True, at most without running around and killing clock Indiana would have had 10 seconds from their own roughly 15 yard line
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True, at most without running around and killing clock Indiana would have had 10 seconds from their own roughly 15 yard line
IU had one timeout. I figured the game was over and turned to another game. I was hoping PS would score since that was IU’s only shot but figured Frankin wouldn’t be that dumb. I was wrong.
As we were getting up from our seats I saw on the phone that Indiana got sacked on 1st and 2nd downs. Ducked into the restroom and on the way out saw they threw incomplete passes on 3rd and 4th downs. Never bothered to look at the phone again and didn't even try to find it on SiriusXM in the car, because we just assumed it was over.
One wife of the guys who went with me to the game went to Penn State undergrad and Pitt for grad school. So she's a big Penn State football fan. I texted him when I got home and saw the score that we should have listened to the end on the radio in the car. He texted me back that when he got home he saw the score and said to his wife that must be wrong, there's no way they lost that game. Needless to say, she was not pleased.
PSU coaches were screaming for the RB not to score. The back actually stopped, but he had already crossed the line when he stopped. TOO LATE!!!!!
Sure, but the time to be screaming at the players to not score was BEFORE you ran the play, not right in the middle of it.
And in any event, if Indiana only had one time out left then they shouldn't have been running any play at all.
Exactly! A good coach would have made the message crystal clear BEFORE the play.
Lots of other things go into making a good hc in college. Actual x's and o's is only the start. Franklin is a excellent recruiter he has consistently pulled in classes that are better than what they were typically pulling in even in paternos good years. He also has put some good coaches around him, but from a pure x's and o's stand point franklin isnt very good. He was never a expert on one side of the ball like many coaches he is more of a ceo type of coach which is fine at a football factory like psu because they can pay assistants top dollar
Likely to start 0-2 with Ohio State next and be out of any national conversation, so if you mean bad notoriety I agree. much like Oklahoma started top 10 this season and were out of the conversation as soon as they started playing
The flip side of that is if they beat OSU, they are back in the national title conversation. How many fans will be allowed in Beaver Stadium? Will Wolf magically say this week that, starting this weekend, "50% capacity will now be permitted"?
Bottom line is you as a coach take it out of their hands at that point. If you can take a knee and have them at 15 seconds and no time out from their own 15 you do it. You don't take a chance that someone didn't get the memo or that he stops at the two and gets pushed in. There is no reason to run a play as the chances of indiana getting fg were probably 1 in a thousand or worse.
When Pitt didn’t foul Barry Goheen when they were up 3 with little time on the clock - Was it Paul Evans fault or the PG?
Answer - The head coach
Also running it there opens up the possibility of a fumble. I don't know the actual time on the clock or timeouts I am assuming since know one corrected the poster who said they could have taken a knee and had 15 seconds left that he is correct if that's the case I don't run a play and if I did it would be with the qb or a experienced player not a fr rb. That guy has probably scored like that hundreds of times sometimes it's hard not to be on auto pilot.
thats it they shouldn’t have. Coulda snapped the call waited a few seconds and kneed it and game over
It was a Doozie for sure. From a pure coaching standpoint I really can’t recall a worse game from a coach than franklins
Exactly the QB should be the leader he should have said “ I know our coach is a flaming douche bag and wants to pour it on these guys but I’m going to take a knee all you guys lineup in the victory formation”
Technically that's not quite what they have said. They are allowing families of the players of both teams to be there. So, for instance, at the Ohio State - Nebraska game on Saturday there were something like 1300 people there. A couple of the other places had around 1000. So it certainly isn't a lot (especially in some of those stadiums) but they are allowing at least some fans.
Don’t you think you’d expect more than this in year 7? 😂😂
Im watching with 2 osu grads. You should see them yelling about that roughing the passer call that gave ups 3 points there. I honestly can’t believe how bad ups looks with all those great recruits.
Im watching with 2 osu grads. You should see them yelling about that roughing the passer call that gave ups 3 points there. I honestly can’t believe how bad ups looks with all those great recruits.
The game should be over already. The ref gave PS a roughing the passer call on 3rd down and the OSU guy dropped an easy TD. Franklin made a terrible call going for it on 4th and 2 in his own territory.
Hah. Eh I don’t believe in that, the refs will try to keep it close, but it’s pretty clear osu has more talent and better coaching
PS was completely disorganized on a big 3rd down. A good coach calls a timeout. Franklin did nothing and Ohio St scored a TD.
The officials gave PS 6 points. The roughing the passer gift and the end of the half. Fields took a step back, paused, and then took a knee.
Refs are infallible according to this board, I don’t know what you’re talking about 😂
seriously though why wouldn’t osu just throw a Hail Mary
