Talk:Penn State Nittany Lions football

message: How is this collegiate football program funded? Is it mostly through ticket revenue, sponsorships, tuition, fees, a combination of either, etc.?  Inquiring minds want to know. 204.65.0.24 (talk) 17:25, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It is funded by ticket revenue. The NCAA chose a $60 million USD fine because that amount is approximately one years profit for the program. 68.48.126.95 (talk) 04:07, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funding 

message: Folks, this is shameful. We need to bulk this page up. For some possibilities, look at the OSU or USC pages. C'mon, Lions! Where's your spirit?? Roar Lions Roar! (And I'll get to work too.) Kermitmorningstar 07:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe a section on funding of the program might give it some encyclopedic relevance. 204.65.0.24 (talk) 17:25, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs bulk! 

message: Is it still fair to classify Pittsburgh as a rival in football? -- PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 21:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, probably not.. but it also doesn't look so good when the two rivals that we have listed don't list us as a rival... -- Billma 03:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess that raises the question (probably not most appropriately here, but I'm here for now) as to how we should be defining a 'rival' or 'rivalry.' We have Michigan and Ohio State listed but not Michigan State or Minnesota, teams who we've established "rivalry games" with during our short tenure in the Big Ten. (Also, to note your point about 'reciprocal' mentions as rivals - neither OSU nor Michigan list us as rivals.) Don't get me wrong, I'm fairly certain that most Penn State fans, myself included, are looking forward to the UMich and OSU games more than the battle for the Land Grant Trophy, and I guess there could be an argument made for primarily geographic rivalries, but this might be worth investigating further. PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 03:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pittsburgh rivalry 

message: Does anyone know where the final AP and Coaches rankings came from in the season-by-season list? Some of the final rankings aren't matching other sources that I'm digging up. (ie.   ) - Billma 22:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure. I've been using the AFCA site for Coaches' Polls up to 2005. The three sources you have are authoritative enough, also possibly CFBDW. As long as they're all the same, if the table differs, go ahead and replace them (the table's unsourced as it is right now anyway). Also, a note about the yearly record table, I'm in the process of converting that to template format over here using  and associated templates - feel free to stop by and help if you'd like. PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 22:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Finished it for you... The template seems a bit weird on the last column, but it looks good. I updated the poll rankings in your sandbox copy instead of the main article since it's going to replace the table in the main article anyway. I wasn't sure how to handle the Hollenbacks, so I stuck Jack before Bill, even if it does make 1909 and 1910 be out of order. Also, I dropped the ties column from the records starting in 1996 since that's when overtime was instituted. - Billma 01:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! I'll go through and add the sub-headers/sub-totals later as well as fixing up the poll rankings (there's a bug with the template that I haven't gotten around to fixing yet). Hopefully I'll have the whole thing replaced on the article by sometime tonight. PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 01:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rankings in season records 

message: There's no need to have the season record for the undefeated seasons here. I've linked to the season articles that have been created. Here are the tables for the seasons that don't have articles yet.
1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions	1994 Penn State Nittany Lions
Date                         	Opponent                     	PF                           	PA                           	Location                     	                             	Date                         	Opponent                     	PF                           	PA                           	Location
Sept. 3                      	Minnesota                    	56                           	3                            	Minneapolis, MN              	                             	Oct. 29                      	#21 Ohio St.                 	63                           	14                           	State College, PA
Sept. 10                     	#14 Southern Cal             	38                           	14                           	State College, PA            	                             	Nov. 5                       	Indiana                      	35                           	29                           	Bloomington, IN
Sept. 17                     	Iowa                         	61                           	21                           	State College, PA            	                             	Nov. 12                      	Illinois                     	35                           	31                           	Champaign, IL
Sept. 24                     	Rutgers                      	55                           	27                           	State College, PA            	                             	Nov. 19                      	Northwestern                 	45                           	17                           	State College, PA
Oct. 1                       	Temple                       	48                           	21                           	Philadelphia, PA             	                             	Nov. 26                      	Michigan St.                 	59                           	31                           	State College, PA
Oct. 15                      	#5 Michigan                  	31                           	24                           	Ann Arbor, MI                	                             	Jan. 2                       	#12 Oregon                   	38                           	20                           	Pasadena, CA
                             	Total                        	564                          	252                          	#2 AP, Coaches               	                             	                             	                             	                             	                             	
* 1994 Nittany Lions
1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions	1973 Penn State Nittany Lions
Date                         	Opponent                     	PF                           	PA                           	Location                     	                             	Date                         	Opponent                     	PF                           	PA                           	Location
Sept. 15                     	Stanford                     	20                           	6                            	Stanford, CA                 	                             	Oct. 27                      	West Virginia                	62                           	14                           	State College, PA
Sept. 22                     	Navy                         	39                           	0                            	Annapolis, MD                	                             	Nov. 3                       	Maryland                     	42                           	22                           	College Park, MD
Sept. 29                     	Iowa                         	27                           	8                            	State College, PA            	                             	Nov. 10                      	North Carolina St.           	35                           	29                           	State College, PA
Oct. 6                       	Air Force                    	19                           	9                            	Colorado Springs, CO         	                             	Nov. 17                      	Ohio                         	49                           	10                           	State College, PA
Oct. 13                      	Army                         	54                           	3                            	State College, PA            	                             	Nov. 24                      	#20 Pittsburgh               	35                           	13                           	State College, PA
Oct. 20                      	Syracuse                     	49                           	6                            	Syracuse, NY                 	                             	Jan. 2                       	#13 Louisiana State          	16                           	9                            	Miami, FL
                             	Total                        	447                          	129                          	#5 AP, Coaches               	                             	                             	                             	                             	                             	
* 1973 Nittany Lions
—PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 06:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you think they need seperate articles, or should they just be condensed down to a "Penn State football under Joe Paterno" article? When I got around to creating that one (after figuring out if it should be one article, and if not how to split it out), I was going to combine the 1968 and 1969 into it, and only leave 1982 and 1986 as seperate articles. -- Billma 12:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undefeated seasons 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:PSU logo.gif

message: Is anyone against me adding this pic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PS_Uniform.jpg to the article? 須藤 (talk) 04:26, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks black and white to me. It's supposed to be navy and white. Dincher (talk) 10:33, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Against -Billma (talk) 10:41, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a very dark blue (you are correct, it does look black), which can be changed rather easily to a more easily perceptable blue.須藤 (talk) 16:21, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Uniforms

message: Some Add that psu beat Teaxas A&M in the almo bowl just a moment ago.--Sonicobbsessed (talk) 04:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alamo Bowl 

message: An anonymous editor wrote this in the article (I have since deleted it to move it here):
"Citation needed that this is actually a rivalry?! Michigan and Ohio State are great rivals; Ohio State and Penn State could very loosely be classified as a rivalry - if at all. If this is a rivalry, any two teams could be. Wiki needs to provide support to this assertion."
--ElKevbo (talk) 19:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rivalry with Ohio State?

message: Someone keeps changing the all americans from 107 to 39. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebteck002 (talk • contribs) 17:35, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  All Americans 

message: Added a Current Season info box. Copied info box from OSU page. If you have a better one, feel free to update. 148.134.37.3 (talk) 13:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Season 

message: what the heck does the NAME mean?!
i can't believe this isn't in the first SENTENCE on the page, let alone nowhere ELSE!!!!
i found the answer via google, but how can i add it when the page is locked??
again, i am DUMBSTRUCK that this wasn't in the article from the gitgo. i bet 70% of the people viewing this page came just to find that out!
well, until *THIS* week, anyways.... 66.105.218.50 (talk) 03:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The origins of the team name is not relevant to the football program's article, but you can view the origins at Nittany Lion. Eagles 24/7 (C) 03:47, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nittany! 

message: This is a ridiculous section. At no point do you explain the significance or meaning of the "S". Either it needs to be explained, or the section deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenfo 0 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "S" section 

message: Per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert B. Mitinger Award, four articles were redirected here: Frank Patrick Memorial Award, Robert B. Mitinger Award, Jim O'Hora Award, Red Worrell Award.--GrapedApe (talk) 15:06, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects here 

message: Relevant deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_28#File:PSUHelmet.PNG.--GrapedApe (talk) 17:07, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Image deletion discussion

message: He doesn't merit a mention of any kind? Even though there is a "coaches awards" section, and Jerry Sandusky "received Assistant Coach of the Year awards in 1986 and 1999" according to Wikipedia's own article on the man? Which also states "Sandusky served as an assistant coach for his entire career, mostly at Pennsylvania State University under Joe Paterno, and was one of the most notable major college football coaches never to have held a head coaching position."? So one of the most notable college football coaches to never be head coach is not even worth a mention, but Rip Engle and Stan Hixon are? And before you tell me to BE BOLD! and change it, this is the sort of hot button issue that needs to be discussed first regardless of one's bold-ivity.Thedoorhinge (talk) 13:22, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Kermitmorningstar (talk) 03:25, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sandusky? 

message: No, this doesn't need its own section. This is largely duplicative material from Penn State sex abuse scandal and several other articles. And there aren't sections dedicated to scandals at University of Colorado football, Miami Hurricanes football, USC Trojans football either. I added a prominent link to the lead, but that's apparently not ignominious enough. --Jtalledo (talk) 10:35, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's your opinion- just because it is not included in some other articles does not make it worthy of note here- I give SMU football as an example. Removing the material without consensus isn't a fair way at deciding what is worthy and what is not. A scandal of this magnitude which directly involved one of the largest names in college football history along with a prominent school's football program is certainly worthy of its own section. To not include it is a shocking omission, and I object to it being placed at the very bottom of the article as if it was a footnote. This scandal forever changes the legacy of Joe Paterno's program and the school. Monsieurdl mon talk 17:01, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree.  This scandal has so far resulted in the firing of the university's popular and prominent president, the firing of a legendary coach, the successful indictment of a former assistant coach, and the ongoing prosecution of two other senior administrators.  It's attracted enormous national attention, most recently due to a scathing report issued by a former head of the FBI.  And there is certainly more to come given the contents of that report and the evidence it presents.  It may be a bit much to dedicate a large section to this incident but at the same time it would be too little to only mention it in passing. ElKevbo (talk) 17:18, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

text: And if there are other programs with significant scandals in their history that don't discuss those scandals then those articles need to be corrected.  But there haven't been many scandals of similar magnitude as the one still unfolding at Penn State. ElKevbo (talk) 17:20, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't mentioned in passing at all. I added a link to the article in the lead, so it wasn't just shuttled to the bottom of the page. And yes, it is my opinion and it holds the same validity as both of yours. --Jtalledo (talk) 22:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

text: Cleaned it up. The bigger issue for me was that it was essentially a copy-paste of the other article's lead, so I framed it in the context of this article. --Jtalledo (talk) 22:48, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandal section? 

message: Seemed like the best place to put this:
Someone is going to need to go through all the Penn State season and bowl game win articles since 1998 and add a paragraph about how the season's wins/bowl win was vacated as of today.  Would do myself, but no time.
82.37.25.44 (talk) 14:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vacation of wins 

message: I'm posting this on the Penn State page, but it is more of a general question. Penn State has more vacated games than anybody, so someone here probably has an answer.
Vacated wins occupy a peculiar statistical no-man's land. It's still a loss for the loser, but it's no longer a win for the winner. All of the individual statistical records are kept, but the winning team no longer gets the win.
This has long been a frustration for researchers. For example, if you're researching a question like "points scored per game," you might get the wrong answer if you use the right numerator but the wrong denominator. Although the NCAA vacates wins in their database, many other reputable sources retain the full history of the game. The rationale is that what happened happened, regardless of what might be said about it later on.
Even Wikipedia is not consistent, as on some pages a particular game might be portrayed accurately, with a footnote that the win was later vacated; but on other pages Penn State will be shown as having an "0-4 record" for a particular season. If I'm trying to piece together what happened that year, I have to manually look through the details to "re-assemble" the history.
Vacating games is the NCAA's strategy for recording punishments in enforcement cases. They choose, literally, to pretend that the win never occurred. Although Wikipedia must of course portray their decision somehow, I do not see why Wikipedia is obligated to replicate their strategy of "erasing history". The games were won or lost at the time they were played, even if the official governing body decides later on, for whatever reasons, not to recognize them.
As a researcher, I would find the Wikipedia pages more useful if won-lost records portrayed accurately what actually occurred at the time, with footnotes indicating the number of vacated wins. For many types of research questions, you are interested in what happened when the games were played, not the enforcement action that occurred possibly years later.
Obviously the enforcement action cannot be ignored, and I am not suggesting it ought to be. I just do not think Wikipedia ought feel obligated to erase any part of the events that pre-dated the enforcement action, just because another body chooses to do so. Marc Shepherd (talk) 19:49, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrayal of Vacated Games in Wikipedia 

message: Any thoughts (or previous discussions) about adding in All-American and All-Conference honors and the various academic honors?  I took the liberty to add John Urschel's awards in 2013 - William V. Campbell Trophy and the Senior CLASS Award.  (Psubrian (talk) 18:27, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  All Americans and Academic Awards ? 

message: Now that the NCAA has reinstated the wins between 1998-2011, is it really necessary to say in the header of every season that the wins were vacated and then reinstated?  It now just looks like a way to make sure that the issue gets into the header of each of those seasons without any reason.  If people want to look for that, they can look elsewhere.  The seasons are about the football season itself, and those sanctions are no longer relevant. Kermitmorningstar (talk) 01:21, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reinstatement of wins 

message: The number and seasons related to unclaimed national titles should match the Wikipedia national championship article.  Or you might say the NCAA criteria.  The list of unclaimed national titles included a 2-0 undefeated year in 1894!  Others included seasons with ties.
I would support a heading for undefeated seasons.
It is a matter of opinion (with strong support) that the 1968, 1969, and 1973 seasons deserved to be championship seasons--but they weren't.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:324B:3210:850D:4C6D:223C:7B23 (talk) 21:12, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't list every undefeated season as an unclaimed national title. 

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thread_title:  Radio Affiliates 

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message: recently added write-ups for several rivalries.  Two or three of the additions had existing articles, and it was good to fill out this article with brief capsules descriptions.  The additions also spurred me to add links to a couple of articles about those rivalries to the infobox.  I did remove paragraphs describing rivalries with Notre Dame & Penn State, on the bases that neither series has a standalone "rivalry" article here, neither of those schools' articles lists PSU as a rival, and I couldn't (in an admittedly quick Google search) find much to support the description of those series as actual "rivalries".  Thoughts, comments welcome -  JohnInDC (talk) 12:34, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notre Dame, USC rivalries 

message: There seems to be a bit of disagreement on the subject, but the answer is "two", 1982 and 1986.  This is what PSU itself says, see https://issuu.com/gopsusports/docs/2017_penn_state_football_yearbook at pp 4-5.  The NCAA's listing of two others from the days before NCAA identified national champions is interesting and a handy resource, but it doesn't make those PSU teams "National Champions".  Please leave the infobox as it is.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 22:02, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry that I misunderstand your 'talking' and went to another page for discussion. Yes according to this yearbook, we should just leave the infobox. But I may add the 2 NCAA official one to the context, and leave the infobox as it is.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.203.207.223 (talk • contribs)  16:44, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claimed National Championships 

message: Stop changing the rivalriesq Elo Cocko Chino (talk) 00:17, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: @Elo Cocko Chino: As the user initiating the change, the burden of proof is on you to show that the rivalry is significant. If you cannot provide evidence for a series that only has 21 games total and is played, in large part, because they are members of the same division, then I humbly suggest that you stop changing the rivalries. —C.Fred (talk) 00:20, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

text: Also, I have seen a draft on the rivalry, but where are the sources? I have reviewed it and it is poorly written. —Bey WHEELZ Let It RIP!✉📝Sign 00:23, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop changing the rivalries  

message: I just saw down in rival section that Alabama is one of Penn State's Big rivals. When I saw that I thought no way they never play each other there are no bad blood between them. I never here a Tide fan talking about how much they hate Penn State, they usually talk about Auburn and LSU. But Penn State??!!! I understand Big Ten and SEC don't really like each other but seriously how is Penn State and Alabama a rivalry. When they play each other sure it s intense and a big primetime game but they don't pay each other that much.
 Boosama (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alabam-Penn State? A rivalry? Hugh? 

message: Pitt, Ohio State, Michigan State, and Michigan should be the only rivals down in the rivals section. Boosama (talk) 03:46, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed that the infobox probably shouldn't include Bama as a rival. Realistically it could be cut down to Pitt, Michigan St., and Ohio State. Lizard (talk) 04:57, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Penn State has too much rivals