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December 2022

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Site Lines C O M M E N T S F R O M T H E L I O N S D E N A T B L U E W H I T E I L L U S T R A T E D . C O M DECEMBER 2022/VOL. 38, NO.4 MANAGING EDITOR Matt Herb CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Mark Panus, Chris Riffer WEBSITE PUBLISHER Sean Fitz WEBSITE EDITOR Nate Bauer STAFF WRITER Greg Pickel RECRUITING REPORTER Ryan Snyder FOOTBALL ANALYST Thomas Frank Carr CONTRIBUTING WRITER Jim Carlson PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Althouse, Bill Anderson, Steve Manuel, Mark Selders COVER PHOTOS Daniel Althouse DESIGN Jeanette Blankenship, Chris Miller F F F PUBLISHER Stu Coman BUSINESS MANAGER Linda Autry ADVERTISING SALES/MARKETING Michelle DeLee-Hamilton 877-630-8768 CIRCULATION MANAGER Sarah Boone CUSTOMER SERVICE Cathy Jones, Laura Thornton 800-421-7751 BLUE WHITE ILLUSTRATED (USPS 742-550) is published monthly, except June, by Coman Publishing Company, 905 W Main St, Ste 24F, Durham, NC 27701-2076. A one-year (11 issues) subscription is $59.00. First-class, digital and foreign rates available on request. Periodicals postage paid at Durham, NC 27701 and additional mailing offices. Printed by The Papers, Milford, Ind. POSTMASTER: Please send address corrections/changes to BLUE WHITE ILLUSTRATED, PO Box 2331, Durham NC 27702-2331. For advertising or subscription informa- tion call 1-919-688-0218 or write BLUE WHITE ILLUSTRATED, PO Box 2331, Dur- ham NC 27702. W W W . B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M ON WHETHER THIS HAS BEEN A SATISFACTORY FOOTBALL SEASON FOR THE NITTANY LIONS … The unwillingness (from fans) to accept that Penn State has taken care of business in a way very few teams have is wild. This team is top 10, maybe like 8 or 9 at the worst. After being unranked in the preseason. — LeFennecFox I cannot remember the last time we had a season in which our only losses came against teams we were not favored against. In other words, we had a season that thoroughly met expectations each week. It was oddly normal. — CyphaPSU We beat who we were supposed to beat and lost to who we were supposed to lose to. Progress was definitely made. The future looks bright, and the spotlight is clearly on Drew Allar. The other pieces should be there. — Jmp There are fans who are championship-or-bust (Big Ten or national), and that's fine. We are all allowed to set our own expectations. But if we finish 11-2 with a New Year's Six win? I'll take it and call it a successful season, and I don't even care if the bowl win is over Tulane. There are 131 FBS schools. If you finish the season with around 125 of them wishing they were you, I think you've done something right. — CFett For the amount of talent on this team, we should be seeing performance like Ohio State, Michigan and Georgia, but we are not. There are individual great performances, but as a whole, the team is far from outstanding. — NLE24 All the angst about team rankings is a complete waste of time for teams that don't qualify for the College Foot- ball Playoff. The nation's eyes will soon be focused only on the four teams that make the CFP. All other teams will be on the outside looking in, and in an academic sense, irrelevant. Finishing with a 10-2 record with devastating losses to Ohio State and Michigan is simply not good enough progress for Year 9 under Coach Franklin. Losing 70 percent of the time when playing OSU and Michigan is not acceptable for a program of PSU's stature. Our fans deserve better. — Blair10 I can't stand the whole characterization of "they haven't beaten anyone with a pulse." It's arrogant and disre- spectful to both sides and diminishes the accomplishment of winning the game. … These teams recruit their play- ers and give scholarships, too. Purdue won eight games and is the West champ. Minnesota won eight games and is going to a pretty good bowl. You can look sideways at Maryland, but it won seven games and played Michigan and Ohio State as well as anyone. And we just rolled them. Do those teams "not have a pulse" because they're not in the top five? Ask Tennessee and Clemson if South Carolina has a pulse. Ask LSU if Texas A&M does. Some on here would argue they don't because they're not in the top five. Dismissing wins because you don't think the opponent "has a pulse" is lazy and condescending. — Pocono Lion ON THE EMERGENCE OF FRESHMAN LINEBACKER ABDUL CARTER … It sure was great to watch. Getting that No. 11 jersey and all the hype and pressure could screw with some- body's head when it doesn't go well. But Carter put that all to rest in one season, as a freshman! — Stephen Light Carter is better in his freshman year than either LaVar Arrington or Micah Parsons were. — C7Lion Let's wait one more year before comparing him to LaVar. But Carter is definitely an incredible athlete to watch, and the next two years should be great with him playing linebacker for Penn State. — jarit I keep reading about Abdul Carter's excellent play and stats "for a freshman." I take exception. While I abso- lutely believe Carter will improve over the next couple of years, I'd be ecstatic to have a redshirt senior produce his freshman stats and play! Carter's play is flat out excellent, regardless of class. He'll be a freshman All-American this year and a "regular" All-American next year. Carter is the latest great PSU linebacker. — Jason1743 4 D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2 He's only a freshman, but Abdul Carter has evoked com- parisons to some of the greatest linebackers in Penn State history, players such as LaVar Arrington and Micah Parsons. PHOTO BY DANIEL ALTHOUSE

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