Rutgers, which was starting to get oddly cocky about its basketball team, suffered a humiliating home loss to Penn State, 83-80. A Penn State team picked to finish last, again, in the Big 11 — just like the previous 3 years. I only bring this up because I read one damned weird thing:

But acting New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Codey takes the sports-politics connection too far. We speak of his announcement Tuesday, to the Gannett state bureau there, that he plans to invite Penn State to join the Big East “after the season’s over, when things settle down.”

The Penn State football season is over, it has settled down and out, at a 4-7 record. But acting Gov. Codey is barking up the wrong tree.

Why attempting to lure Penn State to the Big East would be prominent on Codey’s agenda is a matter for his New Jersey constituents to consider.

It’s not like he’d be doing Rutgers, the state’s Big East member, any favors. The benefit for Penn State is unclear, too. Even in a watered-down Big East, Penn State wouldn’t have been a contender this season.

There is also the matter of Joe Paterno holding a grudge over his dream of an eastern sports conference being spurned at first, then implemented without Penn State.

This seems too bizarre and stupid to be true. Nothing at the NJ Gannett site. Nothing via Google news.

Anyone know anything about this, or is Sam Ross just insane?