Rocky Top in Columbus
This just in:
It’s still a little more than a decade away, but mark September 1st, 2018, on your calender right now.
On that day the Vols will open their football season with a big battle against Ohio State University in Knoxville. It will be followed by a Sept. 7, 2019, game at Columbus.
When asked about Ohio State’s ability to schedule big name opponents, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley asked, “Who’s bigger than Oregon State?” To which reporters pointed out Ohio State has scheduled USC, Miami, California, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma and today, Tennessee as future opponents for a home and away series each.
Seemingly a little flustered Curley points out that unlike Ohio State which has been to multiple national championships and are reaping in the extra revenue from merchandising, Penn State needs opponents who are willing to play at Beaver Stadium twice in return for just 1 home game. If Penn State had its way, they would want all 3 of the games in a series to be played in Happy Valley he added. And that is why Temple holds the livelihood to Penn State’s athletic budget.
Curley clearly noticed that the reporters in the room were unimpressed with his answer and went further.
“Ohio State, well we play them every year, don’t we get credit for having them on our schedule?” When someone pointed out that it was actually mandated by Big Ten scheduling rules, he simply shrugged. We have big plans in the works by Joe Paterno and my office to schedule big time names like St. Mary’s Community College for the blind and the University of Phoenix to which an unidentified observer in the back of the room yelled, “they don’t have a campus!”
“I beg to differ, they have a very impressive stadium sitting in Glensdale Arizona, and was just recently the host of the national championship game as well as the Fiesta Bowl” he snapped back to which he abruptly ended the press conference.
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