Q. Penn State and Boston College have a nice history of playing a lot of games with one another. Are you excited about going back to Boston for the first time in about 15 years? What is the benefit of playing a game up there?

A. Is it 15 years since we have been up there? I like Boston. I have always liked Boston. When I was a kid at Brown University, I spent many a time chasing the girls up there in Boston and didn’t have much luck, obviously. Thank goodness, because I ended up coming out of it pretty good. In fact, I can remember going up to Fenway Park and going right by Mayor Curley’s house where they had the shamrocks on the shutters and waiting until Ted Williams had his last swing. When Ted Williams had his last swing, we came home.

It will be good to go back. Obviously, those years we had all of that success against Boston College. Things are a little bit tougher right now than they were. I guess they have enlarged the stadium since the last time I was there. I think it is over 45,000. I haven’t been up there for awhile. I haven’t been to Chestnut Hill for a long time. I almost went to Boston College. I went to a Jesuit high school (Brooklyn Prep). My dad wanted me to go to a Catholic college and the Jesuits all wanted me to go to Boston College, Fordham or maybe Georgetown. I decided that I just didn’t want to go up there.

A lot of friends of mine went up there. Artie Donovan and Ernie Stautner and all of those guys. Jack Diminick who is the high school coach of Mt. Carmel. All of those guys were at Boston College when I was at Brown and we used to spend a lot of time together. It is fun. A couple of my old teammates have hit me up for tickets already. That is the nice thing about old teammates; they think you have hundreds of free tickets. It will be nice to go back. I just hope we play well.