Official PSU - Indiana '25 game thread
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Just remember one thing. A prevent defense prevents you from winning. Why they abandoned pressure with two minutes and no time outs is a mystery to me.
Kudos to Mendoza. He completed several passes against heavy pressure.
Kudos to Mendoza. He completed several passes against heavy pressure.
Lost a little respect for Cignetti with the "we played a little shorthanded"
Smith and Kotelnicki failed the team down the stretch. Total mismanagement. Kotelnicki needs to have his duties taken away!
And probably why they called timeout even though you cant call a TO there but it was probably to get Grunk settled down
This all goes back to the absolutely asinine, butt-puckered, James Franklinesque play calls on the last offensive series. They’re 3-5 for God’s sake, why are you playing it “safe,” which failed REPEATEDLY foe BGJ?
No, Same old same old.
Jim Knowles strikes again. For the 4th time this year. His defense stops nobody when they needed to.
Yep. Once again the $3+ million man finds a way to come from ahead for the loss. I can’t wait (and am praying) for a total house cleaning.
Can't though--that's coaching not preparing their players. He should have been told on the 3rd down that if we complete it for the first you go to line and spike it. Can't be any confusion there.
Why was the 5 seconds from the offsides penalty play not put back on the clock? There were 20 seconds on the clock for the offsides play. They gave them the 5 yards but the clock stayed at :15? Why? What am I missing?
Another soul crushing loss because you don’t try to gain a first down. Nothing learned even after Franklin leaves
He's a whiner! I hope Ohio State cleans their clock in the B1G title game and wipes that arrogant attitude back to Bloomington. I will be pulling against them the rest of the year.
Shorthanded? One player. What a phony.
That Katron fumble was a killer at end of first half. Good to see the team play hard. Been a while
I get way people like him (the success) but I'm unimpressed with him. I'm shocked he recruits well.
He’ll definitely be shorthanded against OSU.
You are missing Jim Knowles and his defense that can't stop anything when it matters
Yeah its only second down, acting like they won the game. Tired of that garbage. Celebrate when you win or get off the field.
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We wasted two effing timeouts for no reason. The coaching staff gets an F. My 12-year-old son said he’s just gonna spike the ball and instead we call a timeout. how does a 12-year-old know what the coaching staff and the QB does not . We are the laughing stocks of the entire college football universe today and this season overall. The difference in the game was the receivers and it goes back to Franklin‘s fatal mistake of hiring and retaining Hahans.
Weird we're going back to the first half
If anything, down 10 forced us to open things up which is why we played better. Not that the fumble was a positive but not in the top 5 reasons we lost. Up 24-20--the first half isn't really a factor with less than 2 minutes left.
Absolutely. Kotelnicki failed on his calls in 2nd to last offensive series and Smith should have overuled him and then Smith wasted the last time out at the wrong time. Grunk should have been told ahead of time to spike the ball.
Snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. The mind boggling failures continue.
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Absolutely awful. I haven’t seen a pisss poor 4th quarter with a lead defense as bad as it’s been during this era. Haven’t seen an O fold with a lead like this era. One first down is all we needed. One big stop all we needed. These guys celebrate every little this or that, but when it counts they can’t get shite done. I’m about to do a Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation rant. Where’s the Tylenol.
Coaches should have 12 year olds that play madden helping them--dead serious
Could see it coming from a mile away. Same old same old.
That's the rule. It's a live ball penalty, not dead ball.
You needed failures on both sides of the ball in the final 2+ minutes to lose that game ... and we got 'em.
Running the first 2 plays right up the middle to put us in 3rd and long before the 2 minute timeout was a killer. Convert there, game over ... and they should have been playing to win, not to not lose.
And then getting that big play to open up the defensive series and celebrating so much you're not ready for the 2nd play flipped that series from our advantage to being on our heels.
What a killer.
Grunk panicked in that final series, but it is what it is. As soon as the pressure came (and even when it wasn't there, but might be coming), he flipped out.
Blech. So much positivity ... and then the air is just sucked out ...
Running the first 2 plays right up the middle to put us in 3rd and long before the 2 minute timeout was a killer. Convert there, game over ... and they should have been playing to win, not to not lose.
And then getting that big play to open up the defensive series and celebrating so much you're not ready for the 2nd play flipped that series from our advantage to being on our heels.
What a killer.
Grunk panicked in that final series, but it is what it is. As soon as the pressure came (and even when it wasn't there, but might be coming), he flipped out.
Blech. So much positivity ... and then the air is just sucked out ...
At the very least, I want the next coach to be a disciplinarian. Someone who chews out clowns celebrating and getting penalties or not being set for the next play. It’s been a decade-long problem. We could have stamped out that drive before it got started after that big sack, but we’re celebrating instead of lining up to keep the play in front of us. Infuriating
So many of the losses in the JF era -- in addition to his baffling in-game coaching gaffes — came down to our players failing to make the game-sealing play when the opportunity was there.