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Penn State - Lehigh Dual Thread

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mcpat said:
He twice was in deep on a single that got called for potentially dangerous and he almost got the counter TD by stepover. In 3rd, though, when he needed a TD to tie or win, there was no urgency or shots.
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Yeah I think the thing to learn as much as anything is the mental part. Mostly, how many times in his life do you think guys have fought off his attempts so deftly, scored on them, and he still was in the match to win at the end?

Feels like these are the things the program has lapped the field in over the years. Getting taught by competition and learning something rather than turning away.
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Penn State - Lehigh Dual Thread

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141- #3 Beau Bartlett VS Carter Bailey

Period 1:
Circling, Beau looking 2 on 1 & they break. Bailey with a half shot, nothing. Circling, head tapping, tying up & snapping. Bailey looking 2 on 1 & they break. Stoppage for something, restart, 90-sec left. Circling, Bailey with a half shot, nothing & back to the tie up. Bailey looking 2 on 1 & they're pushing near the center, 1-min left. Stoppage again, restart. Beau gets in deep on a leg, Bailey is draped over, Beau coming up through the legs, gets to his feet & turns in & finishes off the TD, 3-0. Beau rides out the period. 3-0 Beau.

Period 2:
Beau takes down. Bailey throws in the legs. Beau gets to his feet, turns & gets the escape, 4-0. Circling, 90-sec left, more circling & tying up. Beau looking 2 on 1, snaps, but nothing. Bailey looking 2 on 1, but Beau is working the head & then breaks Bailey down & that's how it ends. 4-0 Beau.

Period 3:
Bailey takes down, gets to his feet, but Beau jacks him up & returns him to the mat. Beau riding & they go out of bounds, restart, 90-sec left. Bailey still down. Beau goes optional start, but then drops down on top of Bailey. Bailey is bellied out now. Beau with a tight waist. Bailey gets to his feet, but Beau stays with him & goes over 1-min RT, then brings Bailey back to the mat, 30-sec left. Stalling warning Beau, restart. Beau optional start again, but then drops in on a tight waist. Beau rides Bailey out, RT point Beau, 5-0

Beau Bartlett DEC Carter Bailey 5-0

Team Score:
PSU: 6
Lehigh: 3
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Football Penn State to face No. 11 SMU in first round of College Football Playoffs

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CJFisJoePaII said:
Kind of amusing what the Committee did here with 11/12 and 5/6 seeds imho. They gave Texas the 5 seed, but stuck them with the ACC Champion (i.e., SMU should have clearly been the 12-seed without a Conference Chapionship). IOW, they gave PSU the 6-seed, but the 5-seed matchup (I'd way rather play SMU than Clemson. SMU played nobody outside of Clemson and BYU and they lost to both for Pete's sake). No way the Committee should put the ACC Champion behind the 2nd place ACC team imho. But apparently they left SMU 12th and put Clemson 13th in CFP Rankings so they could leave Alabama unchanged at #11 in CFP Rankings, but still be the first team left out of Playoff (Clemson knocks them out as the 5th Highest Ranked Conference Champion) - the only way they could have put Clemson @ #11 and SMU #12 outright in CFP Rankings would be to move Alabama down 2 spots from last week to #13. They didn't want to justify this.... so they went this route, but it is interesting that they gave PSU the 5/12 matchup against the #2 ACC team (they gave Texas the #5 seed, but the 6/11 matchup with the ACC Champion Clemson.).
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I just hope.. and this might be a crazy thought.. that we we fill the stadium 12/21… we will not have our typical student section there.. which is always a huge advantage…so assume many locals…?
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Football How are you feeling going into the college football playoffs?

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KnightWhoSaysNit said:
Good post.

The lack of focus and discipline is unfortunately a trait that falls directly from Franklin himself, and especially the types of kids he would recruit. Franklin is by his nature very enthusiast and celebratory. But that doesn't work between plays when players should be regrouping and getting ready quickly for the next play. The whole team does it. It's like a culture, and it isn't good. This is why we get so many destructive penalties. Heads are not where they should be after the whistle blows. Before it blows the extra emotional energy also gets channeled the wrong way at times. Players tend to over-pursue and miss tackles. This is the mental game. Don't know how you practice it but someone has to come up with a way that is better than someone saying "we need to clean that up."

King is a good linebacker, and so is Carter when he gets moved there, so let's not totally trash the LB group. Nevertheless, Franklin dropped the ball in an area that had been a historic strength at PSU. The gap is so large that our safeties are critically important in playing run defense.

If officials really called downfield pass defense contact as it should be called this defense would be in big trouble. Yesterday they could literally push a receiver out of bounds and get away with it. Without that we would have to use our safeties as safeties, and when we do that the linebackers get exposed.

This is why, despite Carter's dominance as a rusher, he really needs to be a blitzing linebacker. This team doesn't have the linebacker strength from sideline to sideline. Other than King and Carter, the others get blocked easily or find themselves out of position.

Carter is like having three players in one. You don't want him taken out by doubling him or having the QB rolling away from him. And you don't want him taken out by just having him get held by an offensive tackle, a penalty that isn't being called.

The gap at LB needs filled so that the other parts of the defense can play their positions. Carter is the man to do it given how the games are being played and officiated.

This team is going to be in big trouble once it loses Carter and King. I can't imagine what it will be like to play Oregon in early September next year. Need some hard work in the Portal.
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Excellent points about LB...especially how the woes have forced the safeties to help with the run more than they should have to.

As to culture and the penalty issues...it's JFs job to change things in that regard since it always "starts with him." But, it's the same rinse and repeat issues annually.
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Football Penn State to face No. 11 SMU in first round of College Football Playoffs

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indynittany said:
This may be the norm in this format.
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I get the sense that this will change in the years ahead.

Again, I'll gladly take it this year. But reading comments on non-PSU CFB boards, the whole country seems to think we and Texas both got obscene gifts, particularly since neither of us have any big wins. When Penn State and Texas get better draws than Oregon and UGA, something is off.
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