Blue & White Game

[kimlane]

Do you require tickets for the game ?

 

[joeaubie21]

According to the university, admission is free. Unless the BoT cooks up some fart between now and the 26th.

 

[kimlane]

Thanks

 

[Obliviax]

Do you require tickets for the game ?

They have announced that there won't be a "game" as we have come to know it. I am not sure what it is going to be, perhaps some kind of sports exhibition. Like other schools, PSU has no interest in showcasing kids so that agents call them and tell they they can make more money someplace else and to transfer out. My only point is that if you are looking for a "game," you probably won't see it. However, I suspect the school and town will "show out", especially if the weather is nice.

 

[kimlane]

They have announced that there won't be a "game" as we have come to know it. I am not sure what it is going to be, perhaps some kind of sports exhibition. Like other schools, PSU has no interest in showcasing kids so that agents call them and tell they they can make more money someplace else and to transfer out. My only point is that if you are looking for a "game," you probably won't see it. However, I suspect the school and town will "show out", especially if the weather is nice.

Thank you

 

[GregInPitt]

I'm disappointed that college football has come to this, where teams can't entertain their fans for fear of showcasing player talent such that traditions and fan opportunities like spring games to conclude spring practices have to be more or less dummied down or eliminated.

But I'd still be there to enjoy a day in State College, pick up a few PSU clothes items that showcase the 2024 team as well as the NC wrestling team, if we weren't heading in the opposite direction to hear out son preach that weekend......

 

[Obliviax]

I'm disappointed that college football has come to this, where teams can't entertain their fans for fear of showcasing player talent such that traditions and fan opportunities like spring games to conclude spring practices have to be more or less dummied down or eliminated.

But I'd still be there to enjoy a day in State College, pick up a few PSU clothes items that showcase the team as well as the NC wrestling team, if we weren't heading in the opposite direction to hear out son preach that weekend......

Agreed. I think this will be more of a "spring weekend" where spring at PSU is celebrated with a football exhibition, honoring winter sports teams, celebrate Thon, a good tailgate, downtown shopping and good. I am told many people will skip it and, instead, go to Arts Fest.

 

[kimlane]

Thank you

Thanks 😊

 

[joeaubie21]

Agreed. I think this will be more of a "spring weekend" where spring at PSU is celebrated with a football exhibition, honoring winter sports teams, celebrate Thon, a good tailgate, downtown shopping and good. I am told many people will skip it and, instead, go to Arts Fest.

Thank NIL and cheating.

 

[Obliviax]

Thank NIL and cheating.

Agree. I would only add that we are suffering NIL because the universities have exploited college football players for decades. The cheating isn't new. Universities and sports networks made trillions in dollars while kids were told to take performance enhancing drugs, given insufficient healthcare, suffered injuries that would harm them in the old age, and told to not worry about grades. I haven't seen it recently but IIRC the average life expectancy of an offensive linemen was in the late 50s at one point.

So this is a backlash, a correction, on what has taken place. I don't like it, to be honest, but I can't argue with the necessity of it. We need a player's union so that a collective bargaining agreement can be reached.

 

[harbest]

We are witnessing the professionalization of college football. Kids getting paid, being able to change schools without impunity, exemptions due to covid (I recently read there was a QB who played for PSU in 2020 or 2021 who was granted a SIXTH year of eligibility!). We have lost the innocence of going to college and replaced it with big business.

 

[Obliviax]