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Penn State - MICHIGAN STATE Game Day Result & Analysis!

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GAME DAY RESULT & ANALYSIS:
Pretty much went as predicted by me, but far worse than even Vegas expected, since Michigan State did beat up Penn State by a 55-16 Score. This was Penn State's 12th game and they look more horrible as a Team than any game this or last year or at Vanderbilt. This was Fast Franky's 25th game and improvement he claims has not been seen? The Hack Attack was not just sack but he sat on the bench after being removed as predicted. Hack had bad passes, interceptions, and badly needs some good coaching. Even when his Wideouts got open he overthrew them? It is very fair to say that this 5 Stars QB was mediocre at best by choosing Penn State. It is even sadder that Penn State Wideouts own careers were hurt by Hack career at Penn State too, they all have talent. Barkley was again just great in the First Half with superb tough runs showing much talent and abilities, but to no avail in the second half again. What a waste of talent this Coach is doing to his Players. The combine score of Penn State is 42 points scored against 121 by the Spartans, Wolverines and Buskeyes. Yet, Franklin sheepishly said he sees improvement? The Nittany Lionwomen Offensive Line as it played against Temple, Army, Northwestern, OSU, Michigan again was just non-existent in this 12th game. Some dummies keep saying they are opening up holes for Barkley. The truth is Barkley finds his own holes and just needs a a slight crease and his feet are like greased lighting. The Offensive Line is still a disaster no matetr what Franklin cries about. The so called Top Ranked Penn State Defense learned what a True Great Defense is all about in this game. Unfortunately, the Penn state are learning by watching MSU, Michigan, Temple, Northwestern Army, and Ohio State that play it, better then the coaching in Coach-less Valley. The Nittany Lineman & Linebackers got run over with Green Cleets and did not come near even a pressure or sack on MSU QBs. The Penn State Defensive Backs were not able to cover or tackle or stand up. The Special Teams got good experience in making so many Punts but they do not have a long kicker no matter how their Long Talker talks? The only think worst then this loss was the Penn State coaching. After the game, Franklin again gave his Recruiting Speech that he saw improvements but no one listening, including a Recruits that De-Commuted after the game to Michigan. I was close on regarding Penn State scoring just 14 points in the Preseason and Game Day by 17 Points and missed them by 2 and 1 points. However, I was off the beating Dantonio gave Franklin for calling to poach MSU's De-Commits since I thought 33 an 34 points was going to be pretty good, but Dantonio Team scored 55, giving Franklin his worst beating in his career in the Big Ten! Franklin's Talk is not Coaching the Walk! Like Hackenberg has found out beware Talk where there is no Walk after 12 and 25 games!

Congratulations to BuffettParrothead for closest Score Prediction 42-14 MSU!
MICHIGAN STATE-Penn State Game Day Predictions!
Well, Penn State Coach Franklin is way down right now while explaining his teams’ failures on a whole. MSU’s Coach Dantonio is flying high right now, one game from going 10-1 and 6-1 losing only to Nebraska by 1 point and badly wanting to be in the CFB Playoffs! This is always a dangerous situation to be in especially without MSU QB Cook playing at his best and Conner needing to run to win? Like most of Dantonio Wins, they are not blowouts, at least this year. Moreover, should have loss to Michigan but really did not play Purdue, Rutgers, and Oregon will any excitement but still won. Penn State is showing they cannot beat or play with winning teams but they have some weapons that wake up if they can execute their Game Plans? Penn State can stop the MSU’s passing game with a new QB as well as stop the run. This is the problem I see, Franklin’s Game Plans and Sideline Coaching. Penn State has the talent but will it come together this game? The fact is MSU Defense will win this game on its own by sacking the Hack Attack and bottling up Barkley. Everyone thinks that Franklin somehow will come up with great trick plays but I just don't see it. Penn State could make trouble with its defense but their Offense and Special Teams will be inconsistent as usual. Most experts think this will be a close game, but I am going against that kind of wind talk, Dantonio will blow away Franklin because he has to gain a CFB Playoff if he beats Iowa. MSU is not looking ahead they never do, they can be beat in a close game, but this will not be one. Dantonio had 4 De-Commits a few weeks ago, and Franklin called to poach them. I do not think Hackenberg finishes the game and his Penn State career may be finished too!
33 MICHIGAN STATE Penn State 17 GRADE C+

GAME DAY RESULT: 55 MICHIGAN STATE Penn State 16
Preseason Predictions august 2015
@Michigan State:
It is Coach DAntonio against Fast Frankie, Frankie will blink and pay for his easy scheduling in a big way and gets upset being beaten badly. Paterno Clan shouts bring back Jay!
Penn State 14 MICHIGAN STATE 34 (8-4) GRADE C+

Individual Game Results of Penn State (vs Michigan State)"
11/28/2015 @Michigan State (11-1) L 16 55
11/29/2014 Michigan State (11-2) L 10 34
11/27/2010 Michigan State (11-2) L 22 28
 
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Michigan State humbles Penn State in finale, LINK!

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State allowed its outstanding center, Jack Allen, to carry the ball near the end of his last home game.


The fifth-year senior took a handoff and rumbled 9 yards for a touchdown on a Saturday in which nearly everything else also went right for the Spartans.


Listed at 6-foot-2, 296 pounds, Allen plopped the cherry atop a 55-16 victory, delighting his coaches, teammates and what remained of the 74,705 at Spartan Stadium. A grand time was had by all, at Penn State's expense.


Except for a reasonably close first half — Michigan State led 20-10 — victory was complete for the Spartans (11-1, 7-1 Big Ten), who clinched the Big Ten East and set up next week's faceoff with unbeaten Iowa from the West division in the conference championship in Indianapolis. The winner likely will advance to the Final Four of the College Football Playoff.


Penn State (7-5, 4-4) must wait longer for its next game, maybe a month or more. It will be a bowl more befitting a team that failed to beat an opponent ranked at any time.


The Nittany Lions, losers of three straight, sit squarely in the middle of their conference, looking toward the top and wondering when. Or if.


“They're the No. 5 team (in the playoff rankings) for a reason,” Penn State coach James Franklin said of the Spartans. As for his team, “We've got a lot of work to do,” he said.


With 418 yards, Penn State's offense looked livelier than throughout much of the season, especially against a defense that held Ohio State to 132 yards and five first downs last week. But quarterback Christian Hackenberg threw two interceptions (he had three coming in), and two fumbles were lost.


“We were able to move the ball, but we made critical errors,” Franklin said. Turnovers early, turnovers late. It's hard to take a whole lot of positives out of that.”


“It's a testament to how they executed, offensively and defensively, and took advantage of our mistakes,” said Hackenberg, who completed 22 of 39 passes for 257 yards, two touchdowns and the two picks en route to becoming Penn State's career leader in touchdown passes.


Connor Cook, Michigan State's decorated quarterback, returned after missing last week's upset of Ohio State and most of the previous game. Facing no pressure, the redshirt senior easily located his open receivers, often using play-action fakes set up by a crunching running game. He is 33-4 as a starter.


“He has great ball skills,” Penn State linebacker Troy Reeder said. The Lions defense, ranked 14th nationally coming in, yielded 436 yards. Franklin several times cited the absence of his ends, Garrett Sickels, who did not make the trip for undisclosed reasons, and Carl Nassib, who leads the nation in sacks but has been hampered lately by a sore shoulder.


Nassib, as last week, gave it a try but quickly went to the bench, although ESPN was reporting he had a hamstring injury.


“(Cook) was comfortable in the pocket,” Franklin said. “We were able get pressure in nearly every game all year long, but you take the two starting defensive ends off your unit, it's gonna have an effect.”


Anthony Zettel moved back outside to end, his original position before switching to tackle last season. That proved to be a terrific career move. This time, anything the defense attempted seemed to have minimal effect. And not just against the pass. The Spartans pounded out 188 tough yards on the ground.


Freshman Saquon Barkley ran for 103 yards and exceeded 1,000 yards, exhausting just about all of Penn State's good news.

LINK:
http://triblive.com/sports/college/pennstate/9512769-74/state-penn-yards



Bob Cohn is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at bcohn@tribweb.com or via Twitter@BCohn_Trib.
 
Penn State notebook: Franklin maps out plan to join Big Ten elite, LINK!

EAST LANSING, Mich. — After his team was shellacked, 55-16, by Michigan State on Saturday, Penn State coach James Franklin was asked when his program might be able to join the Spartans, along with Ohio State and Michigan, atop an intensely competitive Big Ten East. Penn State lost decisively to all three this season.


“We're gonna keep workin', we're gonna keep a great attitude, we're gonna keep developing our players, we're gonna keep recruiting, we're gonna keep killin' it academically, we're gonna keep killin' it in the community,” Franklin said.



“Next year, starting with the bowl game, we're gonna have an opportunity to get some things cleaned up, get healthy, get our full roster back with some time off, and then build on it in the future. Next year will be our first opportunity to be back at full scholarships. We obviously have a lot to do, all of us, but good things are comin'.



He added, “I feel very, very confident in that we've showed it in flashes, but whenever you play the upper-tier teams in this league and in the country, we haven't been able to get it done at that level yet. We improved on our conference record from last year, but the upper-tier teams in the conference, we've got to close the gap on them, there's no doubt about it.”



Different day, same stuff



Penn State shook up its offensive line again, bumping left tackle Paris Palmer and center Wendy Laurent from the starting lineup. Andrew Nelson moved over from right tackle to replace Palmer, and Angelo Mangiro moved from left guard back to center, his original position.. Brendan Mahon moved from guard to right tackle, and Derek Dowery started at left guard.



But by the second half, Palmer was back at left tackle and Nelson, who drew facemask and false start penalties in the first half, switched back to the right side. The facemask call wiped out what would have been quarterback Christian Hackenberg's third sack of the first half.



Local kid makes good



One of the 24 Michigan State seniors honored Saturday was tight end and Mt. Lebanon product Paul Lang.



Lang (6-foot-5, 260 pounds) battled injuries throughout his career, which began in 2011 as a redshirt freshman. Lang did not catch a pass Saturday and had just nine receptions for 95 yards this season, but he is considered the Spartans' best blocking tight end.



He's had a great, great year, just outstanding,” co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Jim Bollman said this week.



Lang's father, Michael, reportedly played for Penn State but his name does not appear in the lettermen's section of the media guide. Paul, also a standout basketball player at Mt. Lebanon, was not recruited by Penn State.



Extra points



After setting the Penn State career mark for touchdown passes, Hackenberg also is the career leader in passing yards, completions, attempts and total offense. ... Chris Godwin had a career-best 11 catches and his two touchdown receptions also were a career best. He finished the regular season with 63 catches (fourth on Penn State's career receptions list), 968 yards and five TD. ... Under coach Mark Dantonio, Michigan State has won 11 games in five of the past six seasons.

http://triblive.com/sports/college/pennstate/9512772-74/state-penn-kick


 
Penn State shook up its offensive line again, bumping left tackle Paris Palmer and center Wendy Laurent from the starting lineup. Andrew Nelson moved over from right tackle to replace Palmer, and Angelo Mangiro moved from left guard back to center, his original position.. Brendan Mahon moved from guard to right tackle, and Derek Dowery started at left guard.
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That's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The iceberg is out there and coach Frankenfield, Franks, whomever of Cow Pasture U is heading right for it! The staff will be bailing lots of water soon!

Our local paper devotes about 2 full pages to the Nitter game and scores a report card with brief comments:

Offense C+- ( Big games from Barkeley and Godwin)
Defense D- ( MSU QB Cook wasn't touched all game.Lions were hurt, tired, and broken by games end)
Special Teams D- ( The group needs a break fumbled kickoff led to a Spartans TD)
Coaching D -(Timeouts are the least of their problem looks like the staff didn't have the players attention last week)
Overall D - ( Dispirting finish and Franklins worse loss at PSU)
The highest grade Fanklin received all year was a C
Merry Christmas To All!
 
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"BuffetParrothead, post: 570902, member: 23369"]Penn State shook up its offensive line again, bumping left tackle Paris Palmer and center Wendy Laurent from the starting lineup. Andrew Nelson moved over from right tackle to replace Palmer, and Angelo Mangiro moved from left guard back to center, his original position.. Brendan Mahon moved from guard to right tackle, and Derek Dowery started at left guard.
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That's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The iceberg is out there and coach Frankenfield, Franks, whomever of Cow Pasture U is heading right for it! The staff will be bailing lots of water soon!

Our local paper devotes about 2 full pages to the Nitter game and scores a report card with brief comments:

Offense C+- ( Big games from Barkeley and Godwin)
Defense D- ( MSU QB Cook wasn't touched all game.Lions were hurt, tired, and broken by games end)
Special Teams D- ( The group needs a break fumbled kickoff led to a Spartans TD)
Coaching D -(Timeouts are the least of their problem looks like the staff didn't have the players attention last week)
Overall D - ( Dispirting finish and Franklins worse loss at PSU)
The highest grade Fanklin received all year was a C
Merry Christmas To All!
They have been making excuses all year long this year. last year I could understand the problems, but there was no improvement this year unless you call beating Indiana, UMD, Ilinois and Army? I can accept they can beat Bad, Interim Coaches, and Mediocre Teams but the only one they ebat was SDSU this year.

Barkley could run anywhere and be great and Godwin without a throws being enar him have not helped them win against ebtter Teams and Coaches. Both are that good but wasted by going to Penn State!


Franklin will need 4 to 6 more yaers to play a godo game against Harbaugh, Dantonio, and Meyer!
 
This quote....Jesus what a blowhard..."keep killin it"....

“We're gonna keep workin', we're gonna keep a great attitude, we're gonna keep developing our players, we're gonna keep recruiting, we're gonna keep killin' it academically, we're gonna keep killin' it in the community,” Franklin said.
 
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"DruidTM, post: 573938, member: 4458"]This quote....Jesus what a blowhard..."keep killin it"....

“We're gonna keep workin', we're gonna keep a great attitude, we're gonna keep developing our players, we're gonna keep recruiting, we're gonna keep killin' it academically, we're gonna keep killin' it in the community,” Franklin said.
Right out of Tony Robbins Playbook and Scientology preaching but not practicing!
 
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