According to head coach James Franklin, an exhibition match against a local FCS program would be more ideal than the annual Blue-White spring game. “But it’s tainted, the fact that we lost in five the next night”. It’s pretty much going to be the Saturday depth chart unless we lose a few guys.
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This is Big Ten Conference volleyball, though. It meant a narrow 20-14 win over the Black Knights. The Buckeyes rose from No. 13 to No. 9 after beating the Huskers. On a road trip where the Huskers could have easily gone 2-0 or 0-2, they were 1-1.
In those four games, they have trailed for only nine minutes, 20 seconds, and they’ve never been behind after halftime.
Cook was proud of how NU came back from an 0-2 deficit, and later 5-1 in the fifth set. I get all of that, but I’ve been in the business long enough. “But we don’t know that right now”. On the other hand, as the Nittany Lions enter Big Ten play those games will mostly likely be decide far sooner. Last season, Penn State receivers had 77 catches through five games. The Huskers snapped a 33-game winning streak for the Nittany Lions. It would seem they’re going to play but it remains to be seen how much the injuries hamper them.
“We would like to get to a point where it’s more exciting, sexier is a word that I use sometimes that you guys laugh at, but you know yeah, you get to that”. It’s just really tough to do that. “That’s the hardest part of my job”, Franklin said Tuesday. “We gotta be able to do both”. Penn State’s young secondary, which has been plagued by injuries to cornerback Grant Haley and safeties Jordan Lucas and Marcus Allen this season, could be tested a lot more this week against a versatile Indiana offense than it was last week, when Army attempted one pass against the Nittany Lions. He thinks Ohio State is a team that will be in the hunt to win championships this season. History still intrudes into every major decision at Penn State. “It went on and on and on and on and I looked at it and I was going to respond and I thought don’t respond”.
Freshman Mikaela Foecke led the Huskers with a career-high 22 kills against Penn State, but followed it up with just four kills and five errors against Ohio State.
Abby Drewy/Centre Daily Times/TNS via Getty Images Penn State’s Week 1 loss to Temple set a sour note for the 2015 season. “Is it fatigue? Is it emotional?”
“Yeah, I actually think, just like I think the point you’re making, the last two years the punting has had a significant impact on our team. I love the way she competes”. 267 hitting, a dig and a block.
While he’s reluctant to take ownership, Franklin’s idea is interesting to say the least. “She did a great job for us”.
But as fans and the press have grown concerned with the offense’s statistical performance – it ranks 116th of 127 in the nation – Franklin insists the Nittany Lions are doing exactly what they must do on offense to secure those victories. “I don’t think there’s any doubt about it. If you look at the last two years, the defense is a big factor in a lot of the decisions we have made and the style that we have played”.
-DT Anthony Zettel (No. 5 defensive end, 31st overall) – The 284-pound tackle might better project as a 3-4 end in the National Football League but this season he’ll be a force at the three-technique in Penn State’s 4-3 defense. It’s the first career Big Ten defensive player of the week award for Wong-Orantes.
“They’re a big, physical team”, Cook said. “In their transition, they’ve had depth problems at line”.
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But if Indiana football wants to be more, if it wants to emerge from basketball’s shadow and successfully capture the full attention of its students and fans this autumn and in the autumns to come, these are the kind of games they must win.
