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O C T O B E R   1 0 ,   2 0 1 8 B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M 12 PENN STATE RADIO NETWORK STATION SIGNAL CITY/MARKET* WAEB 790-AM Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton WVAM 1430-AM Altoona WRKY 104.9-FM Altoona/Hollidaysburg WAVL 910-AM Apollo WILK 103.1-FM Avoca WAYC 1600-AM Bedford WAYC 100.9-FM Bedford WAGL 103.9-FM Bradford WAGL 99.1-FM Bradford WISR 680-AM Butler WJEJ 1240-AM Chambersburg/Hagerstown, Md. WCCR 92.7-FM Clarion WCPA 900-AM Clearfield WCPA 98.5-FM Clearfield WWCB 1370-AM Corry WAGL 103.9-FM Coudersport WAGL 99.1-FM Coudersport WWLZ 820-AM Elmira, N.Y./Ithaca, N.Y. WWLZ 101.3-FM Elmira, N.Y./Ithaca, N.Y. WPSE 1450-AM Erie WPSE 107.1-FM Erie WAVL 98.7-FM Greensburg Sports Radio 96.5 FM Harrisburg Sports Radio 95.3-FM Harrisburg Sports Radio 1400-AM Harrisburg Sports Radio 93.5-FM (HD) Harrisburg WKZN 1300-AM Hazleton WCCL 101.7-FM Johnstown WAGL 103.9-FM Kane WAGL 99.1-FM Kane WNPV 1440-AM Lansdale WLBR 1270-AM Lebanon WLIU 670-AM Lewistown WLIU 92.9-FM Lewistown WOGA 92.9-FM Mansfield WOGA 93.1-FM Mansfield WJST 1280-AM New Castle WVNJ 1160-AM New York Metro WKQW 96.3-FM Oil City WKQW 1120-AM Oil City WNTP 990-AM Philadelphia WPIT 730-AM Pittsburgh WPIT 96.5-FM Pittsburgh WAVT 101.9-FM Pottsville WPPA 1360-AM Pottsville WEEU 830-AM Reading WBZU 910-AM Scranton WAGL 103.9-FM Smethport WAGL 99.1-FM Smethport WQWK 1450-AM State College WBUS 93.7-FM State College WKOK 1070-AM Sunbury WCCL 101.7-FM Somerset WHGL 100.3-FM Troy/Canton WTRN 1340-AM Tyrone WTRN 100.7-FM Tyrone WRQY 96.5-FM Wheeling, W.Va. WNDA 1490-AM Wellsboro WNDA 93.5-FM Wellsboro WILK 980-AM Wilkes-Barre WKSB 102.7-FM Williamsport WSBA 910-AM York WSBA 93.9-FM York * Pennsylvania unless otherwise noted know, as hard as we've worked to get to where we are now, there's another step that has to happen, and that is difficult to do. That is challenging to do, and every stage you get to, you fight like heck to get to that stage and then break through and get to that next level, and that's kind of where we're at. You know, one of the things that we talked about a little bit with the players is that year we started out 2-2 and the coaches were all over everything, the players were all over everything. We had a players-only meeting and we had a lot of discussions with the leadership council and the captains and then we won nine straight. There was a shiC. There was a shiC, and there was a change in how we approached things and our standards of how we do things: holding each other ac- countable, that's coaches, that's players, that's coaches to players, that's players to coaches, that's everything. We need to continue on that path. We need to con- tinue on that path and challenge each other and push to have that next break- through. Again I'm very, very pleased with the direction of the program and where we're going, but we've got to fight to get to that next level. We have to fight to get to that next stage. And like I said, it's not going to be any one moment, where you have this "a-ha" moment and the light goes on. It's that daily grind on little things that most people overlook. I think you guys have heard me talk about it: You go eat at a nice restaurant, a very successful restaurant. Why is that restaurant successful? Because they do all the little things better than anybody. You stay in a really nice hotel, and that hotel is really successful and it's been successful over years and years and years. Why have they been successful? It's when you call down to the front desk, it doesn't ring more than three times and someone answers it. It's all those little things that add up, and we've got to look at our organization the same way: how we sit in meetings, how we take notes in meetings, coaches going back through the game plan and looking through everything with a magnifying glass, in as much detail as we possibly can because we've got to fight and scratch and claw to have that next breakthrough as a pro- gram. I think we're headed there. All signs show that. But it's still going to be a lot of heavy liCing.

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