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Nitt Picks Plays Better With A Nickname

You will never believe this. But college kids like cheap jokes

Sometimes, the taunts are simple.

"Library Man!" came the refrain a couple of weeks ago at Indiana.

Others can't be printed in this newspaper.

And Stanley Pringle hears it all.

 We've had our fair share of fun with this here at BSD.  The whole story is, well, really funny.  After reading the intro to this piece I was all set to make a point that we should really stop piling on the kid.  Well...

"It's funny, because the more noise they make, the better I seem to like it," Pringle said. "Like when we were at Purdue, the guys were yelling all this stuff when I was at the free throw line, and I made both of them. The next time, they didn't say anything, and I missed one. I was like, 'Man!' "

Never mind, then.  I mean if I get to still laugh at "The Librarian" jokes and help the team improve their awful FT%, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.  Here's a chart (from statsheet) of how that FT%, currently at 64.6%, ranks in the Big Ten:

 

 

And while we're at it, nationally:

 

 

A new age of distraction. Guess who's gone ahead and given up being coy about the record? You knew it, Bobby "Give'em A Second Chance" Bowden:

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He is the second-winningest coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I) history, one win behind another legend, Joe Paterno of Penn State. Bowden is 382-123-4 over 43 years as a head coach. JoePa is 383-127-3. Bowden is 79 years old, Paterno 82.

[...]

Bowden admitted he keeps up with Paterno’s game each Saturday during the season.

"After games, I’ll find out," he said. "Sometimes I’ll check at halftime. After the game somebody will always tell me how he did."

 

Nice, instead of making halftime adjustments he's logging on to yahoo sports to check the Penn State score.  Although I suppose when you play two D1-aa teams and follow it up with an ACC schedule, the job becomes less demanding.

Ending the madness.  This is a slight tangent from the topic, but because we criticize so much sports journalism on this site it seems worthwhile.

Kyle Whelliston used to write on mid-major basketball for the WWL until their latest round of cut-backs.  He was originally slated to have his posts cut in half, but after speaking out (delicately IMO) he was later told he was getting the full-on axe.

Well he seemed to take it very well, actually defending ESPN and calling its bashers "tactless vermin", but also adds this take I consider interesting insight from the inside [h/t on the link for IDK]:

[H]ere's some free advice: it's time for all of us to ratchet back our reliance on corporations, and fly or die on our own. I've been living off the Sports Bubble for so long that I've lost touch with the actual value of what I do, and I have no tangible idea if this operation would survive with a lessened subsidy. Nobody asked me to start covering mid-majors this way, nobody demanded it at any point, and the market didn't require a smartass traveling reporter who talks as much about losing as winning, who posts more about philosophy than basketball. It seemed like the right way to do it, so that's the way I do it.

So in one sense I'm a little confused; those who attack the WWL's ways are vermin, yet he fully admits that the writers who are part of the juggernaut are out of touch with a changing reality.

On the other hand, it makes perfect sense. 

In a lot of ways I'm sure this is a hard reality to take on and I commend him for doing it.  Most of these guys worked their way up by starting on a crappy beat, only to get close to the top and then have to deal with empowered readers who want to be part of the message instead of silent consumers.

So while this is encouraging, I think the days of a fisk-free world are still a lot closer to a dream than a reality.  Viva la FJM.

In scores of other games...Fans are selling their Nebraska spring game tickets for as much as $253 each.  I don't know how many of you have attended a spring game but the value of the event decreases rapidly from the time you first leave your tailgate, the thought of paying more than a couple of dollars to get in seems insane to me....Boiled Sports previews tonights PSU-Purdon't game.

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And no

the line going up in those charts isn’t a good thing.

BSD

by Kevin HD on Feb 11, 2009 2:25 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

What happened on 11/17

and immediately after? I’m assuming it is just an error, since I can’t imaging we had a game that so drastically improved our FT%, and then so drastically cut it back down immediately after.

by The JuggerNitt on Feb 11, 2009 2:28 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

nevermind, I figured it out

this shows last year and this years, and I guess first game of hte season we didn’t do TOO terribly

by The JuggerNitt on Feb 11, 2009 2:29 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Speaking of Bobby

Any news on whether they’re going to have to forfeit anything? Not that I think JoePa needs that to keep the record (or that Joe cares), I just don’t remember hearing how that ended.

John Madden told me 90% of the game was half-mental...

by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Feb 11, 2009 2:37 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

You, sir, are insane...

…if you don’t think that record means anything to Joe.

--
Mr. Bob Dobalina

by Run Up The Score on Feb 11, 2009 2:45 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Point taken- perhaps more accurately, he won’t admit that it means anything

John Madden told me 90% of the game was half-mental...

by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Feb 11, 2009 5:00 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

There was a lot of action

about a month ago, but all the reports claiming a decision was imminent were apparently wrong. Still nothing as far as I know.

BSD

by Kevin HD on Feb 11, 2009 2:46 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

the ncaa will get on the bowden situation

right after they punish usc and reggie bush.

o wait…

World F#$king Champions

by psudrozz on Feb 11, 2009 2:49 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Don't forget about

Mayo and his agent.

BSD

by Kevin HD on Feb 11, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Mayo and what?

it seemed like you were gonna say something, and then nothing. Mayo and mustard? Mayo and lettuce? I need to know. I once forgot about a jar of Mayo on the counter, and boy that was a bad idea.

by The JuggerNitt on Feb 11, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Purdon't?

Come on, you guys are better than that! You’re not Notre Dame in the 90’s

by BoilerTMill on Feb 11, 2009 3:03 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Come on, you guys are better than that!

Nah, not really. :-)

by RNF18 on Feb 11, 2009 3:05 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Yes, we are

Call them “Purcan’t”. That better, TMill? ;)

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

by ReadingRambler on Feb 11, 2009 3:09 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Anything’s better than “Purtheyjustbeatusbadly”.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

by ReadingRambler on Feb 11, 2009 8:47 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Seriously

Our trash talking is about as good as our FT shooting. Although you calling us Notre Dame hurts 10x worse than any kind of apostrophe I can put into your name.

BSD

by Kevin HD on Feb 11, 2009 3:10 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Are Perdue puns lame?

Tonight we wring the wonderchicken’s neck!

by gumbercules on Feb 11, 2009 3:36 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Spring game

I wish it were April already, last year’s was a blast. Great weather and our first glimps of the new players…

"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.

by millzners on Feb 11, 2009 3:15 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

How to spot BSD readers at the blue white game:

Look for the crowd around Zug trying to get his autograph, and pushing kids out of the way to get it

by dawsonPSU10 on Feb 11, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

LOL

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

by ReadingRambler on Feb 11, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

wait, Nebraska PAYS for their spring scrimmage game?

hahaha. Add that to the list of why having a stadium that seats 107,282 is so incredible

by dawsonPSU10 on Feb 11, 2009 3:59 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I think several programs charge for the spring game...

If paying $10 × 80,000 fans would allow PSU to schedule a worthy OOC opponent in place of one of these payoff games I would happily do it.

pinkertonpark.com - you owe yerself a laugh.

by rahpsu92 on Feb 11, 2009 4:30 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

i think they make plenty of money off concessions and merchandise

when the game’s free I’ll gladly buy a burger and a program, which is about $10 anyway.

"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.

by millzners on Feb 11, 2009 5:07 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

same here, it’s practically a tradition for me

by dawsonPSU10 on Feb 11, 2009 5:26 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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