Nitt Picks Has Learned Its Lesson
by KevinHD on Jul 7, 2009 9:00 AM EDT
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Scheduling of a different flavor. Penn State put out the full basketball non-conf schedule and it's much improved:
Nov. 13 Penn
Nov. 16 Robert Morris
Nov. 19-22 @ Charleston Classic (Miami, South Carolina, South Florida, Davidson, Tulane, LaSalle, UNC Wilmington)
Nov. 25 Sacred Heart
Nov. 30 @ Virginia
Dec. 5 @ Temple
Dec. 8 Maryland Baltimore County
Dec. 12 Virginia Tech
Dec. 19 Gardner Webb
Dec. 21 American
Complete with this stat:
Penn State's nine guaranteed non-conference opponents will bring an average RPI of 134, based on RPIs at the end of 2008-09 campaign, into the 2009-10 season. That is better than 80 RPI points lower than the average of last seasons 13 non-conference opponents entering the season.
Everyone ought to be pleased, although things can of course quickly backfire. American had a great run with a guard who is now gone and Penn could once again be the 200+ anchor you really need to avoid. All in all, though, it's a really solid slate with winnable games, and fewer laughable ones, for a team that still has a lot of production to replace.
Pride and Preposterous. This newspaper clipping starting making the rounds late last week, and while it's an easy gut shot in context, it is even more pathetic when you look at the details.
To try and paraphrase: Tulane's quarterback was a transfer from Iowa State, only instead of sitting out a year he took the NCAA to court over the transfer rule. The court ordered a stay, allowing the kid to play while the case was heard. Tulane then took on Bowden's FSU team and somehow beat the heavy favorites by 6 points.
As you know the court later upheld the rule, which led to Bowden Money Quote A:
And Bowden Money Quote B:
Because the universe is sometimes fair, Bowden didn't beat Miami, or even Florida the following Saturday. They finished with five losses but still somehow went to the Peach Bowl, which, and I'm too young to remember, must have been the Motor City Bowl of its day.
As for Tulane? Their awfulness really makes this a laugher: 4-7 with losses to powerhouse teams like Vanderbilt, even with the court ordered quarterback playing most of the year.
And I'm not even sure this is cheating. I mean if the judge ordered a stay then how is Tulane suppose to be punished for it? BSD Legal will have to give you our official stance but this seems a lot more legit to me than half the team cheating on tests and then playing the "we didn't know" card, which, comeon: it's your responsibility to know when one of your grad assistants conducting something like that.
Two trick ponies. Ivan Maisel and Adam Rittenberg, two regular writers at the WWL, got all web-cammy for a short segment they call "Big Ten football rivalries":
Only with selective word play can I go along with this, but sure, under the disclaimer of "hottest", I'll buy. Although isn't this really a review of the two biggest games?
While we are off topic, quickly. I'm for some reason drawn to reading these things even though they rarely have original thoughts and never actually provide real "answers". But anyway:
The problem besetting newspapers is not that there are hordes of bloggers giving it away for free. Bloggers are, to be sure, great competition for the op-ed section. But the op-ed section is not a money maker, as the New York Times so painfully discovered with Times Select.
This whole article alternates between saying pointed although mostly obvious things and then, sometimes in the next sentence, completely missing the boat. This is the latter. Op-ed articles must be by definition news driven. You have to start with a current event or social trend and then expand upon it. You can't give an opinion without first reporting the news. BSD is not an originator of hard, beat news, but we sure do deliver it.
The NYT failed to sell their content because people weren't interesting in paying for their opinions. The WSJ has much more success with essentially the same model because people respect what that organization has to say. They created a niche with premium, high quality content, and didn't just expect to get paid for it because they were a newspaper.
Okay, completely back on topic. The victory garden produced more cucumbers than a reasonable person could eat, leaving me with the opportunity to start pickling. My search for a recipe left me not only with what will be my contribution to the BSD Iowa Tailgate, but also perhaps the single greatest combination of foods ever conceived:
Yes, you are looking at that right:
In scores of other games. has a great write up of the QBs that go away...get back in touch with your glossy paper roots...Penn State doing twitter research (caution: auto-playing ad video).
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"All in all, though, it's a really solid slate with winnable games, and fewer laughable ones, for a team that still has a lot of production to replace."
FIRE CURL…
Oh, wait.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
Curley does a lot of things right and some things wrong, just like any person. The key thing is to learn from one’s mistakes and correct them and it appears that we’ve done exactly that with this basketball schedule. If PSU continues that in future years, then yeah the people yelling to replace Curley should quiet down.
Of course, this ignores that Curley isn’t all that reponsible for the schedule anyway and that DeChellis (or any coach) has a massive say in how it turns out.
Yes, but Curley has to give his approval, does he not?
(Tee hee hee – I love poking a bee’s nest with a stick)
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 7, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Bacon wrapped pickles?!?!!
With recipes like bacon wrapped pickles (and probably deep fried white castle cheeseburgers, eh RUTS?) there will need to be a disclaimer that merely entering the BSD tailgate is bad for your health.
Sadly, I wasn't there for the White Castles
I was living vicariously through my friends because I was stuck in Denver that year. But there will be plenty of deep fried items this year, such as turkeys, pierogies, and a Kia.
In all semi-seriousness, I’d love to have a BSD Iron Chef style competition. I’d even buy a video camera for the job.
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Order your copy of "We Are Penn State", like, now. One team, 128 pages.
by Run Up The Score on Jul 7, 2009 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Iron Chef BSD
Would be off the freakin chain. My lord, I’m picturing nth degrees of awesomeness.
"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
Would Tailgate Shogun
be the Chairman, the Contender or the initial Iron Chef?
"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
Not sure.....
But I may design and award a trophy. I’m thinking:
OR
by Tailgate Shogun on Jul 7, 2009 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
i like the 2nd one
Homer Simpson: This one has purple stuff inside it. Purple’s a fruit right?
"I'm driven by greatness" - Derrick Williams
can't we just steal Wisconsin/Minnesota's original "Slab of Bacon" trophy?
Just about the only thing worthwhile either school has ever contributed to the world ;-)
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 8, 2009 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
The secret ingredient would have to be bacon.
Also, I think I should be allowed to judge, as the resident food scientist and everything. And no, that doesn’t mean I’m a culinary expert. I just wanna eat the food.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jul 7, 2009 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
I figured with the recent
home brewing topic, beer would be a good ingredient. Bacon is the obvious choice.
Anyone on on BSD butcher and cure their own bacon?
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
This is slowly turning into
a tailgate for the ages.
Order your copy of "We Are Penn State" The offseason is long. So is this magazine.
You guys are totally missing the obvious
This is central PA people, the home of artery clogging Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. The secret ingredient would HAVE to be ponhaus or Scrapple for you uneducated types.
mmmmm…
Nothing says "tasty" like the leftover parts of a pig after you’re done butchering
by Galen on Jul 7, 2009 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
+1 for scrapple
bacon’s delicious mutated cousin
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
I love scrapple.
Granted, I only actually eat it at the Capitol Diner in Harrisburg. But it’s damn fine pig leftovers.
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Order your copy of "We Are Penn State", like, now. One team, 128 pages.
by Run Up The Score on Jul 7, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Can't do it.
I live in Lancaster and I have no idea how people eat it.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
Just don't think about what's in it
it’s delicious.
by Screen Name 20 on Jul 7, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
it is funny how that happens
the stuff you scrape off the butcher’s floor is some of the most delicious eating (as long as you just don’t think about it)
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 8, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Kind of like drinking
the bartender’s dregs at closing time. I’ll pass.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
Souse > Scrapple
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 7, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions
hmm, I do make a mean PB&J sandwich...
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 7, 2009 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions
We can deep fry it
We have the technology.
by Tailgate Shogun on Jul 7, 2009 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Don’t forget to add a bit a marshmallow Fluff in there too.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jul 8, 2009 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions
You're pregnant?
Gradulations!
"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
The baskeball schedule looks good...
especially considering we don’t know how the team will be without the mainstays. I believe that Maryland team is UMBC, the Retrievers. They had a dominant pg named Jay Greene who went to school with me in good old Whitehall along with Will Leiner. I would assume he graduated thought. Still some interesting games for a team that has to replace almost 50% of its scoring.
I was out in the trenches, which enables me to paint such a powerful picture, like Apocalypse Now.-Cormega
Hoops schedule
I think it is a definite improvement from last year. I don’t see the need to have a “murderer’s row” schedule in 2009-10, especially since the consensus is that the team may take a step back next season. They can then build on this for the following season when Battle is a senior and Buie is here.
I think that in the future though, we shouldn’t compare our current schedule to ones we’ve had in the past (because everyone knows they are horrific), I think we should compare them to what other teams in the Big 10 are currently scheduling. If it is pretty comparable to those teams, then I think we are fine. We just can’t have a significant difference in OOC RPI in our schedule versus those teams like we did last season.
There was an article from Andy Katz a few days back that makes reference to the Old Spice Classic as well a comment that Mississippi State is desperately looking to start a home and home with a BCS school. Could be something for down the road…
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4302442&name=katz_andy
comparing to other Big Ten schools
The problem in comparing our OOC schedule to other big Ten schools – or other BCS conference schools – is that our awful history in the sport makes it quite difficult to schedule big time schools. It’s find to say “we should schedule Kansas or Duke or UConn” (etc.) but the reality is that schools like that probably don’t want to schedule a team like PSU who might end up sucking and hurting your RPI or might end up being just good enough to lose to without seeming like a “good loss”. And we aren’t clearly good enough to guarantee a primo TV game either. Elite schools might offer to play us in a one off home game (for them) but that’s not a good situation for PSU and why would we create that rep that we’d be willing to travel for money like a lower conference school.
It’s a tough situation for us.
The big thing we needed to do is to upgrade the schedule so that we got rid of the RPI dogs that would rpevent us from making the NCAAs and we’ve done that. Have another year or two of success and we’ll be able to get a good elite team to come to Happy Valley. And we might be able to work ourselves into the better holiday tournaments too. But right now, it’s a tough sell.
Poor Siena
Everyone knows they are going to be good this year, so no good teams will play them, which will kill their RPI and make it so they have to win their conference to make the tournament. Scheduling for basketball is hard because of this and what Laz said.
Man I love Adam Rittenberg's blog
but he probably shouldn’t go on camera too much (not saying he’s bad looking, he just has a lot of nervous mannerisms…of course the best way to get rid of those is to go on camera more…)
yeah, he’s really awkward and nervous on camera, he looks like he’s being interogated by the FBI. Also, he always reminds me of this:
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
yes!
I knew I couldn’t be the only person who thought of McLovin when I see Rittenberg
Let's Go State
More fun with fake IDs
Order your copy of "We Are Penn State" The offseason is long. So is this magazine.
FAIL.
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by Run Up The Score on Jul 7, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions
C'mon dude.
You know I was trying to keep my true identity a secret. Guess the cat’s out of the bag.
Sincerely yours,
Jose Pacheco
by Tailgate Shogun on Jul 7, 2009 9:41 PM EDT up reply actions
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by Run Up The Score on Jul 7, 2009 1:24 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I can't wait to text in on
my commute home tonight.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
I did notice that, and was quite excited
I also noticed that we can “ReTweet” posts now. Whoo…
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 8, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess its not a
bunch of hippies sitting around a campfire stinking.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
Ehhhhh....
Theres no game that makes me say “ewww” this year…but thats not saying much. I’d still like to see at least one marquee opponent on there, but…I’ll settle for this I suppose.
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...
I like to think they tried
But as stated 1,000,000 times before, there is no appeal for a top team to play us until we prove last season was not a fluke.
On A Side Note
Has anyone noticed that Old State Clothing AND Quaker Steak in State College are both gone?!
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...
Did the Quaker Steak just get built like 3 years ago?
Order your copy of "We Are Penn State" The offseason is long. So is this magazine.
Yeah
But the people running it were incompetent and couldn’t pay Quaker Steak the franchise fees. So Quaker Steak revoked the franchise, and then sued the owners when they continued running it as a Quaker Steak. Then the owners counter-sued Quaker Steak, claiming they were misled about the potential profitability of the business. At least this is what I remember from a CDT article some months ago. I’m too lazy/busy to google it currently. But the bottom line is that it’s not open anymore, and the lot/building is for sale.
Let's Go State!
BSD should use the mass amounts of blog money to create a headquaters there.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
Well if they want to do it right they will.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
You kidding?
We can turn the place into the greatest microbrewery/smokehouse known to man!
"...You know, Reemer, someday I'm gonna own a big sports bar."
Ok - can we change the
theme/scheme so people don’t think they’re coming in for an oil and lube job.
Although you could argue…
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
Alright Dawson...
you’re first…. (rubber glove snapping)
This might hurt just a bit….
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
I’d gladly volunteer to do any food-related formulations/making sure we didn’t violate health codes.
We can call it Mike’s Backyard Grotto and Grille.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jul 8, 2009 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions
BSD should use the mass amounts of blog money to create a headgrottos there.
"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 Jul 7, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I thought Old State Clothing just moved.
Somewhere downtown but I forget exactly.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
Old State Clothing
They’re moving to the corner of Allen St & Beaver Ave, across Allen from Panera and across Beaver from the Schlow Library. Not sure when they’re opening though, or if they’ve already re-opened.
Let's Go State!
NOOOOO Tadopole Crossing is gone?
Never went in there, but always liked the sign/name
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 8, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, it used to be one of my favorite stores as a kid
They’d always have cool rubber snakes and animal figurines (not like cheap Carnival prize things either, like detailed toys that wouldn’t fall apart on you), and like a rock and mineral stand where you could buy cool stones like tigerseye, pyrite, geodes, amethyst, etc., which I was always in to. Unfortunately they kind of abandoned that and it started to become more of an animal themed arts and crafts store, which was kind of sad.
Awesome!
A chronology of Tadpole Crossing. More evidence of the randomness of topics at BSD. Well done dawson.
Put a tarp on that circus! - showtime @ BSD
Thanks baconway, I do what I can
to try to make BSD a better (read: completely random and off topic) place
I heard rumors the original concept name was "Bull-Sh*t Diaries"
but SBNation did not approve
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 10, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions
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