soaking in all the rain from ernesto 78 rows up (the last row) on the 3rd deck of beaver stadium. its amazing to think i paid 59 bucks for tickets when i paid that same amount to sit 15 rows from the endzone last year. i guess an 11-1 year will bring back any fan.
here's my assessment... ammo looked great. the akron coach said college fball won't see a better arm all year and i agree. he is able to place the ball perfect at any time. he had a few mental collapses late (throwing into double and triple coverage, fumbled once but recovered) but he had zero turnovers.
the WR's were great, the fab 3 all scored including norwoods 1st career TD. the linebackers were game, even though akron tried to run away from poz, conner had a career game including 2 sacks.
the new secondary was fine, scarrato or however his name is spelt had a pick and so did the other dude who wears #24? i didn't know two players could wear the sumer number?? so safeties looked great, corners, including king looked so-so, they need to work on tackles.
the new d-line showed early it could handle the pass rush, getsby had trouble getting 100 yrs in the air and hes a 3,000 yrd qb.
the obvious big problem was the o-line, something no penn state fan wanted to hear. while they showed they can handle the pass rush very well, i think morelli was only rushed twice, the run game obviously was terrible. hunt, a 1,000 back, ran for 36 yrds and 1 td on 14 carries. that is awful. hopefully it was a combo of weather and the 3-5-3 scheme that akron sent because otherwise, without a running game it could be a longggggggg year.
personally, i look for the o-line to improve dramatically in week 2. the great teams always make their biggest improvments between weeks 1 and 2 and i really look for them to pull off the "upset" vs. ND. it wouldn't be so much of an upset in my mind, but i would LOVE to see the faces of that entire gameday crew, and mark may if the lions pulled out on top. they might as well just all go and suck charlies dick while charlie challenges the babe and his 2,362 hotdogs eaten.
CAN I GET AN AMEN FROM THE BOBBLEHEADS??
