Paterno still not over the loss to USC in the Rose Bowl

by Paragon SC on Mar 30, 2009 7:00 PM PDT in USC Football Comment 8 comments

While most of us have moved on form last years season it would appear that Joe Paterno is still pretty upset over Penn. St's loss in the Rose Bowl.

Nearly three months after USC handled Penn State 38-24 in the Rose Bowl, Lee and Clark believe Paterno is not yet over the defeat.

Not that surprising, right?

"Jay [Paterno, the quarterbacks coach] told me that Joe was really upset about that game," Clark said Friday.

"He thought that we gave them the game. ... That game is still bothering Joe."

"We didn't play well, we didn't coach well," Paterno said prior to putting PSU through its second spring practice. The Lions worked without pads.

"I think we can do better."

And Lee said it was Paterno who set the tone for PSU's winter workouts. Rather than take a week off following the bowl game, Paterno and his players went right back to work.

"The way we lost ... especially in the first half, we didn't play like we had all year," said Lee, referring to USC's 31-7 lead at halftime. "We were a better team than we showed.

I can empathize, JoPa is like Pete Carroll, he is a competitor...Pete Carroll took a while to get over the Texas loss so I am not surprised that the loss still stings.

Hang in there coach...it will get better.

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JoePa's Perpetuating Anguish...

is extending my satisfaction. Beat downs aren’t supposed to feel good, Big-10 posers.

by DFWTrojan on Mar 30, 2009 7:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

OUCH!

They were good, PC took the foot off the gas pedal. We “could have” put up more and stopped them better in the 2nd half. But man. . . . .did they keep on playing or what?

Besides, that was Coach Sarkisian’s signature game. He had a helluva game plan and called some insane plays. Especially that draw/screen on the final TD before the half. THAT was a great call.

Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"

by BixBeiderbecke on Mar 30, 2009 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Uhm

maybe he’ll go to the locker room at halftime next big game.

by Seanny Rotten on Mar 31, 2009 7:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's hilarious!

Couldn’t make it down to the locker room, yeah- I remember that. What was it again? Hips? (prolly) Knee? (more than likely) Totally “mad gone ape-shit”? (wouldn’t you be?) Other knee? (the man IS getting old isn’t he?) And so. . . . . to this very day. . . . .he’s still pissed off! If he coulda just made it down to visit the boys at halftime? (classic!)

by BixBeiderbecke on Apr 1, 2009 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He had his knee torn up

For a coach at his age, he is still getting it done. The folks in happy valley were asking for his head 3 years ago. Now all the firejoepaterno websites are offline. Its too bad he was still recovering when he played us. It would have been great to see both coach Carroll and Paterno pacing the sidelines. I don’t think it would have impacted the outcome if Joe was out there though.

by frak on Apr 1, 2009 8:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You know, I was talking about this very subject

With a few friends of mine- 2 which are Bruin-boys through and through, one- she’s a Vol (Kiffin-kountry), a married couple (Cal and Stanford grads respectively), and my g-friend (new Trojan girl)- YES I was way outnumbered.

The consensus among us reflected two glaring things:

1. Most other conferences don’t give the PAC 10 ANY RESPECT whatsoever (why is that?)
2. When other teams from other conferences get beat by a PAC 10 team, it’s usually because something “their” team did wrong during the field of play that caused their loss.

Leading up to our recent Rose Bowls, be it Michigan, Illinois, or Penn State- and especially during the game, it seems as though they have this attitude that “well, USC HASN’T PLAYED a Big Televen team LIKE US yet!”. And then, in the game, their mouths get all goo-goo-ga-ga at the machine that’s in front of them. Not just in execution here and there, but in execution each and every play and the intensity with which it is brought forth. There is hardly a let up. (except for that Arizona State game last year, being there in the stands was really really hard for me. to see Sanchez et, al play that game- I was sick to my stomach even though we won big). But then there was Ucla vs. Tennessee for the past two games. Oregon vs. Oklahoma. Cal vs. Maryland and Michigan State (I think?). Those games, the PAC 10 teams came to play and there was hardly any let up. For some reason, students, fans, and athletes think we’re sissies or something? I really just don’t get it? When will they smell the coffee? It’s the 21st century already, you’d think this perception of the PAC 10 would have gone away already- I mean- with Ucla at the forefront, we’ve won a kajillion Div. I championships. And we haven’t won them by being sissies, that’s for sure.

2. It isn’t like we don’t have any talent here in California. See last two sentences from above. We win games and championships by having superior talent, excellent coaching, intense perparation, and by just WANTING IT MORE! It isn’t because of some fluke call (ahem, sorry Oklahoma) or some screw-up from the opposing team! We win because we’re winners over here in the PAC 10. Period. End of story.

JoPa is a living legend. He’s probably pissed because he bought into PState’s invincibility last year. They WERE very good last season. Just not anywhere near USC. Oregon State? Ok, I’ll give that to them. But not us. (yeah, we lost to OreState- puh-lease haters! that’s way played out. what have you got for us LATELY?)

by BixBeiderbecke on Apr 1, 2009 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs