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  1. It’s not as deadly as it would have been before the transfer portal. As long as they have a coach in place by the portal window, there is enough talent on the roster that with enough NIL money they could be ok next year. They have an unbelievably soft schedule next year. USC, Mich, Wash are the only teams they play that are in the top half of the big ten this year. Depending on how those 3 teams are next year, they could feasibly play the entire season without facing a ranked team. OOC is Marshall, Temple, Buffalo. No matter who they hire they can buy their way through that schedule.
  2. 4 star edge rusher from Philly. Had offers from OSU & Michigan. Thats gotta be a weird feeling watching your entire recruiting class evaporate around you.
  3. Until Penn state hires Pete Carroll before Vegas can fire him.
  4. Kraft put himself in an impossible spot. Who would you be confident in being better than Franklin? Smart, Day, Dabo, Freeman, Lanning, DeBoer, Sark, and at this point you probably have to put Cignetti on that list. None of those guys were leaving their current job for Penn state. Then the next tier of guys that could maybe do it, Elko, Drinkwitz, Campbell, Lashlee, Sitake, etc. All of those guys are trying to get to the level that Franklin just got fired for getting to. Why would you leave your current job for Penn state when you know that anything short of beating Ohio state and winning a national championship is grounds for firing? Especially when your current school offers you an extension and increased NIL spend. Then there’s the crop of G5 coaches and up and coming OCs that Kraft i guess thought were beneath what he could hire. There was almost no chance whoever he hired would look like an upgrade on the front end because none of those guys were available. And then he waited around for so long trying to get someone that looked like an upgrade that he missed his chance on all of the up and comers that were a dice roll to be an upgrade. So now he’s left with calling Brian Daboll because someone took a picture of him leaving his house in a Penn state hoodie after he got fired.
  5. Whether it was Franklin, or someone else that put them out, all of the trolling is funny and warranted. Along with the person who had crumbl delivered to the psu athletic admin building Monday night. Leaving yourself with zero options short of trying to lure away a guy that seemed destined to spend his whole career at BYU, only to get outbid by the Mormon church and a cookie tycoon deserves to be mocked.
  6. From what I’ve heard, which is probably bullshit, is that Stein interviewed but Kraft didn’t feel he was ready for the job. This would have been while he thought he had Sitake on the hook. Declined to offer Stein & kept Chesney waiting and lost him while trying to reel in Sitake. Sitake was the second coach offered after the first offer was turned down after his school extended him. Some think it was Elko, some Rhule.
  7. I don’t know why, but the “Welcome home” in so many announcement posts bothers me when the guy has no previous ties to the program or area. Feels like that phrase should be reserved for guys returning to their alma mater, home state/area, or a school that they at least had some sort of previous connection to. Sounds dumb to say welcome home to a guy that has no connection to a place and will leave the moment he has some success and someone offers him more money.
  8. If you’re an AD, it seems like one of the top priorities for your job would be to have a list of coaches you want to target ready to go at all times. Even more so if you feel your current guy’s seat is slightly warm. And then be ready to go asap. If you’re the one doing the firing, and picking your time, how are you not ready? When Saban retired he made his decision on the 8th, told his AD on the 9th, told the players on the 10th. That night Byrne had his top 2 targets of DeBoer and Norvell. Interviewed both of them on the 11th, offered DeBoer the job on the 12th. He was announced on the 14th. 48 hours from Saban’s announcement to having his guy. Granted that was Alabama, the offseason, and the same agent for Saban, DeBoer, and Norvell. And Saban had warned Byrne that it was coming in the next year or two. But 50+ days? So what, you thought you had your first (2nd, 3rd) guy but his school matched and he backed out? And then you let all of the G5 coaches and OCs get snapped up while you wait for the Tongan to receive a sign from the ghost of Joseph Smith if he should stay in Utah?
  9. Vrable looking like dave wannstedt out there with that mustache.
  10. Actually, sort of. Same agency. Kiffin, James Franklin, Kirby, DeBoer, Saban, Sark, Norvell, Chesney, Dabo, Lanning are all represented by Jimmy Sexton.
  11. Looked like me chunking a wedge out there.
  12. I guess the cookie business pays well.
  13. At this point it feels like any coach that wants a raise takes an interview for the Penn state job or has his agent link him to it.
  14. Despite being there for 12 years, through 5 or 6 DCs, he never got tapped to run the defense, seemingly by choice. Never even suggested as a candidate. After a couple of weeks as the interim coach he said that this reignited his fire to become a head coach. I don’t see how you can go from “not having the fire to be a head coach” to suddenly being seriously considered to be the head coach at a top job. Go be a head coach or DC somewhere else for a few years and see if you actually want to be a HC. And when Franklin’s replacement gets fired in 3-4 years, maybe come back.
  15. Especially if it’s Hartline. A little different if it’s a HC leaving his team. If they aren’t going to announce the hire before Wednesday there is no hurry to make an announcement before the transfer portal window. That they haven’t announced it yet, makes me wonder if they missed on their top choice(s). Seems like more than anything they have been tight lipped about it and everyone is just throwing shit out there hoping to be right. Drinkwitz, Rhule, Elmo, Dabol, Chesney, and a few others have all been “the favorite” to get the job. And we all saw how well trying to install the air raid at Wisconsin worked out.
  16. I guess as part of the terms of the deal to avoid the chaos around leaving on short notice. Seems like a significant error to miss out on the early signing period this week, and why everyone else is falling into place before the 3rd.
  17. Two camps seem to be that it’s either Chesney or Hartline and they are waiting until after the championship games to announce, or Kraft is fucking up and no one wants the job while Franklin steals all the recruits.
  18. The media collectively using kalshi odds as a legitimate source of who might be hired for a job has to be one of the dumbest parts of the current carousels. There have been so many guys listed as “favorites” for a job and a week later he never interviewed for the job and was never considered by either side.
  19. If BYU loses next week I think they are out of the conversation. If BYU wins I think the big 12 steals the SEC’s 5th spot.
  20. Sec is getting 5 teams in. If bama wins tonight they are the last sec team in. If bama loses tonight Texas is the 5th sec team. I don’t think Vandy gets in over Texas when you look at their resume. They got an artificial boost from beating #11 SC now 4-8, #10 LSU now 7-5 and fired their coach, and #15 mizzou now 8-4 and unranked. Their best win is over 8-4 Tennessee. Depending on how far Tenn drops and missou climbs, they might end up with zero wins over teams that finish the season ranked. They have no wins over a playoff team. Texas has 2. Plus, critically, UT has the head to head win.
  21. Because he managed to beat 3-8 msu and 7-5 Nebraska with top 5 talent. What an accomplishment. His entire college coaching career is 1 year as a WR coach at temple and 12 years as a CB coach at Penn state. Supposedly he’s still being mentored by Franklin over the phone since he left. The closest thing to a case for him is that the players like him and he managed to revive the run game against the 70th & 100th ranked run defenses. The main thing that has the hillbillies clamoring for him is the Joe 409 button he wore last week, validating their delusion that it’s ok to still lionize him. That alone should disqualify him even if he wasn’t already completely unqualified for the job. I don’t think Kraft is that dumb.
  22. Wordle 1,615 3/6 ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  23. Good hire. And makes harder for Penn state to recruit in the MD-VA area where they have historically pulled a lot of talent from.
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