Yep. Obviously.
If you lose the best and most effective Linebacker you have, how can it not be a loss?
Good grief.
Fan delusion and denial is a POWERFUL drug.
'25 (in-season) - '26 CFB Portal Thread
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If you lose the best and most effective Linebacker you have, how can it not be a loss?
Good grief.
Fan delusion and denial is a POWERFUL drug.
Hey, we added a ISU offensive tackle! Big dude. Hurt all year. Get healthy, young man! Welcome to Penn State!
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This is a really nice addition to the OL!
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Dorothy,We’re looking very cycloney.
North Central Iowa has invaded Central Pennsylvania. Grab your Toto.
With 1/3 of CFB players in the portal, I think the calendar really needs to be reevaluated again. Imagine NFL free agency opening up while the playoffs are going on. It would be lunacy. So is this. Either choose the portal window to only occur after spring practices, or move up the playoff schedule so that it ends right before the portal madness commences.
NLI signing day needs to be moved back to February again also.
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Wouldn't that play havoc with the transfer of academic credits?
There's still a NLI day in February. It's technically the "regular" one and the December one is an "early signing" period.
At best, re-arranging the deck chairs...... while ignoring the obvious (don't drive your boat into an iceberg)
So long as the powers that be - due to ego?, self-interests?, and stupidity? - continue to insist on (of their own accord) driving the boat into an iceberg, these pablum for podcasters "reforms" are meaningless.
Hopefully we are more blow them away than simply blow .We’re looking very cycloney.
Maybe he was told he wasn't going to get the amount of $$$ he was hoping for.... Maybe many things, but KingHando doesn't know squat as to what drove his final decision - as per usual, KingHando is talking out of his sorry a**.
I laugh at all the football savants who said over, and over again, that PSU was screwed even after hiring CC (Coach Campbell), because - you can't rely on the X-Fer Portal to build a Playoff capable team..... you can use it to fill a gap or two, but you can't rely on it to build a competitive team.... I hate Prolegiate CFB - it sucks and it is a farce to represent it as "collegiate football" whatsoever - but the loudmouth supposed football savants on here, who have largely been in favor of this abortion of true college athletics, clearly don't know squat about what they prattle on about as self-proclaimed experts on the topic. These statistics demonstrate the importance of absolute Free Agency in Pro-legiate Football - it is LIGHTYEARS more important than HS Recruiting to next year's success (it would be interesting to see what percentage of the Final 4 starting teams is made up of trFR.....) - if it is a primary driver of a teams immediate success in the upcoming year, it is - by extension - the primary driver of a team's longterm success. All this handwringing about the recruiting class is flotsam & jetsum in comparison to CC's proven experience in using the X-Fer Portal to acquire talent and build a winner.
Logically, this makes perfect sense as Absolute, and Unlimited, Free Agency means there is zippity do dah day preventing a recruit from leaving who they sign with if they decide their fortunes are better off somewhere else. The loudmouth, self-proclaimed football savants & experts on here (about both Pro-legiate Minor-League Football and it's predecessor CFB) have been proven wrong by the numbers yet again and been shown to be prattling on and pedanticly lecturing out of their arse as per usual.
An overly harsh, overly verbose, and repetitive/redundant way of making (I think) a basic point that I agree with: The doom and gloom crowd proclaiming that the delay in hiring PSU’s new head coach would set the program back five years, if not longer, because of the loss of the 2026 recruiting class will be proven wrong. That remains to be seen, of course, but I never believed those disaster scenarios; I also believe CMC was the right hire and can get the team headed back in the right direction and likely will rebound from 6-6 to 8-4 or better in year one.
Olesh is a perfect example of not falling in love with star rankings, He couldnt even get on the field this year at all even though CJF Paid him a HUGE bag just to get him to PSU over scUM. Even if you want to RS him he can still play in 4 games for free, so anyone worth playing would play and he never got the green light from CJF or Terry, so to me that is telling and I'm sure Matt Campell told him he was in for a big pay cut and I think its very smart to take his money and give it to Brahmer, who is proven at this level.
On a bigger note, I think paying big money to almost any high school player is really stupid when you can get better proven college players for the same amount.
With the rise of the portal now being such a HUGE part of the college experience, I'm not really sure why you would redshirt a player any longer. The day and age of a 4 year player is long gone, they will be very rare. If you are "really" good, you leave after your junior year for the NFL. If you are "not so good," you portal and look for other opportunities. If you are "pretty" good, you ask for a raise or portal. Redshirts are dinosaurs. Soon we will be saying, "Remember when you could redshirt?"
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Yes, but I prefer cycloney. It conveys a certain “we deserve better” and puts us on the road to running Campbell out of town.
These numbers also suggest that the big spenders in HS Recruiting (on completely unproven players) have a broken value proposition. Alabama, aTm and duhO$U have been the biggest spenders in HS Recruiting since the advent of NIL by a wide, wide margin - duhO$U's Pro-fligate spending has driven their Athletic Department into never seen before deep deficits (-$40 million in FY2024) - but their prioritization of HS Recruiting over the X-Fer Portal has exposed a failed "value proposition" as this year's Pro-legiate Minor-League Playoff has demonstrated that prioritizing your player acquisition budget toward the X-Fer Portal is a better "value proposition" than prioritizing HS Recruiting. Logically, this makes perfect sense as it is much easier to evaluate the worth of a proven Pro-legiate Minor-League player than it is a completely unproven hs player (or paying a top-rated hs recruit equivalent to a proven Minor-League Pro player). Complete & utter nonsense that HS recruiting is anywhere remotely as important as the Absolute & Unlimited Free Agency Market in today's Pro Minor-League Football.
OSU has a broken value proposition? You do realize they won the whole thing last year, right? They have multiple first round picks every year, largely made up of guys they recruited out of HS and developed. They get top level portal guys every year also, like Judkins, Downs, and Howard. They have been one of the most successful programs in the last decade and most programs strive to model their programs after theirs for success. Your rant really misses the mark there.
Don’t forget there are legal matters at hand which are also driving things. Litigation has had an impact on where things stand now. Until players can form an association and negotiate a CBA with an actual governing body the conferences agree to, things will remain quite difficult to progress the ball forward.
There is little doubt that the primary driver of coaching success in today's Pro Minor-League Football is efficient use of the Team's player-acquisition budget - and highly effective use of the Absolute & Unlimited Free Agency Market is paramount in this regard (HS Recruiting is irrelevant in comparison - i.e., spending large sums there is a complete gamble and a hugely inefficient use of the player-acquisition budget).
The problem with the current broken Pro Minor-League system is that there is no regulation on player-acquisition spending or player Free Agency, such that the top spenders can spend their teams into large deficits such as duhO$U's FY2024 -$40 million deficit, which NFP Universities are responsible for. The Federal Government needs to step in and prevent NFP Higher Education Universities from having anything to do with corrupt Professional Minor-League Sports with zero regulation and no Federal Anti-Trust Exemption as all other National Pro Sports Leagues have.
Olesh deserved his star rating as a phenomenal high school football player, but he was not ready to play in college on day 1 at 6-5 215. He needed significant time in the s&c program to put on 30-40 pounds of good weight to play TE at this level. His current profile shows him at 236 after year 1, so perhaps he can get there by the 2026 season to even see the field. As such, why the eff pay him $1M nil per year to sit for a year? We know why. James wanted a recruiting w over Michigan. That $1M was the money for a top portal wr. Instead we give it to Olesh and cheap out on 3 portal wrs with only Pena being a consistent contributor. James had no idea how to use NIL. We gave Olesh a mill and a year in a top s&c program to let him succeed elsewhere. Thank God Campbell has a real GM front office.
They have also used uncontrolled spending that has led their Athletic Department to an unprecedented -$40 million deficit in FY2024 - you clearly don't understand the definition of "Value Proposition". LMAO. Just because they spent insane amounts of $$$ to win supposed "college football games" does not mean they have a very good "value proposition" relative to that Pro-fligate spending as this year quite clearly demonstrates.
Don’t let facts get in the way of a misguided rant.
Think Dieruff