This was not the PSU team I watched all year.. Let me be clear, the offense is awful (although not by talent, Yurich was god awful and the scheme sucked.. How they don't do sweeps/tosses with a 4.4 running back with twitch like Singleton, it's just so stupid. Play them together, Singleton can play slot with optionality.. IDK football guys swear they know more than anyone) but the defense was not what PSU had all year. Kaleb King and Johnny Dixon out, it killed them, they got torched in the defensive backfield.
If PSU can elevate next year, it will be because of the an offensive coordinator that is brilliant.. They had a brilliant defense coordinator (Manny Diaz), and before this bowl game ended up a notch below.
James Franklin is a great recruiter, good leader of men.. But as a head coach on game day, he sucks.. He's not an offensive guy, not a defensive guy, he's nobody schematically. His history dictates that