There Will Be No Preview Today - Blame Curley

Maybe I’m wrong, but wouldn’t it be better to play a decent team we don’t have to give a payday to? The stadium would actually fill, the game would be on a real network (exposure’s good, right) and it’d at least stand a chance of improving the Televen’s rep- which would keep up the chance of more elite bowl games (2 BCS teams rather than one) and end up making more money (and benefitting the program as a whole more)? Or am I way off base? I understand MAC teams, and an occasional FCS team if someone backs out, but this should not be the norm.

If you want a cheap guaranteed win, we can just start playing Pitt.

Earlier this year I had to add an additional sports tier for the wife as UGA was playing on ESPN Classic. It costs $5 extra month. Actually looking forward to seeing Kevin Newsome and some of the younger guys play in this scrimage.

That said this scheduling of a FCS/I-AA school is ridiculous. The NCAA is actually just as much to blame as anybody as they let schools count 1 FCS win toward the bowl total. If they did away with this pitful rule….we would see less of these ridiculous game!

Good for you. There is no reason to do a preview. Heck, my Hate Week post was grounded in the utter irrelevance of this weekend’s game.

I also know the Athletic Department will not care one bit. I know it’s not easy to fill 8 spots on the schedule, and they have to pay the bills for all of the expansions, but this has been the single worst season I’ve experienced as a PSU fan—and it’s solely due to the quality of the opposition we’ve faced in the opening weeks of the season. It’s a joke. I’ve looked at the future schedules and know that this year is an exception rather than the rule, but Curley blew it this year.

Even during the dark years, I was excited and passionate in my fan support, always looking for the big upset and being angered at the result. I wasn’t happy, but I cared. This year is marked by apathy. Even my friends who have moved back to State College have commented that there is a lot less energy in town before games.

apparently I don’t get espn classic, and I don’t understand why. I have all these other espn channels but not that one.

I guess I have to pony up and order whatever this month so I get the game. Would like to see some of the younger players.

…and went to Clarion’s Homecoming game (it was like watching a high school football game)…so i really don’t want to miss to games in row…but, i can’t justify blowing off my family who is in town for my birthday for Eastern Illinois. i figure as i’m shopping, i can dip into some bar for an update on the game.

I’m with Mike, this is tiring. Next week will be week six, damn near half-way through the season, and we’ve had just 2 football games we realistically cared about and only six quarters of entertaining football.

I’m hoping things will change once we start the meat of it, but honestly when you have this long and this lame of a build up, you deflate the energy before the season ever had a chance. Plus we haven’t even played Indiana yet.

I’ll be teeing it up right around kickoff, so I guess its win-win for me as the alternative is NOT watching it on ESPN Classic. I’ll catch the highlights at halftime of the OSU-UW game. Then I’ll put action on the real games in the evening. Got a nice little Saturday planned…

I don’t mean to ruffle anyone’s feathers, but how is that a sport? Which left turn so far this season has been your favorite?

Yes.

Also, I believe the game is on ESPN360.com.

I went to Coastal Carolina and decided that I would never bother with a cupcake game again. I have seen every game either in person or on TV for the last 5 years. But this year I missed Temple and I am going to miss this game and I don’t care. I would rather watch a competitive game not involving PSU than this crap. They have found a way to schedule a game so that the greatest student section in the country will be less than half full when the game starts and half full again at the end of the third quarter. I can only hope that this kind of scheduling will become unprofitable at some point.

I’m not disagreeing with anything here…I think its lame, but all the ticket-holding alumni I know who have complained to the AD office about this claim that these games are necessary in order to keep ticket prices at a stable level. i.e. 7 or 8 home games are needed for revenue.

So maybe its like a catch 22…where you want better OOC opponents, but you want to actually be able to afford to be in the NLC and buy season tickets?

Also, I’m a firm believer that the AD should be self sufficient and not borrow from the university’s general funds, so I can understand it from that perspective.

And I’m going in with the same attitude I went to the Spring Game with: This is about tailgaiting and being with the family.

When I go back up there in November for the Ohio State game, THAT will be about football. But tomorrow is about quality time with family and friends, and maybe I’ll go watch the game for a quarter or two.

but if you think the Athletic Department gives a rat’s ass about your emotions and feelings or whether you’re covering the game…. THEY DON’T.

All they care about is dollar signs, and quite frankly, an 8th home game – regardles of who they play – brings in an avalanche of fresh, crisp, sweet sweet dollars.

We all know the drill, as RUTS has shared one million times. 2 home/away with real BCS school, two MAC teams at home. Boom – 7 games every year. However, as RUTS likes to point out – it’s about playing 7 home with the chance at 8 home every other year.

Unless you plan on donating a few extra million each year… this is going to happen every other season, bro.

I try to keep it in perspective. A few months back, we were talking about preseason polls, recruiting, Joe is Old, barbecue, brewing beer, and everytHing we could just to pass the time until Penn State football.

Granted, those are all wonderful topics (which is part of what makes this community so great)…but I don’t think a day went by where someone didn’t say, “PLEASE, FOOTBALL SEASON, GET HERE ALREADY!!!”

Well now football season is here. And while I completely agree that the opponent and the scheduling sucks a big fat PryorArmPunt, let’s just be happy it’s Penn State football season. Let’s enjoy it while we can, because in 3 short months, we’ll be back to the waiting game.

Appreciate what you got while you got it…it’s a Penn State game, and regardless of the opponent, I’m going to treat this game like I treat every other game…LIKE IT’S THE FREAKIN’ GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD!

Just wait until Indiana State rolls onto the schedule in 2011. They have one win — ONE WIN — in their past 50 games and they’re a 1-AA school. We might GT-Cumberland them.

I’ll be down in Ocean City MD for this game, not making any effort to watch it. If I was sitting at home and had ESPN Classic, I’d watch it. Wouldn’t pay more than $15 for a ticket to it, though.

And no, the athletic department doesn’t care if you don’t show up. The tickets, for the most part, are already sold. They’ll make a little less money on concessions and gameday parking.

Whatever. Dollar. Dollar. Bills y’all.

,,,because if they take the same WGAF attitude, we could be in for an Appalachian State moment. While I understand why you feel the way you do, football is football…Go State!

,,,because if they take the same WGAF attitude, we could be in for an Appalachian State moment. While I understand why you feel the way you do, football is football…Go State!

is this weekend. I have no interest in watching this game on TV.

Best part of this post is that it was put up at exactly 12:00.

Its like you’re challenging Tim Curley to a duel. I think you take him.

Hey, we all can do whatever the F we want.

We can choose to go, choose to watch, choose to watch another game, choose to get drunk and pass out in our front yards, whatever.

No one has a gun to your head forcing you to do any of this. Maybe if we organized an actual movement against the athletic office to prevent this type of thing from happening, things would be different. The fact of the matter is they don’t give a shit and won’t unless it affects their bottom line or if we annoy them enough. They know we won’t do anything to them except at worst not come to the game. Not caring is not enough.

So lets put our collective money where our mouths are and do something about it or we can just shut up. Trust me we can affect change in this. I have learned one main thing in my life. If you make enough noise and piss someone off enough, they’ll change their tune. At worst, things stay the same; so why not do something about it.

THE TIME FOR ACTION AGAINST THE AD IS NIGH! GRAB YOUR PITCHFORKS!

I am not getting the rose colored glasses people who are saying “football is footbal” or “I am just happy to tailgate”. This game is a hamburger and I want a porterhouse. I want good games. I want a game I am excited about and can’t wait for against an opponent that gets my blood boiling. I want something I talk about with friends all week. I want to read articles in every newpaper and magazine hyping the game. I want there to be a chance we might lose so I when I yell and cheer it matters. We only have 4 of these games all year (and 2 at home)?

On top of all that I can’t go even if I wanted to and I don’t get it on TV, so our scheduling choices have robbed me of the chance to see my team.

that said, no disrespect to the NASCAR fans.

It was the only game I couldn’t convince friends/family to take off my hands, so I sold it on ebay and almost got face value. So that right there is what the Penn State gameday experience is worth.

Nascar has been dead to me since they introduced the chase – and I’ve always been a little scared of the fans at the track.

What if you raised the price of a non-conference game ticket if you could get a quality opponent in? An extra $20 or 25 per to give straight to the opposing team? That way, you would fill the stadium, get media coverage, get people excited, get respect from the pollsters (if you win), and make it worth someone’s while to COME TO PENN STATE.

The problem comes with defining quality opponent. Someone who is in a major conference and was in the Top 25 two of the last three years? A “traditional” non-conference rival such as Syracuse, Nebraska, Pitt, Alabama, Miami, Notre Dame?
I personally think that PSU-Va Tech is an interconference rivalry worth examining.

I’m not a season-ticket holder. If you are, would you be in favor of this plan?