OSU vs Penn State

We're not in High School anymore PaternoPower.  The majority of us have moved beyond antagonizing people and creating problems.  There is nothing wrong with a serious conversation about sports on a message board.  As a matter of fact it's a great place for busy people with similar sports interests to chat and be armchair quarterbacks.  If you want to be negative and create animosity please do so elsewhere, I've seen plenty of threads and message boards where that works fine. 

On behalf of my Penn State comrade, I apologize. Now back, to the original thread....

So, who are your biggest players/threats on offense and defense?

Our top reciever this year should be Sammie Stroughter.  He was our top receiver two years ago and our top punt returner.  He was medical redshirted last year.  We played a couple of freshman at WR last year.   Darryl Catchings showed promise as a freshman and I expect him to have the breakout year that many expected from him last year.  James Rodgers was the other freshman WR that was played but it's not his WR abilities that got OS fans excited. Pat Riley used James Rodgers in the fly sweep and it payed off big.  This kid as got some speed.  If you don't catch him when he turns the corner you aren't going to catch him.  The first half of the season he used the play sparingly but by the second half of the season it became a standard play.  James put up 582 yards of rushing.  That could have easily been a 1000 yards if Riley had used it more during the 1st half of the season.  Since we don't have a lot of depth at WR, I expect that Pat Riley will probably play a couple more freshmen rather than red shirting them.  I really like Jordan Bishop. You can check him out on you tube.  I also like Keynan Parker.  He is also on you tube and he is listed as a RB but I expect with this kids speed  he will be converted to a WR.

Don't have time to write more so I'll post more later.  Why don't you tell us about your players as well.  I've heard about the 7 off season suspensions and was wondering how much not having these players will affect your team.  Basically were they crucial contributors or really more like bench players.

Some of the potential weapons I see are on defense still, as we have a really good OLB and decent MLB, and a couple of decent DEs.  Our secondary should be a little more solid this year, as they have been more on the young side the last 2 years, and have grown into the program.  Our really good SS (who put 2-3 good players on the injury list last year for other teams) might be suspended or lose the year totally due to a DUI, so we will see what happens there.

Offensively our QBs are still a question, but we have a lot of unproven talent there, so it could go either way.  As the other poster said I think our WR core will improve a bit, with Sammie coming back that will be a big help on the WR core, and on special teams.  Question mark at RB after losing our starter, but I'm a little more confident of them considering our school has been amazing at the RB position for nearly a decade now at producing great RB, so we might not be amazing there this year, but at least solid.

So all in all the Beavs will do good this coming year if:  1.  The QB rises to the occasion  2. Defense keeps up the pressure that they usually do.  3.  RB (or running game with Rodgers threat) turns out to have a few 100 yard games. 

So anyone of those 3 could be a strength/weakness.  If our QBs play the way they did in the Maryland game then those other two groups are gonna really have to step it up.  Both Cannfield and Moevao did not impress me when I went to that game.  In other games they usually were at best decent for the year that I saw on TV (nothing spectacular, but saw some potential, they were both first yearers in the program though).