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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
I think 10-2 is completely safe at 90% of schools. It all comes down to the expectations of the donors. Look at Ferentz. 8-4 to 10-2 every few years is good enough there. But it’s also boosted by him occasionally giving the fans an all time upset at home. He’s got a least half a dozen wins over top 10 teams and has knocked off OSU, PSU, and UM when they had a top 3 ranking. 10-2 gets you in the playoff at any P4 school almost every year now. A few seasons of 10-2 would get Ryan day fired if the losses were to Michigan and didn’t include deep playoff runs or better. I think there are a handful of schools that are definitely in danger of expecting too much. UF and Auburn both felt warranted. Neither of those guys were showing any real signs of improving their teams. I was a little surprised at LSU pulling the plug on Kelly this year, even though I thought that was never a good fit. But they brought in the top transfer class and he got worse with it. The biggest question with new hires is how long do schools give them to show improvement. With Franklin it felt like it was always going to get to this point but he always did just enough to keep it going. The decade of being unable to beat a top team because he coaches scared, having to fire 3 of 5 OCs, being unable to develop a qb or hire someone who could, finally getting g his 5* gunslinger and coaching him to play scared for years, not being able to tell if the qb he had could win a championship. There were other failures but the two main things that sunk him were the mismanagement of the QB position and the inability to ever win a big game. Then, if he can’t win the big games, he couldn’t afford to produce back to back weeks of decades old failure records. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Everyone sees what happened at Indiana and thinks they can just throw money at the problem and be a top 5 team overnight, ignoring the mountain of failed coaching hires. With how quickly that team changed, ignoring how soft their schedule was last year and they lost the only two games they played, people won’t have patience for anything less than immediate success. If our coach can’t get us to the national championship, we can just hire the next Cignetti and buy him a fresh team. Penn state is more likely to end up with a coach that they fire in 4 years than one that will win them a national championship. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Which is exactly why Franklin is the wrong coach for this era. He’s a salesman and little more. If a school needs a brand builder, a fundraiser, he’s good at that. But when money can build you a team without a years long recruiting development process, schools like Indiana can become playoff teams in 1 offseason with a good coach. He’s a terrible game planner against equal or better talent. He doesn’t do defense. He’s had to fire 3 of the 5 OCs he’s hired. He coaches scared in big games. He can’t develop a quarterback and doesn’t know how to hire someone who can. He cant identify when a quarterback has the quality to win a national championship and isn’t able to bring one in through the portal who can. -
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I couldn’t get this to save as a gif to post, but worth the click to watch it spin. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=meso-meso1-02-96-0-100-1&checked=usint-map&colorbar=undefined
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Psu called a timeout on the first attempt at the kick and it came up 10 yards short, but Iowa tried it again anyway.
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Iowa up 10-7 on psu with 0:06 left in the half they try a ~65 yard field goal. Gets blocked, psu scoops and runs it back for a td to end the half up 14-10
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
And that will bring Penn state's NHL draft picks on the roster to 4. Those other schools are probably at 10-15. And that’s why PSU probably still falls short of those teams in the playoffs. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Yes, but he’s going to be the first pick in the next NHL draft. -
I was hoping they’d hire Brady as OC when they fired Yurcich since he was a GA at Penn state early in Franklin’s tenure, but he was very shortly thereafter made OC in Buffalo. Seems like he’s an NFL guy and a good bet for an NFL head coach job. I do wonder what if any relationship he and Pegula have.
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Apparently Franklin tried to get a contract extension this past summer. With 6 years left on a 10 year contract. Thought he deserved it after making it to the semifinals last year.
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I’m sure there’s some legalese that prevents him from taking next to nothing, but he should definitely try to take less than he could otherwise get and put it towards players or staff.
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Franklin is 53. His ego won’t let his career end like that. He’ll be coaching again in a year or two.
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