Scoring late in the game when the game is in hand
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Someone should show this to Mr. Brown. These are the last 2 scores when he bludgeoned us (Towson) in game #1 last year. We didn’t cry about it.
| 4th Quarter | |||
| 11:12 | WVU - Jeremiah Aaron 5 yd. pass from Will Crowder (Parker Grothaus kick) | 7 | 58 |
| 4:42 | WVU - Preston Fox 26 yd. pass from Nicco Marchiol (Parker Grothaus kick) | 7 | 65 |
Not true. The site would be deluged with rants about the coaching and every variety of we deserve better posts. Fire Franklin
Without the TOs game would have ended.
I get it, but I wish he weren't so wordy. How about "we had a chance to give our twos in-game reps and we took it?"
Penn State should be the first school ever to drop in the polls for winning too big. That would be appropriate.
Only on this board could this reach 3 pages.
You are completely wrong. It used to be that way. Ever since the BCS came in to play, that concept went out the window. As well, he wasn't running up the score for crying out loud. They had 1st teamers in when we were fully 2nd team and we were playing basic football. Joe and McQuerry threw a bomb against Rutgers when were up 40, now that was running it up. Although I loved it. So stop shi*ing on Franklin.
If the rolls are reversed, does that mean you put the butter on the underside (aka, the crusty side)?
So lemme guess, you were one of those a couple years ago moaning that Taquan didn't get any run in the Ball State blowout because Franklin kept Clifford in the game into the 4th quarter? Well, if Beau has to come into the game against Illinois in a couple weeks, those reps he got against WVU will come in handy.
Joe and Fran didn't call that pass. McQuery audibled to it, which obviously was the right call just not in this game situation. Joe put his head down and shook it in disapproval. This play came up again when McQuery's gambling issues became public.
Someone let me know when we have a similar discussion about ‘bad wins’ vs ‘good losses’ (and how the latter is better), because it’s coming.
ICYMI: At least five voting members of the AP put PSU 9th or worse after Week 1, including professional widget Rece Davis.
ICYMI: At least five voting members of the AP put PSU 9th or worse after Week 1, including professional widget Rece Davis.
I really don't care. It's infuriating to me that people will jump on Franklin because his 2nd team scored on freakin WV at the end of the game. With some people the guy can't win. It's exhausting.
Ancient history, there, Bob. After Penn State routed Ohio State 63-14 in 1994, it dropped from #1 to #2 in one of the polls.
Franklin did absolutely nothing wrong. Brown complaining about it tells you more about him than Franklin playing his back-ups and letting them play.
Oh yes. I remember that. We embarrassed one of the big two. We got what we deserved.
F*ck us.
Brown should be more worried about how our #2’s scored so easily against his #1’s.
That's Lau-reeeeece, the original Pompatus of Love, to you!
Exactly. Which is why any comparison to the '94 Indiana game holds no water.
We beat OSU 63-14 and drop. How many points would we have had to hang on Indiana to matter? The answer is it DIDN'T matter....Osborne was getting his MNC.
CJF gave his explanation and it is reasonable. He said there’s other things he could say, but refrained from getting into them. Those things have been discussed on this thread. He took the high road.
Personally, I prefer winning classy while keeping your head down and celebrating with the whole team after the game is over. But those days are long over. Celebrating first downs, chains after TDs or turnovers. I’d rather just take a knee and kill the clock in this situation. But at this point I don’t really care. The kids who are playing don’t really seem to care much about it, so why should I? And if I’m being honest, the ones playing seem to be having more fun than players used to have.
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WVa had no problem leaving the 1's in to score late and then go for 2....so if the opponent puts in the 2's and 3's and scores it's really not that big a deal. They work just as hard in practice and good on Beau for getting in. Coaches like Brown want it both ways...it's just that simple.
Right. And we all saw Joe’s classy way of doing things blow up in our faces in ‘94. College sports are really professional sports now and winning by more might get you more money at the end of the year. It’s just business.
The fun part is that nowadays, none of these talking heads/writing hands have any influence over who makes it into the playoff. Like basketball, the rankings mean zero other than to drum up talk and put a target on someone's back.
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