I don't remember Joe's teams losing the line of scrimmage , so badly so often in big games. The season is not over. Redemption is possible.
One difference between Paterno and Franklin
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Yeah they did such a great job in the 1978 Championship against Alabama.
Eh, by the time we joined the Big Ten, we got dominated at the line of scrimmage plenty of times. 1997 against Michigan was an absolute nightmare. 1996 at Ohio State in our top-5 matchup -- we got smoked at the line. Tressel and Lloyd Carr pretty consistently beat Joe's teams at the line of scrimmage.
My two cents. It's impossible to compare the two. So many different variables. Does anyone know how many times that Joe was vilified. Heard it since the 70s. Just be thankful we have a successful football program in Central Pennsylvania.
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Don't you think a lot of that was due to the liberal holding rules that the B1G used even then? Joe played an independent schedule for almost 20 years, and I think taught blocking the way it should be taught - avoid holding. When PSU joined the B1G, Joe continued to teach blocking the same way he always did. I think Franklin still does that. Those liberal B1G holding rules help the top teams (read OSU and UM) that can recruit bigger, stronger guys that have an advantage to begin with, and then help them even more by allowing them to hold more. As college football has evolved into a skills game with more passing, that's translated into the big two doing that handsy holding in the secondary.
The reffing in this conference needs a good fumigation.
