• Signs of Life

    Signs of Life

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Well, it wasn’t the outcome any of us wanted. I would rather be here today talking about a shiny new W rather than some of the signs of life we all witnessed in the second half of last Saturday’s game,...

  • Where is Your Heart?

    Where is Your Heart?

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    Here we are again. Another Saturday, another loss. It’s frustrating. Of all the years, why couldn’t they just run the tables, however short they may be, and give us something to be happy about? The last thing I want is...

  • Lead with Love

    Lead with Love

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Oh, the irony. The story I’m about to tell happened almost 20 years ago to the day that 'Fear the Turtle’ became one of our greatest nightmares. On November 5, 2000, a much younger and far feistier version of myself...

  • Not As One

    Not As One

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    "To be completely honest, we’re not a good football team right now." --Jahan Dotson Well. I can’t say it much better than that. We’re 0 and 3 for the first time since 2001. We just lost to Maryland, a team...

  • A Day of Reckoning

    A Day of Reckoning

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Who would have thought this is where we would be after two weeks of play? Not you, not me, not even the local beat writers, who always seem to follow a Penn State loss with a smirk and an 'I...

  • The Ghosts of 110K

    The Ghosts of 110K

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    You can hem and haw all you want, point your fingers and gripe from the comfort of your couch until you are blue in the face, but it won’t change a thing. In the empty seats of what’s usually an...

  • No Treat

    No Treat

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    My dad watches every Penn State game. When I was a kid, I remember that if the game was going particularly poorly he would shut it off. Just, wave his hand at the screen in disgust and walk out. It...

  • Under the Nittany Blue Moon

    Under the Nittany Blue Moon

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have been so quick to leapfrog our season opener and dive headfirst into the slugfest that week two was sure to serve up when the third and final revised schedule made its debut last month....

  • Gut-Check Boulevard

    Gut-Check Boulevard

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Can we just end the year 2020 already? There is a reason I titled the pregame post 'Eerie Indiana' and lo and behold, here we are. Eerie doesn’t even begin to explain it. I had and uneasy feeling and judging...