Ohrnberger as Shipley
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Ohrnberger as Shipley
If you're worried about Penn State being tight for this Saturday's test in Wisconsin, here's a story that should ease your worries. Center A.Q. Shipley was scheduled to be on an 11 a.m. conference call this morning with reporters. I was supposed to be on the call, but mixed up my times and missed the Q&A. However, about a half hour ago, I received an e-mail from Jeff Nelson, Penn State assistant athletic director for communications, apologizing for today's Shipley conference call.
Apparently, another member of the team posed as Shipley and answered questions in his place. I did a little investigative work (Uh, called another reporter) and found out that it was guard Rich Ohrnberger, considered the class clown of the team. Supposedly, Ohrnberger had all of Shipley's verbal tics ("ya knows," etc.) down pat. He answered around 15 minutes of questions (even one about himself), but there were a few suspicious reporters. Nelson was told, hence the apologizing e-mail. I doubt Ohrnberger will be disciplined (I hope he isn't. This is funny.), but I'm sure he won't get any other chances to be on conference calls (or maybe he'll be forced to be). The senior has been surprisingly left off conference calls all season.
Here I was bummed I missed the Shipley call. Ends up I didn't miss anything pertinent except maybe a good gag. It sounds like media payback time, however. How should we get Ohrnberger back? Suggestions?
Actually, I sort of like that the media got it this time!!! It seems the media is always getting the last word. Finally, someone was able to put a little bit of a red face on some of the media— dahartman
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
