…you’re worse than you think you are when you lose. So there’s that.
Remember, you’re aren’t as good as you think you are when you win, and…
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We do- but some of these guys don't.We deserve better
Are we going to leave college football to the Days and the Harbaughs?
Company Man (should stick to re-hashing tales of yore when he and Hack saved the program)….:
All the best players, they’re way better than I am,” Dahmen says. “I’ll never be a top-10 player in the world and I’ll never win majors.”
Dahmen, who’s currently ranked 90th in the world, is not your typical pro golfer. Unlike the top stars on Tour, he’s not galavanting the globe in a chartered jet. His home is not a mega mansion, but rather a quaint house in Scottsdale, Ariz. And he shares few aspirations of becoming a top talent in pro golf.
“Somebody’s got to be the 70th-best golfer in the world,” he says. “It might as well be me.”
(Check out his episode on Netflix Full Swing. It is a hoot )
Dahmen, who’s currently ranked 90th in the world, is not your typical pro golfer. Unlike the top stars on Tour, he’s not galavanting the globe in a chartered jet. His home is not a mega mansion, but rather a quaint house in Scottsdale, Ariz. And he shares few aspirations of becoming a top talent in pro golf.
“Somebody’s got to be the 70th-best golfer in the world,” he says. “It might as well be me.”
(Check out his episode on Netflix Full Swing. It is a hoot )
All the best players, they’re way better than I am,” Dahmen says. “I’ll never be a top-10 player in the world and I’ll never win majors.”
Dahmen, who’s currently ranked 90th in the world, is not your typical pro golfer. Unlike the top stars on Tour, he’s not galavanting the globe in a chartered jet. His home is not a mega mansion, but rather a quaint house in Scottsdale, Ariz. And he shares few aspirations of becoming a top talent in pro golf.
“Somebody’s got to be the 70th-best golfer in the world,” he says. “It might as well be me.”
(Check out his episode on Netflix Full Swing. It is a hoot )
Someone has to suck. Then again, if everyone were great, then everyone would suck.
Quite honestly, I never expected a win, but was expecting more offense from a team that was able to put 63 points on both the Blue Hens and Minutemen in the same year.
The same ‘company man’ who transferred to *checks notes* UMASS to further his football career? The same ‘company man’ who mismanaged so badly his one chance at a college job while on Herm’s staff at ASU? That guy? Nah, I’ll take my ‘advice’ from someone a bit more credible.
Thanks, Adam. As a media member please tone down your hype because it was pretty much the PSU media hyping this QB and offense and we’ve seen the warts since the first game. Report what you see and be honest about it.
You’re right, Coach doesn’t deserve to be fired but he doesn’t deserve a $7m contract either when he doesn’t deliver in big games.
He’s Mr. September and everyone gets so excited and when coach tries to negotiate a new deal. Then we get into Oct and Nov and reality bits. MD and Rutgers will smother this offense and will make the faithful squirm and that’s not supposed to happen!
Be who you are. If you are weak at wr then run the ball with supposedly your elite backs and your best OL in ten years. You haven’t done that! That’s poor coaching.
You’re right, Coach doesn’t deserve to be fired but he doesn’t deserve a $7m contract either when he doesn’t deliver in big games.
He’s Mr. September and everyone gets so excited and when coach tries to negotiate a new deal. Then we get into Oct and Nov and reality bits. MD and Rutgers will smother this offense and will make the faithful squirm and that’s not supposed to happen!
Be who you are. If you are weak at wr then run the ball with supposedly your elite backs and your best OL in ten years. You haven’t done that! That’s poor coaching.
But Adam, we had THREE weeks to get ready for this game! Who is responsible for that shjt show yesterday? I watched the game with 2 retired FB coaches….70 years of coaching experience…2 PSU fans, who don’t throw coaches under the bus…. They were a bit pissed!
So far, Mr. September has my vote. 10-2 = X2 - that works too. Audrey Snyder used the term ‘clunker’ so Clunker Jim has a solid ring to it.
I have a hard time believing that offensive performance surprised the coaches (maybe it did - I can't read their minds - but I don't think so).
Throughout the season to date:
They had tried - with limited success - to find some better combinations on the offensive line. It wasn't really working, even against the bottom of the barrel Big Ten teams. I have to believe in their heart-of-hearts they knew they were only getting "compete against OSU" level play from 2 of their starting 5, and were willing to at least look at any option to try to get to 3 or 4 solid positions.
They had to recognize that they had no playmaker among their wide receiver group. Again, they tried some other options - with no success - and then tried to get back to emphasizing the TE group, which showed some flashes, but (obviously) is no substitute for having downfield threats.
They had to know that the pass game was woefully lacking downfield plays (and, given the long history of emphasis, they certainly know that generating explosive plays - and driving up the yards per play efficiency - is probably the single biggest correlator to winning big games). Whatever they tried, they couldn't even generate a small spark in tinder on that front all year. They had to be extremely concerned about that.
If the staff was truly, in any way, surprised by that offensive performance, I would be shocked (and very disappointed in their level of awareness). Hoping for the best? Sure. But hope isn't a solid plan.
That doesn't address concerns many have with the "What was the plan?" issues surrounding the offensive game plan for OSU - but that is a different issue.
Is there talent on the squad - even on the offensive side? Sure there is.
Moreso, by far, than anyone but UM and OSU in the offensively incompetent Big Ten.
But there is - and has been - pretty much nothing that has been executing at a level to compete with the defenses of UM and OSU. Not even close. Can that change? Sure it can. Will it? Time will tell.
Throughout the season to date:
They had tried - with limited success - to find some better combinations on the offensive line. It wasn't really working, even against the bottom of the barrel Big Ten teams. I have to believe in their heart-of-hearts they knew they were only getting "compete against OSU" level play from 2 of their starting 5, and were willing to at least look at any option to try to get to 3 or 4 solid positions.
They had to recognize that they had no playmaker among their wide receiver group. Again, they tried some other options - with no success - and then tried to get back to emphasizing the TE group, which showed some flashes, but (obviously) is no substitute for having downfield threats.
They had to know that the pass game was woefully lacking downfield plays (and, given the long history of emphasis, they certainly know that generating explosive plays - and driving up the yards per play efficiency - is probably the single biggest correlator to winning big games). Whatever they tried, they couldn't even generate a small spark in tinder on that front all year. They had to be extremely concerned about that.
If the staff was truly, in any way, surprised by that offensive performance, I would be shocked (and very disappointed in their level of awareness). Hoping for the best? Sure. But hope isn't a solid plan.
That doesn't address concerns many have with the "What was the plan?" issues surrounding the offensive game plan for OSU - but that is a different issue.
Is there talent on the squad - even on the offensive side? Sure there is.
Moreso, by far, than anyone but UM and OSU in the offensively incompetent Big Ten.
But there is - and has been - pretty much nothing that has been executing at a level to compete with the defenses of UM and OSU. Not even close. Can that change? Sure it can. Will it? Time will tell.
So my question to Breneman is when do we go from being "close" to actually moving forward? Do we give CFG another 10 years to make that happen?
Well that certainly seems to be our ceiling. 10-2 and 3rd best team in the Big Ten. If you compare our position to the SEC, we would be the Ole Miss of the Big Ten.
A lot of words to say, are they as good as OSU or Michigan? No. Can they be? Maybe.
This is likely as close as we get - on paper - to being fairly even talent-wise with OSU for some time. We desperately have to hope our players get better because after 10 years we know what we’ve got in our head coach.
To me, the away game at tOSU seemed more winnable than the upcoming home game against UM. I hope that I'm wrong, but when I take off the blue and white glasses I see that UM is clearly a better team than PSU. At least we PSU fans won't be as deluded as we were going into the 1997 34-8 beating. I hope I'm wrong, but PSU over UM would be an upset.
FWIW (not much), I don't know if OSU had the more "talented" team on 10/21/23.
Their offense, in particular, is well off of the typical good OSU team.
Their QB, right now, is mediocre. Their line is pedestrian. And - with Henderson and Embuka out - their top playmakers were Harrison (yeah, for sure, a beast) and Stover?.
Not to denigrate Stover - he is a very solid TE. But on most recent OSU offenses Stover would be the 5th or 6th guy on the list of who scares you.
PSU was facing, on Saturday, an OSU offense with a mediocre QB and 1 true scary playmaker (and that playmaker had 11 catches and 160+ yards, and was running free as a bird - in man coverage against an inside linebacker? - for the couple of big plays OSU needed)
PSU has, I think, a very good defense - but even they didn't do anything all that special on Saturday (given the blemishes of the OSU offense).
OSU, a month from now, will probably have a much scarier offense (assuming they get healthy)
Good work but you need to work "obviously" in thereBlack Shoes
Basic Blues
All Blame
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“Big Game” James Berganer….
Franklin is 24-20 overall on the road in his 9.7 yrs at PSU… let that sink in.
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