Who da best?

"If I put this on, will someone tie it for me?"

A question for Phillies fans: Were the 1980 Phillies the best Phillies team in modern times? The 2008 team? Or was perhaps one of their 100-win teams (1976 1977, 2011) that didn't win a World Series?

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Here are the current listings for the BTN and ESPN/ACC networks for this week. Keep in mind that these may be incomplete, as things tend to change with BTN+ and especially ESPN+. Feel free to add Flo coverage, at your own risk.

Tuesday
- Indiana vs Ohio (7pm) [ESPN+]

Thursday
- NW Kansas Tech vs ISU (8pm) [ESPN+]

Friday
- PSU vs Maryland (7pm) [B1G+]
- Penn vs Pitt (7pm) [ACCNX]
- Indiana vs Rutger (7pm) [B1G+]
- Purdue vs Nebraska (8pm) [B1G+]
- Northwestern vs Wisconsin (8pm) [B1G+]
- CMU vs NIU (8pm) [ESPN+]
- Minn vs Iowa (9pm) [BTN tv]*

Saturday
- Princeton vs Rider (11am) [ESPN+]
- NC State vs Rider (1pm) [ESPN+]
- tOSU vs MSU (5pm) [B1G+]

Sunday
- Oregon St vs Penn (11am) [ESPN+]
- SIUE vs Buffalo (1pm) [ESPN+]
- NC State vs Princeton (1pm) [ESPN+]
- Campbell vs Presbyterian (1pm) [ESPN+]
- LIU vs Columbia (1pm) [ESPN+]
- Rutger vs Wisconsin (1pm) [B1G+]
- Indiana vs PSU (2pm) [B1G+]
- Northwestern vs Minn (2pm) [B1G+]
- Purdue vs Iowa (3pm) [BTN tv]
- Bellarmine vs Campbell (3pm) [ESPN+]
- Bellarmine vs Presbyterian (5pm) [ESPN+]

*Replay at 2am Sat

Here is what is currently on the docket this week for coverage on the ESPN and BTN networks. [**TV bracketed by asterisks**, PSU bolded.] Quite a few cancellations last week, and I would imagine situations are fluid again this week. Utah Valley already postponed their duals for the weekend.

Tuesday
- Drexel vs Penn (3:30pm) [ESPN+]

Thursday
- Mizzou vs Oklahoma (8pm) [Bally Sports Oklahoma*]

Friday
- **PSU vs Michigan (6pm) [BTN]**
- Rutger vs MSU (6pm) [B1G+]
- Maryland vs Indiana (7pm) [B1G+]
- Illinois vs Purdue (7pm) [B1G+]
- Virginia vs Pitt (7pm) [ACCNX/ESPN+]
- **Duke vs UNC (7pm) [ACCN]**
- CMU vs No.Ilinois (7pm) [ESPN+]
- Nebraska vs Wisconsin (8pm) [B1G+]
- **Iowa vs tOSU (8pm) [BTN]**

Saturday
- Navy vs Ohio (11am) [ESPN+]
- Harvard vs Cornell (1pm) [ESPN+]
- Columbia vs Princeton (1pm) [ESPN+]
- SDSU vs Mizzou (3pm) [ESPN+]
- Brown vs Cornell (3pm) [ESPN+]

Sunday
- CMU vs SIUE (12pm) [ESPN+]
- Oklahoma vs No. Illinois (1pm) [ESPN+]
- Columbia vs Penn (1pm) [ESPN+]
- Davidson vs Ohio (1pm) [ESPN+]
- Maryland vs tOSU (1pm) [B1G+]
- PSU vs MSU (1pm) [B1G+]
- So.Dakota vs SIUE (2pm) [ESPN+]
- Lehigh vs Okie St (3pm) [ESPN+]
- NDSU vs ISU (3pm) [ESPN+]
- Ark-LR vs UNC (3pm) [ACCNX/ESPN+]
- Nebraska vs Northwestern (3pm) [B1G+]
- Rutger vs Michigan (4pm) [B1G+]
- **Wisconsin vs Purdue (4pm) [BTN]**
- CMU vs SIUE (4pm) [ESPN+]
- Citadel vs Campbell (5pm) [ESPN+]


* Link is to Bally Sports main page (as provided by OU website); may require some sleuthing to find the match (I could not find “Oklahoma” or “Wrestling” as subsites anywhere in the Bally Sports menu).

Greg K could be the post season heavyweight. Waiver was submitted to NCAA by psu. Coach on another program told me he thinks there’s a 75% chance it’s approved. Should know very soon

Not a PSU post, but for those that like good wrestling, this match matters. It's on BTN, following PSU vs Michigan.

Assuming all go...

125: Ayala is the real deal. Heinselman has more career bouts under his belt, but Ayala's talent is too much. May be a major.
133: DeSanto easy if he goes.
141: Eireman an easy winner too, vs D'Emilio.
149: Last time they wrestled it was Sasso by FALL over Murin. Could be a decision, but Sasso won't be threatened.
157: Young over Hepner, but not by much.
165: Feature bout? Really, really close match-up. Home-mat advantage for Kharchla could be the difference.
174: Kemerer of old wouldn't have any problems. He has been lights-out the past 3 bouts, but the competition here (Smith) is infinitely better than what he's faced. This bout will tell us alot about Kemerer.
184: Assad/Romero a toss-up on paper. Home-mat effect again?
197: I don't see a path for Hoffman winning here. It'll be close imo, and when it's close anything can happen, but Warner the clear favorite.
285: Cassioppi should handle Orndorff.

Dual Thread for Rutgers today?

have to have a name beginning with "j" to post here?

I mean, there is:
jammenz
js8793
jrod65
jmadden1998
jhonyt9

I think this is why johnstownsteel always has me confused.

I guess those two things are more or less mutually exclusive, but they're a mess.

They're trying to run the ball, even a little, and it is simply the same as saying "OK, let's just call it 3rd and 7 after each first down and we'll go from there".

Penn State fell behind early, thanks in large part to the absence of Nick Lee at 141 pounds and a controversial match at 149, but won five straight down the stretch to roll past the Scarlet Knights. Here are our top takeaways from the victory.

No knock on BOB. He was dealt a totally Bull Shit hand by a raft of psuedo-leaders.

No knock on Walker but I am really looking forward to seeing Tengwall and Fashanu with Wallace, Wilson and Juice
I think Fashanu's athleticism is off the charts. We shall see.

The TE's however need an extra heavy duty blocking tudor ... for all the atheticism at that position..
they were more disappointing to me than the OL.

Could be bunk but smoke is rising:

Could be end of the road.

Supposedly he has declared for NFL draft in a tweet

4-5 in 2020, and no, covid is no excuse.
7-5 in 2021, and no, there is no excuse.
If 2022 is no better, then that's 3 straight disappointments.

Should be some definitive "who's going" answers this week or early next week.

If I had to guess I would say.
Steen
Shayne Van Ness
Joe Lee
Beard
Seth Nevills

Possibly
Hildebrandt

Some say yes

Joepa’s 409 wins basically amounted to winning 3 of 4 games over many decades and built the PSU brand both athletically and academically and is cemented in the alumni and fan loyalty. close to 5 billion in endowment that keeps growing.

James started in tough spot going 7-6 in 2014 and 2015. Let’s call 2020 and 2021 the Covid years and he has gone 4-5 and 7-5 with too many close losses in winnable games, characterized by incompetence at O line and defense that can’t keep late game leads against competent offenses— 53 percent.

in between, 2016-2019, he won 11 games three times, and had nearly 80 percent win rate with 42-11 rate— let’s call it the McSorley with major NFL talent years- Saquon, Godwin, Micah and so on.

In total Franklin is 67-33, (2 of 3 games)which isn’t bad considering what he inherited— but last two years were clearly a step backward (prefer the 4 of 5 game pace in the middle). Franklin teams are rarely blown out but losing close is a bad habit. Now he has brought in major talent with Allar and Singleton and Dani and on and on and is clearly building a brand that Joepa would approve— empahasizing education and loyalty and caring for players— and all the PSU NFL guys showing love for program is a major plus for recruiting. It’s a different world as we move to 2022 and I’m glad we have Franklin, no matter what happens tomorrow.

Let’s build on positive vibes tomorrow with mostly next year’s players— but this year’s recruits will make an impact in 2022 and I’m glad we have senior leadership from Sean for tough early schedule . Happy New Year and let’s go State— make Franklin’s game 101 a victory!!

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s enjoy a great day of football.

To can you know who? I am thinking if we get the new AD in and hopefully it is Brandon Short then our misery may end.

Obviously this ridiculously huge buyout still looms (I think 3 years and about $18 million at that point) which works against a change.

In '22, I am thinking we lose to Auburn, the obligatory O$U loss then scUM the next week because among other issues our fearless leader is utterly incapable of rallying the team after a loss. He has gotten lucky with a pretty easy schedule besides those games. Two of the three B10 W games are home and they are Minny and an easy one, cough, cough vs Illinois. So, there is a shot he goes 9-3 which will save his job unfortunately. There is also shot we could be 7-5 or worse and the way we are trending could be a good bet.

I'm hoping Short comes in who is smart and knows football and calls Franklin on the carpet for all this bullsh__ he slings yet backs nothing up and gets alignment from the BOT to get rid of him. Currently Franklin's boss knows nothing about football, he is not getting challenged one iota, he just rules the roost with no accountability or threat of a challenge.

There are people on this board who claim there are no viable substitutes for Franklin and no one could do better so we need to accept this horse manure product into infinity. Clearly that does not fly with rationale people who demand accountability and results.

What does everyone think?

Pat Chambers under utilized this guy based on what he is doing now. Iteresting and never understood why Brookington wasn't used more while at PSU.