toledoblade.com -- College Football 11/3/04

Ask guest host Ron Musselman about your favorite teams, coaches, and rivalries.

Kevin Cesarz: (12:00 P.M. ET ) Welcome to today's college football chitchat. Ron is ready to receive. Today’s chat will be a short one due to the election coverage.

JT (Perrysburg) Will Walt Harris and Joe Paterno be fired on the same day?

Ron Musselman: (12:05 P.M. ET ) J.T., your initials sure sound familiar. I think I might know you. As for Paterno, I have been calling for his head for two years now, and that’s tough for a Penn State grad to do, but he has to go. As great a job as Paterno did building that program, he is now running it into the ground. The perfect scenario would be Penn State vs. Pitt – Paterno vs. Harris, even though Joe has stopped that series basically by himself – and then fire both of them after the game. It would be an appropriate ending for two mediocre coaches.

BHBF (Sylvania) Where you at the Michigan vs. Michigan State game? How upset do you think all those Michigan fans that left midway through the fourth quarter feel after missing such a huge comeback.

Ron Musselman: (12:10 P.M. ET ) Probably not as bad as Michigan State fans feel after blowing a 17-point lead in the last 6:27, then going conservative in overtime and losing in the third extra period. To answer your question, though, a true Michigan fan would have never left that game, regardless of the score. They deserved to miss it if they left early. It’s one of the greatest comebacks I have ever seen in a game I covered.

Jim R I hear MSU’s Drew Stanton is out for the season. What were they thinking running him so much?

Kevin Cesarz: BTW… Michigan State and Ohio State play this weekend at Michigan State. Read the sports section on Sunday for details of the game.

Ron Musselman: (12:15 P.M. ET ) That is what you get with a running quarterback – you always run the risk of an injury. Stanton is out for the season with a separated shoulder. I can tell you this, if he would have stayed in the game, I think Michigan State would have won.

DK (Toledo) I was watching the elections last night and saw that UT lost to Miami…what happened? I thought UT had gotten itself on the right track?

Ron Musselman: (12:20 P.M. ET ) I am not surprised Toledo lost, not after the Rockets coughed the football up three times. This is not a great UT football team, by any stretch, and I look for them to lose Tuesday at Northern Illinois. Right now, they will have a hard time beating Bowling Green in their home finale, but I still like the Rockets because of their impeccable home record.

Kevin Cesarz : (12:15 P.M. ET ) Ok, we have run out of questions. Ron Musselman, like John Kerry, is conceding. We will reconvene back here in two weeks at noon to dissect the Michigan-Ohio game.

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