Rumors Rankings!

Not sure how true any of this shit is, but I've decided to start a new segment here, the Rumor Ratings. Now it's often hard to to tell the message board nonsense from the poster, going by 'statecollegeshoker345', who works with a guy who's dad talked to the AD this morning. So based on my wide range of sources, I'm going to go ahead and give you a truth rating, out of 5, because things rated out of 5 tend to have more credibility. It is based on nothing substantial and can change from hour to hour...like Rumors themselves.

Rumor#1 - "Yardsale!"

The defensive coaching staff is in serious shuffle, and not the CUSA prospect shuffle we do every year. Heard this over at RUTS. Now we all know about the exit of Norwood, for, of all places, frickin' Baylor. He was replaced internally by a muppit.

The one thing lending credibility to this theory is, well just Norwood really. I don't know what sparked this but RUTS seams to often get decent scoops. My problem, though, is his plea for emails from anyone with an interenet connection. I've been to enough message boards to know that taking inside information from ananomous sources is typically not a good idea. However, it does seem to couple nicly with the JayPa story, but then again not with Bradley taking over during JoePa's rehab.

Overall, interesting, possible, but until another coach leaves I'm keeping this one below a two:

Rumors Rankings! Score = 1.5/5.0

Rumor #2 - "Beaver Killers!"

Word is we may be dropping Arkansas State, due up during the pre-conference schedule next season, for a one game stint with the Oregon State Beavers. Because our program is rich, storied and actually followed, and theirs is poor, weak, and silly, there will be, acording to the Rumor, not return trip for the Lions.

Credible? Well, I've heard it here, here, and here. The second link suggests it is because we are making a "title run". No offense to the writer of that baby, but I think we all learned our lesson this season: play a bunch of shit teams, win and you are in the MNC no questions asked (right Ohio State?). The truth is your preseaon ranking matters a lot more than your SOS.

Still, PSU's non-conf is terrible next year, and the in-conf home schedule is only a little better. I think this move makes sense: BCS program, drop a D1-aa team which hurts your computer rankings badly, make the season ticket holders happy, oh, and you don't even have to return the favor. By all acounts this thing is all but a done deal.

Rumors Rankings! Score = 4.9/5.0

Rumor #2 - "Kinlaw is back!"

Or at least he wants a 6th year. I mean if Bockman can play at OSU for 9 years I don't know why Kinlaw, who saw almost no action until this year, couldn't work something out because of his injury history. This is an uncommon move at PSU, especially for starters, and the Rumor has claimed that those who know about these things give it a 50/50 chance.

Now we already have Royster, who is going to be a very good Penn Statesk back. Kinlaw would be a great second option. With the two highly ranked RB recruits we have on the way, it would be great to keep a mentor and modivated player like Kinlaw around.

Now the problem is these things need to be approved, and so while I'm sure he applied, his return is, well, 50/50...lets split the difference.

Rumors Rankings! Score = 2.5/5.0

They are WAY bigger idoits than I thought

This is an update from my "Friday News" post. I hate to talk about something this stupid when football season isn't even technically over yet, but these morons leave me no choice.

I just wrote this long drawn out rant about the story but I'm going to leave it out. The problem is, the quotes from this kid are so unbelievable there is really nothing to add....after I wrote my bit I found this on CollegeOTR, which pretty much sums up what I was saying anyway:

Remember last year at the Blue and White game when we spelled out VT in honor of the shooting victims at Virginia Tech? Or all the Virginia Tech t-shirts everyone was wearing? Or the Penn State shirts in maroon and orange? Or the $110,000 Family Clothesline donated from the sale of those shirts? Well it all was just ruined, cause some people dressed like a "Virginia Tech Shooting Victims" on Halloween. People, if it's on Facebook, someone will find it.

And, so, prepare yourself for the following...you really can't make this stuff up. Some of the highlights this brain child told reporters over the past couple days:

It was about a high school vendetta between two girls, and one girl finally found a way to get back at the other.

Really, a 'vendetta'? You don't think the fact that you reminded dozens of parents that their kids were brutally killed less than a year ago had anything to do with it?

This is a group of college students who now think it's trendy to be upset about their friends being killed

Trendy? Are you fucking high? I'm not even getting into this one, its too easy/enraging.

It's not that it was funny, it's that we are notorious and infamous in the state college, so we have to do things that push the envelope just for shock value.

Um, ok, you are infamous in State College, a college town with 44,000 students, yet:

It was only meant for the six people that were at the party.

There were six people at your Halloween party? Six fucking people? And, if it was only meant for six people, why the hell did you post pictures of it on the largest social networking site in the history of the human race?

From the Collegian:

Jones said he was "misled" by his interviewer, Lindsey Henley, and that it was never clear the interview would enter public airwaves.

Um, when a reporter asks you a question, they tend to put it on the airwaves, it's kind of their job you fucking moron.

Now for those who might have a mustard seed of a doubt about this fucking loser, that maybe it's not as bad as it sounds, listen to the entire interview, it takes about 20 seconds to realize you couldn't make this kids sound worse if you tried.

Thank you for accelerating the destruction of my brain cells...now I'm going to go burn myself with cigarettes until I forget how...how...ok now I've run out of words for stupid, this has never happened to me before.

The Legend of Link

I've been meaning to do one of these from time to time but never really got around to it. So here are some links I think you shouldn't die without seeing (or, alternatively, to kill time instead of actually working).

-Mom, meet my new roommate Brittany Spears

-This isn't a link, but a video, and this week it is my favorite sports moment of all time...and it didn't even happen on this continent.


-I'm not the only one who hates the Outback Bowl.

-Um, shoot a baseball at my nuts? No. But this guy? Sure.

It's Your Friday Noon News

Some actual news happened over the past couple of days, and while I often leave actual news stories off this site because there are a million other places to read about them, I thought today would be a good time for a wrap of the hot stories.

-The Penn State safeties coach, Brian Norwood, is headed to Baylor as the DC. I am happy for him, and while several people are worried about the potential hit to recruiting, I am more worried about why in the world Brian thinks it's a good idea to join the staff of a place that has become a coaching death sentence.

-This is 'almost news', but because of how I found out about it I want to pass it along. I travel for work, this week I am near Blacksburg, home of the Hokies. So after a very commendable display of support at the blue and white game, some fucknuts decided to ruin it for all of us.



On the local Blacksburg radio this morning, I hear about how some Penn State douche bags students thought it would be a sweet idea to take the shirts they wore to the B&W Game, paint them with blood, and then wear them as a Halloween costume. Then, of course, as all idiots seem to do these days, they posted pictures on the Internet.

There really aren't words to describe how angry this makes me. If those involved are reading this, just know that you are an embarrassment to your family, your school, and your entire species. I hate you.

-Moving on to other embarrassing news, Baker had his felony charges dropped. Now I agree that the felony charge was a total trump up on the part of the loser Bellefonte DA, but it doesn't change the fact that, after being warned over and over again, this kid went out and did something stuid.

And so, to end on a high note, I am extremely proud that another Penn State player has taken home the The Bednarik Award. This is the third straight year.

That player involved is, of course, Dan Conner.

Great job, my friend. Sean, you have big shoes to fill, and just as importantly, a duty to keep the streak alive.

A free opinion is worth every penny...

If you read enough on any sports related "news" site you will eventually hate them, its science and can't be refuted. I never had a problem with Rivals.com, that is until the day they decided it would be a good idea to let a ferrit with rabies "Ranke" the bowl games this year.

The criteria?

"In our quest to help you manage your time during this hectic holiday season, here are our rankings of the "attractiveness" of the bowl matchups."

Our matchup came in #20, right behind the highly touted Bowling Green-Tusla slugfest. This was their rational:

"Hey, we can't wait to see how the Aggies play for Gary Darnell. And we're looking forward to the news conferences with Joe Paterno now that his salary is public record."

You can bash these lists all day, but the thing is I don't even know where to start. Its not so much that I think the PSU-A&M game is going to be a classic, I know it's not, but I don't know what the hell the guys is getting at.

Paterno had a press conference after the salaries were release (though not because they were released) in which he was questioned and commented:

"I'm paid well. I'm not overpaid. I have all that I need."

And then we all moved on. What in the world does this have to do with the bowl game? With the seniors on either team? With the offensive styles and defensive matchups? I don't know either, but I guess that's why this guy is writing the free stories on a paid subscription site (compared to a guy who writes free nonsense on a ill-read blog).

At least we're not these guys.

After yesterday's story about Meyer's players getting arrested for stealing a bag of chips and assaulting a man with a sandwich, something a little more relevant has occurred: two A&M players have been arrested for some pretty serious stuff. The non-existent coaching staff has suspended both of them.

The More You Know, Thursday Edition

The More You Know, Part I
The More You Know, Part II

Were you aware? That Texas A&M is the third wheel in their conference too? A&M always makes a big deal out of playing the Sooners and Longhorns during the regular season dispite the fact neither one would pick A&M as the first girl to go to the dance. Sound familiar?

(You know, to take a step back from the sarcastic informational tone for a second...I started this stupid 'The More You Know' bit because there just isn't that much to write about during the limbo period, but the more I look into this thing the more I realize that A&M truly is the Penn State of the Big XII, but, of course, with more guns and less hills.)

Want more proof A&M is the third wheel? Check this out. That's right, again, like Dear Old State, A&M has averaged the third best recruiting class over the past couple of years.

Texas A&M, just like Penn State since 1876, only more inbred.