Great game on espn 2 right now. Penn is taking it to Nova with 17 min left in game. We will see if they can hang on. They haven’t beaten Nova since something like 2002.
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Greatest place to watch a college hoops game.Love the Palestra
So they switched over to Colorado and New Mexico and Bill Walton is doing the game. The guy is high as a kite, you can't make up the stuff he's babbling about. Hey Bill, no more benders.
Mark Dambly Rec Hall, also known as ‘The Jail’.Rec Hall is the Palestra of gymnastics, wrestling, and chick volleyball which is nice. Hopefully one of the Trustees will capitalize on that name very soon so we can cash. Alarming that it's taken this long.
Penn played a great game - very well coached even though they brain locked at the end and gave up a buzzer three attempt.
Villanova just lost too many guns and guys like Samuels and the frosh ain’t ready to play the way they need to.
I think we’ll give it a good go at Fogg on Saturday but expect Kansas to be much the better. Come out of that, take 2 weeks off and then the game we NEED to get is UConn in the Garden.
Plenty of talent, just not ready to roll yet.
BTW, did I hear that the Palestra will be corporate sponsored next year? I hope that was a false rumor... but if true, I hope whoever it is will keep the Palestra name front and center.
Thanks Tom... I heard this from a close friend whose family goes well back into the penn tradition and you could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather when I heard about it..[how long have i been a penn fan? since i became a psu fan.. how many games? lost count]Tis True. CLICK HERE for an article about it. $$$
If needed, give me a call, 215-KIC-KASS.Thanks Tom... I heard this from a close friend whose family goes well back into the penn tradition and you could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather when I heard about it..[how long have i been a penn fan? since i became a psu fan.. how many games? lost count]
So long as this bunch doesn't F it up and rename or bastardize the Palestra (in my lifetime lol)... i'll deal. They F it up... i'm sending "the boyz" to discuss it. This one is personal.
Rec Hall is the Palestra of gymnastics, wrestling, and chick volleyball which is nice. Hopefully one of the Trustees will capitalize on that name very soon so we can cash. Alarming that it's taken this long.
Great game on espn 2 right now. Penn is taking it to Nova with 17 min left in game. We will see if they can hang on. They haven’t beaten Nova since something like 2002.
Not being critical here. Just merely curious. Why is there such an obsession with Villanova on this board?Great game on espn 2 right now. Penn is taking it to Nova with 17 min left in game. We will see if they can hang on. They haven’t beaten Nova since something like 2002.
I was a HUGE Penn Quaker fan in the early 70's! Listening to Al Meltzer on channel 17 bringing those doubleheaders on TV will always be a fond memory.
The highlight of my life was when I was a freshman in high school, my school (North Schuylkill) had what I still call the best team EVER, played Darby-Colwyn in the Penn Palestra. WOW! After the game (a loss), we went down into the locker room. Just seeing those names on the lockers was a dream come true: Dave Wohl, Steve Bilsky, Bob Morse, CORKY CALHOUN, and so on.
More than a few rabid PSU fans are VU alums, for starters. Is that acceptable to you?Not being critical here. Just merely curious. Why is there such an obsession with Villanova on this board?
Acceptable??? Not sure I was looking for appeasement, but thanks for the info. I didn't realize there was a kinship towards PSU by so many non-alums.More than a few rabid PSU fans are VU alums, for starters. Is that acceptable to you?
Huge Quaker fan, modeled my jump shot on Bobby Morse's.I was a HUGE Penn Quaker fan in the early 70's! Listening to Al Meltzer on channel 17 bringing those doubleheaders on TV will always be a fond memory.
The highlight of my life was when I was a freshman in high school, my school (North Schuylkill) had what I still call the best team EVER, played Darby-Colwyn in the Penn Palestra. WOW! After the game (a loss), we went down into the locker room. Just seeing those names on the lockers was a dream come true: Dave Wohl, Steve Bilsky, Bob Morse, CORKY CALHOUN, and so on.
So they switched over to Colorado and New Mexico and Bill Walton is doing the game. The guy is high as a kite, you can't make up the stuff he's babbling about. Hey Bill, no more benders.
Huge Quaker fan, modeled my jump shot on Bobby Morse's.
From 1969-70 to 1974-5, Pennsylvania went 25-3, 28-1, 25-3, 21-7, 21-6, and 23-5; 143-20 (88%) in six years. Calhoun and Morse went 78-7 (92%) during their three years. And the rest of the Big Five were no slouches either back then, much more parity back then than you see now.
Yes, if you didn't have Chucks you had nothing. They were expensive back then, twenty bucks. I was a schoolyard rat and wore out my sneakers real quickly so my dad would bitch and moan and I'd have to beg him for Chucks. More often than not I'd have to settle for Keds, how I loathed wearing them, was so embarrassed.Check out the white hi-top Chuck Taylors!!! The bball shoe for the ages. I remember when I played, when you got a pair of those you were in heaven. It was like the best day of the school year.
I was lucky enough to marry into the Penn State family. And my wife was raised as a Villanova fan (her father was a three sport letterman at Villanova - basketball, football and baseball). We truly have had the best of both universities in our lives!More than a few rabid PSU fans are VU alums, for starters. Is that acceptable to you?
Based on Villanova performance I think the coach should be fired He had superior talent and lost to a third tier tea
No game plan too many 3 point shots horrible decisions in last minutes of game.
Wait that wasn't chambers so I guess his team just had a bad day.
Straw man filled with much strawBased on Villanova performance I think the coach should be fired He had superior talent and lost to a third tier tea
No game plan too many 3 point shots horrible decisions in last minutes of game.
Wait that wasn't chambers so I guess his team just had a bad day.
Where I grew up, you either liked ND or Penn State. I loathed ND. I went to Penn and always brought my Walkman to Franklin Field to listen to Penn State games while watching the Quakers.Acceptable??? Not sure I was looking for appeasement, but thanks for the info. I didn't realize there was a kinship towards PSU by so many non-alums.
Good to know....thanks.Where I grew up, you either liked ND or Penn State. I loathed ND. I went to Penn and always brought my Walkman to Franklin Field to listen to Penn State games while watching the Quakers.
Had a girl in my freshman year dorm from Loyalsock - we were both rabid Penn State fans. The rich kids from suburban NYC and the City found our love of college football very hard to process.
Ah, yes. The greatest Penn team ever was their 1971 team, comprised of all the players you mentioned. The same team that Villanova shellacked 90-47 in the NCAAs.I was a HUGE Penn Quaker fan in the early 70's! Listening to Al Meltzer on channel 17 bringing those doubleheaders on TV will always be a fond memory.
The highlight of my life was when I was a freshman in high school, my school (North Schuylkill) had what I still call the best team EVER, played Darby-Colwyn in the Penn Palestra. WOW! After the game (a loss), we went down into the locker room. Just seeing those names on the lockers was a dream come true: Dave Wohl, Steve Bilsky, Bob Morse, CORKY CALHOUN, and so on.