Coastal Carolina/Penn State game. WTF? Buffalo, FIU…all kinds of cupcakes and always the same channel. Will it be on 890 AM with Steve Jones & Jack Ham? I pray to god it will be… :(

by RBGmug on Aug 29, 2008 7:28 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Radio/TV

The problem nowadays with listening to the radio while watching on satellite is that you have about a 5 second delay on satellite. So when Steve Jones is telling you that Norwood made an amazing bobbling catch in the endzone AQ is snapping the ball on your television. Kinda takes the fun out of watching it.

the idiot formerly known as "joepadon"

by nittanyroar on Aug 29, 2008 10:55 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

My Dad would always put the TV on mute and turn on the radio. Sucks we can’t do that when we’re stuck with Pam Ward or Andre Ware.

by ReadingRambler on Aug 29, 2008 11:50 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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