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The Retiring or Forced Out Debate – Let Me Show You to the Door
The Sports Debates | December 4th 2009 by The Sports Debates
Read the debate intro and the arguments from Sports Geek and Babe Ruthless about whether or not a coach with a long history of success still has the right to retire on their own terms despite poor results recently. View This Pollpolls We li read more
The Retiring or Forced Out Debate – When Does Respect Get Un-Ea…
The Sports Debates | December 3rd 2009 by The Sports Debates
Read the debate intro and the argument Babe Ruthless in favor of forcing out an established, long-tenured coach and leader. View This Pollpolls Every sports fan has heard the jokes. “Joe Paterno was a consultant on I Love Lucy.” “Joe read more
The Retiring or Forced Out Debate – Never Can Say Goodbye… Or…
The Sports Debates | December 3rd 2009 by The Sports Debates
Read the debate intro and the argument from Sports Geek against forcing out an established, long-tenured coach and leader. View This Pollpolls Coaches are often allowed to hang around far too long because they are chasing some elusive recor read more
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden to retire after 44-year career
Wade on Birmingham | December 3rd 2009 by Wade Kwon
The Birmingham native became second winningest coach in college football history. Bowden will lead the Seminoles in one last bowl game. Also, the state high school football championships take place today and Friday in Tuscaloosa. Division 6A Hoove read more
The road not taken
NittanyWhiteOut | December 3rd 2009
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost It’s sad to see a legend go, especially read more
Penn State Joe Paterno and the all-time coaching victories record
Penn State Clips | December 2nd 2009 by Bob DeMarco
The race between Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden is apparently over, though we still think there's a possibility that Bowden will take another job because he clearly covets the record...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailHow far ahead of the pack a read more
Bobby Bowden retires, but is the race over with Penn State Joe Pa…
Penn State Clips | December 1st 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Bobby Bowden announced his retirement today, effective after the Seminoles bowl game. This ends his race with Penn State's Joe Paterno for all-time coaching victories.Or does it?Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailThere have been rumors that Bowd read more
Video: Penn State fans love bowl games!
Penn State Clips | December 1st 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Penn State is lobbying hard for a BCS bowl bid.Joe Paterno said, "I’ve told some people to do anything you can to make sure people understand that we’re going to bring a lot of fans...and we have great television ratings."Guido D'Elia, Penn Stat read more
Way to end the season!
The Nittany Turkey | November 22nd 2009
This will be brief due to the hour, but I wanted to express my delight that the Nittany Lions made me look like an idiot. Yeah, I predicted that they would lose, as I had given up any hope of special teams competence, and I still wasn’t comfort read more
Don’t Bail on Us!
The Nittany Turkey | November 12th 2009
Two more big games to go. Yeah, on paper, the opponents look pretty sappy and I know you’re feeling a letdown after the crappy performance against Ohio State. Sappy and crappy are not a great combination, but there are lots of reasons to stick read more
The Cost of Winning
The Nittany Turkey | November 11th 2009
Todd over at The Lion’s Den has taken a list of NCAA head coaches’ salaries published by USA Today a step forward by calculating the cost of each win this year. This academic exercise reveals that Penn State and Pitt are getting head co read more
The Cream Rises to the Top
The Nittany Turkey | November 7th 2009
Iowa was a pretender. Penn State was a pretender. They both went down today, while Ohio State showed that they can play football. This Turkey had nagging suspicions each time he sat down to preview a game this season, suspicions that Penn State had n read more
Ohio State vs. Penn State Preview/Open Thread
WaitingForNextYear | November 7th 2009 by Scott Sargent
#16 Ohio State at #11 Penn State | Beaver Stadium, State College, PA 3:30 PM EST | TV: ABC | Line: Penn St. (-5.5) What a wild and strange journey this has been. The 7-2 Ohio State Buckeyes travel to State College this afternoon for a read more
First Down rushing key for Penn State, Ohio State
Penn State Clips | November 7th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
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Video: Redneck Rocker fears Penn State could win by 30
Penn State Clips | November 6th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
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The Much Anticipated
The Nittany Turkey | November 6th 2009
The much anticipated, much ballyhooed OSU-PSU game is upon us. At season’s outset, we all thought November 7 would be the bigggggggggggg day for the bigggggggggggg game, but it has turned out to be a little less consequential than the pre-seaso read more
Video: Penn State, Ohio State press conferences
Penn State Clips | November 5th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Here are the press conferences of Joe Paterno and Jim Tressel...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via Email Kindle: Amazon's 6" Wireless Reading Device read more
Joe Paterno evaluates Penn State, Ohio State quarterbacks
Penn State Clips | November 3rd 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Questions about quarterbacks made for interesting reading during Joe Paterno's press conference this afternoon...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailQ.Can you compare how Terrelle Pryor is playing this year compared to how he played last year?A. read more
Video: Penn State, Northwestern coaches press conferences
Penn State Clips | October 30th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Here are the press conferences of Penn State's Joe Paterno and Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via Email Kindle: Amazon's 6" Wireless Reading Device read more
Kansas coach Mark Mangino loves Penn State Joe Paterno press conf…
Penn State Clips | October 29th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
We couldn't find anything worthy of comment in this week's Joe Paterno press conference. It seemed like more blah, blah, blah.Perhaps we're just jaded from seeing so many of them, but Kansas coach Mark Mangino, whose father played at Penn State on a read more
Will Penn State Joe Paterno be chased by a dragon???
Penn State Clips | October 28th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Joe Paterno is five games ahead of Bobby Bowden. With BoBo's career at F$U reaching an ignominious conclusion and as many as 14 victories to be vacated by the NCAA, it appears that their race to be major college football's all-time coaching victorie read more
Video: Penn State Joe Paterno on Graham Zug
Penn State Clips | October 24th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Brian Cook at MGoBlog described Graham Zug as "a tiny white possession slot receiver." He added that Zuh would likely "reel in a few balls underneath the coverage and maybe a corner or something but Michigan should match up okay with him."Three touc read more
SI Article about JoePa
The Nittany Turkey | October 21st 2009
You’ve probably either heard about or already read the October 26, 2009 Sports Illustrated article about Nittany Lions head coach Joe Paterno. It is written from a unique perspective of a conversation with Joe’s dad, Angelo. If you haven& read more
Video: Joe Paterno press conference previewing Penn State at Mich…
Penn State Clips | October 20th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
... Headline only. Comments, reactions, and game predictions welcome on the website. read more
Bowden hints at following the lead of Penn State Joe Paterno
Penn State Clips | October 12th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Last week Ann Bowden said of her husband, "I don't think he is going to retire at the end of the season. That's my feeling."Bobby hinted at the same thing during this morning's F$U booster luncheon...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailSomeone as read more
Penn State Special Teams anything but special
Penn State Clips | October 9th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
The numbers from the superb site CFB Stats tell an ugly tale of Penn State's less-than-Special Teams...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailNational rank out of 120 NCAA Division I-A teamsPunt Returns: 103rdOpponent Punt Returns: 112th (And one fa read more
Who will decide if Bobby Bowden's chase of Penn State Joe Paterno…
Penn State Clips | October 8th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Bobby Bowden, seemingly oblivious to his crumbling regime, addressed his future at yesterday's ACC coaches presser...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via Email“When the season’s over, I’ll let them know if I want to come back."If AnnBo is correct read more
Video: Joe Paterno press conference previewing Eastern Illinois a…
Penn State Clips | October 7th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
Here is Joe's pre-EIU presser and [our comments] on selected questions...Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailQ: Bobby Bowden has come under fire at Florida State in the past couple days. It appears he might not be able to go out on his own terms. read more
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