Penn St...

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

looking scary good. Or is Oregon St that bad? What happened to this "top 10 D" I've heard so much about...and even bought into.

Even PSUFAN might have some positive things to say about this team.

[Shoalzie]

Very impressive indeed...balanced offense and Clark looks like an excellent dual-threat at QB. They should be 4-0 going into the Illinois game in the last weekend of this month. That'll be an offensive orgy from the looks of it.

[stuckinia]

That O-line looks strong. Clark and Royster are an impressive combo.

[The Seer]

Coastal Carolina & Oregon St....

Hey, m2, let Penn St play someone before you annoint them MNC....

[.m2]

Coastal Carolina & Oregon St....

Hey, m2, let Penn St play someone before you annoint them MNC....

I'll be going to the Stanfurd and Oregon State game on Thursday to start the season off. I'll be rooting for Oregon State to crush the furd, but Oregon State usually starts the first 3 or 4 games of the season off slow and can lose to just about anybody.

Nothing ever changes with Oregon State.

[RadioFan]

looking scary good. Or is Oregon St that bad?

I'd say the latter. The sheepfuckers ('sup Dins) did lose to Stanford. No surprise they got whipped out east as well.

[PSUFAN]

Clark is looking damn good. It's almost odd to feel excitement about PSU's QB. I'm surprised at how well this game went.

[King Crimson]

and, PSU gets to join the Greg Robinson farewell tour next week. that's got to put a hitch in your depth chart's get-a-long.

Cuse coming off a shellacking at the hands of the Akron Zips.

[PSUFAN]

Rack the MAC!

[PSUFAN]

I'll say these good things...so far Darryl Clark looks like Mike Robinson, but with more running power and better accuracy. He runs like a fucking train. There was one rushing TD he had where after 20 some yards of juking and running over people, he dragged 4 guys for 5 yards into the end zone, fighting their ball-strip attempts off all the while. He's shown a lot to me in these first two games, checking down, hitting guys in stride, staying calm. I feel like a kid at Christmas, considering what a disappointment Morelli proved to be.

Norwood, Williams, and Butler are looking excellent at the WR position. Evan Royster is really coming along - not the fastest kid, but smart and decisive. PSU's OL seems greatly improved.

Teams are going to score on this defense, but there is talent there that appears to be progressing. With a finally rejuvenated offense, the defense doesn't have to be forced to try to win games.

I know it seems silly to be crowing about our offense after games against Coastal Carolina and Oregon State, but it's nice to be really hopeful for once.

[M Club]

i got on a plane at 6.00 am friday morning and was the only one not wearing black and orange. i didn't realize all those hillbilly fucks had enough money to buy actual airline tickets. i also didn't realize they were playing penn state, which surprised me after listening to them jerk each other off about how great of a game it was going to be. hahahahahahahahahahaha, and i'm not even dins.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

2. Oregon State is on par with McNeese State.

Well, Oregon St was supposed to be good, for whatever that's worth. His "football genius" was checked at the airport.

[PSUFAN]

My parents told me that OSU fans were all over the place all weekend. They definitely did show up for their team.

PSU has some pretty gaping holes that will reveal themselves in conference play. Most CFB teams do. I am getting the sense that PSU's offense is going to have a good season, though.

Old-timers hate the very suggestion that offense could lead the team to great success. Hell, that was written all over Joe's face during the '94 season. As he said at the time..."you hate to win that way". Joe's approach was really dated even then. The '94 season should have been the template for further great success - but long story short, Joe spent the next 15 years trying to scale it back. He did that, but in my opinion, that's really why PSU slipped from the host of the mighty.

Nowadays, you need to be able to score points - and shake it off when your opponent scores some. Joe loves winning 14-9, sitting on 1 point leads, etc. but things are different now. PSU doesn't have the defense - either the healthy, still-not-suspended personnel OR the scheme - to suffocate opponents. We have to score a lot of points, and hope for stops on defense occasionally.

What is allowing us to look at the season differently? I've got a theory. Joe is interested in letting his son showcase his offensive approach, because Jay needs to get a job. Jay will not be deemed a viable candidate for the HC position at PSU...I would say ever, but certainly until he goes elsewhere and does a LOT of good things.

Dick Anderson, Fran Ganter, and others were unable to do things with the offense that Jay is/will be allowed to do. I'm anything but a Jay Paterno fan, but if he can get his dad let the team be a good offensive team, then I'll applaud him heartily...and ghost-write him several glowingly effusive letters of recommendation.

[Dinsdale]

Well, Oregon St was supposed to be good, for whatever that's worth.

Didn't see the PSU/OS game.


Their defense was supposed to show up, at least. They returned a lot of D, but lost much of the O.

But as M2 mentioned, the Riley-Era Beavs are notorious for not exactly showing up for the first few games of the season.

Strange man, that Mike Riley. Sometimes, he impresses me like no one else with his ability to make in-game adjustments... sometimes to the point where I think he's one of, if not THE elite in-gamers. His part-time genius gets them extra wins every season. But I don't know if it's his dedication to fresh legs (read something that said that Riley spreads plays/minutes around the roster more than any other D1 coach, statistically... which may have something to do with their somewhat consistent late-season success), or if he's just slow to get into the rhythym of the season... but they always suck early in the season. Even the cupcakes they try and schedule sometimes take a pound of flesh.


I always want to see the PAC win OOC... but when it's those people... I'm not shedding any tears for them.


Good luck, PSU. Hope the Ducks get a piece of you in the Rose.... little score to settle.