"Joe would never have lost a game like this. Hack needs to take a seat on the bench or change his position to tackling dummy"
When did you become a fan.....last week?
- Cincinnati 14-3
- Toledo 24-6, the week after losing to a 5 win USC team 29-5, and two weeks before losing to Pitt 12-0
- Michigan State 49-14 (a mediocre, at best MSU team. TWO 200 yard rushers...1st time in the history of college football)
- Colorado 41-13
- SEVEN losses in 2004....with a TOTAL of FOUR offensive touchdowns
- Navy 7-6 (in the mud)
- Indiana 44-24
- Pitt 31-11 (a 2 win Pitt team)
- Rutgers (and Dick Anderson) 21-16
And, BTW, NONE of those squads (well, aside from the squad that lost to Indiana 44-24) were paper thin wrt upperclassmen due to sanctions
I think you have to add 2012 losses to Ohio and UVa especially given the facts that they were back-to-back loses to teams that we held significant talent advantages over. An awful lot of that 2012 team ended up getting drafted or is playing in the NFL via FA Contracts and 8 Qtrs of futility against an Ohio team that was 4-4 in MAC play and a UVa team that ultimately went 2-6 in ACC play and 4-8 overall in the cake-walk ACC Coastal Division was absolutely embarrassingly bad. Losing to either one of them would have been bad, but losing to both of them back-to-back with 8 Qtrs of consistently awful, underperforming football relative to the amount of returning talent on the 2012 roster was just embarrassingly bad.
FLO rightfully owns all three of the losses to teams we had absolutely no business losing to given our roster versus the roster of the team we lost to going all the way back to the "dark years" of 2000 - 2004 and thereby all 3 make the list of "all-time worst losses". The Temple game may make that list, but it is still too early to tell - history may teach us something very different about the Temple game. Namely, history may prove that we hired the wrong up-&-coming young coach and Matt Ruhle really does have the Owls playing at a different level (a la UM's emergence at Utah taking an unheralded program with a roster of unheralded recruits to national prominence....ditto coach at TCU, Baylor, Alvarez at Wisconsin, etc...). I still can't believe bow calm and tough he had them playing after getting absolutely manhandled for the first 20 minutes of that game - the way Temple hung in there and never lost "the belief" that they could win was very impressive and the "fingerprint" of great coaching. Matt Ruhle IMHO now has Temple doing great things - last year he was "on the verge" of having them accomplish great things. History may reflect that this is the year that will be remembered as his "breakout season" if Matt goes on to be a great coach.
In any event, of the "known" and "provable" worst losses over the past decade which would make the "all-time worst loss list" over the past 50 years (e.g., games we had absolutely no business losing given our roster versus our opponents roster using the 20/20 Hindsight of history), the 3 worst losses UNQUESTIONABLY belong to FLO and would rank on an ordinal basis of putrid-ness of performance relative to potential performance as follows: 2013 Indiana where a superior PSU team got taken to the woodshed by an awful Indiana team that they had absolutely no business losing to, let alone getting absolutely b!tch-smacked by, followed by a tie between the back-to-back 8 quarters of absolute futility and brutal football of 2012 Ohio and UVa games where a pretty talent-laden PSU team lost and laid an egg (especially offensively) against teams that they held a SIGNIFICANT talent advantage over and never should have lost to (e.g., a Ohio team that went 4-4 in MAC play and a UVa team that went 2-6 in the ACC and 4-8 overall playing out of the cake-walk Coastal Division of the ACC). Contrary to what the loudmouth, BOT-bot boot-licking FLO-knobbers want to claim, we don't know how good or bad Temple will prove to be this year, so it is impossible to say whether that game will make the list - it may well belong on the list, but it's still too early to say (especially if Temple were to win its next couple games including ND....or even play ND extremely tight and put up double digit wins)..., but at the present time, it is still too early to say. But again, the one thing we KNOW FOR SURE is that the absolute worst losses on the "Worst Losses of the Past 50 Years List" over the last 10 years (e.g., games that PSU had no business losing given the quality of their roster relative to their opponent's roster on a KNOWN HISTORICAL BASIS) would ALL BELONG TO FLO: 2013 Indiana and back-to-back losses in 2012 to Ohio and UVa.... It should be pointed out that none of the losses that would make the 50 Year List over the past decade would have belonged to Joe Paterno. In other words, in a short 2-Year stint, FLO produced the only 3 losses of the last decade that we absolutely KNOW FOR SURE belong on the "Worst Loses List" that PSU had no business losing based on the quality of the rosters of the two teams - e.g., PSU and the opponent that beat PSU - given their season records accomplishments, etc... - that's quite a bit of "under-performing" over a 2-Year stint especially when you consider the condition that FLO left the program in upon slinking out in the dead of night in his typical self-interested, "use PSU for all it's worth", classless fashion - and he most definitely did leave the program in a shambles and in complete disarray with much of it orchestrated by FLO himself via firing coaches and clandestinely pulling an intentional PR stunt with that douche-bag lying sack-of-$hit Doofus Davey Jones (btw, I can't wait till that smarmy little prick steps over the line with Franklin in private and Franklin tells that little sissy prick where he can shove his douche-bag attitude!).
