Penn State Sports Magazine
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N O V E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 7 B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M 14 PENN STATE RADIO NETWORK COACHES STATION SIGNAL CITY/MARKET* GAME SHOW** WAEB 790-AM Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton ✔ ✔ WVAM 1430-AM Altoona ✔ ✔ WRKY 104.9-FM Altoona/Hollidaysburg ✔ WAVL 910-AM Apollo ✔ ✔ WPGG 1450-AM Atlantic City, N.J. ✔ WPG 104.1-FM Atlantic City, N.J. ✔ 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 ✔ ✔ WWCB 1370-AM Corry ✔ ✔ WAGL 103.9-FM Coudersport ✔ ✔ WAGL 99.1-FM Coudersport ✔ ✔ WZDB 95.9-FM DuBois/Sykesville ✔ ✔ 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 ✔ ✔ WVNJ 1160-AM New York Metro ✔ ✔ WKQW 96.3-FM Oil City ✔ ✔ WKQW 1120-AM Oil City ✔ ✔ WNTP 990-AM Philadelphia ✔ ✔ KQV 1410-AM Pittsburgh ✔ ✔ WAVT 101.9-FM Pottsville ✔ WPPA 1360-AM. Pottsville ✔ ✔ WIOV 1240 AM Reading ✔ ✔ WIOV 98.5-FM 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 ✔ ✔ WNDA 1490-AM Wellsboro ✔ ✔ WNDA 93.5-FM Wellsboro ✔ ✔ WILK 980-AM Wilkes-Barre ✔ ✔ WKSB 102.7-FM Williamsport ✔ WRAK 1400-AM Williamsport ✔ WSBA 910-AM York ✔ ✔ WGLD 1440-AM York/Red Lion ✔ * Pennsylvania unless otherwise noted | ** Airs Thursdays at 6:05 p.m. grams in the country have areas of need or areas where they need to improve. We're no different than them. I was looking at both the AP and the coaches polls. There are five two-loss teams ranked ahead of you in the AP, and in the coaches, it's two. Two weeks ago, you were the No. 2 team in the country and you lost to two nationally ranked teams by only four points. What do you think should be prioritized the most when doing the rankings, espe- cially when you're trying to delineate between the teams with the same amount of losses? And how do you take that into consideration when you're trying to schedule your games going into any year? To be honest with you, I get it, and I know this is something that media and fans talk about all the time. I'm definitely not talking about it, especially this week. We're focused on Rutgers, and if we beat Rutgers, everything else will take care of itself. From a scheduling perspective, all those things are looked at. Me and Sandy [Barbour] sit down and Phil [Esten], we all sit down and talk about all these different philosophies. The problem is, there's no true model, because you may schedule someone right now and they're a completely different program by the time you play them. So we're focused on playing Rutgers, not on the rankings, not on anything else. You look at preseason rankings, you look at middle-of-the-season rankings, you look at the end-of-the-season rankings, they don't make a whole lot of sense, they're all over the map. So for us, we're just focused on Rutgers, and focused on Penn State and developing our players, and loving our players and coaching our players and teaching our players, having our players teach us and get better. And I think [if] we keep our focus like that, we'll have a program that we can all be really proud of and excited about and have a chance to be successful on Saturdays. All that other stuff, I haven't talked to anybody yet that's figured it out. I haven't seen anybody be able to predict how the season's going to finish or how things are going to go, so I'm just going to focus on the things we can control, which is the development of our players and the de- velopment of relationships in our locker room. That's our focus.