The First Annual PSU Coaching Challenge

Posted on January 7, 2011 | 7 Comments

(My transportation readers should skip – this is likely of no interest to you).
A little contest: Where will the people below be at the start of the 2011 football season (let’s say the date in question is set to August 1, 2011). Multiple options for scoring here; if you just want to identify “here” or “elsewhere”, base score is 1 point. Identify which school = 5 points.
Multipliers for more important folks/positions. If you want to just say that somebody’s staying, it counts as a pick for PSU (i.e. this is easy money if you’re a conservative homer).
Respond in comments for your entry. Entries closed at the end of tomorrow (midnight 1/9/2011).
Example: If you guess “Tom Bradley will be the coach at Purdue” (multiplier = 10) – if you get this right, you get 50 points. If he ended up at Indiana, you get 10 points (1 point for “not at PSU” times multiplier). If he’s still at PSU, you get 0 points. “Retired” or “nowhere” counts as a school – so if you guess that Galen Hall will hang it up, and he does, that’s a correct pick same as if Bradley goes to Purdue above.
People and multipliers after the jump. Coordinators worth 10 (half coordinators worth 5 each); lesser coaches at my discretion.

Tom Bradley 10x
Galen Hall 5x Remember “retired” or “nowhere” counts as a specific school pick
Jay Paterno 5x
Larry Johnson 2x
Ron Vanderlinden 2x
Mike McQueary 2x
Dick Anderson 1x
Kermit Buggs 1x
Bill Kenney 1x
John Thomas 1x
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7 Responses to The First Annual PSU Coaching Challenge

  1. M1EK | January 7, 2011 at 9:55 am |

    M1EK’ll start it off; I do not expect to be in the top of this one since I had no idea we even had a dude named Kermit.
    Tom Bradley: Pitt
    Galen Hall: Retired
    Jay Paterno: UConn (some assistant capacity)
    Larry Johnson: Pitt (TB’s DC)
    Ron Vanderlinden: Pitt
    Mike McQueary: Pitt
    Dick Anderson: Retired
    Kermit Buggs: Temple
    Bill Kenney: Temple
    John Thomas: Temple

  2. M1EK | January 7, 2011 at 9:59 am |

    BTW, I’m popping the Percocet and some off-brand muscle relaxant so I’m calling my own built-in excuse from the getgo if I got anything horribly wrong in the logic or list of coaches. Please comment if so.

  3. M1EK | January 7, 2011 at 10:00 am |

    Bill Kenney should be 1x. Correcting now.

  4. TheUnderdogs | January 7, 2011 at 10:20 am |

    Tom Bradley: Pitt
    Galen Hall: PSU (as long as Jay’s here, he’s here. As long as Joe’s here, Jay and Galen are here)
    Jay Paterno: PSU
    Larry Johnson: Maryland
    Ron Vanderlinden: PSU
    Mike McQueary: Pitt
    Dick Anderson: PSU (see Hall)
    Kermit Buggs: PSU
    Bill Kenney: PSU
    John Thomas: PSU 4 Life

  5. Rowlff Dogg | January 7, 2011 at 10:26 am |

    Sorry to be a party-pooper, but nothing ever changes at Penn State. This year will not be an exception. Just for fun, I’ll throw 1 wrench into my prediction.
    Tom Bradley: PSU
    Galen Hall: PSU
    Jay Paterno: PSU
    Larry Johnson: PSU
    Ron Vanderlinden: PSU
    Mike McQueary: PSU
    Dick Anderson: deceased
    Kermit Buggs: PSU
    Bill Kenney: PSU
    John Thomas: PSU

  6. J.Schnauzer | January 7, 2011 at 11:03 am |

    Tom Bradley: Pitt
    Galen Hall: UFL’s Florida Tuskers
    Jay Paterno: New Mexico
    Larry Johnson: Retired
    Ron Vanderlinden: Michigan
    Mike McQueary: PSU
    Dick Anderson: Retired
    Kermit Buggs: Maryland
    Bill Kenney: PSU
    John Thomas: PSU

  7. M1EK | January 8, 2011 at 9:37 am |

    Here are RUTS’ picks emailed to me today.
    Tom Bradley: Pitt
    Galen Hall: Retired
    Jay Paterno: Retired
    Larry Johnson: Retired
    Ron Vanderlinden: Pitt
    Mike McQueary: Pitt
    Dick Anderson: Retired
    Kermit Buggs: Pitt
    Bill Kenney: Nowhere
    John Thomas: Nowhere

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