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I get the thinking behind the coaching search a lot more now then I did then

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Wilbury

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ApexLion said:
Yea, I always thought that but it’s not true anymore. My take is that Sitake is benefitting from keeping his kids and the competition. Campbell may be able to do the former to a certain extent but it’s not going to work without more $$$ to buy talent.
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over 90% of the team is still mormon and more than half have already been on a mission so it's still largely true
 
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baircub

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BobPSU92 said:
You could he right. Regarding Option 1, Kraft probably thought that he would have a champagne budget, meaning that wealthy alums would step up to fund a big-name hire. Then he didn’t get the support that he expected for whatever reason. Of course, he should have known the situation before he swung for the fences.

Let’s also remember that doors closed on Kraft early, as some schools locked up coaches with extensions soon after Franklin was fired. Examples are iu with cignetti and nebby with Rhule. It soon became clear that options to swing for the fences were extremely limited.

In hindsight, Kraft should have moved to Option 2 much earlier and should have given Sumrall and Chesney a serious look.
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And my understanding is that we did not hire a search agency ? Krafy thought he could handle it himself ?
 
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baircub said:
And my understanding is that we did not hire a search agency ? Krafy thought he could handle it himself ?
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Kraft came from the iu winning culture and has a Ph.D. There’s nothing that a search agency could have brought to the table that Kraft couldn’t do better.
 
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BobPSU92 said:
Kraft came from the iu winning culture and has a Ph.D. There’s nothing that a search agency could have brought to the table that Kraft couldn’t do better.
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I love sarcasm, but if you're going to post something sarcastic you should consider ending your post with /s.

Most people on this board, including myself, are low IQ slow thinkers. Like Drew Allar and Rocco Becht, it takes us awhile to process new information.

We need helpful hints like /s. :cool:
 
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Wilbury said:
over 90% of the team is still mormon and more than half have already been on a mission so it's still largely true
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I was talking to my booster buddy from Provo. Sending him a hoodie btw. He told me that he's seeing many more of Sitake's kids coming in who are not Mormons and said basically they have some great skill kids on both sides who are from CA who would never have been at BYU before.
 
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Catch1lion said:
IIRC, 3 meetings with Chesney. Kraft hung him out as a last chance option. PSU was Chesney's top choice. UCLA stepped up, and things quickly fell in place, and contract was signed.
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I've heard similar, I put that one right on Kraft.
 
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Bvillebaron said:
That’s not the issue. A competent AD would have waited until the end of the year to fire Franklin and compiled a list of candidates during that time; fired Franklin immediately after the last game while simultaneously announcing coaching interviews would begin immediately and a coach would be hired within 7-10 days in an effort to salvage as much of the recruiting class as possible and permitting the new coach to get a quicker start on the portal; and last but not least not make asinine statements in the press release announcing the firing that Franklin was fired for not meeting the “standard” of winning Big and National Championships and announcing at a press conference the next day that the fans “deserve” a National Championship (how about we want to thank Franklin for his service and saying but it was time to go in a different direction) which undoubtedly turned off some potential candidates who IMO rightfully concluded he is an arrogant prick who would be extremely difficult to work for.
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Very true. Agents turned on him and PSU. High School coaches turned on PSU for treating Franklin the way they did. Campbell, staff and his squad have tried to plug holes with inferior talent and it shows in crunch time. For some reason the same ailment has afflicted many of the teams now. It’s a cesspool right now!
 
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BobPSU92 said:
Kraft came from the iu winning culture and has a Ph.D. There’s nothing that a search agency could have brought to the table that Kraft couldn’t do better.
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Don't forget football powers Temple and Boston college.
 
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