We’ve been snakebite but I think Indiana won it more than we lost it. Did you watch the end of the Oregon-Iowa game? Great teams just win those kinds of games and unfortunately we’re not a great team. You’d think we’d get one of them though.
I understand. But all PSU had to do to win the games outside OSU was for the defense to make a stop in a critical situation in the final minute of the game. That's it. Prevent the teams from driving down the field relatively unposed and you win. That's all you needed to do to win those games in the end. Make a stop and you win.
Most likely...but I could see Kraft's HC search going south and basically not having a decent alternative...and someone looks at him and says, "well, there's Terry, y'know - he did win that big game against Indiana."
My girl definitely thinks there’s something wrong with me the way I flipped out about that. What a classless idiot.
Well its exactly what has embodied every problem the program has had for a long time. The players have no mental toughness or discipline to know GAME SITUATION. Its a reflection of the culture BGJ allowed. Look at me is more important than doing your job. Probably could be applied io BGJ in a lot of ways. or its it just me and the "act like you have been there before" approach I have always appreciated under Joe is no longer valued?
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Agreed. Terry has been talking about throwing behind the linebackers. That was the time to do it. Indiana was in zero coverage and was totally selling out against the run. We should have tried to punish them for that at least once on that series.
I couldn't believe the selfishness and stupidity of Durant after that play. He's had a terrible year and he makes a sack and suddenly he thinks he's on Soul Train. And he didn't get lined up in time for the next play. Mind boggling.
I feel just the opposite.....that is until the Franklin era.Though I consider myself fortunate to have been a PSU fan for many years, and have experienced more winning than losing, it seems to me that most of those type finishes have gone agin us.
Or perhaps it is just my imagination runnin‘ away with me.
I think this is a loophole in the rules. IU basically got a free time out.
According to Google it should have been a penalty.
I am still completely confused as to why the ref gave them that "time out". There was still like 20 seconds on the play clock. Maybe 15.
You don’t think that’s being a bit hard on her?
They did basically get a free timeout...but the Center Judge wasn't over the ball stopping the play. The officials hustled back into position likely anticipating that Indiana was going up-tempo, and missed that they had a player head straight to the sideline with an injury. We smartly saw that they made a sub and tried slowing it down making a sub ourselves; had the officials been on top of it, we could have burned another 10 seconds. But there is no way to rectify it after the fact.
Try basic training for the military.
For sure there have been breakdowns in tight situations. But there are multiple factors here. Yes, Knowles's scheme looks inexplicably soft in crunch time, but the defense has also seen a ton of action due to the offense's inability to sustain drives. It's understandable that their backs get tired in the 4th quarter after carrying the offense for the entire game.
UCLA, Northwestern, and Iowa aren't great teams either. This team just finds a way to lose. Lack of confidence must be part of it. Coaches who get tight in close games doesn't help.
I was playing blackjack on a cruise ship two years ago, and in the span of 2 hours, the dealer got blackjack 7 times.
I understand that Indiana made some great catches. I can also see the difference between a team that plays to win vs a team that hopes to hang on.
You nailed it. And those last two things are interrelated. Players take on the personality of their coaches.
A lot of it comes down to scheme, and Franklin was notoriously conservative in situations that were close-and-late. He was constantly trying to nurse single-possession Q4 leads and milk several minutes off the clock instead of going for the throat, and that, right there, is "playing to not lose" rather than playing to win.
Didn’t Lanning do this in the Osu reg. Season game last year or was that some other loophole
Last season was on the other side of the ball. Oregon had too many guys on the field on defense and burned some of the clock...the rule was changed this season to prevent it (the clock goes back to the time before the start of the play for illegal substitutions).
I'm late to the thread and apologize if I'm repeating someone else's thoughts. This is and has been my problem with Kotelnicki. The clock would stop after the3rd down play because of the 2 minute warning. Indiana was out of timeouts. An incompletion means nothing. Ten yards and the game is over. No matter how conservative and unimaginative the first and second down calls were, 10 yards and it's over. So, what does he call? A 3-yard pass to the slowest eligible receiver on the field. He refuses to throw a 10-yard pass when the team needs a 10-yard gain. That area of the field that Indiana exploited with 87 yards to go and no timeouts is a spot that Kotelnicki absolutely refuses to attack. Seams do not exist in the PSU offense.
