PSU A National Power

Stewart Mandel has posted his weekly mailbag and he addresses which teams fit into which strata of college football. Fittingly, he uses feudal titles to differentiate between the haves and the have-nots. SM finds the following to be the most prestigious teams in all the land!

Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Tennessee, Texas and USC.

Mandel goes on to say that Tennessee was the only team that gave him a little trepidation, however, if you are going to put Alabama, Notre Dame, and PSU up there (teams who have not had consistent impact on the national title in the last 10 years) than why shouldn't Tennessee be in there? Now, I completely think that Penn State should be in that list because the Lions are the greatest team in all the land. PSU is also one of the most recognizable teams/stadiums/mascots/coach in this or any football universe. Plus, the student section is right out of its mind.

Mandel next tier looks like this: (Barons)

Auburn, Clemson, Colorado, Georgia, LSU, Texas A&M, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Washington and Wisconsin.

Then Knights:

Arizona State, Arkansas, Boston College, Cal, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas State, Maryland, Michigan State, Missouri, N.C. State, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Stanford, Syracuse, South Carolina, Texas Tech, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington State.

Sorry Pitt, that is a major burn. Console yourselves in the fact that WVU is stuck right in there with you!

The Peasants:

Arizona, Baylor, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Duke, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Northwestern, Rutgers*, South Florida, Wake Forest and Vanderbilt.

GO STATE! REJOICE IN THE EXCELLENCE OF YOUR REPUTATION! THEN LIVE UP TO IT!

A (generally) good week for PSU

The last 7-10 days have been quite the roller coaster for Penn State fans. The news has gone from 6 players facing felony charges and possible jail time to two PSU players are headed for trial on felony charges. This ids definitely not a proud day for Penn State fans but it certainly is good news. The whole assault issue has prompted people to say that Joepa's "grand experiment" had failed. If you consider over forty years of SUCCESS WITH HONOR, only to be marred by this incident, a failure then OK. To top it off, it was announced, again, that Joepa will be inducted into the hall of fame on December 4, 2007 (previously rescheduled from last year due to Joe's leg injury).

He walks among us, and he is AWESOME!
While this is good news not everything could be bubble-gum and sunshine for PSU (as if the last 6 weeks have been a walk in the park). It was announced Elijah Robinson's career is, sadly, at an end.






A neck injury led Doctors to discover that Robinson suffered from "Tight Spinal Canal". This means that another blow to his head could result in paralysis, ergo football career is over. I hope Elijah has a speedy of recovery and that he has nothing but good luck in the future.


GO STATE! SOLDIER ON!

* Sorry for the lack of posting, real work creeps in from time to time.

Remembering the Excellence

News is a little light this week, so lets take a moment and take a look back at Lions' signature win in the 2007 Outback Bowl. I mean, what else is there to talk about? How the Lions got crushed by MSU at home? I think not.



GO STATE! SUCCESS WITH HONOR!