Future PSU - Temple series

[Madsol]

As I wrote in a prior post, a home and home with Temple doesn't preclude a home and home with a P5 school regardless of some saying it can't be done and still give us seven home games. But if makes you feel good you all can go ahead with your noses in the air acting like Temple has cooties. If the scheduling works and we still play a P5 then what is there to bitch about? Maybe you prefer MAC schools. If so, good on ya.

Get over yourself. You still aren't making sense. If the AD can do a home and home with Temple and a Power 5 school and still have 7 home games, then the Temple home and home is still a bad deal...cause it means we could have had a home and home with a real school. You're taking shots at me about preferring MAC schools while saying a home and home with Temple could be a good thing. Totally inconsistent.

 

[Jerademan74]

Call me a pessimistic whiner if you'd like but for me there isn't a set of circumstances the AD could come up with to justify a home and home with Temple. Curious what you could hear from the AD that would make you say "oh yeah, now I see why a home and home with Temple was a good idea."

It is mostly good for Temple recruiting, but it also helps a lot of our Philly-based players to be able to play back at their home city and show their fans why they came to PSU and not Temple!

 

[ivan brunetti]

So let me get this straight...Temple is so bad that South Florida would give PSU a better game, yet we're supposed to be excited about a home and home with Temple? You're just silly.

Who said anything about "excited"? I am just saying it is do-able.
You schedule one big name that will help with the committee (say, Texas or Washington). One medium team that won't hurt with the committee (say, Temple or Cincy). And one cupcake who will come and play a one and done. In years where there are only 5 Big Ten home games, you play two OOC games at home.

 

[MtNittany]

It's time to start visiting our alums across the country. They stole the last game in FL and sent it to Dublin. We're still waiting down here.

Temple? Srsly? Why?? And if they do build an on campus stadium and this road game would be in that stadium and not at the NFL stadium, well then our AD's office is so ****ing stupid that they don't deserve a team.

 

[NittPicker]

Get over yourself. You still aren't making sense. If the AD can do a home and home with Temple and a Power 5 school and still have 7 home games, then the Temple home and home is still a bad deal...cause it means we could have had a home and home with a real school. You're taking shots at me about preferring MAC schools while saying a home and home with Temple could be a good thing. Totally inconsistent.

If you think I'm taking shots at you then you have very thin skin. Think what you want about Temple. I'll do the same.

 

[78SweetRevenge]

It is mostly good for Temple recruiting, but it also helps a lot of our Philly-based players to be able to play back at their home city and show their fans why they came to PSU and not Temple!

So, we going to Temple so kids from Philly can prove to their city that Penn State is better than Temple....I mean, this is getting worse and worse. Again, this is as dumb as playing a home and home with Pitt--arguably worse. If our 2026/27 features Temple and two other non-P5 teams no one better say a word if we get left out of the playoffs because we won't deserve to go.

 

[Cosmos]

Well, like it or not, Pennsylvania has 3 Division 1 teams in Penn State, Pitt, and Temple. Temple plays in the largest city in Pennsylvania, and Pitt plays in the second largest city in Pennsylvania. These games mean money and recruiting.

You have me on the 'money' part, but if we have to play Temple or Pitt in order to win over a recruit well then...

 

[Cosmos]

So, we going to Temple so kids from Philly can prove to their city that Penn State is better than Temple....I mean, this is getting worse and worse. Again, this is as dumb as playing a home and home with Pitt--arguably worse. If our 2026/27 features Temple and two other non-P5 teams no one better say a word if we get left out of the playoffs because we won't deserve to go.

That's okay Sweet Revenge. Delaney has got our back.

 

[78SweetRevenge]

Who said anything about "excited"? I am just saying it is do-able.
You schedule one big name that will help with the committee (say, Texas or Washington). One medium team that won't hurt with the committee (say, Temple or Cincy). And one cupcake who will come and play a one and done. In years where there are only 5 Big Ten home games, you play two OOC games at home.

Which is great--but that can't include a road game at Temple because that's a road game at Texas or Washington. No one is against playing Temple (or Cincy) as our second game--just can't be a home and home.

 

[The_Unit]

I hope this is fake news. There is no way PSU should do a home and home with a non power 5 school. I’d like to get 3:1.

 

[step.eng69]

Marc Narducci had a short blurb in today's Philadelphia Inquirer (I'd link it, but I couldn't find it on their web site), that PSU and Temple are talking about a future series.

If Hotshoe still has eligible ingress to the Pitt Lair, out of human courtesy, I think he should run you post by the inhabitants on their board. Like an Al Capone drive by.

 

[78SweetRevenge]

That's okay Sweet Revenge. Delaney has got our back.

Hopefully he'll be gone by then but if you don't schedule a single P5 team you don't deserve to go...even if you're Bama

 

[Kmase21]

Why does it matter who fills the seats? We're still losing money by playing a game against Temple without actually getting an opponent that will help us with the playoff committee. There's no win here other than Philly fans that don't want to drive to see a game.

If somehow Temple would be able to land Gameday back there at a new stadium vs. a Penn State team under the lights, this wouldn't help us with the playoff committee? I disagree.

 

[MJG-90]

Still waiting for you to get us to 7 games in both years playing a road game at Temple and a P5 team those 2 years...it's a very simple question.

Maybe this will overlap with that home game Virginia owes us.

 

[ClarkstonMark]

It is an away game where you can have 2/3rds of the stadium clad in blue and white.

Maybe work out a two home/one away deal. Temple is better than 70% of the MAC.

every away game at Temple costs Penn State ~$10mil in lost revenue.

 

[Madsol]

Yawn. If you think I'm taking shots at you then you have very thin skin. Think what you want. I'll do the same.

Ok, so maybe not shots. But saying I'd prefer playing MAC schools because I don't want to play Temple home and home? Really, I dont even follow that logic. But whatever.

 

[MontereyLion]

Seems the Bigten has learned over the last 2 years the MOST important factor for a team to make it to the Playoff is an undefeated season, not strength of schedule. I would expect more home and home pansy schedules going forward, not less.

 

[nittany dave]

Not knowing any particulars, but a straight up home and home with Temple would be very hard to justify. Hope this is wrong.

Playing at Temple is a home game.

 

[lobo lion]

Good Lord, we have a lot of babies on this board.

 

[anon_is9z1n0h3zblb]

Pitt sent us a proposal and the local Pittsburgh media referred to it as "negotiating". Hopefully this is the same type of "negotiations".

 

[psuro]

Better Temple than Pitt.

 

[78SweetRevenge]

If somehow Temple would be able to land Gameday back there at a new stadium vs. a Penn State team under the lights, this wouldn't help us with the playoff committee? I disagree.

How would a G5 win help us? This is utterly ridiculous

 

[78SweetRevenge]

Maybe this will overlap with that home game Virginia owes us.

Shouldn't we be using that Virginia game along with a P5 team with a pulse though?

 

[anon_is9z1n0h3zblb]

Shouldn't we be using that Virginia game along with a P5 team with a pulse though?

Virginia paid the cancellation penalty. There is no game.

 

[78SweetRevenge]

Virginia paid the cancellation penalty. There is no game.

Okay--so there goes that last ditch effort to cancel out a road game with Temple.

We would literally need to talk a school like Oregon State into coming here with no return trip like in 2008 (I think that's the right year)

 

[MJG-90]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

 

[Gnat91]

We should play Alabama. Every game, every year... Forever .

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

There's an entire city that will disagree with this. Any time I get to see my Nitts in my city is a win. As stated above, let Temple believe they have a chance, and not let them win for another lifetime.

I’d take it. Not sure who the other OOC teams might be, but if Temple would maybe take the place of say a team at the MAC or Georgia State level, why not? But the 7 home game question does seem to knock out a good team, or a crappy one. And since we always seem to have at least one really crappy team on th schedule, hmph, maybe our schedulers have found enlightenment...

If somehow Temple would be able to land Gameday back there at a new stadium vs. a Penn State team under the lights, this wouldn't help us with the playoff committee? I disagree.

Playoff committee.... some appropriations committee in Harrisburg who likes it when we support Temple.

Wait. I just mentioned...... bye!!!!

 

[rmem]

We did pitt a huge favor by scheduling them, now we might be doing a huge favor to temple for scheduling them. In both cases, I don't know why. This 1970s nostalgia has to stop.

 

[78SweetRevenge]

This 1970s nostalgia has to stop.

 

[BobPSU92]

Please take this opportunity to turn your back on temple.

 

[Jerademan74]

every away game at Temple costs Penn State ~$10mil in lost revenue.

So you're saying we shouldn't play Temple like a true Division 1 foe and treat them like a MAC team with all games at Penn State? Our team should learn to play games away from Penn State against an easier opponent before we do so with a B1G opponent. It isn't always just about the money. If it were, than we should just play all patsies at home and always play the first 4 weeks at Beaver Stadium before we start the B1G season every year. When we do that, we pay for it with the Playoff Bowl voters. Our University schedulers and management groups know what they are doing, so I wouldn't sweat any of this.

 

[Erial_Lion]

If we ever did sign this agreement, it would tell me that the B1G will be going back to an 8 game schedule sooner than later...No way that we can justify a home and home against Temple under the current situation.

 

[john4psu]

Temple is the second best college football team in the state for crying out loud! That's an upgrade from Pitt!

 

[MtNittany]

Our team should learn to play games away from Penn State against an easier opponent before we do so with a B1G opponent. It isn't always just about the money.

So you're saying we should never schedule a quality ooc game on the road? Ever?

 

[ClarkstonMark]

So you're saying we shouldn't play Temple like a true Division 1 foe and treat them like a MAC team with all games at Penn State? Our team should learn to play games away from Penn State against an easier opponent before we do so with a B1G opponent. It isn't always just about the money. If it were, than we should just play all patsies at home and always play the first 4 weeks at Beaver Stadium before we start the B1G season every year. When we do that, we pay for it with the Playoff Bowl voters. Our University schedulers and management groups know what they are doing, so I wouldn't sweat any of this.

Ya it is pretty much all about the money.

 

[michnittlion]

We better not do a home and home with Temple. Temple can't be our "big opponent" for 2 years.

I'm highly suspicious this WILL be our "big OOC opponent." The timing --- 2026 and 2027, when we currently don't have any OOC games at all scheduled --- makes it suspicious.

Looking at future schedules, I'd be fine with playing at Temple in 2021 and then hosting Temple in 2022. We're already playing Auburn both years. But then we wouldn't have our VERY ABSOLUTELY PRECIOUS MUST HAVE 7 home games scheduled for 2021. God forbid we have some season with only 6 home games.

I have no particular problem giving Temple an occasional home-and-home. They're not in the MAC any more, they're not going to willingly give us 2-for-1 or 3-for-1 series' any more, and it provides us an occasional game in Philadelphia.

 

[Erial_Lion]

I'm highly suspicious this WILL be our "big OOC opponent." The timing --- 2026 and 2027, when we currently don't have any OOC games at all scheduled --- makes it suspicious.

I'd be fine with playing at Temple in 2021 and then hosting Temple in 2022. We're already playing Auburn both years. But then we wouldn't have our VERY ABSOLUTELY PRECIOUS MUST HAVE 7 home games scheduled for 2021. God forbid that happens.

Do you realize how much revenue a home football game generates for the Athletic Department (not to mention the entire State College community)? An extra home game is kind of a big deal.

 

[michnittlion]

Do you realize how much revenue a home football game generates for the Athletic Department (not to mention the entire State College community)? An extra home game is kind of a big deal.

Michigan --- e.g., one of our PEERS --- just had a season where they played 6 home games.

I don't think either (1) University of Michigan athletics or (2) the city of Ann Arbor has gone into bankruptcy because of that lack of a 7th home game.

Neither will PSU athletics or State College go bankrupt if we give up the occasional home game against some uninteresting team like Kent State.

 

[Erial_Lion]

Michigan --- e.g., one of our PEERS --- just had a season where they played 6 home games.

I don't think either (1) University of Michigan athletics or (2) the city of Ann Arbor has gone into bankruptcy because of that lack of a 7th home game.

Neither will PSU athletics or State College go bankrupt if we give up the occasional home game against some uninteresting team like Kent State.

First, they made about 6 million by playing a game at Jerry-world. And second, they played 8 home games the season before it to stay right on the “7 home games/season” pace.