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    Who would you want as PSU AD?

    Success leaves clues. Step 1 ID the 5 most successful (without cheating, which leaves UM out) Athletic Departments in football and men’s basketball. Step 2 either hire that AD, or his/hers number 1 deputy. Step 3, organize and right-size the Athletic Department for the following 2 objectives...
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    Jay Paterno Gets It Right

    If true, it will be a first. IMO, a nepotism hire that absolutely destroyed our recruiting in Ohio when given that job ( we used to get KIJana Carter, and Jeff Hardings, and Kim Herring, only 3 of the best players PSU ever had from Ohio. He takes over and we get preferred walk-ons like Joe...
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    Time to face reality

    Far more than it’s worth. Cost: X. Worth: X- 90%. It’s unwatchable to anyone that likes real lacrosse - almost like watching freeze tag with sticks. No offense intended to the ladies, but that ain’t lacrosse.
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    Splain something to me Lucy

    If our starting QB plays like he did vs Wisconsin, we don’t have a devout nun’s prayer of winning that game. His reads were bad, his throws were bad, and even his run decisions, save 1, were bad. We simply cannot win games with that level of QB play. Impossible vs real competition.
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    Time to face reality

    And for the sake of my sanity, get rid of fencing, too. I can’t think of a more ridiculous waste of finite resources than something that went out with the Code Duello in the early 19th century. Seriously - you want to fence, great, join a fencing club and compete there. Should we fund...
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    Time to face reality

    PSU has to get SERIOUS about what is, and more importantly, what is not important in collegiate sports. What is: Football and men’s basketball. What is not: EVERYTHING ELSE. I don’t like this - big fan of PSU wrestling, lacrosse, ice hockey, and women’s soccer and volleyball. But they...
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    Time to face reality

    “All”? No. Some, yes. And plow the savings into hiring the BEST coaching staff for men’s basketball, not the easiest to get, which has been a PSU tradition in that sport (Jerry Dunn? Ed DeChellis? Mike Rhoades from VCU?). Please, our current AD is a buffoon, too. PSU must have the...
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    Time to face reality

    I can think of one thing already: A nationally known recruiting dynamo of a head coach in men’s basketball. Lavish that guy with $$ for him and his staff, and max out the player compensation pool. Who is currently a great, famous coach, like Danny Hurley - double what UConn is paying him...
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    Time to face reality

    Sure, if it weren’t for Title IX, I’d cut a lot of women’s sports, leaving only the reasonably popular ones. PSU, located in a northern state with lousy weather much of the academic year, and with the addition of UCLA and USC, should just face facts and eliminate the “Cali, Florida, Texas”...
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    Ouch! That game was worse than one might have thought.

    The issue overall is “Difference makers” - we have 2 on the roster - Tony Rojas and Koby Howard, currently injured. 2. That’s why we’re mediocre, and we are mediocre (10-7 in our last 17 games). Recruiting was non-existent after Franklin was fired, and the transfers in have been serviceable...
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    Time to face reality

    What we have here at PSU is a total mis-allocation of a finite resource- cash. The Athletic Department funds too darn many sports. Sadly, we need to eliminate some of them to plow the funds into the 2 sports that, also very sadly, matter - Football and basketball. we need to move to the SEC...
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    Rutgers is NOT “ an embarrassment as a university”

    Someone posted that on this board (I forget which thread, sorry). Ok, RU football lost a game as a favorite. I was there - season tix since 2014. That has nothing to do with the quality of the university, which is a fine academic institution. No NJ native should be denigrating Rutgers as a...
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    Pinto

    At last night’s match, L. Pinto put himself on his back in the 1st period, and was never able to recover. Sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor - ok, concede the takedown, get your escape, and there is still plenty of bout left. He decided to “funk” and gave up 4 points. Against...
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    Pinto

    Shoulder injuries have severely inhibited or even ended wrestling careers (especially labrum tears). Just off the top of my head: both Alton brothers, Cassar, Robbie Howard, and now Nagao is missing a 2nd season due to shoulder surgery. Very difficult injury for even AA level wrestlers. This...
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    Wrestling No. 17 Wrestling Hosts Weekend Matches with No. 13 Michigan, Purdue

    Not a good look, gentlemen: 3 miraculous recoveries, and one timely end of a suspension for the dual meet immediately following the Penn State dual? Sorry, but this looks like RU deliberately tanked that dual. RU is a Big Ten wrestling program, and needs to act like it. at least the 1st...
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