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OT: Big Ten football

mjg 2015-10-04 00:03:47 UTC #161

Looking over the rest of our schedule and I don't see any sure wins left. Seems like we need to win two against Indiana, Maryland and Illinois to get to 6 wins. Michigan, Northwestern, OSU and MSU are all beatable this year, but not sure I want to hang my bowl hopes on having to win any of those.

PSU_always 2015-10-04 01:44:38 UTC #162

Penn State's getting Indiana at a good time. I have a feeling that next week's game is going to be a let-down game for them...today had to have sucked so much out of them.

Duff 2015-10-04 03:15:55 UTC #163

If we are getting them at a good time it might because Nate Sudfield couldn't play in the bulk of the second half today and has an ankle injury that resurfaced on him and will probably be an issue into at least their next game. Further, we will hope that our own teams significant (Barkley) injury with a week off will be fully healed.

Tom 2015-10-04 11:32:25 UTC #164

It all depends on Barkley. Need him healthy. Badly.

IU's backup QB is of more concern to me than Sudfeld since he's a dual-threat QB. He came in last year and was primarily a runner, but he looked good passing last year.

mjg 2015-10-05 00:51:31 UTC #165

Hopefully IU comes in flat, beat up and not particularly interested. Hopefully we get a bunch of injured guys back -- 2, 11 & 26 in particular.

tjb 2015-10-08 15:58:06 UTC #166

Edsall to get whacked:

http://maryland.247sports.com/Article/BREAKING-Maryland-Planning-to-Fire-Randy-Edsall-During-Bye-Week-40044257

Surprising to me. Beckman, Edsall and no doubt soon the guy at Rutgers.

Tom 2015-10-08 16:10:37 UTC #167

Things have to be going bad not only if you get fired during the season, but if you get fired but are asked to coach one more game (vs. OSU no less) before your key doesn't work anymore.

mjg 2015-10-11 01:31:04 UTC #168

Rutgers is ahead of MSU 14-10 in the 2nd quarter. Can't see them holding on though. MSU has made a ton of unforced mistakes.

Tom 2015-10-11 18:06:32 UTC #169

Edsel is officially out at Maryland

Tom 2015-10-11 18:07:17 UTC #170

Rutgers was driving with time running out. They came up to 4th down and needed a long first down to keep the game alive. So what play does Rutgers call? The spike. oops

TomF 2015-10-11 21:42:31 UTC #171

[quote="mjg, post:168, topic:4242"]Rutgers is ahead of MSU 14-10 in the 2nd quarter. Can't see them holding on though. MSU has made a ton of unforced mistakes.[/quote]
Rutgers was driving with time running out. They came up to 4th down and needed a long first down to keep the game alive. So what play does Rutgers call? The spike. oops

People are making too much out of this. He was tackled with 12 seconds left. He was barely able to spike the ball in that amount of time. I doubt they'd have been able to line up and get off a real play in time.

Tom 2015-10-11 21:50:52 UTC #172

Not Big Ten, but USC's Steve Sarkisian is taking a leave of absence apparently to deal with an alcohol problem.

tjb 2015-10-11 22:20:24 UTC #173

Looking at a car wreck

http://espn.go.com/losangeles/college-football/story/_/id/13864229/usc-trojans-head-coach-steve-sarkisian-take-leave-absence

Tom 2015-10-11 22:46:39 UTC #174

Twitterverse saying he showed up drunk to a team meeting this morning

CAPPY 2015-10-11 22:51:41 UTC #175

Yep....

InsideUSC (@InsideUSC)

10/11/15, 6:19 PM
BREAKING: Players noticed Steve Sarkisian not sober at special teams meeting this morning #USC

Tom 2015-10-11 23:29:13 UTC #176

Apparently drunk during the game last night, too.

timauman 2015-10-12 00:52:52 UTC #177

In today's world of college athletics, his job would be more secure if he had major NCAA violations.

jyd 2015-10-12 02:00:00 UTC #178

They can't fire him now if he claims to have a disability. USC would have to buy him out and not fire him, if he'd agree to that.

rwd5035 2015-10-12 02:27:40 UTC #179

I'd need to look at the ADA but I think USC would have good cause to fire him given that he showed up to work drunk multiple times (allegedly). Being a recovering alcoholic is a disability, I thought being a present alcoholic was not covered.

MarkH 2015-10-12 13:32:01 UTC #180

[quote="mjg, post:168, topic:4242"]Rutgers is ahead of MSU 14-10 in the 2nd quarter. Can't see them holding on though. MSU has made a ton of unforced mistakes.[/quote]
Rutgers was driving with time running out. They came up to 4th down and needed a long first down to keep the game alive. So what play does Rutgers call? The spike. oops

People are making too much out of this. He was tackled with 12 seconds left. He was barely able to spike the ball in that amount of time. I doubt they'd have been able to line up and get off a real play in time.

If you look at the replay, the WRs were lined up in hail mary formation on the right. They seemed ready to go.
The bigger issue IMO is getting tackled on 3rd down with no time outs. You absolutely cannot put yourself in that position.

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