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Throwback Thursday - PSU @ BAMA

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There's only so many OT threads during the offseason that I can take anymore so a new thread idea I thought of is putting some highlights from the most random PSU game I can think of in recent memory each week, and then giving some random old thoughts on that game. To each is own but at least it'll give us a chance to talk about some old PSU teams and some players we may have forgotten about. I wont get too deep into the game, I'll just highlight 2-3 thoughts I remember from the game. I'll share my thoughts on the game and please chip in if you disagree or have a comment about a random part of the game.

This week, the random game I remembered was from 2010 when PSU traveled to the defending national champions home turk, ALAAAABAMA. I remember going into this game pretty excited because it was a big time game between 2 of the most storied programs in all of CFB, college gameday was there, defending champs, ESPN primetime, etc. I anticipated the lions to get destroyed to be quite honest because our offense didn't have too much firepower and with an inexperienced freshman QB playing in arguably the toughest environment in CFB.

Once the game started, I thought PSU held it's own on both sides of the ball. We moved the ball into Bama's redzone on the first 2 drives only for them to end in turnover's. Bama's offense was suffocating though, we stopped them here and there, but it was kind of inevitable them getting there's at some point. If you would have told me before the game started that we would hold Bama to just 24 points, I would have said absolutely and then some. Overall, this was a pretty boring game to watch from a PSU perspective, but cool to see the highlights of a game i completely forgot about, as well as names I haven't heard in years.
 
This is one of those games I wish had been scheduled later in the season. Would still have been a tough matchup, but we didn't stand much of a chance with Bolden at the helm so early in his career. At midseason our offense took fire after Galen Hall switched QB's and put Matt McGloin in. With Matt as the trigger man we were competitive in every game even against top opponents.

Our lousy run defense continued to hurt us that season however.
 
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There's only so many OT threads during the offseason that I can take anymore so a new thread idea I thought of is putting some highlights from the most random PSU game I can think of in recent memory each week, and then giving some random old thoughts on that game. To each is own but at least it'll give us a chance to talk about some old PSU teams and some players we may have forgotten about. I wont get too deep into the game, I'll just highlight 2-3 thoughts I remember from the game. I'll share my thoughts on the game and please chip in if you disagree or have a comment about a random part of the game.

This week, the random game I remembered was from 2010 when PSU traveled to the defending national champions home turk, ALAAAABAMA. I remember going into this game pretty excited because it was a big time game between 2 of the most storied programs in all of CFB, college gameday was there, defending champs, ESPN primetime, etc. I anticipated the lions to get destroyed to be quite honest because our offense didn't have too much firepower and with an inexperienced freshman QB playing in arguably the toughest environment in CFB.

Once the game started, I thought PSU held it's own on both sides of the ball. We moved the ball into Bama's redzone on the first 2 drives only for them to end in turnover's. Bama's offense was suffocating though, we stopped them here and there, but it was kind of inevitable them getting there's at some point. If you would have told me before the game started that we would hold Bama to just 24 points, I would have said absolutely and then some. Overall, this was a pretty boring game to watch from a PSU perspective, but cool to see the highlights of a game i completely forgot about, as well as names I haven't heard in years.
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2010 DEPTH CHART *Lettermen 60


OFFENSE
QB *11 MATT McGLOIN 5 6-1 209 S3

*01 ROBERT BOLDEN 8 6-3 221 Fr

12 Kevin Newsome 6-2 225 So


TB *22 EVAN ROYSTER 13 6-1 228 5Y

*25 Silas Redd 5-10197 Fr

*21 Stephon Green 5-10197 J4

26 Curtis Dukes 6-1 237 F2


FB *37 JOE SUHEY 7 6-1 227 J4

*09 Mike Zordich 6-1 236 S3

*24 Derek Day KICK TEAMS 5-9 196 S3

35 Pat Zerbe 6-1 236 F2


WR *19 JUSTIN BROWN 7 6-3 216 So

*20 DEVON SMITH 6 5-7 157 So

* 4 Shawney Kersey 6-1 197 F2


XR * 6 DEREK MOYE 13 6-5 202 J4

8 Brandon Moseby-Felder 6-2 176 F2

81 Ryan Scherer 5-8 167 S3

17 Christian Kuntz 6-5 212 F2


ZR *83 BRETT BRACKETT 11 6-6 242 5Y

* 5 Graham Zug 2 6-2 185 5Y

14 Evan Lewis 5-10182 S3

18 Andrew Goodman 6-0 185 S3


TE *82 KEVIN HAPLEA 3 6-4 249 Fr

92 Nate Cadogan 6-5 297 F2

*87 Jonathan Stewart 6-2 246 J4

*89 GARRY GILLIAM 3 # 6-6 263 F2

13 Mark Wedderburn NOTE 6-6 229 S3


LT *67 QUINN BARHAM 13 6-3 298 J4

*78 Mike Farrell 1RT 6-6 303 S3


LG *74 JOHNNIE TROUTMAN 11 6-4 323 J4

58 Adam Gress 6-6 293 F2

54 Matt Stankiewitch #6 6-3 293 S3


C *68 DOUG KLOPACZ 13 6-3 286 5Y

60 Ty Howle 6-0 290 F2


RG *61 STEFEN WISNIEWSKI 13 6-3 306 Sr

64 John Urschel 6-3 286 F2


RT *52 CHIMA OKOLI 8 6-4 291 J4

*50 DEON'TAE PANNELL 2LG 6-5 317 Jr

*77 LOU ELIADES 4 # 6-4 310 5Y

75 Eric Shrive 6-6 299 F2




NOTES:

CRAWFORD~ DNP games 7 & 8 (injury)

FERA ~ DNP games 11 & 12 (illness)

GBADYU~ DNP game 6 (injury)

HODGES ~ DNP games 3-6 (injury on KO in game 2)

LATIMORE ~ DNP games 7 - 13 (injury)

MAUTI ~ DNP games 6 & 11 (injury)

STANKIEWITCH ~ DNP games 7 - 12 (mono)

STANLEY~ DNP games 5 & 6 (suspended)

THOMAS ~ DNP games 5 - 13 (suspended)


ELIADES ~ injured (ACL) in game 4, out for the season
 
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2010 DEPTH CHART 1 January 2011


DEFENSE
DLE *59 PETE MASSARO 9+2RE 6-4 255 S3

*44 Kevion Latham 6-2 252 J4


DLT *85 OLLIE OGBU 12 6-1 300 5Y

*47 JORDAN HILL 1+3RE 6-1 309 So

*91 DaQuan Jones 6-3 305 Fr


DRT *71 DEVON STILL 12 6-5 311 J4

*93 James Terry 1 6-3 312 S3

99 Brandon Ware 6-3 337 S3


DRE *81 JACK CRAWFORD 3+4LE 6-5 271 Jr

*90 Sean Stanley 2 6-1 232 So

*56 ERIC LATIMORE 3 #6 6-6 280 J4

52 Brian Irvin 6-3 240 S3


SLB *42 MICHAEL MAUTI 7 6-2 229 S3

*34 NATHAN STUPAR 7 6-1 231 J4

*54 Jamie VanFleet 6-0 224 S3


MLB *48 CHRIS COLASANTI 11 6-2 241 Sr

*40 Glenn Carson 6-3 233 Fr

*33 Michael Yancich 6-2 236 S3


WLB *15 BANI GBADYU 10 6-1 241 5Y

* 6 Gerald Hodges 1 6-2 228 So

*11 Khairi Fortt 1 6-2 233 Fr


LCB * 8 D'ANTON LYNN 13 6-1 200 Jr

*16 Shelton McCullough 6-0 187 5Y

5 Derrick Thomas SUSP 5 6-0 178 F2


RCB *12 STEPHON MORRIS 8+2NB 5-8 185 So

* 2 CHAZ POWELL 5 6-1 196 J4


H *28 DREW ASTORINO 11+1 FS 5-10193 J4

*13 Andrew Dailey 2 6-2 222 J4

*27 Jake Fagnano 6-0 203 S3


FS *10 MALCOLM WILLIS 6 5-11217 F2

*23 Stephen Obeng-Agyapong5-10196 F2

*38 Tyler Ahrenhold 6-0 185 J4

* 1 NICK SUKAY 6# 6-1 209 J4




SPECIAL TEAMS
PK *36 COLLIN WAGNER 13 5-9 183 5Y

*28 David Soldner 6-1 227 S3


P *30 ANTHONY FERA 11 6-2 210 F2

45 Alex Butterworth 2 5-10191 Fr


SN 60 TY HOWLE <FG/PAT> 6-0 290 F2


SN 53 JON ROHRBAUGH <PUNTS> 6-0 224 j4

57 EMERY ETTER <PUNTS> 6-1 230 F2


KR 2 CHAZ POWELL 6-1 196 J4

21 STEPHON GREEN 5-10197 J4


PR 19 JUSTIN BROWN 6-3 216 So

20 DEVON SMITH 5-7 157 So
 
I was at that game--fun trip except for two things: the final score and the heat that day. Made tailgating awful (the weather wasn't that hot the rest of the week). My brother had a lot of supplies, but about all we did was sit around and drink water. Didn't feel like eating anything.
 
I was at that game--fun trip except for two things: the final score and the heat that day. Made tailgating awful (the weather wasn't that hot the rest of the week). My brother had a lot of supplies, but about all we did was sit around and drink water. Didn't feel like eating anything.
I was also at that game; I don't remember the heat being bad, I remember it raining all afternoon (I don't think it rained during the game, but it made tailgating not awesome).

The tailgating set up there is very weird. There aren't any lots (other than the RV lots which are pretty far away) so people set up in very small parcels (which have to be reserved ahead of time) on the green spaces around campus. So picture tailgating on the HUB lawn, the Mall and basically any green space. As a result of the small spaces, there weren't super elaborate setups (e.g. if you had a huge food spread, you probably didn't have flip cup). There is also a culture(?) of having golf carts (sometimes elaborate golf carts) to schlep all your stuff from where ever you have to park your car to the tailgating spot. Very weird. I was at a tailgate that had a little more room (it was run by a couple of faculty members, so they had commandeered an odd little patch on land by their building that probably wasn't technically a tailgating spot) so there were a couple of TVs to watch early games and decent food. No one was drinking though except for the people I was with (which I found super odd...20 non-drinkers tailgating together??)

I recall being very worried about the game because of Bolden's inexperience. I thought they played OK considering. I haven't watched the highlights above, but I recall what a thought was a bad call on a fumble that ended up being a 10-14 point swing (Alabama had a long fumble return to set up a TD IIRC)

I found Bama fans to generally be pretty nice, although I was harassed by a few very drunk, very redneck fans (including one who looked like Billy Bob from "Varsity Blues"). I'll just chalk that up to a late kickoff time and lots of people smuggling booze inside the stadium.

Edit: I watched some of the replay; the bad call I remember probably was the right call (it looked bad from the stands; early 2Q) and PSU actually forced a fumble on the fumble return which PSU recovered, so it was actually a net loss of about 90 yards, but still almost certainly took 3-7 points off the board for us.
 
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Is this the game where Richardson was running for 7.3 ypc and looked like a future NFL HoF'er?
 
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