It’s a shame what’s happened to college athletics I absolutely hate what has happened to college athletics. Ridiculous cross-country conference expansion. Transfer portal chaos. And the wild, wild West of NIL. Here’s the part where I yell “get off my lawn” like a crusty old ...
PSU point/counterpoint: Did anything happen in the opener that surprised you? Why weren’t Fleming, Carter more effective against WVU? By Cory Giger sports@altoonamirror.com Penn State played an excellent game in its opening win at West Virginia, but there were two glaring surprises ...
By Cory Giger sports@altoonamirror.com When the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams beginning next year, there’s no program or coach in the country that stand to benefit more than Penn State and James Franklin. That’s not me being a homer. Because, you know, everybody knows ...
It is darn near impossible to believe that Penn State’s wide receiver situation is this bad. So bad that it killed the program’s chances for greatness this year. I’ve only covered PSU since 2006, and this is by far the worst group of wide receivers the program has had in my 18 years. The ...
Beating Wolverines would make things better A lot of people are really down on Penn State right now, and the team has shown the past two weeks that it’s clearly not as good as many people thought. But a win over Michigan next week would change everything. Having that tremendous ...
Yurcich, Franklin, receivers need to share the blame. Penn State embarrassed itself offensively in the loss at Ohio State, and to me the primary culprits are Mike Yurcich, the wide receivers and James Franklin. The easy part of this is pointing out that the receivers just aren’t very ...