Agree. People who deliver a product to a customer should never be critiqued, that's why YELP never caught on. Seriously though, the only reason you come here is to tell others what they can and cannot do. That's as unAmerican as it gets Vlad.
James Franklin has to be held back when Fan Criticizes him Regarding Game Deciding 4th and 5 Call
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Agree. People who deliver a product to a customer should never be critiqued, that's why YELP never caught on. Seriously though, the only reason you come here is to tell others what they can and cannot do. That's as unAmerican as it gets Vlad.
Bonehead play call end of story. Even the Village Idiot knows if you are going to go down it better be with your best playmaker with the ball in his hands.
Good play call: one that works.
Bad play call: one that doesn’t work.
Bad play call: one that doesn’t work.
I hear what you're saying, but the subject of this particular thread makes this a terrible place to make the argument you're making.
Say they kept the ball in in McSorley's hands? Whether he gets the first down or not, this thread wouldn't exist.
His press conference was even better. He went on about saying how Penn State was great but they need to be elite. Then talked about players not going to class and having to babysit two or three of them.
The guy is Mister row your boat with more talent.
The guy is Mister row your boat with more talent.
A good play vs bad play call isn’t always determined by execution and success.
It looked to me like he wanted to engage the fan, maybe shout back at him before going into the tunnel, and his handlers weren’t having it. No way to assume he would ‘lunge’ at the fan from this.
I wish he’d utilized that draw play against Iowa as their last chance rather than saving it for OSU. McSorley put it right where he needed to against us last year.
Nope
If you were the coach & the fan told you to run his suggested play & it does not work
who has to answer to the AD. Not the fan who you listened to. The fan is not getting paid
to coach the team. You are.
I completely agree with you. I don't think it was the best call myself. However that fan was an idiot. His lack of situational awareness was astounding. That's not the best time to lob that out after a loss like that.
Or pedophilia to cover up. Seriously Joe was one of the biggest whiners of any blue blood program. He whined more about the officials than any coach of I have ever seen.
I was surprised too. I would have faked it to the RB and let McSorely throw it or use his feet to get the first down.
Yeah... The same thing happened to Iowa vs Wisconsin. PSU was hurrying up to the line to catch OSU off guard and the refs out of nowhere stopped the game to explain the play.
PSU caught OSU off guard too. The refs stopping the momentum like that needs to stop. PSU and Iowa were accepting the spot of the ball had momentum and had the opposing team off guard by hurrying to the line.
I’m kind of shocked that the hasn’t been brought up to the BIG. This is the second time I’ve seen it this season and they have both come at vital moments in the game.
True. But had it played out and Iowa was called offsides, we would have had to kick the field goal.
Why's that? He paid to be there he has every right to voice his opinion.
Who cares anyways.....
Franklin is a dbag just like their entire program! Screw them all!
Not necessarily. You can step off the curb in front of a bus and it might miss you. That doesn't make it a good move.
Very true, but he doesn't get to engage the fans either. He an extremely highly paid professional employee of the university, and this kind of public second guessing comes with the territory. They all know that.....
The game should have been billed as "The Battle of the Asshole Coaches!"
If only Penn State fans had been so upset with JoePa when he let all those kids get raped.
What an asshole and ass kisser ... the dude was right asking the quest Mr tanning booth couldn’t control himself as he forgot his depends
Franklin is one of those coaches that ALWAYS knows where the camera is. How many football coaches turn to the crowd on a regular basis and pump their arms to get the fans to scream?
He choked under pressure or out thought himself on that call. And even though McSorley backed him up, publicly, I'll bet any amount of $$$ that TMS's first thought was WTF?
He choked under pressure or out thought himself on that call. And even though McSorley backed him up, publicly, I'll bet any amount of $$$ that TMS's first thought was WTF?
Here's the thing ... given what PSU had been seeing from the OSU D all game ... are you certain it was a bad call.
It's easy to say that it was a bad call given the outcome .... however, given the down and distance ... when they did that play earlier, what sort of yardage were they coming up with?
Previously, on similar calls, they were crashing more on the interior run ... so McSorely was reading the DE and making great yardage.
This last time around, the DE stayed home, so McSorely gave the ball to the RB. If you look at some of the block ... you see the possibility for a big crease being created ... however, they fail to block one of OSU's D-linemen executing a twist ... and the rest is history.
I remember a play call by Brian early last year ... against Wyoming, I believe. It was the end-around to Ihmir. One of our guys on the periphery missed a block ... and the play got stuffed. But if that block had been made ... there would have been nothing but green in front of Ihmir. It was a great play call ... it just didn't work.
If he is going to fight everyone who thought that was a stupid play call, it is going to be a very long line.
