[NU Sports] one angle I wonder about

[Mike Nolan]

> I think we are in uncharted waters ... the first BT championship game and 
> now this? I don't know. And if PSU does decline a bowl bid and doesn't 
> play in the BT title game ... strange.  At that point OSU's win over 
> Wisconsin becomes huge.

Not that it matters in the big picture (except to the bean counters at
all the Big Ten schools), but there are conference revenue implications 
here.  Penn State was in the hunt for a BCS at-large slot even if 
they lost the Big Ten Championship game.  

> You could make a case that PSU should play in the title game but not a 
> bowl (obligation vs. reward) but ... I don't know.

Yeah, but if they win, who goes to the Rose Bowl?

USCF is ineligible for the Pac 12 championship game as well as a 
bowl game, if Penn State takes itself out of the bowl season, then they
should opt out of the Big Ten Championship game as well.

> I do know this: if Joe coaches Sat -- which I believe firmly he should 
> not -- he better stay in the press box. The sight of him leading the 
> team on the field would be grotesquely inappropriate.

I don't recall, did he do that for the past few games where he was up
in the pressbox?
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Mike Nolan