Friday, September 15, 2017

On Scheduling Georgia State.

I hope Georgia State puts that money to great use in their players' education.

Georgia State's President is a PSU alum if you're wondering how this game probably happened, and it reminds me of when Michigan played Connecticut and you find out that UConn's athletic director was a Michigan alum.  That game was also at night and UConn actually nearly topped the Wolverines.

Yes, yes.  Georgia State also run the spread; have some good players; should still be a relative easy win; helps potentially save players, etc.  I'm sure there are benefits to playing Georgia State, but to be the program we want to be, we need to schedule some larger schools.  Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Stanford, Alabama, LSU, Clemson and Florida State. 

Take on the largest, most powerful, and most popular collegiate institutions and show as many people as possible the best of Penn State culture.  We want to be successful, we want to win the game.  But we really want people to see how hard we work for one another.  How we live for one another.  How we try to do our individual part and control the things we can control while at the same time believing we are part of something bigger than ourselves.

As always when striving for success in a competitive atmosphere we may experience failures.  However even in defeat we express ourselves with humility and class.  We then take those failures and learn from them, getting better as we go.
 
That's what makes us Championship material.

When we play Georgia State at 7:30 on the Big Ten network, it will be shown only to a base that already believes in Penn State and I believe that limits our exposure.  It limits what we as Penn Stater's can showcase. 

I believe the world needs the culture that's being created by James Franklin and the Penn State football team.  That it's a culture of positive energy, of effort and determination in the face of adversity.  That it's a culture of humility and respect.  It's a culture that can make a difference in a positive way.  And while certainly I think the game this Saturday will go towards furthering our long term goals (as well as those at Georgia State and ), I look forward to the day where we routinely battle the very best across the country, and showcase it for the world to see.