…during their two-season “punishment”, Penn State football went 8-4 the first year and 7-5 the second. And to remedy this horrifying state of affairs, they brought in a new staff, all but two of whom were coaching Vanderbilt three weeks ago to their best back-to-back regular season record in decades: 8-4 and 8-4.
Put another way, the last time Vanderbilt did as well as Penn State’s “punishment” seasons? 1929-30, when Dan McGugin took the Commodores to 7-2 and 8-2 respectively.
So Penn State claimed basically our whole staff and a quarter of our verbally committed recruits so they wouldn’t have to be as bad as our best stretch in 80 years.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. But I wish nothing but ill to that team on the field.