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

There probably is some marginal truth to point #1 (residual effects of the sanctions) but the rest is just red herring arguments.

45-10.


NEXT!

Conspiracies and the media don't lose you games 45-10. It's the fact that you have a crappy team is what loses you games 45-10.

When your staff is out-coached by Brady Hoke, that's probably a cue that it's time for them to go.

I wouldn't be as hard on Penn State if they didn't delusionally continually celebrate a rape enabler.  If Delaney wasn't a dumb, balless piece of shit he would kick them to the curb with Rutgers.

It all started in 1971 with Apollo 15, the mission to the moon manned by three Michigan alumni. As we all know, this moon landing was faked by Bo Schembechler and filmed in Crisler Arena, and its sole purpose was to prevent a Penn State alum from landing on the moon. A group of aliens known as "the Greys and Scarlets," who were actually OSU officials in disguise, conspired with UM on this, and as we all know, Schembechler had once been an OSU assistant coach.

Thereafter, OSU and Michigan conspired to have PSU admiited to the Big Ten only 19 years later, for the sole purpose of dismantling their program and taking over their pipeline to New Jersey. In the process, they slipped Jerry Sandsusky a psychedelic drug that destroyed his mind and made him attracted to little boys, to guarantee the eventual destruction of the sainted PSU football program.

Being the trusting souls that the noble PSU people were, they were misled by these nefarious powers and innocently joined the Big Ten, not realizing that it was out to get them. All they really wanted was to stay independent, or join the ACC.

The only way of righting this unrightable wrong, to love, pure and chaste from afar, is to strive with their last ounce of courage to reacah the unreachable star. This is their quest; to follow that star; no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.

To get out of Dodge,

to make a hodgepodge,

of conspiracy theories, is the best they can do;

to conquer their fears,

and hold back their tears, no matter the years.....

and grasp at the straws, screw the laws, and the world's righteous scorn!

This is Penn State

The victims of hate

Thus their pride is reboooooorrrrrnnnn!

 

are the main thing they obsess about and it's not even on your list. I've been reading PSU forums for 15 years (because it's quite funny) and every time they lose a Big Ten game in a close fashion they all blame the refs and come out and go "WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE JOINED THIS CONFERENCE, THE REFS STILL HATE US AS OUTSIDERS, WE NEED TO CREATE AN EAST COAST CONFERENCE".

It's especially bad when they lose to us as they assume that we control the conference. Even yesterday they considered the refs one of the main reasons for their defeat. That thing has festered in their minds because their stay in the Big Ten hasn't been the way they envisioned. They've had that peak in the late 70s and 80s and they just never got back to it and it's easier for them to pin it on the Big Ten than on their inability to move past JoePa (who should have been let go in the early 00s even ignoring the pedo stuff).

WE OWN PENN STATE #unrivaled

Hey penn state, I hear Les Miles is available lol.

the scholarship reductions did and have hurt.

it is that programs negatively recruit against PSU, because there's a lot of god damn ammunition to fire about them the last 10 years.

It is the coaches because Franklin looks next to clueless most of the time and his game management and decision making is hilariously bad.  How the fuck he ever won in the SEC is amazing.

Hackenburg was a terrible QB, but once upon a time a media mouth said Hackenburg will be a great pro, (it was probably Millen) and PSU fans bought into that hype and expectation that he could never live up to behind that awful offensive line and less than quality coaching staff.

 

The media?, whatever, for PSU fans pre-Big 10 they were the media darlings of the Northeast, big fish in the little pond beating up on Maryland, Rutgers, Syracuse, West Virginia and Pittsburgh.  When they joined a bigger pond with bigger fish the media and the rest of us just simply learned that big bad Penn State wasn't really that big and bad.

 

 

I will say this as far as blaming the media or negative recruiting on their shit current team. If they would've done the right thing, not only fire Paterno and take down the statue but *as a community* accepted that football caused all this, not showed up with insane "For the kids" signs at the Nebraska game, shut down the programs for a couple years, not tried to make their insurance pay or sue the NCAA for wins that meaning nothing next to the child abuse they caused (especially since Paterno just sat in the press box falling asleep for the last few dozen anyway), not try to bribe victims into not talking, told the remaining Paternos to fuck right off.... Then everyone will be on their side now and they would recover a lot faster. No Onion articles. I know the theory is the death penalty destroyed SMU, but that's SMU and anyway, Penn state should have shown true remorse and stop thinking of their addiction only

It is inaccurate to deny that the recruiting sanctions did not have a negative effect on their current roster. So not sure how point #1 makes any sense. It basically shifted their roster experience down a click or two. So its tough to deny that claim to some extent. #2 sounds like something completely made up, either by the OP or PSU fans. Is there an actual list of negative recruiters out there? Every school does it in some fashion. Saying that these three coaches that do it the most is very convenient until there is some actual objective data that proves these are the worst culprits.

Seems like the perfect fit!  They need a coach who can recruit and can tell funny stories to keep their and the media's minds off of JoePa! 

After getting schooled by "Gawd" Thursday night, let's hope Bill stays in Houston!

PSU Fans - Your Big Ten conspiracy theories are 100% reasonable and correct.  The only rational thing for you to do is to take your program, with all its history, and immediately leave the conference.

Yep!  That'd teach us.  That'd teach us real good.

Fuck Penn State!  Why are we still talking about the after Saturday???

They leaned on Paterno wayy to long.  In the 90s...the guy was wearing 6" flood pants to games and the cameras wouldn't show it, if you saw the halftime/postgame interview it was clear he was just watching the game.  Finally they moved him to the pressbox to restore a little doubt...

Then some really bad stuff was revealed to have happened.

They had what I thought was a high-tier coach in BoB who seemed committed to long term despite the crippling scholly reductions and the "no-penalty" transfer agreement the NC2A setup.  But...somehow they pushed him over the edge...I can't say specifically what but it was related to some part of the (admin, fanbase, alumni) urging him to somehow link with the past football successes.

Franklin is mediocre at football.  My opinion is he talks a great game.  Probably why he's theoretically good at recruiting.

For some reason they are still stupidly stuck with Paterno, witness whatever halftime show they concocted.  They need to flush the cat, let Franklin do some more recruiting, and flush him too when a better HC comes available.

I don't hate them other than their grotesque crimes against humanity.  The current coaching staff and players had zero to do with that I feel confident, and so they deserved to be judged merely as competitors on the field.  But they are trapped in a circle of mental weakness they have to somehow break out of if they are to ever move on.

 

I hate to say this, but it's almost as if the favorite college football team of everyone in Pennsylvania got wished into a cornfield by a little kid.
Somehow, with all that has happened there over the last several years - and last weekend- that would be a narrative of justice, not horror.