2018 MSU

[danvillenit]

Watching the 2018 MSU game on BTN. On MSU first TD drive they converted a fake punt and HB option pass on consecutive plays to go down to one yard line. Then after PSU stuffed three straight runs Thorpe had a personal foul to give them a first down and subsequent TD.

I had already forgotten the constant mistakes that plagued us . Lots of room for improvement just cleaning up errors.

 

[bdgan]

Watching the 2018 MSU game on BTN. On MSU first TD drive they converted a fake punt and HB option pass on consecutive plays to go down to one yard line. Then after PSU stuffed three straight runs Thorpe had a personal foul to give them a first down and subsequent TD.

I had already forgotten the constant mistakes that plagued us . Lots of room for improvement just cleaning up errors.

Dantonio knew he was outmatched so he tried several trick plays and PSU was not prepared for them. Franklin was out coached.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Watching the 2018 MSU game on BTN. On MSU first TD drive they converted a fake punt and HB option pass on consecutive plays to go down to one yard line. Then after PSU stuffed three straight runs Thorpe had a personal foul to give them a first down and subsequent TD.

I had already forgotten the constant mistakes that plagued us . Lots of room for improvement just cleaning up errors.

It’s like when we played UCF and they had Bortles and that one WR who absolutely caught everything in sight. Happens for us too but I don’t tend to focus on those games as much .

 

[PS4814]

That was also the game where we had 3 defensive holding penalties on 3rd downs, and 2 were on run plays which I’ve never seen called in any other game.

 

[Rip_E_2_Joe_PA]

Franklin jumped off sides and held on those other three plays. It was his fault..... Fore sure it certainly was not the fault of the out of control players involved that lacked poise....

What did the old man say time and time again.....
act like you've been there before.

 

[Fibes]

Franklin jumped off sides and held on those other three plays. It was his fault..... Fore sure it certainly was not the fault of the out of control players involved that lacked poise....

What did the old man say time and time again.....
act like you've been there before.

I still can’t believe that Franklin dropped that gift wrapped interception on MSU’s final drive. FIRE FRANKLIN!!

 

[83wuzme]

That game really sticks in my craw, especially after that fiasco in 2017. You have to get up on a team like MSU keep your foot on the gas. Keep up the tempo and take advantage of speed and depth, MSU isn’t built to cope with that.

 

[Raffycorn]

Two of the most bizarre games I’ve ever seen. Play each one individually 10 times and Penn State probably wins 8-9 each time.

 

[bdgan]

Sweet Jeebzus.

That’s a “Game Day Thread” worthy effort

You might think that Michigan State had better players on the field that day. Not me.

 

[PearlSUJam]

3 defensive holding penalties on 3rd downs, and 2 were on run plays

Where's the guy here that likes to rattle off stats? I'd like to know how many times in the history of college football that a team got called for defensive holding on run plays twice or more in one game? Anyone?

 

[Zone-Blitz]

Windsor was called for a ridiculous def holding on a 3rd down that gave MSU a new set of downs. They scored a TD on the very next play. They ran the replay a few times and even the announcers couldn’t believe that holding was called on our defensive lineman

 

[odshowtime]

I remember watching the end with a spartan and they're driving and I was hoping they didn't get a field goal. He said "we're going for the TD". It was inconceivable to me that this would happen and yet it did. Inconceivable.

Getting a loss like this hung on you is the worst. A scarlet letter of incompetence. Everyone knows we had the better team for the last two years but it amounts to nothing but embarrassment and the emboldening of the enemy.

Just disgraceful and if it happens again this year I fear for my sanity and safety.

 

[palmettolion]

You might think that Michigan State had better players on the field that day. Not me.

I agree with you, with the exception of MSU's WR with the dreads. It seemed like he caught everything thrown his way the last 2 years. That kid came up big several times for them in key downs(2018) and caught some poorly thrown balls on a wet day(2017).

 

[BBrown]

Where's the guy here that likes to rattle off stats? I'd like to know how many times in the history of college football that a team got called for defensive holding on run plays twice or more in one game? Anyone?

You mean besides the time we got called for it when OSU was punting?

 

[ELDADDY]

I think i can honestly say that last year's 9-3 team was the most frustrating team i have ever watched from PSU. Legit made every little thing difficult from the coaching, turnovers, penalties, luck, etc. I think the only game where i was calm throughout was MD.

 

[BBrown]

I think i can honestly say that last year's 9-3 team was the most frustrating team i have ever watched from PSU. Legit made every little thing difficult from the coaching, turnovers, penalties, luck, etc. I think the only game where i was calm throughout was MD.

While I agree that, at times, last year was frustrating it ranks pretty low on the "frustrating team" part, for me. There were teams in the 80's and 90's and early '00's that frustrated me a lot more than the 2018 team.

 

[MJG-90]

You mean besides the time we got called for it when OSU was punting?

That was horrendous. Brad Bars was called? I remember the play. All he did was push him back to the ground.

 

[BBrown]

That was horrendous. Brad Bars was called? I remember the play. All he did was push him back to the ground.

Yep that was the one.

 

[Raffycorn]

You mean besides the time we got called for it when OSU was punting?

The Mike Hull “leaping” call was a treasure, too. Might have been the same game?

 

[razpsu]

Funny I was just watching the first half of the osu game from last year. Offense was sloppy. Setup hamler for a big td which is all on rahne.

The rest of the first half was not so great for the offense. So we had mcsorely running a lot especially a big 50 yard run. So how does he compensate this year. Osu had 7-8 guys constantly on the line. How do you run against that. That is something rahne will really have to work on this year. Day from osu did a fine job going away from Barrett running to Haskins throwing. Rahne will
Need to do the same.

 

[PSU_Chicago]

Watching the players come out of the tunnel for the MSU game I thought they looked listless. We should have beat them in both '17 and '18. IMO we had better players and better teams. But that is why they play the games.

 

[BBrown]

The Mike Hull “leaping” call was a treasure, too. Might have been the same game?

I don't remember that one.

 

[jferretti]

You might think that Michigan State had better players on the field that day. Not me.

MSU had some starters out for the game and were down to one competent WR at the end of our game. Specials teams let us down in that game and a few others last season. Hopefully that is being addressed.

 

[Option Bob]

I don't remember that one.

It was in 2014 ... you remember, the game where the replay failed and the Buckeye kicker had 3 or 4 extra seconds to kick a FG? All of those incredibly bizarre officiating decisions, and it still took the national champion 2 OTs to beat a depleted Penn State squad.

Yet, does James Franklin ever get much credit for outcoaching Urban Mayer in that game? No. The focus is on the 4-hour rain delay in EL or the dropped interception the following year versus MSU.

 

[bdgan]

It was in 2014 ... you remember, the game where the replay failed and the Buckeye kicker had 3 or 4 extra seconds to kick a FG? All of those incredibly bizarre officiating decisions, and it still took the national champion 2 OTs to beat a depleted Penn State squad.

Yet, does James Franklin ever get much credit for outcoaching Urban Mayer in that game? No. The focus is on the 4-hour rain delay in EL or the dropped interception the following year versus MSU.

I'm not a big conspiracy theorist wrt BiG officiating but some of the calls in that game were suspiciously bad. There was also an interception by Von Bell that should have been overturned by replay. In both cases the officials claimed that replay wasn't working even though the TV and scoreboard replays were clear as day. IIRC there was also very questionable personal foul call and a ridiculous leaping call that kept OSU's final drive alive.

I don't think Franklin gets credit for superior coaching in that game because PSU didn't win.