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			    <title>Penn State Nittany Lions | Big Ten | College Sports (All) | Juiced Sports News</title> 
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			<title>Ex-PSU prez seeks dismissal of criminal charges</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/expsu-prez-seeks-dismissal-of-criminal-charges</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has asked a county judge to throw out charges accusing him of helping cover up abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Federal judge weighs fate of Corbett lawsuit</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/federal-judge-weighs-fate-of-corbett-lawsuit</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Pennsylvania says she&#039;ll decide in the next couple weeks whether to dismiss Gov. Tom Corbett&#039;s antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA over penalties against Penn State.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>If The Power Conferences Split</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/if-the-power-conferences-split</link>
			<description><![CDATA[John Calipari wasn’t the first to suggest that the top conferences break away and either form their own NCAA division or a new entity. For football, that’s one thing. You only play a relative handful of games and as of now, the new playoff is just a four team affair.



IN


ACC
Big Ten
Big 12
PAC 12
SEC


Miami
Indiana
Kansas
UCLA
Florida


Duke
Ohio State
Kansas State
Arizona
Ole Miss


UNC
Michigan State
Ok.  State
Oregon
Alabama


NCSU
Michigan
Iowa State
Cal
Kentucky


Virginia
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Colorado
Missouri


Florida State
Iowa
Baylor
Arizona State
Tennessee


BC
Illinois
Texas
Stanford
Arkansas


Georgia Tech
Minnesota
West Virginia
Washington
LSU


Wake Forest
Purdue
Texas Tech
USC
Georgia


Clemson
Nebraska
TCU
Utah
Vanderbilt


Virginia Tech
Northwestern

Oregon State
Texas A&amp;M


Syracuse
Penn State

Wash. State
South Carolina


Notre Dame
Maryland


Miss.  State


Louisville
Rutgers


Auburn


Pitt







For basketball, it’s a bit different. If the top conferences – ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big Twelve and PAC 12 – have either their own division or break away entirely, that severely reduces the pool of competitors. With all the comings and goings we’ve seen lately, we could be off, but we count 65 teams in those conferences. That’s enough for a 64 team tournament with a play-in.
But there are some problems with that idea, beginning with merit.
In a 65-team division, schools like Wake, Clemson, Penn State, Rutgers, TCU and Auburn would presumably have to be included.
Moreover, consider the teams which would be excluded. There’s a partial list to your right, but there are a lot of other teams which would be left out as well. You could, however, build a tournament just as interesting with teams like Temple, Georgetown, Memphis, UConn, Butler and UNLV – and you’d still have the Cinderella factor teams like Valpo and Davidson, among others, have provided.
Jay Bilas has often argued for a 64-team tournament with the best 64 teams, regardless of anything else. We’re not sure that would work perfectly either, but it’s a lot better than just taking the power conferences and limiting the field to those schools.
One secret of the tournament and by extension college sports in general is how a town or state or faith identifies with a team, perhaps partly because unlike pro teams, universities rarely move.



OUT ( A partial list)




Saint Louis
Virginia Commonwealth
Butler
La Salle
Temple
Massachusetts
Xavier
Charlotte
Saint Joseph’s
Richmond
Dayton
St. Bonaventure
Rhode Island
Davidson
Georgetown
Marquette
Villanova
Providence
St. John’s
Seton Hall
DePaul
Butler
Creighton
UConn
Cincinnati
Weber State
Memphis
UTEP
Tulsa
Marshall
Houston
Valparaiso
Princeton
Penn
Wichita State
Evansville
Indiana State
Bradley
New Mexico
UNLV
Wyoming
San Diego State
Murray State
Belmont
Western Kentucky
Charleston
New Mexico State
Gonzaga
Saint Mary’s
Brigham Young
Santa Clara
San Francisco 





That’s obvious in the case of someone like Kentucky, BYU or Notre Dame, but it’s also true for VCU, Creighton and Marshall. Marshall fans are some of our absolute favorites. They are just totally into their team. It’s a mini Kentucky without the nuttier elements.
A tournament with a field that changes from year to year is better and more in touch with fans than one which stays set. We hope that no one is dumb enough to follow Calipari’s suggestion without carefully considering what they’ll lose.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 03:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Big Ten Looks To Adjust Basketball</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/big-ten-looks-to-adjust-basketball</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Looks like the Big Ten is considering a variation of the ACC’s “primary partners” routine in order to preserve their traditional rivalries.
So where would that leave Maryland? Well with a little luck, stuck with traditional rivals Penn State and Rutgers.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Penn State G Marshall forgoing final season</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/penn-state-g-marshall-forgoing-final-season</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Penn State guard Jermaine Marshall, the team&#039;s second-leading scorer, is foregoing his senior year of eligibility to pursue a professional career.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Naturally, Someone Believes That Joe Paterno Might Have Faked His Death</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/naturally-someone-believes-that-joe-paterno-might-have-faked-his-death</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In today’s ADD social media news feed climate, even the biggest stories of the year can come and go in a matter of days. That’s why in the wake of Jason Collins, Manti T’eo, ESPN’s Tim Tebow love affair, Titus Young’s wild week, etc. etc., it feels to me like the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State scandal happened a decade ago. But it wasn’t even one year ago that Sandusky was found guilty of 45 of 48 charges in his sexual abuse trial, and there are still three former Penn State administrators awaiting their trials, despite their best efforts to have their cases tossed.Naturally, the news still lingers in the hearts and minds of PSU alumni, students and football fans, so it makes sense that they would all still have many questions about how everything went down. And where there are questions, there are conspiracies like, say, Joe Paterno still being alive. At least that’s one man’s theory, according to a letter received by ESPN’s Bob Ley.I’m pretty disappointed that this wasn’t written with finger nail clippings hot glued to an 8×10 of Ley. That would have really driven the point home.But I hope that Ley, always one of the classiest and most respectable journalists, not only at ESPN but in the entire industry, responded with his own letter explaining that Paterno is living on a farm with Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Tupac and Biggie Smalls, coaching what I imagine is probably the worst flag football team ever assembled.(H/T to the Biggie to my Diddy, Stephen Douglas)The post Naturally, Someone Believes That Joe Paterno Might Have Faked His Death appeared first on With Leather.
    
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:26 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pitt AD hopeful series with PSU can resume</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/pitt-ad-hopeful-series-with-psu-can-resume</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh&#039;s annual rivalry with Penn State ended in 2000, but Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson said he is &quot;very optimistic&quot; the series will be renewed.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>An Announcement We’d Like To See…</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[July 8, 2013
Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York
ACC Commissioner John Swofford and representatives from ESPN appeared at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Monday to announce a major new ACC event.
“We’re very pleased to announce the inaugural ACC Invitational, which will take place this November,” Swofford said from the podium.
“The ACC will bring four teams to Brooklyn – Duke, UNC, Syracuse and Notre Dame – to take on four of the nation’s finest other teams in a winner-take-all tournament.”
Although the other four teams have not been formally announced, sources close to the ACC office confirmed that they will be Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan State and UCLA.
Swofford was joined at the podium by coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim, Roy Williams and Mike Brey.
“What I love about this,” said Krzyzewski, “is that the ACC is confident enough to invite the very best teams in the country to this event. It’s about champions and teams that can become champions. It’s a huge event.”
Boeheim added that “we did some interesting things in the Big East, but never anything quite this exciting. This is basically Elite Eight-caliber competition at the beginning of the season. You won’t get this anywhere else. And look, it’s not in Greensboro.”
Williams added that “I’m not sure I can get around New York like I can Chapel Hill, but I’d crawl on my belly through Newark to be in this field. It’s going to huge.”
Brey joked that one positive was that while he could see other ACC teams in action, he wouldn’t have to play anyone until January.
When asked about this event in conjunction with the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, Swofford declined to comment, but sources told this reporter that the ACC is laying the groundwork to eliminate the challenge and replace it with the ACC Invitational.
“The plan,” said one anonymous source, “is to expand it and to invite a broader field. The Invitational is being conceived of as a step beyond the Challenge, not least of all because you don’t have to deal with weak sisters like Penn State or Nebraska.”
Another source said that the ACC would end the Challenge regardless because “no one wants to play Maryland anymore.”
Our source went on to say that the ACC was planning to expand the field to 12 teams as soon as possible, something Swofford confirmed:
“We don’t want to limit this to four teams,” he told the media. “The ACC is the strongest league in the country and we can go a lot deeper than this. Four is just a starting point.”
The ACC is also investigating eventually holding the event in Madrid, London and Rome.
On the off chance that anyone missed it, this is not real but rather something we wish were real.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 02:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Here&#039;s Penn State Coach Bill O&#039;Brien Doing An Impression Of His Mother</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/heres-penn-state-coach-bill-obrien-doing-an-impression-of-his-mother</link>
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Bill O&#039;Brien just concluded a stand-up routine coaches&#039; caravan tour around Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he addressed whether he said &quot;fuckers&quot; or &quot;fighters&quot; on live TV after the Nittany Lions&#039; season-ending win against Wisconsin. Turns out even his mother thought it might not have been &quot;fighters.&quot;
In the video above, O&#039;Brien draws laughter when he tells the crowd he did indeed say &quot;fighters.&quot; But he also gives a sarcastic look from the podium, adding, &quot;That&#039;s what I said.&quot; He&#039;s clearly making light of what was a funny situation, as well he should. Then, to take the gag a step further, he assumes the voice of his 80-something mother and includes her thoughts on this televised exchange. That Bill O&#039;Brien, he can really work a room in DuBois.
[Fight on State, via Ben Jones]]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Infographic: Is Your State&#039;s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)</title>
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You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach.
Based on data drawn from media reports and state salary databases, the ranks of the highest-paid active public employees include 27 football coaches, 13 basketball coaches, one hockey coach, and 10 dorks who aren&#039;t even in charge of a team.
So are my hard-earned tax dollars paying these coaches?
Probably not. The bulk of this coaching money—especially at the big football schools—is paid out of the revenue that the teams generate. 
So what&#039;s the problem then? These guys make tons of money for their schools; shouldn&#039;t they be paid accordingly?
There are at least three problems.
Coaches don&#039;t generate revenue on their own; you could make the exact same case for the student-athletes who actually play the game and score the points and fracture their legs.It can be tough to attribute this revenue directly to the performance of the head coach. In 2011-2012, Mack Brown was paid $5 million to lead a mediocre 8-5 Texas team to the Holiday Bowl. The team still generated $103.8 million in revenue, the most in college football. You don&#039;t have to pay someone $5 million to make college football profitable in Texas.This revenue rarely makes its way back to the general funds of these universities. Looking at data from 2011-2012, athletic departments at 99 major schools lost an average of $5 million once you take out revenue generated from &quot;student fees&quot; and &quot;university subsidies.&quot; If you take out &quot;contributions and donations&quot;—some of which might have gone to the universities had they not been lavished on the athletic departments—this drops to an average loss of $17 million, with just one school (Army) in the black. All this football/basketball revenue is sucked up by coach and AD salaries, by administrative and facility costs, and by the athletic department&#039;s non-revenue generating sports; it&#039;s not like it&#039;s going to microscopes and Bunsen burners.
But wait. I looked up my coach&#039;s pay in a state salary database and he wasn&#039;t on top. What gives?
Most of these databases include only the coaches&#039; base salaries, which are drawn directly from the state fund. This is how you could be led to believe that Virginia&#039;s offensive coordinator earns more than its head coach.
Far exceeding these base salaries is the &quot;additional compensation&quot; that almost all of these coaches receive, which is tied to media appearances, apparel contracts, and fundraising. While this compensation does not come directly from the state fund it is guaranteed in the coaches&#039; contracts; if revenue falls short, the school—and thus the state—is on the hook to cover the difference. Plus, even it doesn&#039;t come directly from taxpayers, this compensation is still problematic for all the reasons listed above.
Beyond salary and additional compensation, coaches earn money from bonus incentives tied primarily to the team&#039;s performance. This analysis ignored those bonuses and focused on guaranteed money, as it&#039;s impossible to guess at whether a coach will hit his benchmarks. And we&#039;re not even touching the ridiculous amounts of money coaches can get if they&#039;re fired before their contract ends.
Regarding the asterisks on the map:
 * Penn State is technically &quot;state-related&quot; and not truly public, and as a result the school does not receive as much state funding as a typical public school (leading to higher tuition) and does not have to disclose as much information about its employees. You can read the details here.
** It&#039;s difficult to track down salary information for employees at Ole Miss and Mississippi State, but the highest non-coach salaries we could find top out at around $500,000. While we can&#039;t prove that nobody at these schools earns more than Dan Mullen&#039;s $2.65 million per year, we think it&#039;s very unlikely. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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