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To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1745)	3/21/2000 10:50:00 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11146

Gary,>> I doubt either the guys or gals will go the distance but it's nice to see they both have made it this far I agree. I had hopes for the women to at least play in the final game this year, but they just don't play with passion. I do think LA Tech can be had so we should have a 50-50 chance of getting to the final 4..but we must get through Iowa first. <g> Go Lions, Joan

To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1745)	3/23/2000 9:58:00 AM
From: ztect	Respond to of 11146

Vote for your favorite football players of each decade at: allmillennium.com

To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1745)	3/27/2000 12:12:00 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11146

How every football school (and former b-ball patsy) now puts b-ball teams in the NCAA and we still don't despite the new arena? Wisc Miami Florida ps I know the answer..

To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1745)	3/28/2000 1:08:00 PM
From: MythMan	Respond to of 11146

Paterno wants 2000 squad to learn lessons of 1999 unit By Ron Bracken Centre Daily Times When Joe Paterno and his staff sat down and autopsied the 1999 season, the cause of the November collapse was exactly what they had suspected at the time it happened. There was no hidden malady that had gone undetected until it manifested itself in those three late-game, late-season losses. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a loss is just a loss. Period. So after breaking down film, play by play, situation by situation, the original diagnosis stood. "We made too many mental mistakes last year,' Paterno said. "When we went over the tapes, we saw that we just made too many mental mistakes. They knew what they were supposed to do but they didn't do it under pressure. People just made mental mistakes. I'm not worried about our kids being tough. We just need to be in the right spot at the right time and do it consistently.' And sometimes, even when they were in the right place, at the right time, the play didn't get made. Two Nittany Lion defensive backs were in the right place when Minnesota's Billy Cockerham lofted a desperation pass downfield in the closing minutes of that game. And they deflected the ball away from the intended receiver only to have it scooped off the grass by Arland Bruce at the Penn State 13, setting up the game-winning, season-gutting field goal by Dan Nystrom that went through the goal posts with no time left on the clock. Two Nittany Lion defenders were in the right place and Michigan State's A.J. Duckett ran right over them to score from the 11 and put a dagger in the Lions' dramatic comeback effort in the rain in East Lansing. So in those two instances you could blame fate and ferocity rather than tactics and strategy for the outcome. "I don't think we were consistent enough on either side of the ball,' Paterno said, trying to distill a season into a sentence. "We didn't make some defensive plays. But it wouldn't be fair to blame it all on the defense. A couple of times we weren't able to make a first down. "It was a combination of things, how well our opponents played, the talent they had, and a couple of things we could have done differently.' Now it's time to flip over the hour glass and begin the countdown toward next season. The sands of 1999 have run out. On Friday Paterno assembled the survivors of last season and began the reconstruction project that's due to be completed by Aug. 27 when Penn State meets USC in the Kickoff Classic. It will be a different sort of team that emerges from these 15 days. It will not go into the season led by an acknowledged superstar, won't have to deal with the hype that came with last year's preseason No. 1 ranking, won't have to keep looking to the sidelines to see which quarterback will run the next series. Count those as three plusses, addition by subtraction if you will. A new season with a new outlook and new hope beckons. In some ways, this will be a team more to Paterno's liking, more malleable, less dependent on the talent of a couple of gifted individuals. But who knows. "I can't remember how I felt last year,' Paterno said. "We just want to learn from what happened last year, not make the same mistakes. If you stop trying to learn it will go right by you. Every season, to me, is exciting, whether we have a couple of superstars or a bunch of guys who want to make themselves into superstars and just try to have a good football team. "Every season's a challenge. You wake up in the morning with something to do.' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was the players fault I guess -g-