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OK, I shall play along. Why? What would that have accomplished?

Now, one laughs at this. And one SHOULD laugh at the word "micro-agressions"!!! It is "left-wing political correctness" on steroids. However, the Freeh Report included 119 recommendations to Penn State University. Among those recos: 4.4. "Send a communication to all University students...

The Dow Jones is going to be at 12,000 (!!!) by the end of this month. It's been a pretty bad start to 2016, but for reference, it's low point for January 2016 is 16,346. It's low point back during a very rough August 2015 was 15,666...

Yes --- exactly. I think what happens, though is this: PSU goes 7-6 or 8-5 in 2016. Then goes 8-5 or 9-4 in 2017. Franklin may be a bad HC, but he is a good recruiter and it's inevitable that the team will gradually become deeper/more experienced (PSU was very young in 2014 and still pretty...

I sort of like the Bearcats. Nippert is nice, I take my 10-year-old nephew to a few games a year. Now, Urban doesn't owe UC any football games, but Thad needs to re-familiarize himself with I-71 and set up a home-and-home. It's incredibly silly that UC and OSU don't hoop it up.

We're h-bombing our competition? Awesome, I like the upcoming era! I live in Cincinnati, so let's just do it when the winds are from the southwest.

To be fair --- Shoop is a pretty darn good coach. I've seen it with my own eyes, and LSU & Auburn have been sniffing around at Shoop as well. Those are pretty good schools there. As of the moment, it looks like Shoop is in Knoxville. Just flew down in a private plane from University Park...

I thought about this post while at the "Slay your Taxes" Bowl ---- there were no fewer than THREE (!!) advertisements during the game for upcoming monster truck rallies at Jacksonville's arena. Jacksonville is not the most attractive city in America, that's for sure.

"The expanded degree programs at the branches" --- not sure if it was his "idea", but it definitely happened under Spanier's watch. I was there in the mid-late 90s and it was only ~ 2-3 branches (Erie being foremost) that offered full 4-year degrees. I was rather stunned when I heard at some...

I know back in the 1990s when I was there (I'm an alum from one of those strong earth science programs :biggrin: ) only 2 or 3 PSU branch campuses were granting full degrees (w/o matriculating to University Park). This trend by Penn State over the last 20 years is definitely "mission creep"...

True, and actually fits my greater point. If it's a graph, and if the "y-axis" is quality of the University, and if the "x-axis" is population of the state: California's land-grant University is an "extreme case" data point on BOTH axes. California has 50% more population than any other state...

If you look at a list of America's land-grant institutions, there is a rather strong correlation between (1) the overall quality of the school and (2) the population of the corresponding state. Penn State fits the larger correlation, it's not an outlier. Penn State does need to do better work...

Meijer is headquartered just outside of Grand Rapids (Walker, MI). That's why the lower-than-intuitively-expected WalMart numbers. I know from growing up/living in the Detroit area, that WalMart didn't even penetrate the market until the early-2000s.

LOL --- I sort of figured Jacksonville might be a monster truck sort of place. I like some outdoors stuff --- hiking & deer hunting --- but not so much golf or the beach. Also enjoy historical sight-seeing, which well: Jacksonville isn't Savannah or Charleston. Tending to think I'll only be...

So, serious question --- any recommended stuff to do in Jacksonville (presuming you are from there)? I'm flying into Charleston, SC as I have a friend to stay with there (also MUCH cheaper), but wondering whether to spend an additional day/night in Jacksonville.

Look on the bright side --- this is a prime opportunity for UGA to actually win a game played in Jacksonville, FL. 6-19 record there since 1990. :biggrin:

As I said --- respect your opinion but I disagree. I do realize your opinion is the majority one. Things are running their course here a bit --- so I'm done, enjoy the weekend, good luck in whatever Bowl game the Buckeyes get (Rose or Fiesta or maybe one of the Playoff games).

You're getting things mixed up. There are 2 separate questions: (1) whether there was a specific NCAA rule that Penn State violated, beyond "Bylaw 10.1"? and (2) whether all NCAA schools got to go through an established process in terms of deciding punishment? The answer to (1), at least per...

Call it "ends just the means baloney" if you will --- but that's the crux of our disagreement. You think, at least in this case, that the ends justified the means. I think that in anything that is a judicial process, the established means should ALWAYS be followed to get to the ends. Fair...

Ah, so July 2012 was a bit of a poker game between the NCAA and Penn State. You know, I don't disagree with that. Now, the question: should the NCAA have been playing poker? IMO, the NCAA (Emmert) was more interested in immediacy and expedience vs. any sense of prudence. More interested in...