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The Aging Patriarch Meets the Ancient Enemy

Posted: June 21st, 2006, 5:11 pm
by vman
Guido D'Elia, communications director for Penn State football, recently interviewed UPS Head Coach Joe Paterno and his assistants Luca Brasi, Philip Tattaglia, Virgil Sollozzo and Emilio Barzini regarding the article published today on scheduling by TAE!

JoePa was short and rather terse when questioned about UPS being referenced in the article as well as the schools avoidance of playing a decent ooc schedule! "At least we play Temple thru 2099", Joe responded
"it is a win-win situation; they are stupid enough, errr desperate enough, to play in Sappy Valley 92 of the next 93 yrs in exchange for one game in Philly" We also have budding rivalries with E Mich, W Mich, Akron, Syr & Fla Int worked into our out of conference schedules! When it was pointed out that those squads $ucked Joe gave a wink and a nod to one of his henchmen/coach then responded " yea but our Big 10 schedule is so difficult we need to play the worst ooc sched. in the country!"
Guido then relayed a stat confirmed by vman's crack staff that from 2000 thru 2004 UPS had lost 33 regionally or nationally televised games(ya know big games) and only defeated 8 teams with a winning record. Joe had no direct/coherent response to those facts while simply mumbling something about..." thank God they don't knock on my door because I'd refer them to a couple of other rooms''...Mr. D'Elia said "WHAT" but was promptly removed from the room!

As of this writing Guido's car was found in a remote section of Penn's Creek; his wife received a brook trout wrapped in the Centre County newspaper which she promptly scaled, seasoned and pan fried!

STAY TUNED! Tommorow Vman meets Joepa & does some schedule comparisons but I'll leave you with a quote of DW when asked about a rivalry with the Nitwits: "They are not our rival. They are not anybody's rival. They are an eastern fiefdom ruled by the lord JoPa and are totally irrelevant to anyone else in the country. Most big ten fans are still wondering why they are in the conference."

Enough craziness for one day!

Re: The Aging Patriarch Meets the Ancient Enemy

Posted: June 21st, 2006, 5:19 pm
by retro1530
okay well for one, PSU (catch that vman, it's PSU not UPS) doesn't need the greatest OOC schedule, becuz they play in the big ten... although the big east is getting better, the big ten is still a top-notch football conference... if you have ohio state, michigan, wisconsin, etc. on your schedule, you don't need the greatest OOC schedule...

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JoePa was short and rather terse when questioned about UPS being referenced in the article as well as the schools avoidance of playing a decent ooc schedule! "At least we play Temple thru 2099", Joe responded
"it is a win-win situation; they are stupid enough, errr desperate enough, to play in Sappy Valley 92 of the next 93 yrs in exchange for one game in Philly" We also have budding rivalries with E Mich, W Mich, Akron, Syr & Fla Int worked into our out of conference schedules!
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hey maybe pitt can get an intense rivalry with the citadel going here... they could possibly already have a rivalry with the worst MAC team, Ohio... so why not stoop lower and have a rivalry with one of, if not the worst team in division 1-aa, in the citadel? hell maybe they'll start having rivalries with IUP and Shippensburg in the future...

stay tuned...

Re: The Aging Patriarch Meets the Ancient Enemy

Posted: June 21st, 2006, 5:27 pm
by The Ancient Enemy
I show research that PSU was in the wrong despite Tech dropping off the schedule, even more wrong than Pitt for The Citadel, and I get criticized for it!

Some notes on the publication Vman re-posted:
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+ Tattalia and Barzini are too stubborn and greedy to ever get along, despite Sollozzo's best efforts, were he still alive at the time!

+ Why is it ok for Notre Dame, whom you defend on a daily basis, to have "traditional rivalries" with crappy teams, but it's not okay for Penn State to schedule those teams? Why is it also a slap in PSU's face for Temple, when they were a Pitt schedule staple for 20 years? We don't play Temple every season. They are an in-state team who we compete for for eastern PA recruits. Temple makes coaching/ideology changes, which is evidence that they want to succeed.

+ Once again, PSU had more 2006 scheduling options availible in the YSU week than Pitt did in the Citadel week. Why the hate?

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Posted: June 21st, 2006, 8:23 pm
by vman
No hate! Just the coomps discussing UPS's schedule!
Well put together article on scheduling, I thought!

And to the apparently very young nitwit fans, UPS is obviously a play on words but Vman certainly cannot take credit; it was your boiz, initially A. Moronelli, who @ his B Arnold presser declared "I am going to the University of Penn St."(hence the UPS acronym)... D Wms. made the same reference (University of Penn St.) announcing his commitment!

Well fresh trout on the grill, smells good!!

Remember Nitwit fans schedule comparisons tomorrow - one of your favorite lessons! (Hey Panther fans, notice how they all have avoided those 33 big losses with only 8 victories vs teams with a winning record in a 5 yr period! I've been telling you all they have trouble with facts/truth/reality.)

Re: The Aging Patriarch Meets the Ancient Enemy

Posted: June 21st, 2006, 9:17 pm
by The Ancient Enemy
How are you calculating your schedule comparisons? Is this gonna be like the "selected" games you picked last week?