Tag: Penn State

  • Bad arguments abound on why Ohio State shouldn’t make playoff 

    I’ve heard more bad arguments in regards to the college football playoff this week then I heard from people during the election cycle earlier this year.  Tomorrow, the four playoff teams will be named. It looks quite likely that Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, and Washington will be those four teams. 

  • No excuses for Paterno: legacy forever ruined

    This morning, the highly anticpated Freeh Report was released pertaining to Penn State University’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. For people who have followed this story, the findings were about as bad as they could have been. They were also not very surprising.

  • Rant – Penn State needs to stop criticizing and start supporting new coach

    As Penn State has searched for a successor for interim head football coach Tom Bradley, they faced an uphill battle from the beginning. The program is marred in one of the biggest scandals in the history of sports and the new coach was going to have the unappealing task of replacing the winningest coach in…

  • Ohio State – Penn State: Notes and Thoughts

    Ohio State was doomed. After taking the ball with bad field position, they ran a 2nd down play out of the Wildcat formation where running back Jordan Hall took the snap, and went to hand off to senior running back Daniel Herron. The hand off was mishandled, the ball hit the ground, a Penn State…

  • Paterno Fired. Society Needs to do more in these situations than sit back and feel angry

    Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons I’ve read the Grand Jury report on the indictment for former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past few days thinking about what has happened and the darkness of the entire situation. I’m torn on how things with Paterno should…