Official PSU - Rutgers '25 game thread

Big_O

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You are right, but I hate that call. What is Pena supposed to do there? Tell the guy to look at him? It’s just a bad, subjective rule, like targeting.
Obvious bad call. Hit the guy head on. Can’t tell the defender to look at him.
 

KingLando

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Best news yet? QueenLoado has to watch Head Coach Terry Smith coach a bowl game.

Bet the ******* will be rooting against PSU for the bowl game.
I'm not rooting for anyone in a bowl game
Not sure why you think I care. We saw yet again that he's not capable or handling this role today
 

LB99

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I hate being that way but he looked like an elementary school kid playing against varsity high school. He just gets tricked by every blocker.
I don’t know why they blitz him either. He gets gobbled up by the OL.

I hate to keep ragging on him. He played well, at times, last year, but he doesn’t look like the same player this year. Maybe he hasn’t grasped the Knowles D concepts? Maybe he is playing hurt? I’m not sure but Tatsch looks to much better when he is in the field.
 

Erial_Lion

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You are right, but I hate that call. What is Pena supposed to do there? Tell the guy to look at him? It’s just a bad, subjective rule, like targeting.
If Football is to be around in 50 years, they need to get plays like that out of the game. He can block him/shield him, but can't blow him up. Once upon a time, that would have been seen as a great block...but is more CTE worth it to let us keep seeing those huge hits? It is what it is.
 

Big_O

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I wonder how many show up to play in the bowl game. I think it depends upon the new coach announcement, if they make it before the bowl game.
 

Phlebitis

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No. It won’t. We’ll have a bunch of opt outs and Pitt will pretend it’s the Super Bowl and be equally as arrogant as if all the PSU players played.
Wasn’t thinking that way, but yes, that would suck.
 

LB99

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If Football is to be around in 50 years, they need to get plays like that out of the game. He can block him/shield him, but can't blow him up. Once upon a time, that would have been seen as a great block...but is more CTE worth it to let us keep seeing those huge hits? It is what it is.
I get it, but it was shoulder to shoulder. It wasn’t anywhere near the head. This isn’t soccer.
 

Erial_Lion

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I get it, but it was shoulder to shoulder. It wasn’t anywhere near the head. This isn’t soccer.
If he hit him in the head, it's a blind-side block with Targeting. Without head contact, it's just the blind-side block.
 
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KingLando

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If you don't care, you can stop posting. There will a great amount of appreciation for that.
Even more reason for me to post
The outcome of a bowl game never matters. Ever. We'll see how many kids stick around. Hopefully the vets opt out and we can see the kids.
 

lemonears

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PSU vs Pitt would be a good bowl game.
That would be a fitting end to the most disappointing Penn State season in 60 years. We will likely have Allen, Singleton, Sutton, Wheatly, Durant, Ford, Dawkins, Shelton, and others opt out. We will have no running backs. The Penn State fans will thumb their nose at the game. The pitters will treat it as their Super Bowl. Everyone will play, and they will practice twice a day. A fitting end to this horrific season would be for us to lose a bowl game to the pitters.
 
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bdgan

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Even though it’s not a great showing today. You can’t dismiss how well we played the last 2 weeks. Terry Smith must be our next head coach or this program will fall apart beyond fixing. Players love and want the guy. Let them get to pick who they want to play for
Maybe.

On the last 2 weeks we beat MSU & Neb (who has collapsed without Raiola). We were 14.5 pt favorites today against a weak Rutgers team and were lucky to win. They won total yds, 1st downs, and time of possession but we won because the ball slipped out of their QBs hands and a defender got caught holding on 2nd and 27.

We've also lost our entire 2027 class and 70% of our 2026 class. Terry recruited a lot of those kids so what does that say?
 
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bdgan

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I wonder how many show up to play in the bowl game. I think it depends upon the new coach announcement, if they make it before the bowl game.
The new coach won't coach the bowl game.