Black Shoe Diaries Podcast: Lost Letterman And Beyond
by Chris Grovich on Nov 2, 2011 6:00 AM EDT
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For this episode, Jeff and I talk to Jim Weber from LostLettermen.com, who updates us on what many of our former favorite Penn Staters are doing these days. Afterward, Jeff and I discuss the Illinois game, Joe Paterno's future, and the tough road still ahead of our Nittany Lions.
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REPEAT AFTER ME ...
JOEPA IS NOT GOING TO RETIRE AFTER THIS SEASON!!!!
STOP THE “SPECULATING” OF IF THE NEBRASKA GAME IS GOING TO BE HIS LAST GAME COACHING THE NITTANY LIONS IN BEAVER STADIUM!!!!!!
JOEPA RETIRES WHEN HE RETIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 8:10 AM EDT reply actions 7 recs
DON'T EVER F-ING SAY ...
FUTURE PSU COACH URBAN MEYER!!!!
I do NOT want to run the SPREAD OFFENSE … and U. Meyer is NOT the right fit for PSU!!!! He seems like he is a slimy, snake in the grass!!!! PSU needs to hire within the PSU SYSTEM to keep positive ethics going … or go after AL GOLDEN who was a PSU PLAYER!!!!
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 8:14 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Do you own..
stock in exclamation points or something?
Vamonos Mantequilla Vamonos!
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 9:00 AM EDT up reply actions
really?
under Urban Meyer, Florida had the highest team GPA out of any SEC school
rumor has it he “retired” from Florida because he got fed up with the SEC and the way that whole conference operates
you don’t want to run the spread offense? what about 2008, when we went 11-2, and won the Big 10? what do you think that offense was?
I for one believe that Meyer would do very well at Penn State
Defense wins championships
ANSWER ...
That offense was MULTIPLE SET offense…
It was a combination of Spread and 3 yards and a cloud of dust … this is why it was coined SPREAD HD!!!!!!
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Yeah, it's not like our current HC
married an undergrad or anything
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
JOEPA & SUEPA
Joe was like 31 and Sue was 18 or 19 when they met!! Got married when she graduated!!
Urban Meyer … if he did something with a Graduate Student … HE WAS ALREADY MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't remember ever hearing this rumor.
Now Pete Carroll and a USC grad student? That one I remember.
Boom. Roasted.
You without me is like Harold Melvin without the Blue Notes . . . you'll never go platinum.
#OccupyESPN
Highest GPA out of any SEC school is like saying
the prettiest cow in the field….
"Illegitimus non Carborundum!" (Don't let the bastards wear you down)
Are exclamation points our version of PAWWWWWWL?
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I WAS GONNA FIRE JOE PATERNO
BUT I HAD TO POOP ON NOODLE’S WIFE /slidewhistle
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
There need to be one of those
AWOOOOOOOGA horn sounds too. Maybe next episode.
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haha
this just made me laugh at my desk. My coworkers continue to think I’m insane.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
Its ok...
the insane cube dweller club is an exclusive one.
I’m sorry, but blanket statements are proven false 99% of the time, and if you make a blanket statement about college football, there’s a good chance that one exception will be Joe Paterno. - AdamShell @ BSD
Also; Always carry a bottle opener and the beer will provide itself.
I agree! Jay Paterno should be the next head coach...
JayPa! JayPa! JayPa!…
"Wham! a homma. Wham! Another homma. Wham! Wham! Wham!"
by LowcountryLion on Nov 2, 2011 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions
JOEPA!!!!
Sure as heck sounds like you are pushing him out the door!!!! Which you need your butt kicked for that!!!!
Just for you to say … I will be one of them outraged if he comes back next year!!!!
JOEPA is still the BEST HEAD FOOTBALL COACH EVER!!!! He keeps the integrity of the program upheld, and does the best to keep his ACTUAL STUDENT/ATHLETES on the straight and narrow!!!!
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 8:21 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
He's going to retire.
You should probably listen to me. I have a blog and therefore know what I’m talking about.
by Chris Grovich on Nov 2, 2011 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Don't discourage this stuff
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
It's all simple math, really.
Urban Meyer won two national championships in ten years as a head coach. Joe Paterno has two in 45 years. That means Urban Meyer is a 4.5x better coach than Joe Paterno. I don’t know why Mr. nxk146 refuses to see this.
by Chris Grovich on Nov 2, 2011 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
(visions of Ron Burgundy)
It’s science
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
NO WAY!!!!
Urban Meyer is NOT a good character guy!!!! I want a PSU GUY for the HC job, which is not even going to be open next year!! JOEPA will be back, because he knows what kind of talent he has coming back next year!!!!
And, Chris Grovich, go take your “inside knowledge” and shove it!!!! You know nothing about the workings of the football team and whether JOEPA is going to retire!!!!
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sounds like you think he might have
an Agenda.
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by skarocksoi on Nov 2, 2011 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I love it when our mods
start trolling. It’s good, clean fun.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
I LOVE LAMP!!!
"That's why you don't play! 'Cuz you're no good!" -Joe Paterno
by pmm156 on Nov 2, 2011 8:25 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
He said heinie!
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
I think I ate your chocholate squirrel
"my dad says Michigan used to be good"
by hbeach08 on Nov 2, 2011 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
What kind of state is PSU football in
when the 3 letter 3 number trolls come in and start yelling in support of Paterno?
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It's like that bizzaro world episode of Seinfeld.
Vamonos Mantequilla Vamonos!
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions
It's been that kind of year, boychick
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
by OctaShields on Nov 2, 2011 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Please sir, may I request the title and performers of the introductory musical piece to this podcast? I rather enjoyed it.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
That would be "More Mess On My Thing" by the Poets Of Rhythm
Found that on some soul sampler through iTunes.
by Chris Grovich on Nov 2, 2011 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions
The INT call was correct
Jenkins never had the ball, it landed on Lynn’s chest before Jenkins’ butt hit the ground.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
This is the 26th comment...
…and the first about Rony Seikaly being a globetrotting DJ. For shame.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 2, 2011 9:42 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
The guy is Lebanese
and played for the Spanish National Team. If “globetrotting DJ” surprises you, you don’t know many Lebanese or Spanish people, let alone both.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
My good friend is Lebanese.
He can barely make it out of the South Side of Pittsburgh, let alone Paris. Rony Seikaly and globetrotting DJ just don’t go together.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 2, 2011 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm a stay-at-home DJ
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
PSU FOOTBALL 2012 ...
This team is going to be AWESOME next year … everything is in place right now to be great, but the QB!!!! When Paul Jones becomes academically eligible again, he is going to take this team to NEW HEIGHTS (NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP)!!!! PJ is clearly the BEST QB on the PSU roster!! Skyler Mornigweg will barely be 3rd String and Matt McGloin will be 2nd String.
by nxk146 on Nov 2, 2011 9:43 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
SKYLER MORNIGWEG!!
When I say he will barely be 3rd String … I mean he is already able to be the #2 QB at PSU!!!!
Tell me your thoughts on the Redskins and Tennis
I need to know
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
ANSWER ME NXK146!!! 1 OMG LOL !!!!
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
Don't make him talk about Deadskins
He may use up the last of the earth’s supply of exclamation points.
REX GROSSMAN IS THEIR SAVIOR!!111!1!!!!
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
We're talking about a guy
who left a bad taste in Ron Zook’s mouth. Who was replaced by Kyle Orton, and then the team started winning. How is this guy still associated with football, let alone a major NFL franchise?
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
Because he's just like a kid out there
he’s having fun and making plays in his Wrangler jeans. Oh, whoops, wrong kid like gunslinger.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
by jman07 on Nov 2, 2011 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
He is pretty much a gift to 31 other NFL fan bases
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I know I thanked him
for those 4 INTs he tossed during the Skins/Eagles game.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
You either are or could become a folk hero around here. I just need to know if you watch all four grand slams
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
New heights?
Excuse me but I do believe Mr. Paterno has won 2 and had at least 2 others he should have had.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
by jman07 on Nov 2, 2011 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
What
STARZ, Blue – White games, and sub-standard academic performance aren’t sufficient for you?
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In defense of PJ's potential
it will be difficult to be worse than our current options.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
This is undoubtedly true
I just find it very curious that people have bought in so fully on PJ, despite the fact that he hasn’t played a snap on the college level.
Isn't the back up we know nothing about
Always better than the starter?
And last summer couldn’t that same statement have been made replacing ‘PJ’ with ‘Bolden’?
'Why would she have you meet her in a bar at ten in the morning?'
'I just figured she was a raging alcoholic'
by psuphysicist on Nov 2, 2011 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions
BUT THE BLUE WHITE GAME, MAN!!!
I’m just pissed that damn Silas Redd will be taking his Heisman votes next year.
I think it's just hope at this point
We see the shell of a former highly touted recruit and a former walkon trying to make the best of his abilities and just think “Gosh, PJ must be better than this right now”
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
If you're not going to give the public what they think they want, i.e. the PA Polka
then thanks for giving us what we really want, whatever that intro song was…title? artist?
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
See above.
The closer is “Make The Road By Walking” by the Menahan Street Band. I don’t remember what I used in the middle of the show, sorry.
by Chris Grovich on Nov 2, 2011 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions
Daryll Clark may be moving on
His Twitter profile:
Moving on with my life.. Forever a Nittany Lion Former PSU QB 2-time All Big-Ten Co- Winner of the Silver Football Award (Big-Ten M.V.P)
Washingtonian and Penn Stater -- My blog features the triumph of hope over experience that is being a DC sports fan (especially the Nats) as well as the Nittany Lions, life in BeltwayLand and other things I find interesting. @doubleuefwhy
I think he could be a grad assistant somewhere
and get into coaching if he wanted to stay in football. But good luck to him wherever he may go.
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I can haz real QB coach plz?
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by 06Lion on Nov 2, 2011 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Jaypa + Ouija board is en route to another B1G championship
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Huskers Not So Bad w/r/t Turnovers
Nebraska TO differential in Non-Con: EVEN (6 lost, 6 gained in 4 total games)
Nebraska TO differential in B1G: EVEN (5 lost, 5 gained in 4 total games)
Most turnovers in a game was 3 against Wisky.
Certainly doesn’t account for fumbles NOT lost. Just based on these numbers, they seem pretty stingy with the ball, not so much loose.
@Kunk7
Defensively, they kinda remind me of the Saints team that won the Super Bowl
pretty awful, but inexplicably good at causing turnovers
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
But Upon Further Inspection...
Looked into each game’s box score and found a much different story.
13 Fumbles, 4 Lost in Non-Con
9 Fumbles, 0 (!) Lost in B1G
Total of 22 fumbles, only 4 lost…less than 20%. That’s some fumble luck. By comparison, Neb opponents have fumbled 12 times, losing 5 of them. Much closer to what you’d expect (close to 50%).
In conclusion, they are loose with the ball, but have gotten quite lucky in the small sample.
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