And we were supposed to play nice and loose a lot while we learned how to play with the Big Boys. Then we went and sin the B2G Championship in our second year…..and we were head and shoulders better…..and they have hated us ever since.
Ohio state opponents are the least penalized teams in all of the ncaa
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It's the non-calls that can control a game.
PS the big really didn't want us but couldn't resist the money. The 94 team destroying everyone in the big really pissed them off.
PS the big really didn't want us but couldn't resist the money. The 94 team destroying everyone in the big really pissed them off.
From 1970-1992 the B10 went 4-19 in the Rose Bowl. Michigan and Bo Schembechler and Ohio State and Woody Hayes contributed to many of those losses. When Penn State won the Rose Bowl after the '94 season it was only the 7th conference win in in a quarter century. The conference was a joke throughout the 70s and 80s.
And of course this is why the majority of b2g affiliated AP-Voters voted UNL #1 over PSU (PSU did something that had not been accomplished in 25 years - undefeated, untied and won the Rose Bowl - but of course the vast majority of b2g affiliated voters didn't support them, go figure.).
Now you find this? 25 years ago in 1999 Penn State had the top two players in the draft of our Harrington and Courtney Brown. The opposing teams were called for holding something like three times only halfway through that season. The top two players in the draft who would be rushing the passer were never held according to the Big Ten.
And that's a generation ago.
In the Oregon game Abdul Carter was being tackled from behind while he was tackling our Gaughan player for a loss. Throwing a holding on that also would've at least maybe since a warning to Oregon. And I believe Penn State was at a disadvantage because of this.
Football, like most sports, is driven by emotions, therefore I believe that the timing of penalties is much more important than the quantity of penalties. A penalty on a game changing play, say a big stop or turnover by the defense, is not equivalent to a nebulous holding call on an incomplete pass, yet in the stats they are each a penalty for the OP to count.
Spot on! And same with non calls. Not calling holding Carter on a TD pass has to be infuriating.
Who knows, it may be that a season long, game long of being constantly held is what caused DDS to go too far and get two personal fouls against him?🤷🏿♂️
It has happened before.
There is a reason that the HOF defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the '70's was referred to as 'Mean' Joe Greene.....
From the SI Vault:
On the first Bronco touchdown, a seven-yard strike up the middle by rookie Rob Lytle, something happened that almost turned the halftime entertainment into a full-scale brawl. Steeler Defensive Tackle Mean Joe Greene complained to Barth's crew that Bronco Guard Paul Howard had been holding him on too many plays, but the officials offered little in the way of sympathy. Greene complained several more times; then, with less than a minute to play in the second quarter, he took matters into his own hands. Or fists. Mean Joe leveled Howard with a devastating bolo punch to the solar plexus. Astonishingly, Greene's punch escaped the eyes of only six people—the members of Barth's crew.
Two plays later Greene drew a 15-yard penalty for throwing the same sort of punch at Center Mike Montler, who Mean Joe felt was trying to retaliate on Howard's behalf. Montler politely explained that one of his hands just happened to get inside Greene's face mask in the normal course of blocking. All of which led to angry words and some shoving as the two teams headed to their locker rooms and almost brought (HC Red) Miller and Steeler Defensive Line Coach George Perles to blows.
Before lots of tv cameras and replay this was quite common. Did a couple ‘self discipline’ moves myself in high school ball.
My attitude was if my opponent decided the rules didn’t matter……..then the rules didn’t matter.🤷🏿♂️
Ohio State whining. And it's a worthless stat. Officials don't throw a lot of flags in blowouts, and most of Ohio State's games are blowouts. When one team is up by 4 TDs, the officials just want to get the game over with and so does Ohio State.
Anybody who's watched Penn State-Ohio State games knows flags get thrown a lot against Penn State and especially when PSU is a threat to win.
My favorite was some years ago when PSU was tied and forced Ohio State to punt and the B1G crew helpfully called PSU's punt-receiving team for defensive holding at the line -- a call that I had never seen before and have never seen since. It gave Ohio State back the ball and they scored and that was the game.
When Ohio State really needs a flag, they tend to get one, from what I've seen.
