Royster Quote: Bulletin Board?
"I think we feel like we're the better team and we can go out there and still beat them,"
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09292/1006633-143.stm#ixzz0UOui6Y56
Intersting Quote by Royster. Not sure people need quotes to get up for this game. But it can't hurt.
Thoughts?
October 19th, 2009 at 12:45 PM ^
I think Coach Rod said this is good to post on the Bulletin Board to keep the team focused during the week.
Would think they would be focused already this week. But, it couldn't hurt.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:46 PM ^
about the mythical bulletin board. Is it an actual board still or have the coaches moved on with the times and simply tweet this stuff to their teams?
October 19th, 2009 at 12:48 PM ^
but these types of issues are way overblown. PSU should just not show up. I mean if they feel they are not any better they should just mail it in.
If you don't think you are better or can't compete you are not an athlete or attend Delaware State. I think PSU could apply the same thing from our pressers today.
The only trash talking that resulted in something interesting is when WRs and CBs talk. That is the only thing a WR is good for isn't it??
October 19th, 2009 at 2:02 PM ^
While I don't really think this is all that bulletin board worthy, having played sports at various levels bulletin board material isn't really overblown.
When we would hear that another team was talking trash before a game it really inspires you to prove them wrong in a big way. I was not one that ever had a hard time getting "up" for games, but when I heard the "bulletin board" stuff it really ignited my desire to demolish the opposing team (especially the person who said it).
Not saying every athlete is this way, but that is my experience.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:51 PM ^
I don't know about others, but I don't think that even qualifies as bulletin board material. Was he really going to say that Michigan was the better team?
It's not like he said that Michigan's defense blows goats and we're going to score 100 points on those goons.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:56 PM ^
but you beat me to it. I think it is. Psu hasn't done all that much to impress me so far this year.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:57 PM ^
Maybe not bulletin board material, but I guess it's MGoBoard material.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:06 PM ^
I bet his bulletin board just redirects to MgoBoard.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:58 PM ^
Michigan wins.
Take the +4.5 points, but you wont need them when it is all said and done.
Wrong team favored on Saturday.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:14 PM ^
Thanks a lot- you just gave PSU some bulletin board material.
If Michigan loses, it's all your fault now.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:36 PM ^
So says the guy who gives the LOLphers bulletin board material every time he posts.
I dont worry about Navarro Bowman reading this. He is too stoned to comprenhend it.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:03 PM ^
i would LOVE it if any college football team used comments from anonymous internet blog posters as bulletin board material.
"goBlueAwesome35 says that we can't run the ball and that we suck haha LOL. let's make this clown eat his words!"
October 19th, 2009 at 2:40 PM ^
love the confidence - I hope you are right about the outright win, I think the cover is a lock.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:12 PM ^
You're not sure if we'll win, but you think we're a lock to cover a +4.5 spread? I don't follow that reasoning. If there's a chance we might lose by one, two, three or four points, why would there be no chance we'd lose by five, six, or seven? They're all one-score margins.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:56 PM ^
What player in the Big Ten doesn't feel his team is better than Team A and can't go on the road and win? The quote seems pretty innocuous to me.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:14 PM ^
Any player who is on scholarship to play football in either Minneapolis, MN or Champaign, Illinois, to start.
Oh wait, I read your question wrong (DOES NOT feel CAN NOT). I then revise my answer to: any team other than Minnesota or Illinois.
But I think you were asking for my first answer. I think we end up in the same place: Illinois and Minnesota are dreadful road teams.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:59 PM ^
I don't think that most bulletin board material is actually about what a player or coach actually says. I think it is the fact that they use a public platform to say it in front of anyone that will listen. Of course every team thinks they are good enough to win but when it is said to the media it is more about "calling someone out" and we all know athletes are full of pride and therefore take it to heart no matter what was said.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:59 PM ^
how about if he had said something about push pins and construction paper? now THAT'S bulletin board material.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:14 PM ^
+1
I love this post so much I want to take it to dinner
October 19th, 2009 at 2:03 PM ^
but that's pretty weak for bulletin board material. Let me know if Royster says "Michigan is nobody."
October 19th, 2009 at 3:13 PM ^
...Royster is a pimp. He could have never outfought Rodriguez. What I did not know until this day that it was JoePa all along...
Okay - fine, quote doesn't fit. But it sounded promising....
October 19th, 2009 at 4:38 PM ^
pushed around by PSU in the 2nd half. They better not need quotes to get fired up for this one.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:48 AM ^
... this is my late night too lazy post on at 12 hour old topic, which these days is ancient on Mgoboard.
It would be great to see a statistical study on the effects of bulletin board material on game outcome. impossible to track, yes, but it would simply be a regression analysis based on the severity and the one-sideness (sp?) of the week's trash talking measured against the outcome of the game (both actual and against the spread). Interesting to see what the affect and r2 is on this.