Good coaches win close games

[Petch]

I was always amazed at how PSU would win so many close games throughout the years.

I‘m not amazed anymore.

 

[Mufasa94]

I was always amazed at how PSU would win so many close games throughout the years.

I‘m not amazed anymore.

Thought they had turned the corner in ‘19. If so, they’ve kept turning to the complete wrong direction.

 

[MacNit07]

I was always amazed at how PSU would win so many close games throughout the years.

I‘m not amazed anymore.

Now it is 180 degrees in the other direction.

 

[johnmpsu]

Funny thing, I seem to remember a very conservative coach who rarely went for it on 4th down and when he did his teams usually made it. When given the opportunity he almost always took the points. People in the stands frequently bitched and moaned but he managed to win an awful lot of games. I think it was 409. There were an awful lot of close games in that 409. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here.

 

[Petch]

Funny thing, I seem to remember a very conservative coach who rarely went for it on 4th down and when he did his teams usually made it. When given the opportunity he almost always took the points. People in the stands frequently bitched and moaned but he managed to win an awful lot of games. I think it was 409. There were an awful lot of close games in that 409. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here.

Yeah…I didn’t really want to get into a Franklin/Paterno comparison, but I would love to see the stats (especially during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s) of wins vs losses by a TD or less during that timeframe. It could be my imagination, but I bet the record would be interesting.