Anyone know why Menet didn’t play today? Who is 64??

We are bad after a loss like this. Franklin sucks at refocusing the team. They will come out like a deflated bunch of mopes who got their lunch money stolen. Then once there’s nothing to play for, we will “turn the corner” at like 5-4 and finish 8-4. Franklin will give us false hope for next year and idiots like Chris will feed the narratives that Franklin does. I’m calling next week a 10 point loss now.

Buddy Ryan created the 46 defense. Great to stop run. You cover every OL. We don’t have the personnel to do that.

But, Bill Belichick uses a variation of that defense in short yardage. He brings 5th DL in and puts him right over the C. DT’s and DE’s cover the other OL. Can’t double team or pull. Penetration would disrupt play.

Franklin’s predecessor who is only good at smashing windows and power point presentations. Realized Wisky and Montee Ball were going to run us off the field in 2012. He adjusted at halftime and a bunch of f’ers pulled the upset.

We should have done that against Illinois last year. We’d have beaten them. And, yesterday. We probably don’t win. Offense isn’t any good either. But, it would have kept us in the game IMO. We didn’t have to be fearful of UM’s downfield passing game.

Chase McGrath, then playing for USC.

Surely all PSU fans are suffering a bad hangover this morning. I am. But I want to put this into perspective and hope to get a few sane responses. We have seen a pattern develop with CJF. I think I first noticed it when we played USC and lost at the end regardless of a great game by Saquon. We seem to lack the intensity, aggression, and that is seen most in the OL and DL. IF I am right, do we blame CJF? Of course. But I also blame the AD. Wisconsin fired a fine coach a few weeks back. Why? He could not compete with OSU and Michigan and win. Yet, like CJF, he was a very winning coach. We recruit well, but not on a par with the top teams. The best OL and DL prospects go elsewhere. Something is wrong. IF it is important to win and be on top, that falls on the AD to get the right people coaching and recruiting. I do think that 9-2 is possible but maybe not probable. I feel Sean should have moved on. We need to develop Allar for next year, and maybe a little damage this year. It is my thought that we need to develop realism of offense. That means screen passes, quick hits over the middle, etc. Throwing fades to end zone or long passes was OK when we had Dotson or Godwin or Robinson. And, we need to coach "NASTY." Paterno's legacy was one wherein the opposing players always felt beat up after playing PSU - win or lose. You will hate this thought - hire Urban Meyer! He is a proven winner in big games. Ouch, that hurt, I know.

Marcus Freeman could be our coach

You have a damn cushy and wonderful life and should be grateful for that.

Team not prepared after the Bye? Corum too much who missed last year + Edwards? D coordinator have a bad game plan? LBs this season can't cut it? Its just crazy to me that even with Mustipher out there who missed last year we got absolutely throttled.

U CANNOT win w Clifford. Period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLAY DREW

Imagine this scenario: A young college football head coach had a 5-5 record in his first season as head coach and his team did not make a bowl game. It took until his second year for that coach to lead his team to a bowl game.

In his first bowl game and with his team leading 17-0 in the second half, this young coach’s team had a fourth-and-inches from their OWN 15-yard line. You punt right? Your defense is pitching a shutout. Nobody goes for a fourth down from their OWN 15-yard line. That is crazy to even think about trying.

Sure enough, he had his team go for it and they failed to make the first down. The opposing team capitalized on the great field position and scored a quick touchdown. Any momentum that coach’s team had now belonged to their opponent.

The opposing team, now back in the football game, scored another touchdown and added a field goal and the game ended in a 17-17 tie.

Imagine the outcry from that school’s fans, college football fans and football “experts” on football message boards, on Facebook and on Twitter and on national and cable sports news shows for a coach going for it on fourth down from his own 15-yard line when ahead 17-0. The coach would be called an idiot. Fans would be calling for his job. Don’t let him back on the plane to come home! Fire him on the tarmac at the airport! It would be brutal and that is putting it mildly.

It is not the critic who counts...

Why does Franklin get kudos for being a good recruiter, PSU has chronically had average to poor O lines, and the current D line is not very good, and linebacker U is weak at linebacker. That does not happen if you are actually a good recruiter.

Grateful

This IS THE problem offensively. Hearing Matt Mcgloin explained it on his podcast tonight. Too much thinking. Asking Clifford to make throws he can't make. Running too many long crossing routes. Making Cliff think instead of just play. Matt said they need to shorten the plays to the ones Cliff is comfortable with so he can just go play fast and not try to be something he isn't. Run the same concepts but with different formations, window dressing, give a defense a different look...

Right now you throw a deep fade on third down, you run a 4th and 6 with an impossible cross field NFL out throw to the opposite boundaries, on and on.

Just watch the replay.

We need to take a page outta USC’s playbook…………… Clay Helton was by all accounts a great guy, but he just wasn’t getting the job done!

As-a-result, USC fired Clay Helton, hired Lincoln Riley, & the rest is history!

No surprise, but the Oct 22 Whiteout game versus Minnesota will be carried on ABC. It was previously announced as a kickoff of 7:30 PM but TV was not finalized.

If PSU and Minnesota win this weekend (neither a given), there is a decent chance that Gameday would come to town for the matchup. However, UCLA/Oregon seems like potentially the most likely destination.

One is needed to assemble an exit strategy from the current football regime. Pronto.

$72 million buyout? Get creative and figure out a way. Other teams with less access to athletic wealth do it - it’s our turn. We need to clean up the Barbour/Barren mess. Those two grotesque incompetents have ruined our schools academic standing and flagship athletic program. Name buildings after them? Pathetic! They have done incredible damage to Penn State! Shame on those enablers. I am looking at you Brandon Short, etc. Shame!

Send Franklin packing. Give Manny the helm on an interim basis. And start dialog with Rhule right away.

Soon any memory of Penn State’s brand of smart, tough, classy, and WINNING football will fade away. Restoration needs to start tomorrow.

Scored the td on 4th and goal.

I don't have the link, but wouldn't it be interesting if Franklin called his defense out like this? Instead of all those "I love yours?
Maybe time for some tough love? Remember Bielema calling out his o line last year?

ON PENN STATE BEING A DIFFICULT TEST FOR MICHIGAN…
“Because Penn State has transformed. They're far different than they were a year ago and their strengths are actually right where you need to be strong to face Michigan. So from a matchup standpoint, this is a difficult matchup really for each team, which is why it's such an intriguing game, but certainly from the Michigan standpoint. And one guy stands out above any other for Penn State and it's not their quarterback Sean Clifford or even their great new running back Nick Singleton, a freshman … It's a guy that was hurt in the back half of last year and he makes them a really stout run defense and it's their defensive tackle PJ Mustipher. He's a really good player and if Michigan can't just own the line of scrimmage and run the ball with Blake Corum, that means the game is going to fall on the shoulders of young J.J. McCarthy. And that's a big moment and a big stage for a young quarterback at that point. So I think the game rests on PJ Mustpher and the Penn State's defense ability to try to make Michigan a one dimensional offense.”

ON QUESTIONS REGARDING MICHIGAN’S OFFENSIVE CEILING…

“The most important aspect for Michigan this year is they are faster. Now, they have not shown a lot of, let's just say offensive creativity over the last few weeks. And I'm wondering, I'm sitting there … in the back of my mind, I'm just sitting here and I'm wondering to myself, is this really their entire offense or are they saving something? Here's the thing here. The misconception about creativity on offense is that it's hard for the quarterback mentally. It's actually not OK? And the more creative you can be pre-snap, then the more vanilla you can be post-snap.

This is the way offensive should always be built. Make the defense look at a lot, movement, different formations, different personnel groups and then run the same five to 10 to 12 concepts out of those different looks. This is what makes Lincoln Riley so good. This is what makes Steve Sarkisian so good at the college level. And Michigan hasn't shown that. They've got heavy tendencies formationaly, and they're going to need to break those and get more creative if they want to win on Saturday.”

That's all. Out. Sad. Take a serious look at strength and conditioning and line recruiting.