Honestly, I would fine with an easy OOC this year. We are going to be bad and maybe that gets us some momentum after the disaster that happened last year.
True. But for some reason, we're never safe from games that are supposed to be cupcakes lol. Lafayette, Kennesaw St., Princeton, played Stonehill super close...
Most Big Ten fans hate watching their team play there, not because of the potential to lose, but because the broadcast always seems to have a mic actively picking up the most annoying fan in the world who won't shut up, and they're emphasized because there aren't other fans drowning them out ever.
I would argue that its relative silence but larger size, compared to other B1G arenas, makes it a harder place to play. If no one was there, it wouldn't be a problem. But those that do show up tend to stick out more since there isn't as much background noise to tune out. It's like how a fly in a quiet room is more annoying than construction going on the next block over.
I worked in New Haven for a few months. The pizza lives up to the hype. It’s definitely different from anything else I’ve had. Haven’t had any classic New York style pies from New York but New Haven was on a different level from anything I’ve ever had
I have a hate for NYC that burns with the intensity of a thousand suns, but even I have to recommend going there for pizza and other Italian food at some point. That shit is fucking delicious.
Was stuck there for an overnight layover last year and ordered so much Italian food (gnocchi, pasta, pizza, and more) to the hotel that I completely fucked myself up for the first few days of the trip.
I’ve heard this from several people. I love New Haven style pizza but every once in a while I want pizza that doesn’t leave my hands looking like a graphite artist.
They moved football. I forget where. Doesn’t matter. It was a stupid move. Not to be a homer but the only move that ever should have happened would be moving it to state college. Hershey was special.
Other schools have honored it. If they don’t, then I guess VCU receives liquidated damages because I doubt a judge is going to enforce specific performance.
Part of the deal may be that they don’t really care that much whether Penn State comes to Richmond because it isn’t all that interesting a matchup.
Makes a lot of sense financially for the Univ of New Haven athletic dept jumping to Div 1, plus good PR for a little known school outside of the northeast
it's all good. I was just trying to emphasize that Fort Wayne is really not bad at all. they're a solid regional opponent. you could schedule much worse opponents than them
I get that there are a lot of teams to play in that corner of the country, and maybe that region has always been PSUBB recruiting ground, but don't you guys want to travel a little more?
In addition to Penn State playing at the Univ of New Haven, kind of bizarre for them to host both the Stags and the lesser school in the town of Fairfield.
Hockey, wrestling and women’s volleyball too. Not enough of the alumni/fans care about basketball to make it worthwhile to invest heavily into the program. This is coming from someone who loves PSU basketball. The truth hurts sometimes lol. The funny thing is we invest much more than we used to but NIL killed any chance for the program to actually become something.
So the team that finished 17th in the 18-team big ten a season ago, had just about every player with experience depart, and backfield with a bunch of international players, should have had tougher non-con?
The quintessential chicken or egg argument. Have a tough non-con that demoralizes a new team before conference season even begins or have an easy non-con that gives a false sense of security.
Either way, if the team is good they'll be good. If they're bad, they'll be bad. I'm going to assume this non-con is a reflection of what the coach thinks of the team he has.
Yeah, I mean, it's a pathetic schedule, but if they want any kind of a chance at a postseason tournament, they need to get close .500 in the B1G and devour cupcakes in the non-conference to get to 18-20 wins. There's something to be said for building team confidence from getting early wins. That won't happen with a gauntlet for a non-conference schedule where you're rocking a 6-7 (0-2) record on New Year's Eve.
Clearly we should be trying to go 6-5 in non con, when we basically have no chance of doing better than 10-10 in conference. Why are we even trying to have an above .500 record??
Soft but idk what anyone was expecting. Just like when everyone was bitching about VT’s schedule, there’s no reason for a bad team to play a hard noncon
purdue and penn state are just inverses of one another in basketball and football. we have garbage football and good basketball. they have good football and garbage basketball. and for this reason they're my favorite Big 10 opponent. lol
Penn State basketball is not major. Again I don’t know what people want from them, I’d get the criticism if it was a program like Michigan or OSU doing this who actually have history of success but it’s fucking Penn State man. It would be like getting mad at a program like Kansas in football for not scheduling hard. Your expectations should not be applied to all teams across a conference
Isn't it actually in the best interest of the B1G and SEC to give their worst teams the hardest non-con SOS?
Like you want Penn State playing like the HBCUs that have like 12 P4 buys games, @Alabama @Auburn @Duke etc so their SOS is so high they're a Q3 win instead of a Q4.
i see what you're saying, and in theory yes. but not in the real world. in the real world wins and losses matter and you can't build up a program (like Mike Rhoads is trying to do) if you're getting demolished in the non-conference. they have to get wins even if they're very weak wins. and Penn State is not going to voluntarily be a sacrificial lamb so that Purdue/MSU/Michigan SOS is fractionally better
I don’t care about the rest of the teams in the conference, it is what it is. You can only control your noncon, and I’m happy with what Purdue has been doing while understanding that not every program could or should schedule that way
Hopefully the fans show up since it could be terrible for recruiting to have a half empty arena in what’s suppose to be a showcase recruiting game. Need to make sure the football game isn’t scheduled at the same time.
I’m just wondering why we’re catching strays from a UCF fan.
But yeah man PSU basketball sucks, so they play a shitty non-con schedule to get some wins before heading into the big ten schedule. It would be nice to have some stronger opponents, and it’s cool we’ve got the game against Pitt in Hershey, but when you’re ass you play bad teams to pick up some wins so you don’t go like 5-25
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u/Character_Wishbone67 2d ago
They going for last place in OOC strength of schedule?