As part of the run-up to the greatest twelve Saturdays of the year, Dubsism will be bringing you a series dedicated to memorable moments in the history of the greatest coach in college football. With that, we give you the first installment… It’s 1995 in the Meadowlands. Rutgers head coach Doug Graber and his coaching… Read More Great Moments in Joe Paterno History: JoePa Curses On Live Television
For me, the All-Star break has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This is the point when general managers acting as jockeys must decide whether they are contenders or pretenders; whether to go to the whip (trade for talent to augment a “stretch run”) or… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The All-Star Break Edition – Will I Have To Eat My Keyboard?
First there was Pete Carroll and USC. Then, there was Cheatypants McSweatervest and Ohio State. Lord knows what will come out of the whole Auburn/Cam Newton fiasco. Now, the web of trechery and deceit has ensnared the dean of college football, Joe Paterno. You read that right, the esteemed elder statesman, who’s literally been coaching since… Read More According to the NCAA, Everybody’s Dirty – Even Arch-Criminal Joe Paterno
With the NFL Draft looming, I found a list courtesy of the NFL Network featuring the schools consider to be the Top Ten Football Factories. We here at Dubsism took that list and crossed it against each schools three arguably most interesting players. Be mindful of the fact this list was devised and ordered by… Read More The Top 10 Football Factories – And Some That Didn’t Make The List
Bowl Championship Series: BCS Championship: Monday, January 10th; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: #1 vs. #2 The Prediction: Alabama (SEC #1) vs. Ohio State (Big Ten #1) The Actual Matchup: 1# Auburn (SEC#1) vs. Oregon (PAC-10 #1) Payout: $18,000,000 The Silly Prediction: First, the canned commentary: This is the matchup that nearly… Read More The Dubsism 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Matchups: How Wrong Our Predictions Were
Greatness overcomes, and greatness perseveres; it did both in the form of Joe Paterno’s 400th career win on Saturday. The momentum swing was so drastic, it felt as if Northwestern was getting blown out even though the Wildcats led Penn State by a touchdown early in the third quarter. Northwestern spent the first half marching… Read More Joe Paterno and Ted Williams: Two Guys Who’s 400 Will Be The Last
Let’s be honest…one of the reasons women drive men crazy is because they always want mutually exclusive things. If you don’t believe that, just ask a single woman under the age of 30 what her “dream” man would be like, and you will get a litany of things that simply don’t go together. Comedian Dave… Read More Great…Now The NFL Is Acting Like A Woman. Joe Paterno To The Rescue!
1) The ACC sucks. When the class of this league all gets beat on one weekend, including a Georgia Tech loss to a sinking Kansas program, and Virginia Tech spitting the bit against James Madison, it is getting safe to say whoever this conference puts in the BCS will be sure to treat us to… Read More Nine Things We’ve Learned From The First Two Weeks of College Football 2010
That’s right, with the addition of Nebraska beginning in 2011, the Big Ten will have twelve members. Gone are the days of hiding the “ten that is actually 11” thing Escher-like in the conference logo. Gone are the days of my being able to refer to this league as the Big Eleven Ten (I will… Read More Penn State ’10 – The Last Year for the Big Eleven
I’ve been saying for years that while Joe Paterno is chronologically 83 years old, he only gets called old when his detractors have a criticism. JoePa hasn’t been old since the Orange Bowl win in 2006, but it seems to some he is getting old again. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find an article… Read More I May Finally Have To Admit Joe Paterno Is Old
Does a former drill instructor make a terrible therapist? Of course he does, you jackwagon! Obviously Joe Paterno is old. But he hasn’t always been old. In fact, JoePa just recently became old again. Allow me to explain; Paterno is a time-chameleon. As recently as January, JoePa wasn’t old. See, that was because Penn State… Read More Ask the Geico Guy: Is Joe Paterno Old?
Since it seems the college football world is about to undergo the tectonic shift of conference re-alignment we’ve all been waiting for, it may be time for us here at Dubsism to introduce you to a conference and its members with whom you may not be all that familiar. When it comes to the Big… Read More Understanding The Conference That Was The Big Ten Through a Comparison to Classic Game Show Hosts
Did you ever notice old guys like big stuff? For some reason, they love to drive something like a Buick as long as it has a hood big enough to double as a replacement flight deck for an aircraft carrier, and we all know the biggest buffet in town will collect codgers like Paris Hilton… Read More Joe Paterno Favors Big Ten Consuming The Known Universe
The approach of spring football also brings one of the true joys of college football: the Joe Paterno press conference. Understanding a Paterno presser, particularly the first one of the spring, means a full-fledged exercise in teasing the real story out of his “answers,” which are usually one part Yogi Berra, one part sarcasm, and two parts old-school… Read More Let The Jedi Mind Tricks Begin
1) Hotty Toddy Gosh Almigh…FAAACK!!! When Houston Nutt’s Ole Miss Rebels travel to Columbia for a showdown with the South Carolina ‘Cocks of the “Ol’ Ball Coach,” and you put it on national television, entertainment should abound. First of all, there’s at least three good Beavis and Butthead-types jokes in the prior sentence alone. Then there’s always… Read More College Football Week 4 – The FAAACK! Edition
Once again, the balance of power in the Big Eleven Ten lies in ruins. Once again, the Ohio State Penitentiary University starts a campaign highly-ranked, only to suffer a big early season loss. Of course, these shifts in the balance of power occur because tOSPU dominates the Big Eleven Ten landscape in much the same… Read More Inglourious Buckeyes – The Tarantino View of Ohio State
If nothing else, the Ohio State Penitentiary University has for far too long been amongst the elite of the Big Eleven Ten. Thanks to the “Crazed Librarian,” since 2002 the Buckeyes sport a 47-9 mark in conference play, leading to five conference titles and a national championship. In short, tOSPU has been a royal pain… Read More The Paterno Formula for Beating Ohio State
Joe Paterno has spent a lot of the last decade being hassled by officials and listening to a lot of “old” jokes. We all know every referee in the conference has had it out for JoePa ever since he was hanging effigies of them on the front door of his house (don’t think every PSU fan in… Read More Penn State ’09 – Let the Seal-Clubbings Begin
This usually results in some high-octane, power-viewing, all while sneaking in the requisite pigskin reconaissance. Shuffle 30 hours worth of DVR space with a deck of DVDs, and you have a guy on a week-long classic film festival.You also have to plan carefully for just such an event. There are logistics to consider. You must… Read More Signs College Football is Coming Soon
Since we are in August, the month of Ascension before the high holy days of the opening of College Football season, it is only fitting to share a passage from the Book of Paterno. 11 And He said, a certain man had but one successor. 12 And that rather excitable young man said to his… Read More An Excerpt from the Book of Paterno
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