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Congrats on ACCN

Crimson811

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Jan 8, 2015
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Penn State fan here, but I just wanted to say congrats on the new network. I've been reading about it today, and I feel like this is going to be huge for you guys, in terms of money and exposure, which translates to better recruiting. Looking forward to all the battles, on AND off the field!
 
Thanks. It has been a long 3-4 years of googling updates on the potential network for me, Tiger Paul, and "The Panthers," but our hard work finally paid off. I just hope we are invited to the launch party.
 
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Penn State fan here, but I just wanted to say congrats on the new network. I've been reading about it today, and I feel like this is going to be huge for you guys, in terms of money and exposure, which translates to better recruiting. Looking forward to all the battles, on AND off the field!
Pitt is recruiting so poorly that they only have 4 players on Athlon's Preseason All-American teams. PSU has none. Your act is fooling nobody.
 
Penn State fan here, but I just wanted to say congrats on the new network. I've been reading about it today, and I feel like this is going to be huge for you guys, in terms of money and exposure, which translates to better recruiting. Looking forward to all the battles, on AND off the field!
Thanks and the ACC as a way to go to catch Big Ten Bucks along with Pitt has a long way to build resources Penn State already has today!

Good luck as well!
 
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Penn State fan here, but I just wanted to say congrats on the new network. I've been reading about it today, and I feel like this is going to be huge for you guys, in terms of money and exposure, which translates to better recruiting. Looking forward to all the battles, on AND off the field!
We hope that having the ACC Network might level the playing field a bit. We'll see......
 
PSU needs to ditch the BIG and join the ACC with ND. You guys belong in the ACC.

Would be a super conference with access to Florida talent.

I wish. From a football standpoint, most PSU fans know that the ACC is a better fit. We have more history with Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, VTech, etc. than we do with OSU, Michigan, MSU, or Wisconsin. But from an academic (and financial) perspective, the Big Ten is where we belong (large, land-grant, research institutions with great academics). And ultimately, academics and money are more important.
 
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"Crimson811, post: 1421200, member: 39610"]I wish. From a football standpoint, most PSU fans know that the ACC is a better fit.
Try posting that on BWI and see what happen to your own Postings?

We have more history with Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, VTech, etc. than we do with OSU, Michigan, MSU, or Wisconsin.
Yep, Paterno could not schedule Games when he wanted, select PSU Player's Father Refs he wanted, and had to accept losing to Michigan, OSU, Iowa, Wisconsin, more often without winning a NCS since 1980s. The Big Ten wouldn't let Paterno bully anyone and refused to vote his 1994 teams a share of the NCS, but did it for Michigan in 1998!

But from an academic (and financial) perspective, the Big Ten is where we belong (large, land-grant, research institutions with great academics).
Yep, and the Big Ten gained more by bringing in Penn State than Penn State did on Research Dollars after PSu joined.

And ultimately, academics and money are more important.
At Pitt ever since 1787 Academics was always a priority for young students and children always came before money! Don't think so for Penn State after 1966? According to BWI Posters it was always about Paterno that was more important even before Penn State University.

Joe first move as Head Coach was to break the Big Four 25 Limits Scholarship Rosters and recruited 35 more Redshirts every year to have bigger Roster than Pitt, Syracuse, and WVU part of the Big Four Agreement made in 1960.

Joe began operating secretly with non-compliance's and not being under Penn State Institutional Control and chose to be in Business with PSU Trustees in a Conflict in Interests to make money for himself and later employ his many family members and relatives?

If it was about Academics Penn State should have been following Big Ten Athletic Integrity Agreement, Have an Athletic Code of Conduct so Players treated as Students, be in Compliance with Title IX & Clery Criminal Act Reporting, and cooperating with Judicial Affairs and outside Law Enforcement Investigations?

Pitt was founded in 1787, Ten Days before the US Constitution was signed,and became Western University of Pennsylvania in 1819 and renamed the University of Pittsburgh in 1908.

Pitt was a University 36 years before the Farmer's High School of Pennsylvania in 1855, changed to Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1863, renamed Pennsylvania State College in 1874, and Pennsylvania State University in 1954.

Pitt was always about Academics 60+ years before Penn State was founded and much more in Top Research before Penn State became an University. Many Pitt Graduates taught, administer, helped Pennsylvania's first and sole Land Grant School evolve from the Farmer's High School to Agricultural College to Penn State College into Penn State University in 1954?

in a way, Pitt helped developed Penn State Academics and gave them a full share of all Football Games Money played at Pitt for 25 Straight Years when Penn State was designated the Home Team.

Pitt felt that was only fair every other year to that money to Penn State Athletics because it was hard to travel to Penn State and few to little Sports Media would want to go there to report on the Game. So, Pitt help build Penn State Athletics too, until Joseph Vincent Paterno ended the Historic Pitt-Penn State Games lying about the 25 years and being petty about coming to Pitt and helping Pitt earn Money too?

See we share to learn on the Lair unlike being Banned on BWI Board!


 
I wish. From a football standpoint, most PSU fans know that the ACC is a better fit. We have more history with Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, VTech, etc. than we do with OSU, Michigan, MSU, or Wisconsin. But from an academic (and financial) perspective, the Big Ten is where we belong (large, land-grant, research institutions with great academics). And ultimately, academics and money are more important.

You join with ND and the ACC money would be comparable with BIG$.. Plus you would be forward looking in a conference based in growth areas of the nation. Its also an exceptional academic conference... and that said I never understood how athletic conferences had anything to do with athletics. A duke degree is not frowned upon because the play Louisville once a year in basketball.
 
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I wish. From a football standpoint, most PSU fans know that the ACC is a better fit. We have more history with Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, VTech, etc. than we do with OSU, Michigan, MSU, or Wisconsin. But from an academic (and financial) perspective, the Big Ten is where we belong (large, land-grant, research institutions with great academics). And ultimately, academics and money are more important.

Except athletic conferences are essentially meaningless for academics and research. Putting a academic bow on a conference is essentially a nice marketing gimmick to try to paint purpose on what is really an athletic arrangement built for revenue generation. It is also one of several giant internet myths conjured up by self annotated conference realignment experts operating blog sites. These people haven't the foggiest clue how academia operates. There are no meaningful academic consortia or alliances whose membership is restricted by who a school's athletic teams compete against. The idea is nonsensical. Did you know that Penn State's % share of total federal research funding has actually dropped since they joined the Big Ten's CIC in the 1990s? The Big Ten has nothing academically that other conferences don't or, more to the point, that other universities don't participate in outside of their athletic conferences. Academic partnerships are built on mutual need, synergies created by complementary areas of expertise, and simple geographical convenience. They are largely made at the individual investigator and department level. Athletic conference have nothing to do with it.

There is zero chance PSU ever leaves the Big Ten though, especially now that they have Rutgers and MD as eastern members, and if you understood the culture there, you 'd be just fine with it.
 
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