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if our OT's cant go, there is a solution, 79 Sugar Bowl vs Alabama watch what they did

sluggo72

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Alabama trying to neutralize Millen and Clark, they simply split their OT away from the line!! Lined them up next to the TE that were split, now anybody could be an OT!!!

Check it out (btw this is a highlight reel, except every other play is a punt!!) at the 11:26 mark Alabama jumps into the split tackle alignment!!! Call CJF and tell him!!! No need to burn any redshirts we have a solution!!!!

 
The importance of special teams in the game is still vital.

What a fluke, that Alabama won the game on Lou Ikner's punt return, and PSU with too many men on the field on a short punt.

Flukey, how teams win with special teams. So flukey.
 
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Suhey's leap over the line on 3rd down would be reviewed today over and over and an overhead camera or one from the opposite pylon might reveal if when he leaped and/or reached out if the nose of the football broke the plane of the goal line.
 
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john4psu said:
Suhey's leap over the line on 3rd down would be reviewed today over and over and an overhead camera or one from the opposite pylon might reveal if when he leaped and/or reached out if the nose of the football broke the plane of the goal line.
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It sure looked like he may have crossed the plane. Same for Guman on 4th down.
 
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I don't think Guman did but Suhey may have. All you have to reach is the front of the goal line....
 
john4psu said:
Suhey's leap over the line on 3rd down would be reviewed today over and over and an overhead camera or one from the opposite pylon might reveal if when he leaped and/or reached out if the nose of the football broke the plane of the goal line.
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Actually, the play that would have been reviewed was the pass to Fitzkee on SECOND down: The ball hit the plane of the goal line before McNeil drove him back.
 
psuro said:
To this day I cannot watch that game. Penn State in white shoes?
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Somebody came to the team with a shoe offer the week before the game, and when the players started practice in New Orleans, Joe allowed them to take a vote and the players voted to wear the new shoes. They were actually more like tennis shoes, not turf shoes at all.

Had nothing to do with the outcome, but was out of character.
 
rudedude said:
If Fusina faked a handoff and bootlegged around the end he would have scored easily. My senior year at Penn State and a sore spot still!
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Still for me the most disappointing PSU loss ever. I was still young enough - freshman year - that it really bothered me. Gotta give Bear credit. PSU was loaded to the gills with talent. Not that Bama wasn't. Still hard to believe. PSU didn't get a single break in the game, including the TD pass at the end of the first half that bounced into Bruce Bolton's' arms.
 
We had trouble all day with the option. On the Oglevie TD run, the DE crashed unnecessarily toward Rutledge, leaving the boundary open for the pitch. It was third down and would have for certain forced a field goal. At that point, PSU would have faced a decision to go for it or take a game tying FG. Remember, the goal line stand happened at the SEVEN minute mark of the game with both teams holding 3 time outs.

I think Joe would have taken the three points, tied the game, and played for field position to win it at the end.
 
mn78psu83 said:
Still for me the most disappointing PSU loss ever. I was still young enough - freshman year - that it really bothered me. Gotta give Bear credit. PSU was loaded to the gills with talent. Not that Bama wasn't. Still hard to believe. PSU didn't get a single break in the game, including the TD pass at the end of the first half that bounced into Bruce Bolton's' arms.
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Bama's defensive line beat us up front. The real problem was that we just could not run the ball on their D line. We couldn't block them.

And we actually DID get a big break when Milot intercepted the pass. He should have returned it for a touchdown but we missed two blocks on the return and he got caught before he reached the end zone. We failed to capitalize on the mistake and went backwards after the interception. Again, we got handled up front all day.
 
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21Guns said:
Bama's defensive line beat us up front. The real problem was that we just could not run the ball on their D line. We couldn't block them.

And we actually DID get a big break when Milot intercepted the pass. He should have returned it for a touchdown but we missed two blocks on the return and he got caught before he reached the end zone. We failed to capitalize on the mistake and went backwards after the interception. Again, we got handled up front all day.
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Good points. PSU was the #1 ranked D in the nation going into that game. Bama gained over 200 yards in the first half - over 100 of it rushing. That was a punch in the mouth. PSU made some terrible mistakes in the game too. To your point of getting manhandled at times - Fitzkee not getting into the end zone on the 2nd down throw from the 3 was a good example. McNeal just ripped him down. He wasn't going to let him in and won the physical battle decisively. When Fitzkee first caught the ball I remember getting ready to go berserk. It was a real WTF moment for everyone in the room.
 
21Guns said:
We had trouble all day with the option. On the Oglevie TD run, the DE crashed unnecessarily toward Rutledge, leaving the boundary open for the pitch. It was third down and would have for certain forced a field goal. At that point, PSU would have faced a decision to go for it or take a game tying FG. Remember, the goal line stand happened at the SEVEN minute mark of the game with both teams holding 3 time outs.

I think Joe would have taken the three points, tied the game, and played for field position to win it at the end.
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Guns how do you know the DE was on a stunt that assigned him to crash on the DE and someone else was assigned the pitch?? Without the huddle call, we will never know.
 
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Good points. PSU was the #1 ranked D in the nation going into that game. Bama gained over 200 yards in the first half - over 100 of it rushing. That was a punch in the mouth. PSU made some terrible mistakes in the game too. To your point of getting manhandled at times - Fitzkee not getting into the end zone on the 2nd down throw from the 3 was a good example. McNeal just ripped him down. He wasn't going to let him in and won the physical battle decisively. When Fitzkee first caught the ball I remember getting ready to go berserk. It was a real WTF moment for everyone in the room.
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I'll get ripped by my haters for this(they rip me when I say the sky is blue lmao) but I was there, actually. As a youngster went with a large group of boosters and adults, sat in one of the PSU sections, upper deck corner end zone. Relied on the big screen for some big plays because those Superdome seats were so far up. So many memories: My first look at Bourbon street, in the days leading up... so many freaks, drunk Bama fans on Bourbon st with Tide laundry boxes on their heads, haha, Lake Ponchetrain hotel, I was too young to really take it all in, but it was truly incredible for a kid seeing all this in the Big Easy.
 
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Guns how do you know the DE was on a stunt that assigned him to crash on the DE and someone else was assigned the pitch?? Without the huddle call, we will never know.
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Sluggo, take another look at the replay of the Major Oglevie TD run...As the camera pans to cover Major darting for the end zone, look at the run support we had coming for Rutledge: We had a LB and a S coming and would have easily tackled Rutledge at about the 5 or 7 yard line...DE hesitates because he thinks he needs to support the qb keep, but the technique back then is to cover pitch, and let backside support rally to the qb. It's a misplay, but I think it happens because Lally(I THINK it was Lally, might have been Kubin) thinks he has help on the boundary, where he has none.
 
Also, Millen misses a tackle that he makes about 9 out of 10 times, and why when he misses, he takes himself out of the play. If Millen only stays on his feet and pursues Rutledge, the play is probably dead right away because Rutledge at that point needs to pitch to Oglevie.

Jesus. Just watching it again freaking hurts.
 
mn78psu83 said:
Good points. PSU was the #1 ranked D in the nation going into that game. Bama gained over 200 yards in the first half - over 100 of it rushing. That was a punch in the mouth. PSU made some terrible mistakes in the game too. To your point of getting manhandled at times - Fitzkee not getting into the end zone on the 2nd down throw from the 3 was a good example. McNeal just ripped him down. He wasn't going to let him in and won the physical battle decisively. When Fitzkee first caught the ball I remember getting ready to go berserk. It was a real WTF moment for everyone in the room.
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I disagree with the people who said the two runs were bad calls by Joe: They were just too fast and there was no way we were going to score on a wide run. Fusina runs a keep and dollars to donuts Krause or McNeil or Buie swallow him up at the 10 yard line. The calls were our best shot to get it in. If anything, another throw maybe to Bassett who was covered by Jim Bob Harris, rather than anything on McNeil who is one of the top 10 corners to ever play the game.
 
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