one day soon we’ll be at their level. A few of our guys just got outplayed. But, its in the past at this point.

Its been a great season, and hopefully we are better next year.

I love what they meant to us after the Dark Years. They reignited PSU after the hellish years of 00-04. And as long as our current recruiting class sticks together, we’ll be back on top next season.

WE ARE PENN STATE AND WE WILL BE BACK!

I just went through my DVR and erased some PSU games and other stuff I’ve kept for too long, and I noticed there was a four-day period in which PSU beat Ohio State and the Phillies won the World Series.

Sports make me happy, and I’m not letting tonight ruin that for more than an hour or so.

WTF? I skim through the open thread, and no one says anything about the real reason for why we lost.

Graham Zug: zero catches for zero yards. They never even threw to him. They never gave him the chance to take the snap, throw the ball in the air, run under it, and then run in for a touchdown

I’m okay with a Rose Bowl loss, hell, we made it to the freaking Granddaddy of them all. But Zug would have destroyed SC. Shame on the coaches.

To watch but got to tailgate with jtothep & mightyerik. Pictures to come when i get home. Had a blast

Here, here. It was a fun ride, I’m ok with what happened.

They didn’t quit.

They didn’t whine.

They didn’t mope.

They kept playing…

We could not have had a better opponent. I would like to see the traditional match-ups end so that we get the best game…we certainly did here!

Congrats on a fine season!

Good luck in 2009.

Fight On!

Bless you, Daryll Clark.

you have a classy coach. too bad you can’t play in the pac10…you’d give the washington schools a hard time…

Great team. Your guys have huge hearts, they never gave up. You are the best team we saw this year, and we were privileged to play, let alone win. Your Team has nothing to regret, FIGHT ON!

Our DB’s and LB’s (minus Bowman) were over matched.

We could not stop a slant or a post all night? They were bigger and faster…much better players…our safety’s were lost.

Hey…hell of a year, 2 loses and some great memories.

Can’t wait for Blue / White this spring…time heals all wounds.

Penn State has a lot to be proud of. I was hoping the seniors would go out on a high note, but that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, I can’t complain too much, we were completely out played today. Sanchez and their WR shredded out zone D and I have to give them a lot of credit. I think that USC’s OLine needs a lot of credit too. The only pressure that Sanchez faced that he couldn’t handle was Maybin’s sack where he lined up about 3 years off sides.

Their Defense matched up with our offense pretty well, but our secondary didn’t do much to stop their passing game and when they figured that our after the first quarter it showed. I do have to say, I am a little disappointed that JoePa didn’t go down to the locker room to try to fire up the troops at the half. Sending a memo down to “Play Penn State Football” isn’t cutting it. I think his team deserved better than that.

All said and done, we have a lot to be thankful for. 11-2 is a hell of a record and I am proud of what the team has accomplished. Especially after the dark years in the beginning of the decade. Thank you seniors that believed/showed that Penn State belongs at the top and for representing the school that well love so much with Class. Today offically starts that long wait for Penn State football to return in the fall.

WE ARE.

USC deserved the win so congrats to them and I am looking forward to the Blue White game already!

We lost the game in one quarter. Take that quarter away and they game was ours. But we made the mistakes and we own up to them. I’m very proud of our boys and what they have accomplished this year.

No one thought we would be here. No one gave us a chance this season. No one thought we would beat Tosu. No one thought we’d beat Wisconsin. But we accomplished that and so much more!

Depsite the love fest the commentators had for USC all game, the PSU didn’t believe the game was over at the half and came back to play. We have so much to look forward to next season.

And…at least now I don’t have to root for Tosu in the Fiesta Bowl.

What did everyone think about the announcers ripping on Maybin, saying he should not jump?

Personally, I think he needs another year in the weight room but he could play OLB in a 3-4 … still needs to get bigger, the NFL is another ballgame.

I don’t think he can be in the top ten. He needs another year

Really thought we had a shot still at the end. Credit to SC for playing a solid game and taking advantage of every single mistake we made (that’s not meant to sound backhanded, honestly). I’m just glad the guys came out after halftime and played hard enough to make it somewhat close.

We got rocked.

Pete Carroll and USC could have beat us by 50 today. They didn’t. Out of respect for the old man, period.

Our kids played hard, theirs were better, not much else to say.

Not before

tailgated with Rockin jtothep and a few others and had a great time until that 2nd qtr. I had great seats but had a few d-bag SC fans around me that pissed me off and it took awhile but me and the rest of the section finally got them to shut it for a while and act a bit classier.

My highlight of the game: somewhere in the 2nd qtr when I just simply couldn’t find a great deal to cheer for I started jumping up out of my seat and screaming like an idiot everytime ZUG checked into the game saying how ‘he can change the course of this game by himself.’ After explaining the joke to the few around me I eventually had a mini-section around me (about 20) all cheering for the kid and watching for him to check in. Some of the clueless Trojans were like ’ who in the hell is that guy?’ and it gave us some laughs. We had a pretty good time with it and I thought you guys would get a smile out of it.

Remember when a PSU team previously lead by Anthony Morelli actually started hanging 50+ points on helpless opponents?

Remember when a defense that lost Dan Conner and Sean Lee introduced us to the speed and ability of 2nd-stringers Navarro Bowman and Aaron Maybin?

Remember when we stomped on Michigan (after 9 agonizing seasons) and made Terrell “too country” Pryor cry?

Remember how a team that wasn’t even considered to be a Big 10 contender was just one missed field goal away from going to the National Championship game with an undefeated season?

Remember when a team lead by a once-in-a-lifetime senior class played their hearts out and scored 24 points on “the greatest defense of all time?”

I don’t know about you, but that’s what I’ll remember about this season.

Hail to the lion!

How the hell did they manage to rack up 9 penalties? Nine penalties just boggles my mind.

Anyone care to tell me which WRs will scare D-coordinaters next year? Odrick, Evans, Gaines, and Maybin could all be gone next year (hope not, but…)…

I was concerned about the departure of Tony Davis, Lydell Sargent, Scirotto and Rubin, but after tonight I’m not sure what the drop off is.

Adam Rittenberg had an interesting comment saying that the secondary’s issues were masked by a great front seven and a lack of credible QB play in the conference. Spot on.

I hate putting the jersey up for an off-season…worst time of the year.

can someone clue me in on what happened to Royster? We were all trying like hell to figure out why we never saw him after somewhere around the 1st qtr.