George Steinbrenner Hates Joe Paterno

by KevinHD on Sep 16, 2009 9:30 AM EDT in Football

Nick Carparelli Jr., the Big East’s associate commissioner for football, said in a telephone interview on Monday that talks for the Yankee Bowl have been progressing.

I'm not even going to tell you how I feel about that name. You know how I feel. There is a football player from Brooklyn, a record holding football player, who has gone on to become one of the most successful coaches in college football. This guy's name is not "Yankees", or even George Steinbrenner.

But everyone loves pin stripes, and though it has nothing to do with football in the slightest, it's the New York way to make sure your name is all over it anyway. I mean it's football in, to steal a phrase, The House That The YES Network Built, and as they are saying over at DocSat:

[I]f there's one thing this country needs to get America back on track it's further exposure to Notre Dame, the Yankees and third-tier bowl games.

And who can't get behind that, right George?

I'm sorry, the correct answer was:

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Although maybe it's best to stay an arms length from this thing. It's looking a lot more like all of those other countless bowls you don't watch:

The Big East would send its third or fourth selection to New York against likely the seventh selection from the Big 12.

Really, Big East? Your third or fourth against their seventh?!? This isn't the best way to respond to the media hounding on your falling stature, but then again it is par for the course.

My whole argument when NYC football was first passed around was the idea that you could tap what I believe to be (but can in no way support with statistics) a large number of Big Ten alum within a drivable distance from the city, match that with the much more local Big East, and have a unique game that pits two quality schools in cold weather.

This is the opposite of that. How many fans would have filled the 47,000 seats they are making available for these games:

Year	Big XII	Big East
2004	ISU/Ok.St.	WVU/Syracuse
2005	ISU/Missouri	Rutgers/S.Fla.
2006	Kansas State	WVU/S.Fla.
2007	Texas A&M	Cincinnati/S.Fla.
2008	Kansas	WVU/Rutgers

Or in other words, a Big East team either at the fringes of or (more likely) completely absent from the polls against a 7 win team from the Southwest. And when you're reading headlines like this one:

Iowa State could soon be bowling in New York City

You know that's a bad thing.

For shame I say, a dream is dead but I suppose the Big Ten will cash in anyway.

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New York is not cheap at that time of year

For PSU fans, I’m pretty sure a bowl game in Fla including flights would be cheaper than a driving trip to NYC.

The cost of hotel rooms over the holidays alone is going to be a huge deterrent for many fans who might consider the trip. Remember how you saw that flights from Philly were $1000 for the Rose Bowl last year and said “Well, maybe I’ll just watch it on TV?” Now picture a Texas Tech fan staring down $600 a night hotel rooms for football game in a cold rain or snow when your team was barely bowl eligible to begin with.

by PSU Mudder on Sep 16, 2009 9:43 AM EDT reply actions

I think it depends on how close to NYE and x-mas they get. If they do this thing early, like the 20th, hotel rooms aren’t nearly that bad, a lot close to $250 a night. It’s even cheaper if they do the Toronto thing and go post-New Years….which is great for us who don’t mind the weather, but even at $100/night I don’t think you’re getting any Texas kin to NYC to watch their 7-5 team. So I agree this a is pretty dumb move for the Big XII.

BSD

by KevinHD on Sep 16, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions

26th-31st

I think I read somewhere that they’re planning for it to be after Christmas but before New Years Day.

by The Mess on Sep 16, 2009 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions

...but I suppose the Big Ten will cash in anyway.

Maybe I’m just thick but how will the Big Ten cash in on a bowl game between a Big XII and a Big East team?

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 16, 2009 9:46 AM EDT reply actions

They’ll be rich without a NYC bowl game, I guess that’s what I mean. But that doesn’t really need to be said, so I probably should have left it out.

BSD

by KevinHD on Sep 16, 2009 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Being a New Yorker, S.O.A. is totally unamused:

Seriously though, wouldn’t a Big Ten bid for this bowl have gone to like the 5th or 6th best team in the conference anyway?

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Sep 16, 2009 9:59 AM EDT reply actions

personally

i don’t know how i’d get through the christmas/new years holiday without the champs/insight/little ceasers bowls to keep my comforted.

YOU CAN TAKE MY LITTLE CEASERS BOWL WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD EYE BALLS!!!

We decide when you hear the snap count...

by thedrizzle on Sep 16, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Third or Fourth Big East team

So basically Notre Dame will be there every year.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Sep 16, 2009 10:12 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

ZING!

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Sep 16, 2009 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions

FYI - Penn State Alumni in that area (by state)

NY – 17,453
NJ – 20,648
Conn – 4,455
PA – 267,255

Source: http://alumni.psu.edu/about_us/maps08.pdf (page 2)

Born and raised in the shadow of Mount Nittany

by Elihu on Sep 16, 2009 10:36 AM EDT reply actions

Where is DC?

It’s bad enough my vote doesn’t count, now I don’t even exist?

I think DE, MD and VA could be included on “Bowl Tripable.” It’s a $15 bus ticket from down here.

BSD

by KevinHD on Sep 16, 2009 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm shocked

that NY is smaller than NJ. I mean, sure, maybe more kids from NJ go to PSU, but when you grow up, you move into the city. It’s practically a rite of passage.

NittanyWhiteOut.com. Arguably the second best Penn State blog I know of.

by PSUdevon on Sep 16, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions

That’s an awesome figure. We could use this to raise a Penn State army in each state and…nevermind.

by PSUmob on Sep 16, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions

Funny you should mention that

I had a professor who always liked to joke about what used to be part of the hiring process for PSU profs. I don’t know if this still happens (he was hired back in the 60s), but apparently one of the clauses in the contract was something to the effect of “I pledge allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” He pointed that out and asked “What? Are we planning on going to war with New Jersey?” And they said, “We just want to know you’ll be on our side if we do.”

Good to know there are already plenty of soldiers behind enemy lines should they ever need to be activated…

And while we’re on the topic, does anyone remember the Phroth Phollegian article about Penn-City-State (led by JoePa) taking over the state of PA and laying seige to Ohio-City-State? I think it was back in 2005. Good times…

by PSUMark2008 on Sep 16, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions