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The Obligatory PSU Podcast

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The Obligatory PSU Podcast features wide-ranging discussions of Penn State sports, Nittany Lions football in particular, and all things Penn State and Happy Valley from the cast of The Obligatory PSU Pregame Show: Former Penn State and NFL defensive lineman Brandon Noble (’92-97), campus icon Mike “the Mailman” Herr, Mount Nittany Conservancy Board Secretary Kevin Horne, and seven-time Sam"s Club Member Chris Buchignani. Along with a rotating cast of characters from around State College and across

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FALL '20 Episode 30: Penn State Going for 901

The Obligatory PSU Podcast ·

2020/12/10

Well, it has been, as they'd say in days of yore, "a long, strange trip," but we are finally coming down to the last weeks of 2020 and its suitably bizarre fake college football season. How many games do the Nittany Lions have left after this weekend? One? Two? None? Who knows? We are reasonably sure that Penn State will have a chance to extend its winning streak to three games versus Michigan State on Senior Day. Befitting this relatively unexciting matchup with Sparty to end the regular

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FALL '20 Episode 29: Silent Knights

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2020/12/08

It wasn't always pretty, and in the end, it was, after all, only Rutgers, but dammit, in a season full of misery and disappointment, the "surging" Nittany Lions combined a solid defensive outing, a second week of much-improved offensive line play, and a maddening number of QB draws to leave New Jersey with their second win of the fake 2020 season, the 900th victory in program history. The guys enjoy the opportunity to say some complimentary things about Penn State before attention turns to

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FALL '20 Episode 28: Must We Discuss Rutgers?

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2020/12/03

Penn State hits the road for a second straight week in search of a win that will resonate in the moment and for eternity - a badly-needed follow-up to a potentially program-salvaging win last last week would not only move Penn State to 2-5 on the year, but also into the exclusive club of college football programs with 900 all-time victories (PSU would be the ninth team to achieve this feat). And while this week's opponent may have the patina of history ("The Birthplace of College

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FALL '20 Episode 27: Michigan Man? Handled.

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2020/11/30

In the name of all that is holy and good, rejoice and give thanks! Your Penn State Nittany Lions are no longer winless for this horrendous 2020 campaign, in all its miserable fakery. After digging a historically-unprecedented 0-5 hole for themselves, all this team did was go out and do something only three prior installments of Penn State football have managed: Beat Michigan at the Big House (also a first for James Franklin). In a moment when the Lions desperately needed a win like perhaps

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FALL '20 Episode 26.2: And Michigan Still Sucks

The Obligatory PSU Podcast ·

2020/11/26

What is our possibly-brilliant nickname and gimmick for this game on Saturday? You'll just have to listen and find out. It's a special holiday-week bonus episode looking ahead to Penn State's meeting with Michigan this weekend, basically because we have to (it's called "Obligatory" for a reason). Chris, Kevin, and Mailman preview (sort of) the Nittany Lions' matchup with the Wolverines, a genuinely unappealing contest between two indisputably bad football teams that will still air on

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58:07

FALL '20 Episode 26.1: Nubyjas Wilborn, Pittsburgh...

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2020/11/25

In this installment, the guys welcome in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Penn State reporter Nubyjas Wilborn, who first met Kevin when they both traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska for State's ill-fated meeting with the Cornhuskers. Having joined the beat only recently and lived and worked in SEC country, Nubyjas brings some fresh and valuable perspective on Penn State's program as it continues to struggle through tremendous difficulties, including its now-historic lack of success of on field. It's

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FALL '20 Episode 25: Historic Futility

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2020/11/22

Welcome to the new normal. We now live in a world where a Penn State football team has begun a season with five consecutive losses, a dubious historic milestone made manifest by the Nittany Lions' disorganized, disinterested, dispiriting 41-21 home loss to Iowa. In what is becoming a depressingly familiar pattern, pretty much everything that could go wrong for Penn State did, and now this team that began the season ranked as high as #7 has fallen to 0-5 (the first top 10 team to ever do

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FALL '20 Episode 24: Corn Belted

The Obligatory PSU Podcast ·

2020/11/18

In this special mid-week Corn Belt Omnibus edition of Obligatory, the guys look back on another frustrating Saturday, as the Penn State's trip to Lincoln brought a few signs of life, but ultimately ended up like every contest thus far in 2020, dropping the Nittany Lions to 0-4 for only the second time in program history. The only other time PSU dug itself a four-loss hole to start the season (2001), the Lions won their 5th game and managed to string together some wins to remember. Will

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56:58

FALL '20 Episode 23: Centre Film Festival & Nebraska

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2020/11/12

The Nittany Lions may be reeling at 0-3, but there's always a lot to celebrate here in Happy Valley. The guys take a break from the doom and gloom of football talk to welcome in Pearl Gluck and Curt Chandler, faculty in Penn State's Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, to learn about the Centre Film Festival, happening this weekend (Nov. 13-15), and the fun and challenge around adapting it into a virtual event for 2020. Tickets are available to stream over 50 films of all genres

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FALL '20 Episode 22: Embarrassing Garbage

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2020/11/08

Already teetering on the brink of collapse at 0-2, the Penn State Nittany Lions are now fully circling the drain after a tragic 35-19 home loss to the Maryland Terrapins, a raging dumpster fire for the ages that offered absolutely zero redeeming takeaways and indicted the entire football program from top to bottom. Brandon, Kevin, Chris, and Mailman assemble immediately following the merciful end of State's miserable, exhausting four-quarter disintegration for a raw and unfiltered reaction

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FALL '20 Episode 21: Talking Penn State w/ Ben Jones...

The Obligatory PSU Podcast ·

2020/11/06

Ben Jones, Penn State beat reporter for StateCollege.com, joins the guys to talk about the experience of covering Nittany Lions football in a global pandemic, the state of the Penn State program in its pursuit of Ohio State, and various other Nittany news from the "resignation" of Pat Chambers to the Maryland game that will make or break the Lions' fake 2020 season.Read Ben Jones' Penn State football coverage at StateCollege.com: http://www.statecollege.com/news/authors/ben-jones,191/HOSTED

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FALL '20 Episode 20: Ohio State Autopsy w/ Donnie...

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2020/11/03

In this episode, the guys break down a clash of legendary titans in Happy Valley. But after discussing the Fantasy Flavor League's concluding matchup of Bittersweet Mint versus Death by Chocolate, they also get into Penn State and Ohio State. What can we take away from the Nittany Lions' disappointing 38-25 loss that dropped the team to 0-2? Brandon, Chris, Kevin, and Mailman are joined by Donnie Collins of the Scranton Times-Tribune to talk lessons and observations from the OSU game

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FALL '20 Episode 19: Ohio State Visits Spooky Valley

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2020/10/30

If Penn State hosts a night game and no fans are there to see it, is it still a White Out? Like everything else on the carnival ride from Hell called 2020, what should be one of the biggest holidays on the annual Penn State calendar - a White Out weekend with College GameDay and Ohio State in town (and on Halloween no less!) - arrives with an unfamiliar emptiness (right down to the stadium). After sharing some final Indiana thoughts, bemoaning the lack of hardball questions on the Penn

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FALL '20 Episode 18: We Lost to Indiana

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2020/10/26

Well, we asked for Big Ten football in 2020, and we got it. A classic case of "Be careful what you wish for." What can you say about a program with playoff aspirations in self-styled pursuit of "elite" status that goes on the road and loses to Indiana... in football? Kevin leads the way; Chris and Mailman follow, and they try to figure it out. Commentary on the game's many, many frustrating mistakes including Devyn Ford's baffling decision to score, the controversial final play that never

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FALL '20 Episode 17: Indiana, Indiana (and Pat Chambers)

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2020/10/22

Pat Chambers tosses the Penn State news cycle into appropriate-for-2020 chaos by resigning only days before the long-delayed start of the football season. Undaunted, the guys touch on the breaking news before moving on to Nittany Lions football. Mike, Brandon, Chris, and Kevin give their thoughts on the loss of Journey Brown, notes from the season's first depth chart, and what to expect from a deceptively dangerous Indiana Hoosiers team + Kev waxes poetic about his favorite Bloomington

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FALL '20 Episode 16: Penn State Roster Breakdown...

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2020/10/16

Friend of the show Mike Levine returns, joining Chris to break down the Penn State Nittany Lions defense by position (reuniting the LION 90.7fm's 2000-01 football broadcast team). Despite the departure of Micah Parsons, who was set to be one of the top players in college football, the cupboard is hardly bare for defensive coordinator Brent Pry. Mike and Chris take a closer look at a solid and steady defensive line, promising young secondary, and a linebacking corps that, even without Micah,

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FALL '20 Episode 15: Penn State Roster Breakdown...

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2020/10/13

Chris enlists the assistance of friend and fellow LION 90.7fm alum Mike Levine to analyze the 2020 Penn State roster in two installments, beginning with the offense. New coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca brings a track record of success to an offense stacked with veteran talent at nearly every position (with the notable exception of wide receiver). Chris and Mike break down each position group, talk about areas of promise and room for improvement, and speculate on how Ciarrocca's influence might

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FALL '20 Episode 14: Blur Your Russell Athletics Logo

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2020/10/09

Penn State Athletics has put out the call for fan-generated videos to use inside Beaver Stadium and on social media. Chris is ready to start filming; Mike the Mailman is skeptical, and Kevin is (unsurprisingly) ambivalent, but all three get a laugh out of one forbidden transgression. With John Dunmore departing the team, the guys review the Nittany Lions unsettled wide receiver group, and then turn to scrutinizing how playoff selection might play out amid the ongoing train wreck of 2020

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FALL '20 Episode 13: Franklin's Great Hires, O'Brien...

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2020/10/06

Week 2 of the Penn State Berkey Creamery's Fantasy Flavor League kicks off with a playoff-worthy matchup of Cookies 'n Cream versus Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, and the Obligatory cast has thoughts. On the Penn State football front, James Franklin appears to have made some critical upgrades to his assistant coaching staff over the past couple years. The guys focus specifically on special teams coordinator Joe Lorig and offensive line coach Phil Trautwein, whose respective position groups

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FALL '20 Episode 12: Storylines for Penn State's 2020

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2020/10/02

It's October. We're getting real, live Penn State football this month! With the season approaching, Chris, Kevin, and Mailman kick around some potential storylines of interest - from the local in Happy Valley to all of college football - including how all the changes to James Franklin's staff might impact the Nittany Lions during this bizarre, COVID-shortened season. Chris plays moderator while Kev and Mike chime in on each topic. And per usual, Mike the Mailman has some sports betting

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