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Official PSU - MSU Game Thread

If I may respectfully add my thoughts on this year's football team. I believe two things hurt the football team.

1. Offensive ideology
Franklin changing the offense to an exciting and dynamic power spread makes for an exciting brand of football. Unfortunately, it requires tremendous depth because of all the moving parts. In my humble opinion Paterno's teams had ferocious defenses and very good offenses. The only exception may have been the 1994 where the offense was better than the defense. However his championship teams win or lose always focused on stopping opposing offenses and then grinding out a victory, a formula that worked.

2. NCAA Scholarship Ruling
This stymied Penn States depth and in my honest opinion hurt Penn State both last year and this year. However, there's a silver lining to this story because Franklin is making tremendous strides in recruiting. Next year I believe that from a talent perspective athletes from your 1st and 2nd team will be almost interchangeable.
 
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