Can't let it go? Delusional PSU theories you HAVE to hear

Seems like a lot of posters on BWI hate being in the B1G.  Please.  We would all like you to leave.

To an extent. I mean, they're down to finding linebackers off the street, which could kill any team. And the line also sucks, but hey, guess what, maybe they should have primarily recruited lineman, even with sanctions. It doesnt matter if Chris Godwin is good if McSorely can't get the ball off. Not to mention they apparently can't coach an O-line anyway.

I feel like with a good O-line and D-line, 6-6 (at least) would be in play for any team.

There were a couple PSU fans behind me at the game yesterday and all they talked about the whole first half was how they hate playing here cause you have to go against the refs too and kept citing the 2 "extra" seconds in 2005.  I really wanted to remind them how they also got extra time put back on the clock on their last drive but fortunately the score drove them away by halftime.

My other favorite part is when they were showing highlights from the old PSU game and the guy goes "Of course they don't show all the times we crushed them".  1.  Obviously we wouldnt show that as a highlight    2.  I guess he forgot what their record against us was?

OK, so #1 and #5 have some degree of plausability. Some.

#1 The sanctions did weaken them, and certainly weakened recruiting, and weakend competition at a lot of spots.

#2 Sounds like the paranoid delusions of a wounded fanbase. Different, but not too different from the bloodletting that Michigan fnas experienced for much of the last decade.

#3, #4 don't know or care enough about Penn State to look into it that much. I just recall that Franklin was considered "hot" and a really good "get" for them at the time, though some of the shine has warn off. That Hackenberg was a major diappointment is no understatement.

#5 The press do love to proclaim how the once mighty have fallen, schadenfreude is definitely a factor, and with the Sandusky scandal, much of the sactimonious finger pointing will continue, at least until PSU does a better job of being and contrite and owning up to everything.

The B1G is better off with a solid following in PA and the east coast.

 

notable Penn State alumni, Sandusky is the first one that comes up.  There isn't very much after that either.

Can't let it go

I think the sanctions are still hurting them but it's very clear to see that Franklin isn't very good. In no world do you kick a field goal from the 2 when you're down 4 scores. they actually looked competent under Bill O briwn with like 65 scholarship players on their team.

and there is a whole lot of crazy, yes.

But even I haven't seen numbers 2, 3 and 4.  What are you talking about here???

As regards the sanctions --- some PSU folk make it out like a nuclear bomb was dropped.  Some non-PSU folk make it out that, since the sanctions were reduced, there was no zip nada zero punishment and the program got off with no ill effects at all.

As is usually the case, it's somewhere in the middle.  This is PSU's first year back giving out 85 scholarships but because of smaller recruiting classes in the past, the team definitely does skew disproportionally young right now.  That's just simple math.

As regards number 5 --- every fanbase out there has a few folk saying "ESPN/Kirk Herbstreit/Fox Sports/CBS/(fill in the blank) hates us."