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  1. SATURDAY, SEP 5 Marshall SATURDAY, SEP 12 atTemple SATURDAY, SEP 19 Buffalo DATE TBA atMaryland DATE TBA atMichigan DATE TBA atNorthwestern DATE TBA Minnesota DATE TBA Purdue DATE TBA Rutgers DATE TBA USC DATE TBA Wisconsin DATE TBA atWashington Looks like there’s 3 ranked teams on that schedule at most. Depending on how UM and USC are next year, it’s possible they play the entire season without playing a ranked team. USC plays OSU, IU, UO, UW, and ND. UM plays Oklahoma, Iowa, IU, UO, and OSU.
  2. I think a lot of Campbell’s success, and really all coaches in the portal era, hinge on how well they are able to instill their team’s character with the number of transfers he’ll have. OSU, UGA, UT, ND, UM all have 5 or fewer transfers starting for them. Ole Miss, Tech, Aggy, Indiana all have 13+ starters that are transfers. How well can you get a team of mercenaries to buy-in when shit goes a little sideways? I expect a lot of the mercenary teams to wilt when the heat gets turned up. Last year’s playoff had all mercenary heavy teams lose before the semifinals. Maybe I’m reading too much into that. ISU unsurprisingly has 4 starters that are transfers. Because of how badly psu bungled the coaching search, they are going to have to buy a ton of players in the portal.
  3. That angle is very different than the one they showed before the break.
  4. The way this search played out their AD has no business making as good of a hire as Campbell.
  5. There’s a segment of the fan base that will only accept someone with ties to Paterno as the next coach, and why they never fully accepted O’Brien or Franklin. It had nothing to do with either of their legitimate failings, only their perceived lack of reverence to Paterno. Those people also assume that anyone who ever had any ties to Paterno is off limits in the eyes of the BOT, and that’s the only reason Terry isn’t getting a look. My assumption why Terry isn’t getting a legitimate look is because, until he was thrust into the role, he seemingly didn’t want to be a head coach. His comments and lack of drive up the ladder seem to indicate that as well. I don’t know the man, you do. Maybe he did want to be DC and Franklin privately turned him down. He seems like a good man, but it also seemed like until a couple months ago he had no interest in being a DC or HC.
  6. It doesn’t seem like a bunch of offers went out after Freeman and the other top 2-3 choices weren’t interested. One was to Elko who stayed put when it got matched or bested by A&M. Then he zeroed in on Sitake and spent a month trying to convince a Mormon to leave BYU for some stupid fucking reason. Thought he had him so he cut bait on Chesney et al not expecting the hard sell from the LDS and the cookie cash once word got out. By the time he realized he lost him all of his plan Cs had signed on elsewhere because signing day was 2 fucking days away. So he fucked himself because he didn’t give the Tongan a deadline that left him any room to shift gears. Now he has to try to sell a job to someone he never considered after losing almost the entire recruiting class.
  7. Maybe that’s the plan, just contact every coach and get schools to spend all the money on extensions and then psu swoops in and buys all the transfer talent…
  8. They only ended up owing Franklin $9 mil after the offset from his VT contract.
  9. There’s no home runs left but you could call up some NFL OC and pull off a double through the gap with that schedule. That’s about as good as they can hope for at this point. I don’t see any way they don’t end up with a downgrade with their first hire after Franklin, but I thought that was most likely as soon as they fired him. Even with the probable downgrade in the short term after Franklin, it was time for him to go after the back to back losses as 20 point favorites. If he had just lost to Ore, osu, and IU, he probably doesn’t get fired and everyone just says “same old James”. Without a doubt one of the best program builders in the country. Several obvious flaws that showed his peak was 2nd tier in the big ten.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Until Penn state hires Pete Carroll before Vegas can fire him.
  13. 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.
  14. 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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