Minnesota 1999

[WDLion]

Who can forget that loss to Colorado in 1970? Just brutal. Cliff Branch returns opening kickoff for a touchdown in Boulder.

What does that game have to do with the current team?

 

[fbh1]

and if they tried a FG and missed it, it be why not kick it deep and put the game in your defenses hands. Coaches can never win in those situations. The calls were right, the players didn't execute.

I'm not critical of not trying the field goal. It would have been a 49 yard attempt and if missed, Minnesota would have had pretty good field position to get the field goal necessary to win the game. I wish we had been able to down the ball in side of the 10, etc... but I don't find fault with the decision to punt.

I was upset with the 3rd down play call. It's easy to second guess, but I believe that we should have tried to pick up the 4 yards rather than committing to a 34 yard plus pass into the end zone. There was approximately 2 minutes on the clock and a first down would have effectively allowed us to run the clock down to almost nothing. I never understood the call... and still don't. Why not have the mentality of: we have 2 plays to get 4 yards... and win the game without having to rely on our defense... rather than trying a homerun ball into the end zone that is a safe... but low percentage play? It's easy to second guess now, but I have always felt that our play calling in that instance was a mistake that left the door open to what eventually happened.

 

[Cpeplion]

Ohhh Kevin Thompson...it seemed he could only complete a bomb.

He sure was able to complete a right cross onto Jays jaw

 

[BisbeeMike]

He sure was able to complete a right cross onto Jays jaw

Speaking of which, anyone else recall Kerry Collins' "Volleyball injury" that occurred in 1992, somehow on the beach side courts of the Gingerbread Man bar and grill?

 

[BisbeeMike]

I'm not critical of not trying the field goal. It would have been a 49 yard attempt and if missed, Minnesota would have had pretty good field position to get the field goal necessary to win the game. I wish we had been able to down the ball in side of the 10, etc... but I don't find fault with the decision to punt.

I was upset with the 3rd down play call. It's easy to second guess, but I believe that we should have tried to pick up the 4 yards rather than committing to a 34 yard plus pass into the end zone. There was approximately 2 minutes on the clock and a first down would have effectively allowed us to run the clock down to almost nothing. I never understood the call... and still don't. Why not have the mentality of: we have 2 plays to get 4 yards... and win the game without having to rely on our defense... rather than trying a homerun ball into the end zone that is a safe... but low percentage play? It's easy to second guess now, but I have always felt that our play calling in that instance was a mistake that left the door open to what eventually happened.

It was part of the disease that was the 1999 team.

Why in the hell is anyone talking about that crap NOW?

 

[fbh1]

It was part of the disease that was the 1999 team.

Why in the hell is anyone talking about that crap NOW?

Because someone was asking about the game. That was the reason for the beginning of this thread.

Because of the 1999 game, I have a problem with merely trying to hold on to a lead rather playing aggressively to win the game. I've seen too many games and coaching decisions that end up with losses because a team plays too conservatively at the end of the game.

 

[jbuffone]

He sure was able to complete a right cross onto Jays jaw

Wow somehow I missed that bit of history....he actually punched Jay? What were the circumstances?

 

[gslachta]

If that 99 defense took 1/4 of the "risks" that this defense takes, PSU might have been undefeated that year. With the right D coordinator, Courtney Brown and Lavar Arrington, on the same D, would almost be criminal. Instead, PSU sat back in a decades long tradition of "bend but don't break," and also turtled on O against UM and MSU, after the Minny heartbreak, and flushed a potential NC down the crapper.

Was there. Heartbreaking. Set up a tailspin. Linebackers Arrington, Short and Mac Morrison, DL Jimmy Kennedy, DB David Jacklin, DE Courtney Brown; Real talent left hanging on field with an offense that could only go three and out.

 

[Corabi94]

It worked 409 times

And he was horrible against OSU, Michigan, and Iowa.

 

[Lion8286]

And he was horrible against OSU, Michigan, and Iowa.

Give it up clown. Isn't it enough that you thoroughly embarrassed yourself on the Rutgers board, do you have to do it here as well?

 

[Corabi94]

Give it up clown. Isn't it enough that you thoroughly embarrassed yourself on the Rutgers board, do you have to do it here as well?

So I stated a fact and I’ve never been to the Rutgers board. Sorry to not play into you conspiracy theory.

Joe was dominated by those three teams. Show facts that state otherwise.

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

Who can forget that crushing loss in 1985 to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl for the National Championship. I think I'll bring that one up too, since we're all reminiscing! Shaffer threw 3 picks, Ray Isom had an untied shoelace, so instead of calling timeout, we brought in Barry Buchman and Keith Jackson ran by him like he was standing still and OU hit a 3rd and forever from the wishbone on one of their 4 or 5 possible passing plays. Ah yes the memories.

I was there for that one and that play was the turning point.