tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327069433246447816.post8457999146721860624..comments2024-03-21T17:47:00.116-04:00Comments on Thank You Terry: Three Stars: September 17-23Kyle Rossihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03988727251887693489noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327069433246447816.post-2751040255233491542012-09-25T09:42:33.100-04:002012-09-25T09:42:33.100-04:00I thought that the NCAA changed the rule on the mi...I thought that the NCAA changed the rule on the midnight business so it's not at midnight anyway. Maybe I'm misremembering that. I can't imagine that a midnight practice is all that productive anyway.Reednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327069433246447816.post-81357397343376821432012-09-25T02:27:48.095-04:002012-09-25T02:27:48.095-04:00Yeah, basketball does have an event, but as far as...Yeah, basketball does have an event, but as far as I know/remember, it hasn't been at midnight for several years, so I didn't count it. Technicality maybe, but the "midnight" part is sort of the essence of "midnight madness." Otherwise it's just a pep rally.Kyle Rossihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03988727251887693489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327069433246447816.post-23107405303293740902012-09-24T12:52:09.687-04:002012-09-24T12:52:09.687-04:00How Joyner got the job is unfortunate, but under t...How Joyner got the job is unfortunate, but under the circumstances, I'm not sure what alternative was there. PSU needed somebody to lead the football coaching search ASAP. There was no time to do a national search for a new person and what qualified candidate would have wanted to walk into that mess? As it is, Joyner may end up looking like a genius for picking O'Brien. So far, he's done extremely well under the circumstances, but we won't know for sure for many years. <br /><br />Things have calmed down now, but Erickson will only be here until 2014, an no new AD of would want to take the job without knowing who the president is going to be. Twice in my career, such as it is, I've joined a company only to find out, within a few months of joining, that my boss is going to be somebody different than who I thought it was going to be when I took the job. That sucks. <br /><br />As an aside on that. One of the somewhat valid criticisms of the PSU athletic department during this mess was that it has often been too insular. Curley is a State College lifer. A State High grad who went to PSU. His number two was Sherburne who was the same story. Paterno rarely hired from "the outside." Dechellis was a Penn State guy too.<br /><br />There was a time, I think, when the only people willing to commit to living in State College for a long time were people already sentimentally attached to it. But that time is past, and beginning with Cael Sanderson, I guess, or maybe a bit before that, there was a massive change in hiring philosophy in the AD. The new idea is to show candidates that PSU has the facilities and the backing to win at just about anything and is willing to pay to get the best coaches here, regardless of whether they went Penn State or not. And lately, PSU has been on a great run of coaching hires across all the sports.<br /><br />The irony is it was insiders - Curley and Lubert - who oversaw that change and so far Joyner has continued that. I trust that the next President and AD will continue that approach.<br /><br /><br />BTW, basketball does do a midnight madness thing. I don't think it's at midnight any more, but last year, at least, there was a combo men's and women's event at Rec Hall. More like a big pep rally. I couldn't go, but I saw the video and it looked like it was a full house and a lot of fun. Hockey could look at that for ideas.<br /><br />I don't understand why hockey practice starts so late. We talkin about practice...<br />Reednoreply@blogger.com