I guess the next time when I'm faced with choosing should I go with logic or my gut, I should choose logic. I was pretty sure Purdue would lose, but thought for some reason they'd pull out the victory. I was wrong...
I'm pretty angry about this loss, so I'm not going to post a whole bunch. But here are some thoughts:
-Bryant played very well and was vocally-leading the offense on the sidelines as well. He's a great kickoff returner...but either PSU's kicker is ridiculously fast, or Bryant doesn't run a 4.35 as it's claimed that he does.
-Summers looked great- He kept Purdue in the game.
-Taylor's arm seemed to have made a difference in his play today (he had a fumble and dropped an easy pass).
-While Painter holds onto the ball to long on many occasions, this O-line looked pretty shabby again. The pocket was collapsing all afternoon.
-Greg Orton, who I thought was sure-handed had a couple of costly drops again...and Lymon, conversely had some big catches (even a TD that he didn't get credit for).
-This Big Ten officiating crew needs to either be investigated or at minimum get sent back to officiating school for a refresher. They flat-out missed a lot of calls and didn't seem to understand the rules during important situations.
-Players make plays...not enough plays were made by Purdue to win. That said, Purdue competed and should have gotten their eighth win of this season. Shoulda, coulda, didn't. Purdue was a seven-point dog and lost by seven...Surprise, surprise.
This quote by Dustin Keller sums it up:
"Three of the biggest games on the schedule, and we folded in each of them."
The program and more specifically, the guys coming back next year need to win three in a row now. When facing criticism and concern, nothing silences like winning.
More Bad Officiating
The officials in Notre Dame stadium did their best to keep their Irish in the game, but the Middies dug down to beat UND in triple-OT. Not even the decided Xs & Os advantage of the Manatee could lead the more-talented, bigger and stronger Irish team to a victory at home. My favorite call of the game by the genius was going for it on 4th & long when a 45-yd. field goal would have won it for the Irish in regulation.
Up yours, Lou Holtz! Not even your cursed pep talk could with its reverse-psychology-riddled tone could help your Irish to a victory.
Hey Domers, wasn't this one of your guaranteed victories?
UND's magical season dances on to 1-8 (one more and it'll be a UND record...Dig deep, fellas, I have complete faith that you can do it).
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UCLA must feel pretty bad about now.
At least Purdue didn't loose to an academy school.
I only heard the last 5 minutes or so, but the radio guys were about ready to run down on the field to 'talk' to the refs. Funny, they didn't mention on the Big 10 Network (I have it - thanks DirecTV!) the officials - I wonder why.
Ah, Notre Dame. As soon as ND failed on the 2 point try my wife started yelling in joy. The ND hatred is strong in her.
I was a bit so-so on Mark May before this season, but he has been giving Holtz a lot of grief lately. After the loss to Navy he couldn't help but just sit there and snicker as Holtz talked about it. And he has now said on a number of occasions that the coaches are to blame for a lot of this.
I agree with the May assessment. It pisses the old man off to be called to the carpet, but if he'd stop being a shill, it wouldn't have to happen week after week.
So thanks to Kurt's parents, we had 19th row seats to the Penn State game. All was fine and good in our section until that Taylor fumble. The game totally changed there. We were dominating them in that first quarter and the 108,000 fans were silent. Then that fumble happened, Purdue's body language changed and the momentum was gone. We could have been up 17-3 and I think it would have been a victory. We just don't have the talent to overcome crucial mistakes like that. Painter had some bad throws in the redzone, too. I need to watch a tape of the game to see how bad the officating really was. To us, looked like Purdue was getting reamed. PSU fans said it was the other way. So I guess that about sums it up!
Why oh why did UCLA have to ruin it for the rest of us right now?
Watch the tape, E...PSU fans are flat-out wrong. The line judge specifically missed calls all day. I'm not talking about holds and tough-to-make calls, I'm talking blatant garbage.
Regarding UCLA, they're pretty awful...Didn't they get beaten by Utah by 40 or something? Long was there, he knows.
UCLA was #11 in the polls (you know - because those things are always right) when they played Utah back in September. Oops! A Utah team using backups in a lot of spots, including QB, dropped 40+ on them. The Bruins have looked like creamed crap ever since. ND and UCLA played at the same time as the Purdue/tOSU game. I was at a sports bar and all of the sudden the Irish fans came out of the woodwork and kept asking the bartenders to change the channel to the UND game. Twice I had to asked them to change it back to the game with the two RANKED teams playing.
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