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by Sean Keeley on Dec 4, 2008 3:53 PM EST

Maybe Al Golden is holding out for the Penn State job...Black Shoe Diaries
Weighing in on the SU coaching search...Tell Me How My Orange Tastes
"Syracuse is back" is one of the five things learned so far about Big East basketball...CollegeHoops.net
Boise State vs. Ball State won't happen out of respect to conference "bowl partners." I love how we finally had the chance to make a game between two mid-major conference teams exciting and worth watching and it's shot down because the bowls would rather both of them play a 6-6 ACC squad. Awesome...ESPN
Buy one ticket to the ACC Championship, get one free. Yikes...EDSBS

Did The Robinsons already pack up and move? If not, I'd like to suggest this guy to help them out. I'm willing to bet he'll undercut U-Haul's offer by 25%. At least:

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Wait, JoPa is still coaching?

I know everyone says that JoPa is still the head coach over at Penn State. But I don’t I’m alone in thinking that he’s just a figurehead and that there is an assistant there doing the real coaching. Meanwhile, JoPa performs his duties of getting the team fired up, recruiting, and having a presence at games in the booth with the OC.

With that said, I had also assumed that when JoPa finally decided to call it quits they wouldn’t really need to do a search since they have this assistant doing a fantastic job as “Not Head Coach.” JoPa retires, Not Head Coach officially becomes Head Coach, and we all live happily ever after.

Is none of this true? Are they really going to be looking for a new coach? Is JoPa actually doing some coaching at the age of 178?

by voteprime on Dec 4, 2008 4:05 PM EST reply actions

Well this Tom Bradley fella

is probably who would be that assistant in line for the job. But there are rumors that he is interviewing with Syracuse. And this isn’t the first time Golden has been linked to a possible PSU job. I’m pretty sure there was talk of this last year. But they seem very speculative at the moment. Anyway, I actually think JoPa still does quite a bit of coaching. In fact I would bet he does that, along with PR, more than anything. I’m guessing all the traveling/phone calls/emails/text messages needed for recruiting is handled by someone with more spring in their step. Don’t get me wrong, their new Spread HD offense was probably concocted and introduced by their OC, but I gotta think that JoPa is out there during practice yelling and pointing out mistakes, etc. And he is only in the booth and not on the field because of his hip injury. He was on the field at the start of the season if I remember correctly.

by NOLACuse on Dec 4, 2008 4:31 PM EST reply actions

Oh dammit.

The second, third and fourth sentences above should read as follows:

But there are rumors that he is interviewing with Syracuse. But they seem very speculative at the moment. Also, this isn’t the first time Golden has been linked to a possible PSU job. I’m pretty sure there was talk of this last year.

by NOLACuse on Dec 4, 2008 4:33 PM EST up reply actions