Penn St comes from behind to beat Texas for it's 3rd straight National Championship(102 straight win

[JonLP24]

Down 2 sets to 0, Penn St wins 3 sets in a row to win it's third consecutive National Championship and win their 102nd consecutive game.

:toast: To the Nittany Lions for an incredible streak.

[Condem]

1. Longest of any streak in history?

Yes?

[JonLP24]

3. In Division 1 college sports as far as I know

Women's sports for sure. Scratch that. North Carolina women's soccer is #2 with 92 straight wins. Stanford women's tennis had 89 straight wins.

[El Supremo]

2. What are you smoking????

[JonLP24]

4. ESPN 2

Penn St defeats Texas for the National Championship. They're talking about the win right now.

[Condem]

5. Now, El.

As a member of the Sports Forum you must watch all sports. You don't have to like them. But you have to know what's going on.
Fuck. I watched Virginia beat Akron in soccer, last Sunday. Top that.

[JonLP24]

6. I watched Penn St defeat Hawaii last Thursday

This team is awesome. I also seen them beat Stanford for the National Championship last year but this year's game was much better. Penn St never gave up down 2 sets in a best of 5.

I'm talking about women's volleyball if no one has figured it out by now.

[Condem]

7. We know, Jon.

Just another championship for the Big Ten. Yawn.

[Capt. America]

8. +1

[Upton]

10. I guess since the Big Ten can't win at football

women's volleyball will have to do. Excuse me condem, but that's hilarious :rofl:

[Condem]

11. What ya' mean, Upton?

The next member of America's Premier Athletic Conference laid a whupping on Central Forida, last night. I'm talking about the Scarlet Knights of THE University of New Jersey.

[Upton]

12. Rutgers is joining the Pac 10?

Oh, and the Pac 10 has led the nation in NCAA Championships in 43 of the last 49 years. Yes, they truly are America's Premier Athletic Conference.

[El Supremo]

16. I gotta life besides sports.

Really I do!

[bigwillq]

9. I only watched the final set

What a set it was. Congrats to Penn. St.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. One helluva match last night.

I was rooting for the 'Horns, but congrats are in order to Penn State.

In the next few years, I fully expect to hear that Megan Hodge (PSU) and Destinee Hooker (UT) are
on the USA national team for the Olympics.

:thumbsup:

[joeybee12]

14. I'll kick this just so a cowpie thread isn't at the top!

Congrats to the penn state women, just hope their coach isn't a DB like their women's basketball coach.

[JonLP24]

15. He shares the same birthday I do (November 29th)

Of course he isn't!

He mostly just sits there jotting down stats on a notepad. He has an interesting way of doing stats.

“I’ve heard people say that maybe we’d be better served had we lost,” Rose said. “I was kind of wondering what profession they were in. I wouldn’t want a lawyer representing me to think like that. I wouldn’t want a doctor operating on me to think like that.”

<snip-that was interesting but not my point>

Official statistics have always bothered him. Most sports tally what the player did, not what he or she failed to do. He sees that as only half the equation. What about the rebound the basketball player should have had? Or the ground ball the shortstop did not reach? Or the dig that the volleyball player blew?

“On that sheet,” Rose said, pointing to a match’s official N.C.A.A score sheet, “if you don’t hit the ball, you don’t get a statistic. On mine, you do. You didn’t hit the ball.”

Most of his scribbles in the notebook reflect missed opportunities, what his players call “error control.” Rose grades each play, too, on a scale — not just whether the serve was in, for example, but how good the serve was.

“He keeps stats and gets stats of every play,” said Kaleena Davidson, a former player at Penn State who is in her first season as one of Rose’s assistants. “He knows everything you’d want to know. And everything you don’t want him to know.”

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