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I had forgotten about that win. Interesting that it is still a prominent memory for you.
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Francessa sits in the 1:00 pm prime afternoon spot on the biggest sports talk station in New York. He will talk about what gets ratings to keep his show in that time slot. 25 years ago, Mike Francessa was at the studio desk for CBS television for college football. He follows it and knows it well. The point is that he will talk about what New York sports fans want to talk about. You are correct. He doesn't talk about Rutgers.
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Only because he likes him.
Others include Joe Torre and Bill Parcells.
Ultimately Francessa has control over what direction the show takes. If the caller on line 1 wants to talk about the Rangers and the Caller on Line 2 wants to talk about Yankees Preseason in Tampa, he'll push the button for line 2. Without Mad Dog though I can hardly listen to the FAN, Unless it's Friday during football season. I enjoy his NFL show, but Francessa on his own is so boring, he put himself to sleep.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...rancesca-falls-asleep/70000229/1#.UieHBILD-70
His show caters to an older demographic that more or less only cares about the Yankees.
Using his show as a measuring stick of popularity is weird. Also it seems like each time there's a guest host a Rutgers caller gets in.
He also has Flood on a few times a year, but really ever since we as fans treated him like the crap pile he is at the Louisville game in 2006 when he was at the stadium live he's basically put us on his own personal blacklist.
Using his show as a measuring stick of popularity is weird. Also it seems like each time there's a guest host a Rutgers caller gets in.
He also has Flood on a few times a year, but really ever since we as fans treated him like the crap pile he is at the Louisville game in 2006 when he was at the stadium live he's basically put us on his own personal blacklist.
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I've seen his posts before but he doesn't represent the great majority of RU fan's who 93-7 were preferential and identified with the B1G and more particularly PSU as so many Jerseyans "over 1M"(my guesstimate) are 30s/40s Pennsy expats!Our "RU" values are more in line with the B1G too!
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He sleeps through his Yankee bs and never talks CFB"only rarely"!But like most boomers he's behind the times on whats happening under his nose!
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Agree NO ONE under 40 cares about his boring show since Mad Dog Russo (who made the show what it is) and I'm 62 yrs old....he's well past it,Mike Francessa!He just got up for another Cola!
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OK PJ,if he was a UConn fan I would have understood but I get the feeling with his arrogant anti-RU stance he has an agenda but I'll let it go!Your a good man PJ!Maybe its his association with the 2 years on the SU board they rubbed off on him?He admitted it after I seen his posts there but hopefully hes just a "friendly poster"!?!
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You know PJ at first I was happy with the B1G invite but knowing they(ACC) took L'ville over you guys its kinda tasted sour in my mouth!I think RU/UConn/SU should be playing each other every year as they were my favorite games!I won't say anything negative about the B1G but I'm bitter with the ACC!
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Prediction from a PSU football fan: you will hate the B1G!!
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Why?
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I could live with that.
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Thats what the guys from OSU say to RU fans on there boards and RU rivals board but for some reason they seem to like and accept RU to the B1G,who knows what else would they say?I hear the newcomers(including PSU) get the shaft from the officials against the "old guard" BiG schools!Is that what your alluding too?Unfair treatment or subtle non acceptance?Do you hate it?I really think we should have formed an All Eastern league for all sports when we had the chance upstater!Also OSU seem's to want to chip away at PSU?Bad blood between you and OSU?
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Funny link. Wonder if he was up late partying the night before? He has to keep his ratings up to keep his timeslot. He also has to hit a wide range on ages and demographic makeup. Otherwise, he won't be on the air for long. I don't know if the other shows talk more college football or not. He's the one in the mid afternoon timeslot. Boomer Esiason is on in the morning. Don't know if he talks about college sports or not. I haven't listened.
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Boomer and Carton is a little more well rounded show, IMO, but they are also pro-centric. The FAN is not a college sports radio show because New York City is not college-centric. College sports are barely on the periphery. Besides the Manti Teo "scandal" and doing cursory review of upcoming games on Fridays (and maybe some picks of really obvious games), I don't remember anyone on the FAN addressing college football.
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First season against Michigan in 1993. Michigan was behind 10-0. Michigan is driving in the PSU red zone and on 3rd down, the refs call a penalty on the PSU crowd for "too much noise." Michigan won that game by a touchdown. I'm not going to blame it on the penalty since I believe it was the first half, but... "too much noise." The reffing has just gone straight downhill from there. It's only gotten worse, and it always goes against PSU... when they play Michigan and Ohio St., but especially Michigan. The B1G thinks it's reciprocating for PSU when year in and year out PSU gets a lot of bogus calls against Purdue. But that's the pecking order. Michigan gets the calls year after year. I remember a few years ago when Larry Johnson Sr. was right by the sideline and his son made a catch and got 3 feet down (college rule is 1 foot for a catch) at a crucial moment in the 4th qtr. of a Michigan game. Johnson Sr. didn't even argue the call, he just looked at the ref with this unbelievable smile that said, "You're not even hiding it anymore."
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I've heard this stuff before and was hoping it was an exaggeration?That kind of overt "homing" will be more obvious now that RU and MD are in the B1G alongw/PSU with more of the heavily populated Delmarva-MidAtlantic-NYC corrider and their media putting more of a spotlight on B1G games!NYC is a flashpoint for the talking heads to spin there tales!I've a hunch it won't stop the arrogance until contraversy wash's out the midwest bias!?!No wonder Jopa had been calling for a more eastern flavor/add before he passed!!
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I just have one simple counterargument against PSU fans who claim the BIG was out to get that them from day one, btw "the BIG" highly suggests everyone else in the conference is against them and somehow subservient to OSU and Mi, which is in fact a gigantic myth since ALL BIG schools not Mi and Ohio, hate the so-called Big two:
Wisconsin has appeared in the most Rose Bowls since PSU joined in 1993. Yes, Wisconsin, who has less than half the population of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania and does not compare to these 4 in terms of prep high school football.
Case, MFing closed. I'm so GD tired of PSU Internet fans whining about the entire conference for their football struggles. If you ever witnessed the swelling numbers of PSU fans calling for JoPa's dismissal on BWI @ Rivals, roughly from 2001-2005 then pretty much 2006 and after, you'd swear hypocrisy was coined in the name of PSU fans in the post-Sandusky era.
Win the GD games you're supposed to, don't let the refs take you out of the game. Wisconsin does not. Also, please explain to me how Mason at Minnesota had PSU's number for a nice 4 year run. Again, case MFing closed. There is one state, Pa, I've been through too often for business & family reasons, esp the Bama between Pitt and Philly, where I just wanted to punch out half or more of the males who opened their mouths at sports bars - Pennsylvania Bamans. Biggest, irrational whiners in the world. Such a shame, because most actual PSU alumni are wonderful people.
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"Too much noise."
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No, you guys have been far too "noisy" and now you're paying a huge price, karma wise, for your empty complaints over the years.
Btw, I was a PSU football fan until this scandal. My tenure started in 79, ended 2011. I met Jo Pa, probably saw a half dozen PSU games at Beaver and many others throughout BIG land between 94-2010. No thanks!
There will never be a counterargument for the players & Jo Pa who put Sandusky on their shoulders long after the allegations were raised & before the finally hit the fan.
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Almost total BS. Explain PSU's successes in other sports such as W. Volleyball and Wrestling?
Man, you are the noisy one (not me) & a conspiracy theorist to top it off. Wow! Again, explain Wisconsin's success in light of the the so-called OSU-Michigan favoritism. Shoot, even Iowa has as many BCS appearances as PSU since they joined & I think they've beaten PSU, head-to-head more as well.
Another interesting conspiracy that's easy to shoot down - the 94 PSU squad. We always here how the BIG voted against them in the AP vote for NCs. Sure, PSU got very little support in the Midwest, but they got even less support in the South, Southwest, Rocky and Pacific regions. Case MFing closed here as well. Nebraska and all their close calls in the the 80s got the sympathy vote, and bottom line - the Pac12 was down much of the 90s.
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As they’ve done all season, PSU sneaks for a first down. An official calls a false start, unseen on replay, and without mention of player who committed infraction, forcing PSU to settle for a short field goal. With less than 9 minutes to go in the game, PSU down 27-23, Lehman stretches the ball across the plane for a touchdown to seemingly take a 30-27 lead. However, the replay booth erroneously refuses to overturn the call and Nebraska gets a touchback, leading to Nebraska using clock, flipping the field to PSU’s own 2, and forcing a safety. Like OSU, Nebraska ran the ball 57 times and wasn’t charged with a single hold or illegal block – pretty amazing stat.
Check this out, receivers foot on the line on game winning drive. Ref right there.
Or this:
http://www.buckeye50.com/Drive_2003_Penn_State.html
There's a picture out there of Ben Hartsock standing straight up with the ball bouncing off the ground into his arms, and the referee looking right at it.
Check this out, receivers foot on the line on game winning drive. Ref right there.
Or this:
http://www.buckeye50.com/Drive_2003_Penn_State.html
There's a picture out there of Ben Hartsock standing straight up with the ball bouncing off the ground into his arms, and the referee looking right at it.
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It's karma for little boys to be abused because PSU fans complained about bad ref calls. My lord. the stupidity.
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This is like one strawman after the other. Why wouldn't Wisconsin have success when PSU was being hosed in Michigan games? A bizarre point, on your part.
As for the last part, we saw all those votes go to Nebraska when PSU was destroying Mich and Ohio St. off the top of my head, score was something like 65-14.
Iowa has losing records against PSU and Wisconsin is even. PSU had more BCS bowls until the last 3 years when Wisky went 3 straight times. A period when Ohio State was banned for a couple years and Michigan suffered from Richrodities. Any other questions?
All of this is irrelevant by the way to the general point I was making about tilted refs. It's the screwiest conference imaginable.
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It is an awful lot of money. Way too much, really.
Here's the thing - at some point, the Big Ten is going to ask you to play basketball. You are not good at basketball. In fact, you're perfectly dreadful at it. It will be embarrassing.
So here's my thought - you are bad at basketball and we're finding ourselves a little underfunded here in Aresco's folly...so how about we kill two birds with one stone?
You subcontract out your basketball obligations to us. Why go through the motions of sending your lambs to slaughter at Ohio State or Michigan when you can pick the one right tool for the job and have Connecticut go do what they do?
The Big Ten won't mind - you'll save some face and we'll make a little bit of spending money. We'll even spray-tan our Germans to give 'em that RU shimmer and shine.
Done and done.
Just a little bit of housekeeping as we Rutgers-up our hoop program...should we use real hookers on the dance team or just girls that look like hookers? I assume we'll sprinkle a couple of pregnant ones in there as well - we'd like to be as authentic as possible.
Show the data instead of cherry picking. Every single team in every conference have had blown calls screwing them over. I do agree that that those games were blown calls but it happens to all the teams. Heck- a blown call is how Penn State won one of their two MNCs in 1982 when it called in their favor vs Nebraska.
S#*t happens, just gotta suck it up sometimes.
Oh and Michigan lost to Iowa in 2011 on what seemed to be a TD pass being called incomplete and back in 1990 a blown call cost them the game against MSU while ranked #1 at the time. Not sure why those things would happen if games are so stacked like you're claiming.
S#*t happens, just gotta suck it up sometimes.
Oh and Michigan lost to Iowa in 2011 on what seemed to be a TD pass being called incomplete and back in 1990 a blown call cost them the game against MSU while ranked #1 at the time. Not sure why those things would happen if games are so stacked like you're claiming.
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This clown makes sweeping generalizations about the Midwest and the BIG, yet fails to realize how many times other BIG fans have felt screwed by Michigan or OSU, or officiating in general in the BIG.
It's ok, I'm about to deconstruct some of his absurd arguments, yes me, a former PSU fan. Notice he has no answer for the PSU players carrying Sandusky on their shoulders a few years ago. Then he chops up a statement I made in the name of "stupidity, karma" & "abused children". Dumb, because these children weren't simply abused, they were sexually exploited by a former PSU assistant who continued to walk the campus and attend games via nice stadium suites for years after the first allegations were raised.
Never in the years of of scrolling various message boards have I encountered such a delusional fan base and the vast majority of CF fans just scratch their heads. What's in the Pennsylvania air.
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