Other than a few sports like wrestling, it seems as if the overall state of PSU athletics really has fallen in recent years.
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I don't think PSU ever battled Stanford but PSU was #5 in the fall. Stanford feeling the effects of CoVid and cutting some sports. Interesting to note that a lot of southern programs only have about 20 sports. PSU has 31!
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Jan13OverallStandings (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
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Surely, we have seen a decline in Gymnastics, volleyball, and LaCrosse seems to maybe getting back up to speed. Basketball has never been top notch for an extended period. And, football for last few years has been mediocre compared to years under Paterno. And, for may years, our fencing team was untouchable. No longer or so it seems.
I think that currently Penn State is a wrestling only school -- kind of like Lehigh was many years ago. We now suck in every sport except wrestling.
I don't think PSU ever battled Stanford but PSU was #5 in the fall. Stanford feeling the effects of CoVid and cutting some sports. Interesting to note that a lot of southern programs only have about 20 sports. PSU has 31!
Jan13OverallStandings (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
Jan13OverallStandings (PDF)
Cut 11 sports. Will you be happy or still complain?
I say cut the sports that PSU is considering spending a crap ton of $ on in regards to new facilities. Swimming & Diving, tennis are a beginning.
Well that actually is 4 since there is men’s and women’s. I have thoughts on the other 7 or so already, but since it will never happen…
Allison Johnson penn state Big Ten Athlete of the week back to back in track. Only freshman
It's great we are good at wrestling and all, but in the end it is a niche sport.
We are even last place in Hockey.
Our athletics right now are terrible.
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Not anymore. Our WVB team used to be as elite as our wrestling team is now. Like in football we have fallen into mediocrity.
Weird.....the more assistant ADs we get, the worse we get!🥴
Did we not have a championship women's lacrosse and field hockey team a few years back?
We ARE worse but moved up in the Leerfield rankings?? What is your source that PSU got worse?
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She was hired in Aug, 2014. The prior two years we were sixth and fifth. Her first year we were eighth, then out of top ten a year, back to eighth, and then out of top ten for the last three years(no rankings last year due to Covid).
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She was hired in Aug, 2014. The prior two years we were sixth and fifth. Her first year we were eighth, then out of top ten a year, back to eighth, and then out of top ten for the last three years(no rankings last year due to Covid).
NACDA Directors' Cup - Wikipedia
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You win. We are worse. What was PSU from
1990 -2014? Did you even care?
Ps. Didn't Iowa win the team championship in wrestling last year?
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I don't follow closely but know we were elite for a stretch. What happened? Coach leave/ retire?
He left but the team regressed while he was here. Maybe it was covid. Wrestling team did not win a team title either. The OP has an ax to grind. I guess it is the ADs fault.
It’s in the charts in the link......if you even cared. And they just started there rankings in the 93-94 school year. Usually top ten. Highest was three followed by four
I say we get rid of all sports that lose money. Screw fencing, volleyball, soccer, field hockey ect. Revenue producing sports should get to keep most of the money they generate. Fire any coach who has a losing record two years in a row.
I don't care. Nobody does. That is why saban makes $10 mil and the volleyball coach is lucky to have a job.
I just checked the results. No noticable change. We have been up an down since the start. There were years in each decade where PSU did not make the top 10. Who cares? Wrestling lost ground last year. Iowa won the team title. Did you expect them to win forever?
Do you want to fire the coaches who did not match their 2012 and 2013 Directors cup points? Fire Cael?
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These are hard working, honest, excellent administrators you're talking about.
Second only to the chief of diversity compliance.
You should be thankful that we take money from you to pay for these excellent people.
You had better get with the program, Comrade.
You're not wrong, this is the result of making politically correct hires instead of the best, most qualified person for the job.
So keep football, men's basketball and hockey? You do know there are NCAA rules against that and a thing called Title IX.
We had the best WVB coach in the history of the sport. He got old and didn't recruit well for a few years and then he retired. We are no longer elite in WVB.
So which coaching hires where politically correct? If you are going to make this accusation why don't you name the coaches that were not qualified.
I am sure some people will blame the administration for allowing him to get old. They should have reversed time according to some posters here.
What's sad is that there may be more competition among the 14 Men's Gymnastics teams than there is for the well over 100 D-1 football teams. You basically can predict the same 6 to 7 teams every year that have a legitimate chance to make the playoffs in football, with the odd exception like Cincy this year. Otherwise, the rest of the teams just are schedule fillers for these 6 or 7 teams.
