I’m not completely sure the statement in the headline is true, but the vast majority of this article about what Penn State faces with scholarship reduction deals with just HOW BAD Cyclone football was in the Jim Walden era thanks to Jim Criner and the NCAA doing what the NCAA does. In a word: Eep.
That year [1987], top-ranked Oklahoma and second-ranked Nebraska combined to beat Walden’s Cyclones by 98-6. Though the losing consumed him, Walden had no choice but to rely on walk-ons at times, and his game plans became desperate answers to the question: “How can we keep from getting beat 75-0?”