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Football GAMEDAY THREAD: Penn State vs. Minnesota

Some school would always hire Urban despite the baggage. The fact is that there’s more available schools for him than physical maladies he can claim when he skips town.
 
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Where are the staff predictions for this weeks game? I'm unable to locate them.
We dropped the ball on that but we have a trio of them up. Don't mind the picture, for some reason it attached the wrong one.

 
But isn't this a game we're expected to win and win big especially if Morgan doesn't play. I don't understand this pretending that beating Minnesota is something to be valued. They're an average at best team and if they don't have Morgan it's like beating a MAC team (did you see Kaliakmanis last week?) which isn't impressive.

There's 2 "big games" a year unless we schedule an elite non-conference opponent. The overall success of our seasons comes down to those games. Same as it does for Michigan and Ohio State. And then we have to take care of business in the other 10.
10-2 with the best win being Purdue or Minnesota isn't impressive and we all know it.
Expected to win big but favored by 5 at home? Some of you simply try to hard to diminish PSU even before the game. And if we win big, the other team sucks. Some just want to disparage PSU regardless of outcome.
 
Expected to win big but favored by 5 at home? Some of you simply try to hard to diminish PSU even before the game. And if we win big, the other team sucks. Some just want to disparage PSU regardless of outcome.
Lines are about betting money nothing else and speaks to people not having confidence in Franklin.
I don't care what the final score is today as long as they win. A loss is unacceptable.
The reality is--Minnesota, especially without Morgan, isn't a good team.
 
We dropped the ball on that but we have a trio of them up. Don't mind the picture, for some reason it attached the wrong one.

Thanks much. I was really interested in Justin Morganstien's take, his pick was the closest last week.
 
I agree with going big for this program, but, there is a reason Urban is available/"realistic". there seems to be a pattern of his employers telling him to go away
Yes and he usually leaves the program in a scandal of varying proportions.
 
Either would be type of coach needed, that is why PSU would never consider them. I would love them to can Franklin for Urban just to see the Paterno fans heads explode. Particular when he started winning.
Joe had Urban hand picked as his successor.
 
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Utah was probably the last time he left a job for normal reasons

I would still watch PSU ,but in all honesty I'd almost rather watch Franklin go 7-6 than watch Meyer walking around in a PSU shirt

Some people just end up being too much of a pain to be worth it. For instance, I thought O'Brien might take PSU to the next level post-sanctions, but he ended up being kind of insufferable
O'Brien could have been the man given different circumstances. Everyone handled that badly, he may have been kind of insufferable but understandable given the crap he had to deal with.
 
I think urban has been able to fool a lot of people for awhile.
Or Joe didn't care about things you thought he did
Which isn't a bad person. Joe was a great man--hopefully not as judgmental as many of you make him out to be
Urban was never a good person just an elite coach
 
You guys are especially vicious already in the Game Day Tread. Usually we wait until our first ridiculous offensive play or defensive break down, before we fire Franklin and debate his successor.
 
Or Joe didn't care about things you thought he did
Which isn't a bad person. Joe was a great man--hopefully not as judgmental as many of you make him out to be
Urban was never a good person just an elite coach
The last thing you want is psu with an elite coach
 
You guys are especially vicious already in the Game Day Tread. Usually we wait until our first ridiculous offensive play or defensive break down, before we fire Franklin and debate his successor.
Some just like to be first in line.
 
You guys are especially vicious already in the Game Day Tread. Usually we wait until our first ridiculous offensive play or defensive break down, before we fire Franklin and debate his successor.
That’s because we can’t go undefeated and we as fans deserve that every year.
 
All of the talk here about replacing our headcoach is what you get when the coach spends more time promoting himself than improving his team. Sadly James Franklin has brought all of this upon himself. He says hes "all that" but doesn't live up to it.
Personally, I like him and hope he stays here but calms down his self promotion and dedicates himself it's himself to building a tough team that is hard to beat in the trenches. That's Penn State football. If he stays he needs to hire more coordinators like BOB.
 
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It ain't the game of the century that you guys want to build it into. A 4-2 Minnesota that a lot of people here think is a joke. Not going to be any great accolades if PSU wins, only thing that would make it significant would be a PSU loss.

Based on the lack of respect you demonstrate for ANY program, none are worthy of even being on the same field as PSU. O$U? scUM? Worthless programs with idiot coaches. We should win by just showing up. WE ARE! We do things right! Unrivaled!

What is the cute name for Minnesota trending in the middle school halls? You seem to be on the pulse of that and I want to be sure to use it properly.
Lol. A perfect scenario for you, right? If PSU wins they don’t deserve any credit, but if they lose it’s the end of the world and we should fire everyone. What a joke.
 
All of the talk here about replacing our headcoach is what you get when the coach spends more time promoting himself than improving his team. Sadly James Franklin has brought all of this upon himself. He says hes "all that" but doesn't live up to it.
Personally, I like him and hope he stays here but calms down his self promotion and dedicates himself it's himself to building a tough team that is hard to beat in the trenches. That's Penn State football. If he stays he needs to hire more coordinators like BOB.
He needs to quit leaving town before games
 
Some of these guys aren't actually PSU fans. They think our mindset is the same as Ohio St or Michigan fans. It isn't.
We aren't different and never have been. The only difference is you believed "success with honor" which enabled Paterno to keep expectations lower than they would be at other schools. Please step out of the 70s and 80s. Look back and think about things without your blue & white shades on.
 
I don't know about that. I remember reading these boards during the Morelli and Bolden years.
I do too, but back then people who got too out of line got banned….and trolls from other teams got banned as well. Now it’s wide open for everyone to pile on.
 
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I do too, but back then people who got too out of line got banned….and trolls from other teams got banned as well. Now it’s wide open for everyone to pile on.
Yeah, like all those scUM trolls week before last that were saying stupid stuff like "Auburn is not a good team" and "our strengths are your weaknesses". Good thing we started a thread to get those trolls out of here. Doesn't matter if what they said was true in spades or that they said it in a respectful manner, we can't be allowing those guys to say those mean things.
 
You guys are especially vicious already in the Game Day Tread. Usually we wait until our first ridiculous offensive play or defensive break down, before we fire Franklin and debate his successor.
The season is already toast, don't you get that? It is utterly ridiculous that Minny is even in the same stratosphere as PSU. We should curb stomp every opponent and then play scUM and O$U toe to toe beating them 75% of the time. Win 2 nattys every 4 years. Who is our coach? No clue but def not Franklin and generally our coach is someone else who is not the current coach the first time we have to punt. Our coach's winning percentage is 90%. Got the playbook down?
 
just hope we don't lose tonight. if that happens it will be really ridiculous on here for weeks
Meltdown of epic proportions. Even a win by 7 points will not be tolerated. In fact, any win is not good enough. We totally blew it last week. No coming back from that, all is lost.
 
Yeah, like all those scUM trolls week before last that were saying stupid stuff like "Auburn is not a good team" and "our strengths are your weaknesses". Good thing we started a thread to get those trolls out of here. Doesn't matter if what they said was true in spades or that they said it in a respectful manner, we can't be allowing those guys to say those mean things.
Or bringing up Sandusky and basically calling us pedophiles…yeah, as long as they said that sh!t in a respectful manner. Give me a break.
 
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The season is already toast, don't you get that? It is utterly ridiculous that Minny is even in the same stratosphere as PSU. We should curb stomp every opponent and then play scUM and O$U toe to toe beating them 75% of the time. Win 2 nattys every 4 years. Who is our coach? No clue but def not Franklin and generally our coach is someone else who is not the current coach the first time we have to punt. Our coach's winning percentage is 90%. Got the playbook down?
5-1 and the season is already toast? LMAO. You sound like a 13 year-old girl.
 
Meltdown of epic proportions. Even a win by 7 points will not be tolerated. In fact, any win is not good enough. We totally blew it last week. No coming back from that, all is lost.
I agree that any win is good tonight but how we play is important.
 
As you guys may have seen, Tanner Morgan was in initial warmups for Minnesota but it did seem that he was not loosening up as much as the other quarterbacks. We'll find out very soon. Minnesota has headed back, we'll find out when they come back out.
 
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Lol. A perfect scenario for you, right? If PSU wins they don’t deserve any credit, but if they lose it’s the end of the world and we should fire everyone. What a joke.
Wrong take. Far from a perfect scenario.

They should have fired everyone 2 years ago but they went totally stupid in the other direction.

I'm not the one on here preaching about how we are the absolute best program in CFB and showing 0 respect for others. Why would I consider this game a showcase when the other 51 weeks of the year I see nothing the least bit positive about our opponent's abilities? When did MN suddenly become a "showcase" opponent? Some of you are still blathering on about how bad the MI program is and what a low-life they have for a coach. Make up your minds.
 
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