The Sky is Not Falling

He haunts my dreams I think I’m more frustrated with the reaction to last night’s game than I was with the game itself. And that’s not something I would’ve expected at 10:30 last night. But apparently, to an unfathomably large percentage of the Penn State fanbase, a tough loss to a damn good Iowa team, one that matches up impeccably with a young, rebuilding Penn State squad, means we’ll go 6-6 if we’re lucky. That Rob Bolden is garbage, that this is the beginning of the dark years, part 2. And perhaps the most prevalent complaint: that the staff is entirely incompetent, that Joe Must Go. Look, I get it. You were mad last night–not mad so much as annoyed, and embittered. Even I was ready to throw a chair through my TV last night. But if you expect this team to become Ohio State overnight once Joe Paterno is replaced, well, you’re only kidding yourself. Before this week, Penn State had been ranked in the AP poll for 36 weeks–the 5t...