Even Dick Jerardi was saying last night that Baylor has a ton of athletes, but they’re not particularly interested in guarding people.

and most people thought (1) PSU had an awful OOC SOS, so their record is inflated, and (2) the Big Ten was overrated, so their wins against MSU, PUR and ILL weren’t impressive.

THOUGHT YOU WOULD NEVER ASK. THE YEAR WAS 1996, AND WE WERE 4-0. WE HAD BEATEN OUR OPPONENTS BY A COMBINED 138-14. WE HAD THOROUGHLY DEMORALIZED SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN THE OPENING GAME AND I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO THINK I HAD ENDED THAT ANGLO BASTARD JOHN ROBINSON’S CAREER THERE SINGLEHANDEDLY. THE DEAN COMES INTO MY OFFICE AND TELLS ME MY STARTING QUARTERBACK HAD PASSED HIS MIDTERM

 Well, that’s good news.

 IT WAS PICKED OFF AND RETURNED FOR A TOUCHDOWN

 What?

 WE’RE TALKING ABOUT WALLY RICHARDSON

 Yeah, he sucks. But I don’t really see

 LONG STORY SHORT, I HAD THE DEAN KILLED AND WE WON THE FIESTA BOWL THAT SEASON UNDER WALLY’S STEADY LEADERSHIP

Russ, Conquese, and i saw a little bit of Curley (with a smug half smile on his face)

more importantly…Talor Battle’s brother, Taran Buie saw his brother put on a show…

PSU is the only school in the country that can offer him a chance to play with his brother…come on Taran!

a lot of times you can have someone that is in no means racist, but they come from a time (or sometimes even a place) where things were different. Doesn’t mean his comments were right, and he really should know not to say politically incorrect things, but I think that since he’s in his 80s he’s probably not gonna start changing now.

This reminds me of the football coach from Air Force saying how black kids run “very very well”. JoePa then made his own comment, “You have to be careful the way you say things sometimes,” the Penn State coach said. “Poor [Air Force coach] Fisher DeBerry got in trouble, but the black athlete has made a big difference. They have changed the whole tempo of the game. Black athletes have just done a great job as athletes and as people in turning the game around. Afro-American kids can run very well. That doesn’t mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can’t run, but it’s very obvious to me that they run extremely well.”

Of course, we live in a society where if you point out obvious facts (heck, look at the racial breakdown of the “speed” positions, or look at the record books for sprint times) you can get into a lot of hot water. The danger shouldn’t be when you point out the obvious speed advantage that very fast blacks have over very fast whites (since times for “average” people of both races are about the same), but instead should be when people then try to find some “weakness” to balance this out, like for example saying blacks make bad quarterbacks, or some other ridiculous gibberish.

(on a side note, I personally believe the reason black quarterbacks don’t always succeed in the NFL is due to not actually developing them at QBs at the college level, and instead taking the “easy” way out and just relying on their natural athletic ability to be able to run with the ball. )

When Joe said to a recruit, something to the effect “He can relate to him as a black kid because when he was a kid the Italians were the blacks.” I’m actually making it sound better than it originally did.

I remember the Fisher DeBerry blow up, and Joe did take some heat for his comments. What was lost in the fracas was that Joe Paterno was a coach at a time where no school south of the Mason/Dixon line let black kids play. Keep in mind that Alabama was still playing with a fully segregated team in 1970 for Christ’s sake. I’ll never understand how Bear Bryant’s legacy isn’t trashed badly for that.

Paterno’s comments, while slightly “Jimmy the Greek-esque”, were based on first had observations on how the game changed as college fotball was desegregated during the 1960’s. His point was that the quality of play improved (Uhhh, no shit.). Leave it to political correctness to turn a compliment (you are good at sports) into an insult.

when people get all up in arms about To Kill a Mockingbird or Huck Finn because they are “racist”.

but there’s definitely a timing problem, since you need a large number of people to simultaneously agree that the “WE ARE…PENN STATE” chant has died down enough, and to then say “Thank you”. It usually works MUCH better when the cheerleaders cooridnate that part, since otherwise it turns into about 5% of the people yelling “Thank you” and then getting about 20% people replying “You’re welcome”, meanwhile other people either stopped cheering at all, or are still doing a weak “We are…Penn State”

a pause is good. When the cheer is done in Beaver Stadium it seems to be slower, which I kinda like.

they would have the WE ARE cheer, and it would go really fast like that. It would drive me nuts.

I always kinda figure it is slow in the stadium cuz it takes the sound a bit to travel that far, while in an arena you hear things pretty much instantly.

your skills are obviously improving…you’re not the one behind this conficker worm, are you?!? :)

“This is how I chill, ma’am.”

otherwise you might not be able to get a post in

Sw’Otted should be part of the lexicon

any LOLcats pics ever again.

you know that things hurt bad. you could see on the slow-mo replay him grab his ass as soon as he hit the ground