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From: pvs@houxh.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: pre-season ponderings (reply to John Irwin)
Message-ID: <227@houxh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 15:50:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 15:50:15 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Aug-83 22:26:53 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Hey John, I never denied the fact that Paterno was good, he is and like I
said earlier, he always comes up with a good team.  If I recall right
PSU's last undefeated season was in 1978 when they capped the great
season with a brilliant loss to Alabama!! That year Alabama was given
the crown despite the fact that USC had defeated them earlier in the
season and had also beaten Michigan in the Rose Bowl.  
You think PSU is picked on, well try being from a west coast school
other than USC. I personally attend U of Washington and we don't get
enough attention from anyone.  Take for example last year.  We were
#1 for six weeks until Sports Ill. came up with a 'real' article about
us, and that was because we lost to Stanford,oh sorry, I mean Elway.
Did you see that?? He had a damned cover picture because he defeated
the #1 team in the country.  And Stanford didn't exactly have the
best year either.  Did Washington get any recognition after we beat
ASU at ASU, when they were riding high?  Or when we beat UCLA when
they were also in the top five??  To top it all off, we finished the
season ranked #5 behind, you guessed it ASU and UCLA.  We also had ONE
'nationally televised' game last year, the Cal game I think it was, where
the stupid world series(baseball) was broadcast instead and they occasionally
stopped off at Husky stadium for an update, whats worse is they didn't show
the baseball game, but the people trying to clear the field of water from
the rains that delayed the game!!  So don't tell me about "poor PSU".

I guess I got a little carried away but when I read your article
about PSU not getting recognition I decided to say that you aren't
the only ones, if thats even true.  Did you know we had 11 players
drafted in the NFL last season plus some to the USFL?? (most among
all the colleges, tied with USC) and ASU was in second with 10.  The
PAC-10 had the most players drafted than any other conference, just
goes to show we're good by pro standards if not by college.

Pradeep Vasudev
AT&T Bell Labs
Holmdel, N.J.
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