[Sly Fox]

With the Chants opening up in the highest profile game of their history, I thought it'd be fun to follow the hype leading up to the game.

Bennett, Coastal prepare for Penn State

Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:18 AM
By Mike London
mlondon@salisburypost.com

CHARLOTTE — He can't officially bark at players until Saturday, so David stays busy collecting stones and getting plenty of reps with his slingshot.

David's surname is Bennett, he coaches the Coastal Carolina football team and he'll take aim at a traditional Goliath on Aug. 30 when his teal-and-bronze Chanticleers take on Penn State in Beaver Stadium for a high-noon season opener.

Coastal, which will field its sixth football team, has never taken on anyone with the tradition, the reputation, the crowd or the depth of Penn State.

But it's time to get used to this. Coastal has more big-time games (and big-time paydays) scheduled. Coastal faces Clemson in 2009, meets West Virginia in 2010 and tackles Georgia in 2011.

Most Penn State supporters had no idea Coastal Carolina existed, much less had a football team, until it showed up on the schedule.

PSU fans who had heard of Coastal surely have no idea which Carolina the school is on the coast of, and you probably can't find 50 Nittany Lions boosters who know a Chanticleer from a Chandelier — or Conway, S.C., from Conway Twitty.

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I guess we don't have to guess how PAmedic wants this to go down.

[Chantzilla]

Good find and interesting article.

I copied/pasted the article on the CCU board (hope you don't mind, Sly).

[Sly Fox]

No problem at all.

Good luck in Happy Valley.