I was out of the home office most of yesterday, so there was no Morning Cup of Joe. Trust me when I tell you I could have used it in the afternoon. Anyway, let’s get it brewed this morning.
If you had to choose between Penn State having the bowl ban lifted this year, but the scholarship restrictions remaining in place as scheduled or having the scholarship restrictions lifted and the bowl ban remain, which would you choose? This is a decision that reportedly has been handed to Penn State head coach James Franklin, at least according to Lions Pride. I have never known an apparel company for being the ones to break such news regarding the football program at any university, so I naturally take this as little more than a rumor based on speculation until a more reputable source can confirm any of that information. The latest George Mitchell report on Penn State to the NCAA is due to come out any day now, and with rumors suggesting a possible consideration to reduce the bowl ban floating around it would not be a total shock to see this decision come into play.
Which would you choose?
On the field, Penn State is taking on an Akron team that is much improved from just a year or two ago. The Zips were predicted to finish second in the MAC East this season and with Bowling Green losing its starting quarterback for the season the path to a shot at a MAC title may be re-routing through Akron, Ohio. As David Jones writes in his column yesterday, Terry Bowden and his staff have raised the bar to a point where beating Penn State (or, at least this Penn State team) is not out of the realm of possibility.
Franklin has been selling a message of having 107,000 fans in Beaver Stadium each and every game day. Tomorrow we will see just how successful that message was (I’m leaning on the under). Franklin is also keeping true to that number through recruiting as Penn State gets in the mix with mass-mailing recruits. Yesterday Woodland Hills running back Miles Sanders (four-star composite ranking on 247 Sports) tweeted a picture after receiving 107 letters in the mail from Penn State.
Penn State sent me 107 letters
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