So You're Saying There's a Chance! Coaching Edition

Tony Dungy is going to stay with the Colts. Prior to this announcement, the team had announced Jim Caldwell the would be successor. Caldwell is a former Penn State assistant coach and current QB Coach to Peyton Manning. You may remember last week when a radio station in Pittsburgh heard a Pitt Grad say he heard his friend mention that Jim Caldwell will be announced the next Penn State head coach.

The rumor circulated (here too) but did not stick.

Now this doesn't mean much except that this guy, who has been interviewed for several NFL HC jobs over the past couple of years, isn't in charge of the Colts...yet. For the record I think Caldwell is the absolute best case scenario replacement for JoePa. Here is part of the reason why (from his Colts profile)

Caldwell joined Penn State as wide receivers coach. He then coached quarterbacks the following season and added passing game coordinator responsibilities in 1988. At Penn State, Caldwell tutored QB-Kerry Collins, who went on to win the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top college quarterback and the Maxwell Award as the nation’s most outstanding player. Caldwell has coached in six bowl games and won a national championship with Penn State in 1986.

It would be the Weis effect on recruiting without the arrogant nonsense that comes with it. It would finally be the relief to our passing game that my liver so desperately needs. Chances are still slim, of course, a couple more years and he can probably get an NFL job. But if it turns out he wants a shot at college ball, and the Colts continue to string him along, we just might get lucky.

My Last Terrelle Pryor Post - Where Is He Headed?

For a while I had decided that I was simply done with this thing. I don't really care where the hell he ends up. It would be great to have him, and he appears to be the real deal, but we have quarterbacks. I'll have do a little research before I can tell you for sure, but my gut feeling is that our program will survive life without Pryor.

So here it is, the final round-out...Where is Terrelle Pryor going? Where is Terrelle Pryor headed? Terrelle Pryor to Michigan? Terrelle Pryor to Ohio State? These google searches and more, after this short message.



For most of the past two months the Ohio State fan base has tried to convince everyone that he will be a Buckeye. This might be true, but when I posted this, I heard from two different places that Ohio State had given up recruiting him. That Michigan had pretty much signed the kid.

Despite that, three of the four Rivals.com 'experts', to this day, pick OSU as the final destination of their #1 ranked recruit.

However, the Detroit Free press has passed along a story, via ESPN, that Pryor has totally eliminated all schools on his list except for Oregon and Michigan (although some at ESPN still think OSU is a distant third rather than non-existent).

This is all just a couple days after Pryor announced that LSU was on the list.

Penn State remains on the list, technically, however Pryor did cancel his final visit to the school.

I'll send all this to NASA and have them figure out exactly what it means, results will be posted upon arrival.

Keep in mind that this is the same kid who called Rivals at 3am to report that he had added Duke to his list. Duke has never been on his list. This kid is making a mockery of the whole process and I love it. Good for him. I hope he goes to Temple and admits at signing day that was the plan all along.

There is actually a Penn State football game today.

I know, it doesn't sound right, but the Penn State University Nittany Lions will be playing the Texas Agriculture and Mining* University Aggies tonight at 8 pm. Damn that took a long time to type. Don't forget to review you "The More You Know" episodes this morning. There will be a test at halftime.


Penn State sold their tickets faster than any other school in the 15 year history of the Alamo Bowl, who says the Big Ten is slow?

What I'm Looking Forward To: Seeing Royster healthy, the possibility of our offense opening up, Connor and Lee for the last time, the possibility (please!) of seeing Clark and Devin actually throw a pass, a win.

What I Don't Care About: Morelli's last game, "Representing the Big Ten", the 700 different graphics ESPN will show telling us this is Paterno's 500th game

All in all, although this game might not mean much, I am surprisingly very excited just to see them play. It's been a long time, The Jersey has been on the floor too long.



* According to Wikiepdia, which is not even a real source, "A&M" doesn't actually stand for anything. I think this is bullshit. Almost as stupid and naming your kid J Leman.

The Champs Suck Don't Sneeze on Me Alomo Bowl

You forgot, didn't you? You thought the season was over. It sure feels like it, but oh no fellas, we have one more prize to look forward to, and I'm not talking about this piece of shit:



No, in fact winning a meaningless bowlgame will end with a much better trophy than winning a meaningless Big Ten game beating our hated rival MSU. Check this baby out:



Ya, based on the experts, who have been amazingly wrong in their bowl projections on a weekly basis, we are headed to the Champs Sports Bowl. We could end up several places, but this seems the most likly. There is also a decent chance we could win this hunk of meaningless nothing:



Yup, still cooler than the Land Grant. So not only do you get the trophy, but they blow up balloons of several different colors and through you a party that can only be rivaled by renting out the back room of a McDonalds. FREE FRENCH FRIES FOR EVERYONE!




A large part of this rests on, for the most part, just one game: the Big XII Championship...but more on that later...