Official PSU - USC Rose Bowl Game Thread
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Great game.... Needed to play a bit more aggressively with 5 minutes left.
Great year. Congratulations to the team. Looking forward to next year.
Great year. Congratulations to the team. Looking forward to next year.
Well, he's all we had after Bell got hurt. Why make a post like this?
Oh there's a lot of experience being taught from this game across the board..
Even on the last possession we ran into the pile on 1st down. No Gesicki.
Brown was forced to play before he was ready. He could have benefited from a shirt, without a doubt. Not his fault.
Losing Bell hurt Cam isn't ready yet, O - line will help next year
No ball skills.Great run support.When was the last time he had an int.
Agree 100%. Not having Saeed cost us 2 turnovers and we sure could have used Manny when Bell went down.
Can't understand Morehead many times....Trace made his system look better than it is as well as SB and WRs. It's better than what it was but some bone head calls.
Gave USC home field advantage and three turnovers and still made a great game of it. Stings like Heck, but super proud of the team.
Don't know. Why didn't Smith play middle and Cabinda play outside?
This game will cause both teams to be massively hyped coming into next year. Disappointing loss, but it makes for a nice prologue for next year, which is the year we would should be making our run anyway.
Gotta say Coaching staff owns that loss
high powered offense decides to turtle and play not to lose?? Either you believe in your system or you dont
So for all those power I naysayers maybe they should rethink putting in an under center package after all since running for 1 yard seems to be the goal when trying to win
Coaches own the last 3 series
high powered offense decides to turtle and play not to lose?? Either you believe in your system or you dont
So for all those power I naysayers maybe they should rethink putting in an under center package after all since running for 1 yard seems to be the goal when trying to win
Coaches own the last 3 series
Easy to say but Godwin should have mugged him. Offensive pass interference doesn't hurt you in that situation.
I would have preferred Smith with Cabinda outside and I am no fan of Cabinda outside than Cabinda and Brown. No fault of Brown's, he should have been a RS but we needed him. Once Bell went down the Bowen suspension was a true killer.
Agree. It would make sense to be conservative if your defense was playing well but they were missing several key players and were getting eaten alive. You simply can't take the ball out of their hands in that situation and turn it over to the defense (twice).
I hope but each year is different. Teams will be aware of us and we had lady luck on many big, big downfield plays this year. Wish we got RB win now. On to 2017..
losing Bell was key - especially with Bowen out. Brown is simply not ready to play right now. we would have been better off using Smith in his place, even though Smith has not been playing that position. USC run game (from RBs not QB scrambles) was non-existent until Bell went down. after the UMich breakdown i thought JF may look for other players on the roster who are physically ready to play against the big boys.
If 9 keeps it there's no one to stop him on that side of the field.
Have to give the O line credit, we ran the ball effectively and McSorely had enough time and space to "create". We missed the two suspended players for sure, and losing Bell hurt. three turnovers against USC and it was still a game until the last minute.
In some ways this loss might provide motivation in the off season. As good as PSU was there is PLENTY to improve on.
In some ways this loss might provide motivation in the off season. As good as PSU was there is PLENTY to improve on.
They did, that's why Farmer started to see a lot of time and he was great. The Farmer depth is why the Bowen suspension didn't hurt too bad, AS LONG AS THERE WERE NO INJURIES, then we had one.
We bring everything back. Of course Herpes and Fowler were too intellectually lazy to mention it but we started 3 freshman and a sophomore on the OL and we are bringing Mahon and Nelson back. It doesn't matter if they know we are loaded, because we are going to be that good.
USC had no time outs left sooooo, on third down you run a play to Barkley.
He probably won't make the first down but you live to take your chances in OT.
DUMB, stupid, play called in third down.
He probably won't make the first down but you live to take your chances in OT.
DUMB, stupid, play called in third down.
The patchwork O- Line got us pretty far this year, but having Nelson,Mahon, and Palmer sure would have made a difference.
Not whining great job Lions, never would have thought we would be in the Rose in August.
Not whining great job Lions, never would have thought we would be in the Rose in August.
That was my most disappointing call
Trace could have walked for the first down and game over
Easy to forget that McSorely is only a sophomore. He seems smart, with an improved oline hopefully his decision making will improve, it's been pretty good to date. Big plays are great, but when you live by the sword, you'll die by the sword, elite teams secondaries will occasionally make you pay.
This game should give us some extra motivation and fire for next year. No complacency from us. And we'll probably get the media pushing for us and USC to make the playoffs next year.
Buckle up. 2017 could be a year to remember.
