Someone made the comment in another thread that "Penn State football as we knew it is gone."
It got me thinking about our program compared to others. I feel like the current state of Penn State football might be a microcosm of the current social media culture, where image is more important than reality. We seem to be more showy than the program has ever been i.e. - neon lights in the tunnel, lawnboyz chains, helmet stripe crowds, pregame fireworks, etc... but rarely produce the on-field results we so truly desire. There are certainly exceptions (Dotson a prime example.)
So my question - and I don't know the answer to this - is how do we compare in that regard to Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, even Michigan? Only judging by watching games and not looking at news stories all season or following other programs on twitter, etc, it seems they are more blue collar, lunch pale and hard hat type programs than we are. Their head coaches seem to strike fear in their players, which in turn creates a take-care-of-business type mindset that I feel we just don't have.
I honestly don't know, but thought it might be a good discussion.
It got me thinking about our program compared to others. I feel like the current state of Penn State football might be a microcosm of the current social media culture, where image is more important than reality. We seem to be more showy than the program has ever been i.e. - neon lights in the tunnel, lawnboyz chains, helmet stripe crowds, pregame fireworks, etc... but rarely produce the on-field results we so truly desire. There are certainly exceptions (Dotson a prime example.)
So my question - and I don't know the answer to this - is how do we compare in that regard to Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, even Michigan? Only judging by watching games and not looking at news stories all season or following other programs on twitter, etc, it seems they are more blue collar, lunch pale and hard hat type programs than we are. Their head coaches seem to strike fear in their players, which in turn creates a take-care-of-business type mindset that I feel we just don't have.
I honestly don't know, but thought it might be a good discussion.