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23 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

That guy who was just fired from the Giants is available.

Apparently Franklin did a nice troll on PSU today at the Letter of Intent event with a box of Crumbl cookie on a table. Kind of funny.

 

 

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. 

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Posted
36 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

That guy who was just fired from the Giants is available.

He’s been available for a month or more. It’s not like they’ve been waiting on him to finish the season. 

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47 minutes ago, BigHornedLurker said:

Great to see Klein both at KSU and out of College Station, hope they screw up the next hire :)

Eh, Klein as the aggy OC never really worried me.  They might luck into an improvement.

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10 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

I like the line of thinking. PSU needs a splash hire, with them missing out on all high profile college coaches.

Grabbing Gruden, or some NFL rando. With the right wordsmithing, it could be *spun into a "high profile, splash hire".

 

3 hours ago, 'stache said:

They’ll hire someone from the NFL and say it was the plan all along and why it took so long.

 

36 minutes ago, heso said:

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.

 

Penn State's search firm?

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3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I retired at 57, and if I had been making money like a P4 head coach, I would've retired a lot sooner.  Work is highly overrated.

I'm in that demographic, and I'm on my second retirement gig.

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1 hour ago, TOR said:

58 is awful young for retirement, does Klieman have health problems?

If we are talking an actual sane person it’s not, and by most accounts Chris Klieman is. People scrimp and hustle with the aim to enjoy good years in retirement and do so with much less in the bank. 

“I am 58 years old and made between 3-5 million each year over the past six. Realistically, I am not going to win a national championship. I can leave now with the goodwill of thousands of people. I will never run out of money, my kids and grandkids might never run out of money if I am smart. I’m healthy and I’m going to go enjoy myself and all this money. And never think about what 19 year old defensive backs are up to at all hours of the day and never again say “this loss was on me” at a press conference after my 20 year old QB threw into double coverage instead of the check down I drilled with him 200 times.” 
 

I will 100 percent die on a hill that this thought process is the sanest of anyone involved in CFB this year. And Klein is a great hire for them and I’ll be sad to see him leave. He is a bit of seasoning away from being a real genius. 

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15 hours ago, ITHorn said:

UNT could have done better. Brown is a terrible HC. 

He was terrible at WVU, but excellent at Troy, going 31-8 w/ 3 bowl wins.  Not sure what would make you think UNT could do better - they never have before.

16 hours ago, Parliament said:

John Gruden

From your lips to god's ears.  Gruden sucks so fucking hard and would wreck Penn State for the next 5 years minimum.  Please let that happen.

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1 hour ago, TOR said:

58 is awful young for retirement, does Klieman have health problems?

K-State always wanted Klein to return as next head coach -- his hire was in the works behind closed doors for weeks... K-State kept it quiet till National Signing Day.  

K-State will still get what they get on NSD, and Klein likely didn't want to hurt A&M on the way out.  I'm guessing Klein will still be aggy OC during playoffs...

 

 

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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. 

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1 minute ago, heso said:

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. 

Brian Kelly is tanned, rested, ready, and rich.

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Honestly, I think the obvious guy for Penn State to go after is Brian Hartline at this point. They can just point to him wanting to coach his team through the playoffs and spin it that way. 

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1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

Honestly, I think the obvious guy for Penn State to go after is Brian Hartline at this point. They can just point to him wanting to coach his team through the playoffs and spin it that way. 

USF

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Just now, heso said:

USF

Aw man, missed that one. Well now they are truly fucked unless they just go ape shit for DeBoer, which I can't see happening. John Gruden come on down!

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

I retired at 57, and if I had been making money like a P4 head coach, I would've retired a lot sooner.  Work is highly overrated.

Bob Stoops retired at basically the same age.  The days of coaches lingering around into their 60's and 70's are long over.

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8 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Bob Stoops retired at basically the same age.  The days of coaches lingering around into their 60's and 70's are long over.

Until Penn state hires Pete Carroll before Vegas can fire him. 

Posted
3 minutes ago, gatormarc said:

Down to two commits. One has signed. 

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. 

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