Is it too quiet?

by InScoresOfOtherGames on Oct 21, 2009 2:36 PM EDT Comment 25 comments

This is Michigan week right? I am unsettled by the quiet. Or is it just me?

I understand that this is not a game with strong National/conference championship implications, but shouldn't there be more chatter, more discussion, both here and in the media? Is that because everyone, myself included, is completely uneasy about this game?

Defensively our speed should be able to contain the UM offense, but Forcier is talented throwing on the run and that scares me. Offensively I don't know what the hell to think. We should be able to move the ball, but who knows what happens on the road.

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I'm not worried...

Any time we go into a game with the far superior defense, I like our chances.

Plus although our offense is not as high powered as we all hope, it is solid and capable of putting up 24+ points against a subpar scUM defense.

WE ARE.......PENN STATE!

by Nick7 on Oct 21, 2009 2:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't think it's been that quiet

There was a post about Forcier yesterday, but there’s not usually any preview posts until Wednesday.

And there’s been several fanshots and fanposts on this topic.

As for the media, it’s not “hype worthy” enough for them.

"[angry frown]" - Lloyd Carr

by ReadingRambler on Oct 21, 2009 2:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What he said^

Usually we spend Monday and Tuesday recapping the action from the weekend. Wednesday we start easing into it and try to crescendo on Friday.

Tomorrow we’ll have a Q&A with a Michigan blogger if he gets his answers to me tonight. Then on Friday we’ll have our previews. And we’ll probably work a few other things in here and there.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Oct 21, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

exactly, no hype

PSU has basically (for whatever reason) been written off for this season (omgz bad schedule!!), and people seem to already be bailing off of tater tots metaphorical sinking titanic.

maybe meatchicken will use this as bulletin board material too…it’s about as much of stretch as that royster quote.

We decide when you hear the snap count...

by thedrizzle on Oct 21, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't that quiet is the word

I think that by and large it’s been more serious than the last two weeks.

We got business this week.

Beat Michigan.

by jesse. on Oct 21, 2009 3:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Time

to handle our binness.

"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69

by jtothep on Oct 21, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mind yo binness, that's all. Just mind yo binness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVBUt4DOQQ

"Every player we have, someone—maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone—poured their life and soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world." - Joe Paterno

by Horse N Buggy on Oct 22, 2009 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh my word

by jtothep on Oct 22, 2009 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

we'll find out a lot

about how good of a team we’ve been cheering for all year really is.

besides iowa we haven’t had a true challenge yet.

Meadville, PA born and raised.

by mikeissurreal on Oct 21, 2009 3:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Sorry

If I had hair, I would light it on fire for you.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Oct 21, 2009 3:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

not complaining about content

I’m suggesting that there isn’t the usual banter that I would expect before a big game. As stated above, I’m willing to accept that it could be my personal perspective.

by InScoresOfOtherGames on Oct 21, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am unsettled too

and I’ve been checking BSD like a strung out dope fiend smokes cigarettes.

I don’t think its the quiet, though, its just the anticipation for the game. I’m pretty sure there’s no cure for this except for a perfectly executed trap where Royster gets threw the hole, makes one guy miss, and then is in the end zone before you know it.

I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.

by spakajewia on Oct 21, 2009 4:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

so what youre saying is that...

This is a trap game?

I know a lot more than they know. I'm going to do what I believe is in the kid's best interest. That's what this whole thing is about.-Joe Paterno

by JoePaPa on Oct 21, 2009 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I see that the new SI Article

is generating new signatures like mad today.

Beat Michigan.

by jesse. on Oct 21, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Go Pitt was taken....

I know a lot more than they know. I'm going to do what I believe is in the kid's best interest. That's what this whole thing is about.-Joe Paterno

by JoePaPa on Oct 21, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You must have me confused with somebody else.

Beat Michigan.

by jesse. on Oct 21, 2009 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

To busy HATING.

HATE HATE HATE.

by Tailgate Shogun on Oct 21, 2009 5:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Here you go...

Feel better now?

by Mr. Rosewater on Oct 21, 2009 8:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Dude! Dude!

I know I enforce the no politics rules, but you must have the “Dean scream”.

"[angry frown]" - Lloyd Carr

by ReadingRambler on Oct 21, 2009 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rather

I would rather them do all the talking and us crush their souls. I like the quiet confidence.

by Buzz05 on Oct 22, 2009 6:17 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I was looking at the MaizenBrew JoePa post

And scrolled down and saw another post with the lyrics to that damn fight song. It got in my head so I had to start doing zombie nation to get it out.

Oh Oh Oh OhOh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh OhOh OhOh OhOh.

Or something like that.

by speedomike on Oct 22, 2009 9:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

On a Michigan highway, dead deer everywhere
Warm smell of arrogance, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There he stood in the doorway;
I heard RichRod yelling
And I was thinking to myself,
this could be heaven or this could be hell
Then he lit up a candle and he showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say…

Ann Arbor really is a whore
Such an ugly place
Such a beaten face
Plenty of room at this filthy brothel
Any time of year, 5 dolla make you holla

"[angry frown]" - Lloyd Carr

by ReadingRambler on Oct 22, 2009 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs