1. The very un-special teams have somehow gotten worse as the season’s progressed
2. Beachum is a bruising Tony Hunt style RB that needs more playing time
3. Why couldn’t Pryor wait until NEXT week to have the game OSU’s been waiting for him to have?
4. Do we have a Cameron Heyward?
5. Who is the OL coach and why isn’t he doing his job?
6. Gradulations OSU.

Not that I want to re-ignite any sort of Joe Must Go propaganda, but at what point will we stop being satisfied or happy with 10 wins every year? I liken our situation to college basketball programs who win 20-25 games a year and get eliminated in the second round of the NCAA’s. I mean ten wins are nice, but hardly the stuff elite teams are made of. I’m not advocating breaking rules, but I’d like to see us get the 11+ wins a year and not crying every year wondering what went wrong.

It’s been a long time since I was thoroughly dissatisfied with a PSU performance. It was very nearly 60 minutes of ugliness on our part. It’s been years since I turned a game off before the fourth quarter. I can only hope we can find something in the next two games to not make this year a disaster. Unless we’re already at that point…

The point above about PSU being a 9-4 team with a 12-0 schedule is also spot on. We were hoping to throw out the Iowa game as an uncharacteristic clunker, like a bad race by a great horse, but we saw the exact same performance against two identical teams. It is what it is.

Cant think of one…even with 9/10 wins I am not happy.

“Clark will take some justified heat for this loss. Fair or not, his place in Penn State quarterbacking history will be roughly alongside Wally Richardson’s 1995-1996 run — fondly remembered, but nowhere approaching legendary. Daryll will leave Penn State with a shared Big Ten title, love and respect from a vast majority of the fanbase, and gaudy stats against awful teams. People will be happy to see him when he returns to campus in 5, 10, 20 years. But he won’t be a Penn State legend or anything close to it.”

Spot on….DC17 got a free pass for 2 reasons.

1 – He was not QB14.
2 – He talked a good game and many hoped he was MRob II.

But when it came time to put the team on his back and lead, it never happened, it just doesn’t have “IT”, and most people don’t.

Lets not all kill the kid, he is a true success story and seems like a good guy…he just is not an elite QB.

The majority of our losses over the past few years has been complete shitshows. When we lose, it’s god awful. There may be a couple of exceptions (Mich 2005), but it seems like tt’s never a good game where the other team just makes a few more plays. And even with that being the case, last night may have been the biggest clusterfrack yet.

But to emphasize again how bad our “special-ed” teams (sorry, that’s a bit politically incorrect) are…a real turning point “may” (and I emphasize may) have been missed by our punt coverage team.

How in the heck does the coverage team with about 3-4 people converging on the returner, versus 1-2 OSU guys in the area, see (or, I guess, not see) the ball hit the OSU guy in the foot, bound into the end zone and yet, not one Lion was close to covering the ball!

Now OSU “killed” us in every aspect of the game. They deserved the win. But at that point in the game, that could have been a crushing momentum changer had we recovered it in the EZ. May not have meant anything, but it was a giant missed opportunity and it looked like our coverage team didn’t even care.

I really like Clark, but he isn’t an elite QB. Good and even great against the average or mediocre teams, but poor to horrible against the good and great teams. His record against the better competition is slightly better than QB14. PSU hasn’t had an elite QB since Collins – a QB that can make reads, go through progressions, and lead a drive when it matters. Clark could end his career 0-2 in bowl games and QB14 was 2-0.

It’s not losing to Iowa and tO$U at home that sucks. Losing happens. It’s getting your a$$ handed to you twice that sucks. It’s the deer in a headlights look. The lack of will. Inability to rise to the occasion. This team and staff react. They are not proactive.

Enough rambling. I hope they win out and win the bowl game, but I hope to see improvement against better competition in the bowl game and next year in ’Bama.

According to Steve Jones during the game yesterday, Penn State’s longest punt return was 11 yards.

Not this game.

This entire SEASON.

11 yards.

We were spoiled by 2008’s stellar offense.

First PSU gets stomped. Now Jimmie Johnson hits the wall on lap 3.

With the 228 yards rushing we gave up. Definitely wasn’t expecting that.

where was Mr Moye?, on bump and run coverage he was swallowed up at the line and completely unable to get release, and on plays where he had free release the play went away from him , OSU did a fantastic job of bottling him up, i just wonder if he’s as good as we have seen or as bad as we have seen

Penn State will end up in some middle-tier bowl with a cheesy sponsor. Don’t worry. We’ll pretend to care about it.

Don’t tell me that Velveeta and Ro-Tel now have their own bowl game too!!! I can’t stand all those commercials on the BTN as is!

Jeez – after picking two games to attend this year, Iowa and OSU, I think I may forgo travelling to Tuscaloosa next year and settle in for a nice ISU home game and an IU game in Washington next year.

I hate myself for fooling myself into thinking 11-1 and a BCS bowl.

I am a 1966 Grad. Have has season tix since 1975. The main problem (and there were many) was the total vanilla, predictable, crappy play calling. I was able to predict about 80% of the plays just by the formation, personnel and situation. (Ask my son sitting next to me.) We never stretched the field. What’s with the passes to the flat all the time? Hell OSU was out there before the ball was caught. After the first series…no enthusiasm by the players…they looked beaten the whole time.
Also, we have no game breaking players. This No. 2 imposter is no D-Will and shouldn’t be allowed to wear that number. I don’t know whether to cry or throw up. I think I will cry while I’m throwing up. Awful, just f**king awful.

Well,
If you can’t beat the two teams you MUST beat, in your own yard, what good are you? Joe Paterno had his time, and then some, but it is clearly time to move on. If he can’t recruit players as good as Ohio State and can’t win big games at home, what the heck? It really makes me sick. I can’t believe no one at PSU is as sick that Ohio State can come into Happy Valley and trounce us. You are only as good as today. Thanks Joe, but its time to go.
Go Penguins!!!

Finally, man up and give credit to Terrelle Pryor and Ohio State. This can’t be stressed enough: they dominated every single aspect of the game.

Gradulations Pryor and Buckeyes.