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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Penn State's Winston out with 'long-term' injury

Penn State's Kevin Winston Jr., ESPN's No. 2-ranked safety prospect for the 2025 NFL draft, will be out indefinitely with a "long-term" injury, coach James Franklin said.
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Penn State safety Kevin Winston out with 'long-term' injury​

Penn State's safety Kevin Winston Jr., who led the team in tackles in 2023, will be sidelined with what coach James Franklin on Wednesday called a "long-term" injury.

Winston, a 6-foot-2, 208-pound junior, suffered the injury in the first quarter of the No. 10 Nittany Lions' Sept. 7 win over Bowling Green and did not return. A preseason All-America candidate, Winston earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors following Penn State's season-opening win at West Virginia, where he had a career-high 12 tackles and a forced fumble.

Franklin did not elaborate on Winston's injury or give a potential timetable for his return.



We can probably just call the season now there’s no point to even witness the OSU and USC games
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Leave it to the cult to turn Minnesota's misfortune (with the onside offside kick) into a "woe is us" thread.

Big Ten commissioner reviewing Gophers' onside kick penalty against Michigan, head coach says (article linked)

Big Ten commissioner reviewing Gophers' onside kick penalty against Michigan, head coach says
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Exactly. Reminds me of the Commissioner’s office admitting after the season was over that they blew the non-interception and FG kicked several seconds after the time clock expired in the OSU game.
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If I am not mistaken, there was the game where our QB bounced a pass 2 yards before the OSU defender scooped it , ruled an interception. (Excuse was replay was not working) but it was replayed on the scoreboard! Same game, shot clock ran down and OSU kicks a fg. I think that team of refs were suspended. They were all from a 20 mile radius of Columbus!
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I think I don't believe the thing about the 20-mile radius of Columbus thing.
I was at that game and we all were screaming look at the fing scoreboard replay - clearly hit the ground
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What's more impactful are the calls they don't make. Allow offensive holding and defensive pass interference and you can control the outcome of any game.
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Just look at how inconsistently biased b1g Officials have called the 3 PSU games they've done to date this year - PSU has been called for 20 penalties for 204 yards (over 10 yards per penalty) and our 3 opponents for 14 penalties for 98 yards (7 yards per).
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This argument is funny. If the numbers were reversed, it wouldn't be based on the referees' fairness - it'd be because the PSU players were more disciplined than their opponents.
That Hartsock bounce play I believe was the genesis of instant replay.
I believe the B 10 initiated IR right after that game.
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That's the first I've heard that play being the reason for instant replay.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Oh it's that time of the season.
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To be fair, it's pretty much always "that time of the season", even during the off-season. But yes, their message boards overflow with these comments during this "time of the season". I mean, that thread I linked wasn't even started about one of their games. But they have to make it about them.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
www.espn.com

Penn State's Winston out with 'long-term' injury

Penn State's Kevin Winston Jr., ESPN's No. 2-ranked safety prospect for the 2025 NFL draft, will be out indefinitely with a "long-term" injury, coach James Franklin said.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

Penn State safety Kevin Winston out with 'long-term' injury​

Penn State's safety Kevin Winston Jr., who led the team in tackles in 2023, will be sidelined with what coach James Franklin on Wednesday called a "long-term" injury.

Winston, a 6-foot-2, 208-pound junior, suffered the injury in the first quarter of the No. 10 Nittany Lions' Sept. 7 win over Bowling Green and did not return. A preseason All-America candidate, Winston earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors following Penn State's season-opening win at West Virginia, where he had a career-high 12 tackles and a forced fumble.

Franklin did not elaborate on Winston's injury or give a potential timetable for his return.





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I have a very low opinion of USC's defense. I think PSU can handle them.
 
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NYG21254246 said:
PisSU always seems to lose games they have no business losing.
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That happened in 2021 and 2018 and arguably vs Pitt in 2016 (not counting 2020)

In every other year, their identity has been TCB against everyone they should beat and losing to every top 10 team they face

While USC is by no means a top 10 team, I don’t really see them as someone that PSU has no business losing to. The pedsters are favored by only 3.5
 
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Would the 87 Fiesta Bowl strategy of blasting the receivers every time they are targeted work today?

Would it be too rough and draw a penalty? In particular thinking of how to handle Ohio State's receivers.
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So the question is about hitting receivers early and often throughout the game to avoid them from being a factor in a mismatch. The original poster is specifically referring to Ohio State - take the receivers out of the game to neutralize that advantage. He's wondering if it would get penalties called, and brings up some Fiesta Bowl in 1987. Not knowing the game, I'll just use my imagination.

So one guy says:
The '87 DBs didn't hit late or dirty. Just hard
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Response:
They were absolutely “targeting”. DB’s were taught to launch and hit receivers after the catch to dislodge the ball for decades in a way that would be called targeting today.
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It was a different game back then. It’s impossible to compare across generations.
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The next guy seems to take offense to the hypothetical nature of the situation:
The Lions won. They played by the rules as they were in 1986-87.
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I find it really funny that the one response was by a guy who took offense at the suggestion that maybe someone at Penn State didn't do things the right way.
Then, even after a couple of people rationalize (rightly, in my opinion) that the rules were different back then, and what is against the rules now used to be perfectly fine, another guy comes in and just tries to dismiss the whole allegation that something dirty happened on the field.
 
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