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Sudden Impact Election Special

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Everyone with just about any level of interest in Penn State needs to know the composition of the Board of Trustees for the crucial three years ahead. For obvious reasons, this election evoked greater than average interest, generating a record turnout of over 37,000 alumni votes through Thursday’s deadline. We here at the Nittany Turkey waited with bated breath and now have them here in our hot little turkey feet. You’ll be happy to know that former Nittany Lion Adam Taliaferro made the cut, along with wealthy anti-BoT activist Anthony Lubrano.  Rounding out the trio is retired U.S. Navy Captain Ryan McCombie.

More details from the Star-Ledger.

 

Meanwhile, back at the football complex, Adam Rittenburg of ESPN has written an informative piece about the present state of Penn State football, with an orientation toward the guys who actually do the playing.

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The judge in the Sandusky case approved the defense’s request to be able to subpoena police, county, school officials, says the Chicago Tribune.

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Moses on the sidelines? Bill O’Brien’s Ten Commandments for whomever winds up being the starting quarterback.

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So, you thought that presidential politics were the only place for whistle stops? Well, the Coaches’ Caravan will serve to introduce the new faces as well as some old ones to PSU fans. Next week, it sets out for the Big Apple!

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Louis Freeh’s internal investigation of the Sandusky scandal is set to wrap up in September. Kenneth Frazier, chair of the Board of Trustees’ Special Investigations Task Force delivered a progress report to the BoT at today’s meeting.

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So, are you pleased with the election results or just glad the election is over? Do you think these new BoT members will make a difference in the way Board activities are conducted?

 

BoT Election Results Coming

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Just a heads-up that today’s issue of “Sudden Impact” will have the Board of Trustees alumni election results, to be announced at the BoT meeting this afternoon. Go Adam!

Sudden Impact, Post BW Style

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We here at the Turkey sure hope y’all enjoyed the Blue-White extravaganza.

Hey, what’s with this “y’all” stuff? Ain’t no boats around here. No, Bubba, this Turkey is way south of the Masonic-Dixonial Line of Grammatical Demarcation. North of it, the word is “yinz”; south of it, we say “y’all.”

Problem is, there’s no separate plural form of “you” in the English language. We just use “you” for second person singular or plural. But if you’re from the South or from da Burgh, you can rectumfy that natural language deficit by creating your own plural, thus “y’all” and “yinz”. In Philly it’s more like “yuz.” But I sanctimoniously digress.

The Monday Morning reactions to the Blue-White Game seem to be concentrated in three major areas:

  1. McGloin is this Turkey’s presumptive starting QB unless Jones or Bolden suddenly develops. Jones looks like he might make it — eventually. Bolden does not. The latter exhibits the same flaws as he did two years ago.
  2. Bill Belton looks like a stud running back. His role will be backing up Silas Redd. Perhaps that’s not enough, given his solid performance.
  3. A hearty good riddance to the soft Sandusky zone, the vaunted BBDB, and the conservative, 1980s defensive schemes.

With the spring classic done, and Monday Morning sophomoric analyses complete, this edition of Sudden Impact takes another look at Paul Jones, assesses Penn State players’ chances in the forthcoming NFL draft, and elucidates the Paterno family’s ire over Penn State’s handling of post-firing details.

 

Jeremy Elliott of the Patriot-News reiterates the obvious: Penn State defensive players have had great success in the NFL, but of late (meaning from the end of the Kerry Collins era), we have seen scant few offensive players get drafted.

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Our old buddy Bob Flounders of the same publication has a more robust take on the NFL’s penchant for selecting Nittany Lions defensive players in the Draft. We all have high hopes for Devon Still this year. Separately, in Flounders’ blog, he lists Penn State’s NFL draft selections since 1992.

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Paul Jones has had a rough time since coming to Penn State. His high school grades and SATs were good enough to get him admitted to Stanford and Duke, but he came to Penn State and languished academically. Why? Rich Scarcella of the Reading Eagle shares the results of his digging into that matter.

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More fallout from the Sandusky scandal: Mark Sherburne, whom you might recall was the first appointee as interim athletic director when Tim Curley was placed on administrative leave, was fired for withholding documents relating to Curley, says Susan Snyder of the Inquirer.

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The Paterno family remains outraged about the University’s attempts to smooth things over, including dangling the notion of renaming Beaver Stadium as an appeasement. Sara Ganim, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, has dug into this story.

 

That’s it for another edition of Sudden Impact. Well, it’s a long, long time, from May to December, but the days grow fun when you reach September. We’ll try to fill in some of the football withdrawal gaps for you with our brainless humor and occasional factoids.