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Jay Paterno And The Circular Troll Squad
[Getting a lot of traffic for this post, so thanks for stopping by. Also take a look at our Eastern Michigan preview and our archive if you haven't visited BSD lately. - CG] In my observations from afar and without having actually met the guy, I like Jay Paterno. Seems like a thoughtful,...
Penn State Position Previews 2011: Coaching Staff
What, you thought we'd skip the guys actually calling the plays? As always, ten coaches, five of which graduated from Penn State, will roam the sidelines or watch from high above the field in the coaches box in 2011. Thanks to Wikipedia, accepted legal source of the Southern District of New York...
Success With Hyperlinking Blows Out The Candles
Now THIS Is More Like It. Tied 21-21 with 1:33 left in the fourth quarter, and stuck at your own 20 yard line on 4th-and-4? PUNTROOSKIE. Sure, we collectively took our shots at Bobby Bowden, but it's a miracle the guy was able to walk straight with balls like that. And those PANTS. Shiny...
Nitt Picks Knows You Are Watching
With the Blue-White Game quickly approaching this Saturday, several players have been made available to the media this week. Yesterday Daryll Clark sat down to answer some questions. You can sense he realizes how important he is to Penn State's success this year, and yesterday he explained that...
Jay Paterno And The Development Of Penn State Quarterbacks
[via cache.daylife.com] JayPa got himself a little press last week for leaking, on something I've been uncreatively referring to as "JayTweet", some of the Penn State kickoff times as well as a comment about November Big Ten night games. Anyway, you say JayPa they say development, isn't that...
The Players Hint At Dissent: What First Downs Have To Say About It
Some of the players on the team have been quoted discussing internal strife over play calling. It was a topic after the Iowa game, in which it seemed like the coaches weren't playing to win. Well now it sounds like the players are echoing some of the sentiment expressed on the interweb over the...
Big 10 Coaching Grades: Part 2
Kirk Ferentz, University of Iowa Analysis: If you listen to early commentary on this Iowa team, you would know that Ferentz was being attacked for being too conservative on offense (true) and too indecisive with the quarterback situation (really true). Once the quarterback situation...
Theorems and Stratagems of the Game, Week 11: Under Center
Few would argue that there has been a better college quarterback coach -- or a more skilled master of quarterback psychology -- over the last two decades than Steve Spurrier. And yet, his latest QB strategy at South Carolina boggles the mind. If a two-quarterback system really means you don't...
Joe Paterno Makes A New Friend
A sunlit office. A man sits, forlorn, staring out the window at an empty practice field. He sighs, but to one deaf ear, as a secretary is enraptured by her telephone call. Uh uh! He has remote locks on his office? Secretary. Uh uh! Secretary! You did not! AHEM. Girl, that is...
Better Know A Nemesis: PENN SHTAAAAATE
(click the joepa for giant, nightmarey joepa) We're joined today by two members of the content-heavy, "J Leman kills Asian people for fun and profit"-light PSU arm of SBN, Black Shoe Diaries. BSD's founder and namesake, Crotch Rotserpants*, couldn't be here today on account of severe rotten...
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