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1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

I'm still wondering where ESPN is on this.  Can you imagine the ESPN/Kirk Herbstreit outrage meter if Charlie Strong had that record and we canned him 10 months after a final four appearance.  We would hear about it for the next 20 years.

No we wouldn't.  Not in this day in age.  Shit has changed since Strong got fired.

Stop trolling.  Fuccboi.

Posted
3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

No we wouldn't.  Not in this day in age.  Shit has changed since Strong got fired.

Stop trolling.  Fuccboi.

we absolutely would fuckhead.

Posted
5 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Indiana sucks at basketball and is pretty good in the bootball.

It ain't 1986.

He's a light-skin rich brother.  When "you people" say, "I have a black friend", he is exactly who you're talking about.

It doesn't count when they have to tell you.

5 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I split hairs with you on Notre Dame, but you need a guy at Freeman’s level to recruit nationally.
 

Michigan’s best players usually come from Detroit or Ohio. They have to knock heads with fOSU in both areas. Penn State pretty much has all of Pennsylvania to themselves plus easy proximity to the DMV and Jersey. 

 

11 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I wonder if they want that one back? They ran the Northeast and DMV in recruiting for decades. 

I think Penn State is the second best recruiting job in the north. 

The story was the same as the Texas A&M to SEC story.  When PSU joined the BUG they 'opened' PA to recruiting from the conference.  That was not reciprocated by players from Ohio preferring to go far away to Happy Valley.  At least that was PSU's explanation of why they went bad a few years after joining.

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3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

James Franklin had been the Nittany Lions’ head coach since 2014.

Accomplishments:
• 104-45 record
• Five AP Top 10 finishes
• Seven AP Top 20 finishes
• Six 10-win seasons
• 2016 Big Ten Champions
• 2024 CFP Appearance
• 2017 Fiesta Bowl Champions Washington 
• 2019 Cotton Bowl Champions Memphis 
• 2022 Rose Bowl Champions Utah
• 2024 Fiesta Bowl Champions Boise State,

Franklin had Penn State ranked in the AP Top 10 at some point in ten consecutive seasons dating back to 2016.

Those bowl wins.  Franklin drew a lot of smaller programs.  Not so well when the opponent was better known.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_bowl_games

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3 putt over here stanning for James Franklin well…to be honest it probably should have been on all of our bingo cards. A Mack Brown apologist to his core, even if it’s a less successful, more rapey Mack Brown. 

Posted
9 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

The Catholic church gives Notre Dame a built-in national recruiting base.  Lou Holtz was a shitty recruiter and got dudes.

Pennsylvania puts out players, but not at the same level as Ohio. Ok, Pedo State has the third best recruiting setup in the North.

PSU is basically the football school for the Acela Corridor when they are good, and Franklin had gotten the pipeline in order.  Northern Virginia to New York. That’s a lot of dudes.  
 

It might get chippy with Maryland when they are good or VaTech back in the day at the South end but PSU is not far and is the big choice for DC, Maryland, Penn, NJ, New York. 

Posted
4 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I'm still wondering where ESPN is on this.  Can you imagine the ESPN/Kirk Herbstreit outrage meter if Charlie Strong had that record and we canned him 10 months after a final four appearance.  We would hear about it for the next 20 years.

It was the level of failure, combined with all the money that got pumped into this season to give him his shot for a national championship. All the NIL money to bring everyone back and fill in the holes. The 3 million for Knowles. 

Franklin himself said that this is the best personnel and staff he’s ever had. 

And then he managed to accomplish back to back failures that hadn’t happened in decades. First he showed that he still can’t put together an offense that can deliver in big games in the loss to Oregon, but the goal was still technically on the table. Then he becomes the first coach in 40 years to lose as a top 10 team to an 0-4 team. The closest thing I can remember to that was USC losing to 1-3 Stanford in 2007 as a 40 point favorite, but they rallied and won the pac 12 for the 5th consecutive time and Carrol won 2 national championships. Then, still not mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, he had to right the ship at home against northwestern as a 20 point favorite again at homecoming. Instead he became the first coach in over 30 years to lose back to back games as a 20 point favorite. 

And more than anything, he’s clearly unable to develop a quarterback, doesn’t know how to hire someone who can, can’t recruit quarterbacks, and doesn’t know how to identify if he has a quarterback who can win him a championship. Convinced that Drew Allar was that guy, he got the money and convinced Allar to stay for this year. Then he let Allar announce that he was coming back before the playoffs started so Pribula immediately entered the transfer portal before the playoffs started. This team would have been closer to a national championship with Pribula this season. A lot of people thought that late last year, but the guy whose job it is to know that couldn’t see it.

Contrast that with Ohio state and Kyle McCord. They identified that he wasn’t going to win them a national championship so they brought in someone who could do it and they won it. 

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