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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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alexhortdog95 said:
Here's the problem that PedStaters have...they still think Joe Pa is in the land of the living.
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They just might be on to something.

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NFBuck said:
Rutgers fan asks "what's it like to be in the B1G?", the answers are mostly what you'd expect. :lol:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=157&f=1395&t=12101352
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Sorry so late to this one but the comments are funny. These are in the exact order. I have been laughing hysterically in my office.

psu5036

Like everyone else said the officiating is very suspect when youre playing the Big 2. Travelling to away games is quite inconvenient to Penn Staters living on the eastern part of pa because before rutgers joined Ohio State was the closest away game and thats quite a trip. So for you guys itll be even farther obviously. I am always hit and miss on how I feel about the rivalries we have. I am 25 so most of my life we have been in the Big Ten. However I still consider our rivals to be the teams we played prior to joining the conference. I am sure each person on here could tell you different experiences with other conference fan bases. I personally hate Iowa and Wisconsin fans the most for particular reasons. I respect Michigan personally, and strongly dislike Ohio State fans but havent had any real personal bad experiences
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thor06

so you pretty much hate everyone... No real reason, you just hate them? Thats healthy and rational
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Lion4Life2

Please ignore the resident whiners. It's not B1G's fault that Penn State has ****** donkey crap in football since 1999. I am in late 40s, and I think B1G is the best fit for us footballwise. Now we will be in ice hockey as a collegiate sport with an awesome brand new arena, which would likely not be possible without the B1G affiliation.

I don't particularly miss playing Pitt, Syracuse, Temple or even BC for that matter. Games against Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin and Michigan State are much better profile and help us in terms of national relevance. Ohio State is the closest to a rivalry that we have and I think, provided we become worth our salt at some point, we could develop something similar with Michigan now that we will play them every year.

Yes, officiating is awful, but it's not unique to B1G. Apart from the infamous non-catch by Ben Hartsock against Ohio State in 2003, I cannot think of an instance, where officiating alone cost us a game.

Welcome to B1G. I live in North Jersey and plan to be at your stadium every year and not just when you play us.
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slobert89

Rutgers should be excited they were in a dead conference and the big ten is a huge upgrade. I am in my 40's and I personally hate the big 10. Not because of officiating just because I don't care about any of the schools in the conference. I think it has been bad for Psu football because it has hurt Psu in its traditional recruiting area because I don't think midatlantic/northeast kids want to play in a Midwestern conference. I will acknowledge that having a coach who stopped recruiting didnt help. I just find te conference slate so ***** boring and playing Illinois Indiana Minnesota purdue etc. all the time in mind numbingly boring to me.
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ucfb11

So you want boring games with Wake, Dook, BC, Syracuse etc,,.
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Zurp said:
Does anyone have a video or remembery of this play?
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Don't remember, but googled it and found:

http://articles.mcall.com/2003-11-02/sports/3508390_1_beaver-stadium-paterno-instant-replay

On Ohio State's decisive scoring drive, tight end Ben Hartsock was awarded a first-down catch on third-and-3, even though replays showed the ball bounced. Penn State linebacker Deryck Toles, who made the tackle, said he saw and heard the ball bounce.

"I assumed [Hartsock] caught it; I didn't see that he didn't," Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said.

Told that the ball bounced, Tressel added, "Oh, I don't know. I didn't see the replay."
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FWIW, some other recaps I found don't even mention the supposed discrepancy.
 
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Damn, I had no idea of BWI at the time. The meltdown must have been epic. I've seen them post the phone numbers and home addresses of refs who have wronged them in games against Michigan. I can only imagine what they'd do if it really were an actual bad call. After all, they went through two decades pre-BIG where bad calls only went against the other team; they had no frame of reference.
 
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I wonder what their stance is on the refs from the Michigan game. The ones who had the perfect opportunity to screw Penn State over in favor of Michigan, but still called PI in the endzone.

Hmmm......They must have forgotten the prime objective of the B1G is to keep Penn St down.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Damn, I had no idea of BWI at the time. The meltdown must have been epic. I've seen them post the phone numbers and home addresses of refs who have wronged them in games against Michigan. I can only imagine what they'd do if it really were an actual bad call. After all, they went through two decades pre-BIG where bad calls only went against the other team; they had no frame of reference.
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It really was a bad call. I remember it pretty clearly. I didn't see it on live action, but upon replay, it was clearly NOT a catch.
 
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IMO, ol' Buttchin has done an amazing job of pulling that program together. Given the defections (the loss of his FG kicker certainly factored into the loss to Ohio U and other games as well), the endless bad publicity (aided in no small measure by the antics and statements of the very people who claim to love the school), the loss of scholarships, the lack of bowl games, O'Brien has managed to keep them respectable. Having Hackenberg hold to his LOI helps, as does the incredible slide of the rest of the Big Ten, but this guy has probably done more with less than any other Big Ten coach.
 
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Zurp said:
http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=167527089&mid=167527089&sid=890&style=2

A couple of people suggest that Penn State is owed bad officiating calls in their favor, due to their perceived injustices in the past. No new insightful comment to anyone who has enjoyed BWI in the past 12 months. Kinda like some of your favorite sitcoms - same jokes, even if it is a new episode.
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Ugh. Why do I bother with their stupidity.
Good point victor e bell. This conference does not want is to win against the like of UM and O$U
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And yet here you are, winning in OT, when the refs threw a flag that gave you first and goal at the 1. If they didn't want you to win, they don't throw the flag.
Looks like Butt got two hands on the ball with Hull providing air-tight coverage.

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Yes, genius. You can clearly tell at what point contact was made in a still photograph.

I remember the play, because I remember thinking technically that was pass interference. I wouldn't have expected it to be called, because the only way you can tell is if you watch a slow motion replay, but Hull reaches up and pulls the WRs arm away before the ball gets there and prevents him from being able to use both hands to catch the ball. The ball hits the WR on one hand, but his other is being interfered with by Hull. I'd complain about it had it been Ohio State, but I wouldn't fault the ref for not calling it because I remember thinking that Hull made a great play by deflecting the ball when I saw it live.



And of course, one of my favorites from these retards:
With replay, thanks to Joe Paterno, the ref's have learned that people are watching them and tracking them. You can't hide from the cameras.
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I don't know why they think Paterno invented replay, or why they're so proud of it....but they repeat this line ALL THE TIME. The world revolves around Penn State and Joe Paterno (redundant), we're all just lucky to be alive in it.
 
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