\u2026during their two-season \u201cpunishment\u201d, Penn State football went 8-4 the first year and 7-5 the second. \u00a0And 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. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Put another way, the last<\/em> time Vanderbilt did as well as Penn State\u2019s \u201cpunishment\u201d seasons? 1929-30, when Dan McGugin took the Commodores to 7-2 and 8-2 respectively.<\/p>\n So Penn State claimed basically our whole staff and a quarter of our verbally committed recruits so they wouldn\u2019t have to be as bad as our best stretch in 80 years.<\/p>\n No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. \u00a0But I wish nothing but ill to that team on the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2026during their two-season \u201cpunishment\u201d, Penn State football went 8-4 the first year and 7-5 the second. \u00a0And 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. \u00a0 Put … <\/p>\n