He has choked in numerous big games over the years but has improved in his game management as of late.CJF has been so good as a coach we now need to make up mistakes for him? OK
CJF
Honestly, I hope he would go for it on 4th and really short from our own 30...too many coaches punt in that situation
I may be in the minority but I wish we'd play Beau in certain situations with the game still on the line. He's a nasty runner.
Could happen. Ryan has seemed stressed out lately.
I think that’s the plan. Mid 2nd qtr, Drew limps off and Beau comes in. He runs once, then hits Wallace on the fly for a TD.
No team should do that especially not with a young QB who needs reps
13 seconds to go in the half ball at the PSU 25.Drew shaken up on last series. They send in Beau who does his fake take a knee then hit Tre over the middle for a 75 yd TD..
The truth is most coaches do something that's illogical in big games. See all the heat Lanning took last weekend.
Some people just have to keep beating drum of negativity because they hate the Head Coach.
I loved Paterno, but his following became too cult-like for many and continued despite it being obvious there was growing dysfunction in the late 90s (one if those teams should have won an NC with all that talent) and then the dark ages followed for several years. Essentially, after ‘94 PSU was never again a national contender under Joe. Franklin moved the program past the Sandusky sanctions and has us nationally relevant again, which infuriates the cultists.
BS was 11-1 in 2005… woulda been undefeated if it weren’t for the heel toe screw job in Mich.
This is what the other poster was referring to. Paterno should have been gone before then. Bradley or LJ should have been running the team at this point and we would have been just as good if not better.
Paterno wasn;t relevant to our success at the point. If any hurt the team by having Jay around.
And I set the record straight that we continued to nationally relevant during his last ten years.
As OP, I like the head coach. I think he's done wonders with most of his recruiting, his hiring of most assistants, and with retaining an environment of relatively high ethics around the program.
Loved Joe--but there's no denying he had lost his mojo well before the scandal media hype. He struggled with player names, and his coaching staff was stale and nepotistic. It hurt the program's chances of regrouping under some of the other talented coaches because he did not seem to have a succession plan. Maybe HBO should do a series about the internal politics to be the successor--only to never get picked.
He was able to squeeze out '05 and '08 but he should have retired after '94. He did not know what to do with himself. Sue probably told him she did not want him hanging around. Interestingly if scUM had not scored with no time left in '05 Joe would have had another undefeated team not to get a shot at the title.
That's what the job is at Ohio State. If Day loses to Michigan for a third straight year, it's over for him. If he loses to PSU at home it might be over. The whole program knows this and it undoubtedly affects recruiting and assistant coach plans. Ohio State expects a playoff team every single year, no exceptions.
Heard that that school/BoT made it clear when Joe retired they would someone from outside the program. That’s one reason why Ferentz was the leading rumor candidate. That’s why there was no succession plan by Joe….it wasn’t his call.
And in 2005 we weren’t even ranked in the preseason top 25. In fact, we were not ranked after week two. Or week three. Or week four. Finally showed up in week five at nineteen. Ended up at #3 at end of season with a team that was unranked for the first entire month of the season. So Over the Hill Joe and that incompetent staff took a team that no one thought was even a top twenty five team and came within 3 seconds and one bizarre referine call of being undefeated and still ended up at #3.
