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I didn't believe until tonight. Maybe Joe Pa can still coach.....is this a good thing or a bad thing? Who knows? What an absolute huge win for the Nittany Lions....rack the kids.

Awesome game.

RACK PSU!

Awesome game is right. The kind of game you wish neither team would lose. I believed tOSU had a chance late...what an amazing ballgame.

Rack the white hats being back.

^^^^ FUCK OFF :cry:


great game...PSU

Maybe JoPa is so old, he forgot what his shortcomings were.....

RACK Joe Pa

I'm still not convinced but it was a fun game to watch.

RACK the hell out of the "White Out!"

Why does Michigan have to play Penn State next week?

PSU definitely will control their own destiny in the conference. The game next week in Ann Arbor, they should be favored but you never know what Wolverines team shows up. They're at Illinois, a sure win. Purdue in Happy Valley should be a win for PSU. Then they close with Wisconsin and then at East Lansing...both teams currently sit with only one loss in conference. They have the head-to-head tiebreaker against Ohio State and Minnesota if needed. They're the last unbeaten team in the conference...all they have to do is win out and they're in a BCS game.

The question is, if you got three or four other teams finishing with unbeaten records along with Penn State (USC/UCLA, Texas/Texas Tech, Virginia Tech/Florida State and Georgia/Alabama)...who gets the Rose Bowl bid? Can you say playoff?

I definitely believe, congrats to PSUfan. What the fuck got into JoePa? I think those hubble-telescope goggles of his now enable him to see the future and he is using that to win games.

I thought this would be a tight one but that OSU would pull it out. But PSU's O did just enough and the D was nails. PSU's D is now playing like I thought they would when I drafted them for fantasy-league.

The game at Ann Arbor will be very interesting. The upset by Minn cancelled out the upset of MSU. Carr is coaching for his job again. Mich should be fired-up.

Danimal wrote:I definitely believe, congrats to PSUfan. What the fuck got into JoePa? I think those hubble-telescope goggles of his now enable him to see the future and he is using that to win games.

I laughed.

RACK!

Does somebody else actually coach PSU while Joe's job is to do incoherent interviews to confuse other teams? Paterno always seems in such an old man daze while answering questions.

BTW, I am kidding. Rack JoePa and PSU. It's nice to see them competing again.

Rack PSU. What a great defensive game against a quality team. Whoda thunk that they would control their own destiny viz. the BCS at this stage of the season?

Lax, I also believe...

I believe that Joe has really handed things over to his assistants. The offense is by no means perfect, but it really looks as if Galen Hall is in charge of everything. They are improving measurably.

With a little help from the offense, PSU's defense is scary good. There is a lot of talent on this team, and things have finally come around to where the staff can do some things with it.

Joe Paterno's take has been that they really were close over the past few years...I don't really agree, but there's no doubt that Justin King and D. Williams have given this team a shot in the arm, and things are coming together.

There are sleeping giants all over college football, PSU. Look at what Carroll has done for us...and what Weis will do for ND in the years to come.

PSU was down, but never out.

After watching that game, there is just no way I'll believe Joe Pa is calling plays. He doesn't even have any communication with the booth. His job is just to bark at a few calls from the refs and to make a Gatorade towel look really fashionable.

...which is exactly why they are more and more successful, IMO. I was VERY dubious that he'd ever cede control to assistants.

The game didn't just now pass Joe by. It passed him by in 1978 or so. At that time, he realized that he had to change some things in order to take the next step.

By the time PSU won their first MNC in '82, the offense was being called by assistants. The masterful '86 defense? A result of Jerry Sandusky's coaching and scheming.

The organization went through a transformation after the '99 season, when Sandusky retired. Joe took direct control of things again.

If you want to look at this simply, it's really not too far off the mark - since the late 70s, the more Joe has relied on competent assistants and given them the authority to run the team, the more successful they've been. When he has held control of things tightly, they have struggled.

Right now there's no doubt in my mind that Joe's taken a step back and become more of a "big picture" guy. I thought he might resist that to the end...but I think I was wrong. He claims to not do that much coaching at this point.

My partner is a Penn State grad and he is on cloud nine about the team.