What are you talking about? There was zero chance we'd have a coach by now. He correctly fired Franklin after the Northwestern game--probably should have fired him after UCLA.
The timing has allowed Franklin’s reputation to not take as big of a hit as it deserved to have with these losses piling up.
I don't know. Does it take talent to cover receivers or block a pass rusher or were those guys simply not motivated or lacking direction on how to do so yesterday? Motivationally, their hopes at future employment in the NFL (or CFL or UFL) should be sufficient but that went down the drain with yesterday's audition.
Sure--but the alternative is you want to be mid
I agree with you specifically about Singleton. But ignoring the reality of this option is naive.
Singleton, more than anyone, needs to play and hope he has some level of success.
Also the opinion of the guys who sign the checks . We shall see what happens next . It was time for a change for both parties .
The knock on Knowles in his first year at OSU was that they gave up large amounts of chunk plays. This is what we are seeing currently. And yes, they do lack direction and motivation. Their goals went out the window with the Oregon loss and the coach that recruited them got fired two weeks later. It’s a sh^tshow now and there’s no going back.
This roster has the highest blue chip ratio of any team in PSU history since it's been tracked. There is plenty of talent there.
Oh well. If you don't like it, get your team to put a stop to it on the field. With the playoff being done subjectively by committee eyeballs there's no reason for teams not to run it up and give themselves the best possible appearance to the committee.
So what? Even if true, if we know we are going to fire Franklin because he's failing PSU why do we care one iota about what is subjective reputation is, as perceived by others? All we should care about is doing what's we think is right for PSU, full stop.
Exactly. With the playoffs, 10-2 needs to be the floor. 9-3 or lower and you're going to a regular bowl game.
I'd have been happy beating 1 of Indiana, Oregon and Ohio State this year if he had won the rest--and then winning a playoff game against a team better than SMU/Boise State. He just wasn't capable of winning big games and then he lost the team completely after the Oregon loss
As a business you would have to be stupid to do a lump sum payment up front on NIL. I would think installments over time with legal language that makes both sides accountable would be the norm but it's still the wild west so who knows if a player can just walk and still get everything they negotiated for NIL. I doubt that Ram Truck or Venmo is gonna take Drew's money away just because he got hurt but the stuff from the collective might be performance/participation based. Same for every other player
10-2 is far better than 7-5 and if you don’t see that, then you have a serious problem. 10-2 gets you in the playoffs, 7-5 doesn’t. If you’re only going to accept 12-0, you might want to find a new hobby.
Do you not understand the concept that the better his reputation, the more likely he is desired by someone else? More interest likely leads to more offers and less money PSU is eventually on the hook for.
IBoth are failures if you can't beat anyone in the playoff with a pulse. I dont expect 12-0 nor do I claim we must win a title. We simply need to have the ability to compete for one which wasn't possible under James.
Franklin would have gotten another job immediately whether we fired him after NW or at the end of the season. And his 8.5M buyout will in all likelihood be entirely covered by his new salary offsetting it because the coaching market is about to get a massive reset, and Franklin's salary was already only about top 15 or so. Now all he'll need is a top 25 salary to completely nullify the offset, which he'll get without much issue at any P4 school. I highly doubt that PSU decided to fire him when they did because of the offset clause. They fired him because the team was a complete failure on the field all season after massive payments to retain a senior heavy team were secured, he apparently went behind Kraft's back for a contract, and the home game environment became so toxic that it would have been insane to allow it to continue for another game.
Agree. I believe OSU was 10-2 last year..........and we know what happened in the Playoffs
MSU played with a backup qb yesterday and struggled to score against a Minnesota team that gave up a lot of points last week to Iowa. Nebraska now is going to be playing with a backup qb. The Rutgers game probably will be played in front of a small crowd and could be a de facto home game. If PSU plays even like they did in the Iowa game and the first half of the OSU game, it can win all of those games. With that said, considering how this season has gone, I wouldn’t expect that to happen.
Maybe your optimism is correct. We have a backup QB. And we apparently have OC and DC “in-training”. Absolutely nothing is a given.
All that I’m saying is that there should be opportunities to win the last three games if this team comes to play, but I wouldn’t bet any money on it.
And Day might not be there today had they not won at least 2 games. Some believe he needed the title to stay.
Please define “the ability to compete for a title”. What does that entail?
Spoken like every other person who’s never coached a team in their life.
Beating other good teams with some regularity--25% would be good. Under Franklin, it was a guaranteed loss.
If OSU had listened to the fans, Day would have been gone a long time ago which is why you don’t listen to fans.
So getting to the final four and being one play away from the title game is not competing for a national title? Got it.
