The Hawkeye Bitchmade Anthology: Volume 3 - Daryll Clark

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Dec 28, 2009 8:00 AM CST in Football Comment 19 comments

On the third day of Christmas, HFMR gave to me: Daryll Clark

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I absolutely must re-watch this game,

just to see Clayborn absolutely embarrass PSU’s LT.

Hilarious side note: When searching for the poor guy’s name I came across this gem. Apparently, Mr. Landolt played just one game. Does that make him Clayborn’s #1 bitch?

by The Mexican't on Dec 28, 2009 8:53 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I hawve re-watched it

and it is every bit as sweet the second time. Or third, for that matter.

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by Bluzmn on Dec 28, 2009 10:42 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Um, I'm not sure where they get those stats

Landolt has started all year. He even did well against Ohio State, IIRC.

But you know, bitchmade.

OHHH! haHA!" – Gus Johnson

by ReadingRambler on Dec 28, 2009 12:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

CBSSports only showed him playing the one game. Now, I assumed that CBSSports was at least somewhat reliable, and didn’t take the time to verify the information, so that’s my bad. I figured I’d be set straight in a hurry when/if a PSU fan arrived.

by The Mexican't on Dec 28, 2009 1:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

He's actually one of our best.

Started all of last year at RT but was shifted over because we had no other options at LT. #50 (Pannell) is the guy who we slid into RT, and pretty much gave up that safety on his own.

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by Run Up The Score on Dec 28, 2009 4:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Wow

Just wow. There are metric assloads of Fail contained in this volume, enough for an epic reach-around for the entire offense. This was the first start for LG Johnnie Troutman (74 in the Bitchmade tribute) (a situation Wizniewski was unshy about blaming JoePa for (petty doghouse shite kept him out of the noncon rotation)), and he looked like it, walking right past Klug a few times. I think the coaches were as shocked as the fans at just how un-ready Deontae Pannell was athletically, as Binns ragdolled him to a swift benching. Landolt actually fared fairly well against Clayborn. Certainly better than 2nd string TE Shuler (82) and ridiculously overmatched safety Sukay (18 in the punt block).

But the overwhelming topshelf fail liquor goes to DC, who looked like he drank 40 shots of it. I’ve sung from the mountaintops over at BSD about the importance of composure in your QB, and thought that after the 2nd half of the Rose Bowl, DC had turned a corner in this dept. He looked chill in the pocket, continued through his progressions, eyes downfield. But that was with a stellar Oline. This game, with none of that, and dudes getting pwned left and right, he didn’t take long to regress and slurp all over the panic button. That first pick still pisses me off. He’s rolling right, Quarless gets a good block on Ballard (i think) and even kinda took Angerer out of the play (he was till 7yards away from DC), both Zug & Moye ran crisp routes to open field, and DC pulls the plug on hysteria and chucks it either too late or too soon and hits the Iowa cb in the numbers. I think this was the critical juncture, the exact moment Bitchmade manifested itself. Iowa was all up in his head and it became clear he would not help us the rest of the day.

I actually take solace in the Bitchmade label, because the transitive verb to adjective structure reminds us that the Hawkeye D was a very real antagonist and it wasn’t just our 5th year Senior Captain, returning Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year self-imploding in a vacuum.

"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69

by jtothep on Dec 28, 2009 9:50 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

It was equal parts

Good defense and shit quarterbacking. A competent QB might struggle, but not to that extent.

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by PSUdevon on Dec 28, 2009 11:53 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

He put too much pressure on himself

Or something.

OHHH! haHA!" – Gus Johnson

by ReadingRambler on Dec 28, 2009 12:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Probably the something

As in Hail to the Rambler Valiant
Hail to the something something
/can’t remember verse
Hail, Hail Rambler of the West

by jtothep on Dec 28, 2009 12:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps his jock was too tight

Or something.

"Wow. You know you have problems when even the cheerleaders know you suck." ~ Pain in the Sash

by Leftcoast Hawk on Dec 28, 2009 2:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps

OHHH! haHA!" – Gus Johnson

by ReadingRambler on Dec 28, 2009 2:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Nice compliment, thanks

Once again proving that PSU fans are amongst the most stand-up in major college football :)

"Wow. You know you have problems when even the cheerleaders know you suck." ~ Pain in the Sash

by Leftcoast Hawk on Dec 28, 2009 2:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

one could argue that Clark's bitchmaking began the prior year

In the Iowa game when DC went to absolute shit. In that game he was average to poor and it was Derrick Williams who was the almost Iowa killer. I think that sense of frustration/hopelessness carried over to this year and the moment things went bad, DC fell apart.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Dec 28, 2009 11:31 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

One could

But the counterargument, from this poster anyways, puts the 08 bitchmaking antagonist at JoePa’s feet. DC clearly was medically approved to play, recovered from his concussion in the OSU game a week earlier, but Joe was up to his old pussyfoot tricks and worried about ‘kids’ fragile psyches. [aologies to bsd’ers, who have heard this from me before] Scared to death (or whatever Joe’s actually scared of in its stead) of a quarterback controversy, he kept Devlin on the bench, let DC try to get his legs and head back under and on him, and actually sent our Wide Receiver out under center to spell him. I’ll again grant the King/Kroul pressure contributed early to his bitchmaking, but JoePa set the wheels in motion. DC shouldn’t have been allowed to even throw that final pick.

But that memory remained til this year’s game, agreed certainly. And we know that DC is not the player we want to be carrying grudges. I’m actually worried about this phenomenon against LSU, as he clearly feels he’ll be out to cement or amend his legacy, whatever that means to him. Which means a big wild card for us.

It’s provocative tho, with the swaying of the Big 10’s schedule, the question of who Daryll Clark might be if he had avoided Iowa’s bitchmaking altogether.

by jtothep on Dec 29, 2009 9:05 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs