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Anyone still doubting Joe Paterno's ability to recruit and relate to today's college football players should look no further than this story. Not even Ron Zooker has come up with this recruiting angle yet. How do Penn State quarterbacks prepare for the upcoming season? Playing Madden '08. Not that 95% of college males aren't spending hours and hours playing this game already, but the Nittany Lions are doing so at practice.
The good thing is nobody's ever late for our (meetings) -- not that they're ever late -- but they're all about 20 minutes early now because they all want to get in there and turn it on and beat each other," Paterno said of his quarterbacks. "I'm sure my son, when he finds out we have it in the building and that our guys are using it, he'll want to come in and play it." The idea is to give the Penn State quarterbacks more work on their playbook, which is loaded onto a Madden football game for use in the video game machine.
It remains to be seen how effective well this technique translates onto the field. NASCAR is the best example of simulations working the best.The relationship of the game to action on the field is considerable, according to Morelli.
"It's pretty much getting to the point where it's almost real. It's getting scary," he said. "They've got guys' accuracy, your arm strength. They're almost making it look exactly like you. Some guys even move like they really move. It's crazy. It's realistic."
You know there's some skinny 5'7 freshman at Penn State dominating Madden that's thinking he has a chance now to suit up for his Nittany Lions.
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