The Lions' Pride

Kessler's doing very well. Working hard to secure 2nd string. Temple's a great team player and we're expecting he'll provide solid depth if called upon.

Is that Bastion in your pic? Hard to tell since it's so small, but if so, great game.

USC is my second school. If Silas goes anywhere I would love for it to be there.

I always liked Pete Carroll when others didn't like him. I saw some stuff on how he was very involved with underprivileged individuals that really changed my mind about him. I personally think its not the coach but the culture that surrounds the campus. Its LA! Lots of agents have houses out there probably, its unfortunate that agents only care about themselves.

You will find that people out there will chose to believe the worst. It's just beginning for Penn State fans, and the sad part is...people don't want to know the truth, it suits their agenda to believe the worst. It softens the fact they lost to a cheater, no?

Thing is, USC did not cheat, a player was ineligible because he took impermissible benefits from a would-be agent. If you have interest, here is another link by ESPN's Ted Miller, who dispels some common untruths...Ted provides links from others to make his point. This is an interesting quote, something tells me you will experience the same...condemnation simply for your "Penn State-ness"

Let me share a story that will annoy USC fans but many will find interesting. During a flight delay last year, I was cornered at an airport by an administrator from a major program outside the Pac-12. He made fun of me as a "USC fanboy" because of my rants against the NCAA ruling against the Trojans. But we started talking. Turned out he agreed with just about all my points. (He just didn't like USC.)

He told me, after some small talk and off-the-record, that "everybody" thought USC got screwed. He said that he thought the NCAA was trying to scare everyone with the ruling, but subsequent major violations cases put it in a pickle.

Then he told me that USC was punished for its "USC-ness," that while many teams had closed down access -- to media, to fans, etc. -- USC under Pete Carroll was completely open, and that was widely resented. There was a widespread belief the national media fawned on USC because of this. Further, more than a few schools thought that the presence of big-time celebrities, such as Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell, at practices and at games constituted an unfair recruiting advantage for the Trojans.

It wasn't against the rules, but everyone hated it. This, as he assessed his own smell test, was a subtext of the so-called atmosphere of noncompliance that the NCAA referred to -- an atmosphere that oddly yielded very few instances of noncompliance around the football program even after a four-year NCAA investigation.

I'm providing this, to prepare you further...people will believe what they want to believe, just because they don't like your university culture. It happened to us.

yes seeing what we have been through

Isn't Silas one of the players that will be representing us at big ten media days? I can't see him leaving. Although I am sure it is tempting.

If I'm PSU, I don't show up to BIG Media Day. Not a chance. It won't be about football.

I can't see Silas leaving, he's the featured back here, we are still on TV. He knows what he has here, what happens if he transfers and doen't play?

Bowl games are national showcases. Play against a non-conf solid opp on a neutral site. SOme of us are acting like bowl games are pre-season scrimmages that nobody cares about anyway. That is nutso. Bowls are a HUGE part of CFB... huge. I go to most PSU bowl games and the bowl trips are a highlight for teh players, the energy, teh fanfare.... and then to cap a season off with a win against LSU or UTenn or FSU or A and M or whoever, it is memorable and big and noticed by the cfb world. And to not be able to play in teh B10 title game? huge.

I can't blame Silas or any of our kids if they bolt.

Silas' girlfriend lives and works in Bellefonte. Doesnt mean he is definitely gonna stay here, but it cant hurt to have that in our favor

Our juniors were allowed to leave as well...Malik Jackson made All SEC, played for TN two years.

Two year bowl ban, juniors and seniors allowed to leave. Penn State unjustly received a four year ban, therefore it makes your entire team eligible to leave. Absolutely horrible.

Doesn't seem like it will happen.