Head Coach: Best job security imaginable. Currently he cannot be held responsible for team performance so what's his incentive to get better as a coach?
Big Game James
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I suspect it’s more than NIL.cash money. Look at how bad PSU’s offense was in the 1st half. Allar threw for 69 yards. He missed throws, he threw off his back foot. You have to come out of the gate ready and executing against a team like oregon. PSU didn’t. It isn’t the first time.
If Franklin wins against teams with less talent and loses against teams with more talent, doesn't it stand to reason that if we give him the tools to get more talent so we are at least on par with the teams we've lost to, he will start winning those games?
Anyone who follows recruiting in the NIL era knows what it will take to win a championship. Are we willing to give at a championship level, so Franklin can win these marquee games?
We have 96k season ticket holders. A mere $100 increase would generate an extra $9.6 mil a year. You can get a few 5*s with that kind of money.
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Right, but we have a 5star QB currently being paid $3M that mostly sucks. Having talent is one of keys
Pencil in Franklin’s yearly loss to Ohio St and games at Iowa, and against Indiana and Nebraska now become huge. Lose just 1 of those and they may be out of the playoff.
$100? why $200 and get a few more. Tell me, how has our 5* QB progressed in his four years under Franklin?
True. I forgot about ‘Clemsoning’ (although Dabo appears to be bringing that back recently).
Franklin is basically Penn State’s version of Mark Richt. Nice guy who generally wins games against lesser opponents but continually fails in big games. Both have the national reputation of not being able to get it done which becomes a recruiting issue. Georgia went through this for years as well until they fired Richt.
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No. Because there are tons of upsets all the time in college football. And teams with a ton of talent don’t always win (see TAMU, Bama last year). No one thinks we should win everything - more than one would be nice in 11 years.
You never see PSU come out in games and step on an opponent. They never have fire and go for the throat from opening kickoff. That’s all attitude and preparation and that comes from the coaches.
How many years have we been talking here of PSU giving away 2-3 quarters before they make adjustments and start to play? They generally turtle up until it’s late in the game and they’re behind before they start to adjust and open it up some.
Notre Dame didn't have more talent and he has plenty of resources
Mental and physical softness.
How much more? Should I take out a home equity loan.
You can’t fix the worst big game record that started before NIL even existed.
Time to get a next level cosch . At least try. Losing every meaningful game is easy to replicate..
Just like Hackenberg....zero....decreased since his Fr. Year.
He is given too much credit for that: losses to Indiana, Temple, Maryland (multiple times), Michigan State (multiple times),
Franklin and Donovan had him running the freaking read option...... The other part of Hack's regression was that we had two DL on the OL.....
HC that puts his team in position to win. Fail
OC that put his players in position to win. Fail
Well there’s this thing which is a 56mill buyout. Talk to me about navigating that.
He’s here for at least 3 years unless he makes his own move. Thats based on the buyout numbers.
I left some room for that.....is it possible there could be an amicable buyout of sorts? It happens all the time, kraft says "james, we love you, we want you to get other jobs, just not here." We can do this one of 2 ways....we fire you unceremoniously and pay this buyout. If I can raise $700M for a stadium face-lift, I can buy you out or 2, we agree that if you dont beat OSU and lose to Indiana, you agree to step down and we pay you $20M. Your dignity intact, we begin to get a jump on our next candidate. Its really not impossible to fathom.
I stayed in Altoona the night before a customer meeting in August. The meeting was a SH|T. SHOW.
. I started slow and never recovered.
Contracts matter though. Might be more difficult than your scenario. I think your scenario is feasible if James wants out and there are openings he’s interested in.
Yeah facts are not your job. We get it.
So you really want some rando dicchead, in this case me, to find the next coach? That’s stupid as f. You love Franklin, you love PSU 50 vill 6, IDC
By the way my 56mill buyout comment was not directed at you, so your response was not required. Plus I know you aren't here to bring solutions.
Not my job to bring solutions. I SUGGEST stop going to home games.
You have no idea what my take on all this is, so please don't speak for me.
You missed my earlier post . For a place that pissed away hundreds of millions of dollars framing Joe, Spanier, Curly and on other foolish garbage, $56 million is chump change to the aholes running Penn State.
I’m going to take an educated guess. It’s more important to you Franklin properly represents your beloved state off the field more than his performance (it’s 4-21 (maths)) on the field.
I of course feel the opposite.