Congratulations to Michigan State. You were pretty crappy today, but you weren't as crappy as us. Enjoy your Land Grant Trophy. We were getting tired of storing that piece of shit anyway. Please take care of the homeless guy living inside it. He isn't welcome in State College anymore. His name is Anthony and he likes Italian food. He can be useful if you give him small jobs here and there, but don't ask him to wash dishes as he tends to drop things when startled.

That was a fittingly crappy game by a crappy team to end a crappy season. Where should we start? How about the defense.

It's pretty evident now that the move of Tony Davis to safety was a bad one. The secondary was supposed to be a strength of this team. But there was Brian Hoyer slinging the ball around like he's Tom Brady. Yeah, we intercepted two passes. Too bad he completed 17 of his other 20 passes for 280 yards and 4 touchdowns. Here's what I said in my preview.

Thomas had 7 catches for 139 yards and 3 TD. Davis had 4 catches for 106 yards. The next best receiver had one catch for 13 yards. All we had to do was stop these two guys. But they killed us. How can four guys not cover two guys? I don't understand it. They were continually left wide open 30 yards down field. Hoyer completed seven passes over 20 yards. How does this happen? I just don't get it.

As I write this there's a debate raging in the open thread whether the loss should get pinned on the defense or Morelli. I'll give you my take. The defense lost the game, but Morelli had a chance to win it and didn't come through. He only completed 16 of 35 passes for 188 yards. He threw behind receivers crossing the middle. He overthrew receivers down field. He didn't even see guys when they were wide open. Otis Wiley should have had a pick six after jumping on an early out pattern. But as bad as he was and as bad as the defense was, there he found himself with a chance to win the game in the fourth quarter. He easily moved them 50 yards down to the Michigan State 24 yard line.

Brent Carter came in for the injured Kinlaw and rattled off carries of 8 yards, 9 yards, and 6 yards in three of the previous four plays. They were rolling. Then Jay said, "Thanks Galen. I'll take it from here." Incomplete to Bell. Incomplete to Butler. Incomplete to Williams. Incomplete to Butler.

I could go on but I won't. I'll just say the kickoff coverage sucked ass. Special thanks to Navarro Bowman and Knowledge Timmons for not making the trip. We did do some things well. Kinlaw played his heart out. He played hurt and got 125 yards and 2 touchdowns in his last Big Ten game. The offensive line was dynamite. The front seven of the defense had a good game without Chris Baker. Imagine that, kid, Penn State football goes on without you.

PSUncle called me and we ranted about this game for half an hour over the phone. Typing this up is now the second time this evening I've relived the game. I'm sick of it. All that's left now is to find out which crappy bowl game we're going to so we can play out Morelli's last game and move on to the Clark/Devlin era. At least the basketball team looks good so far this year.