Like I said earlier in this thread, it’s easy to like and support someone who’s no threat to upset the apple cart. That’s why I’m sure that Day and Lanning and probably Cignetti were very sorry to see Franklin depart.
Hard NO to Kelly.
4 and 21. He peaked. The ceiling is concrete and he wasn’t getting through it.
Yes - already happened to me recently - life is tough and he was well compensated. I moved on and had successes elsewhere and had no hard feeling because it happens all the time to a lot of people who don’t walk away with $50M. Regardless of what he did last year he has shown year over year he can’t win the big one and he hasn’t including last year - how many participation trophies do you want?
My guess is we’re not even going to get any participation trophies for the next 5 or 6 years, maybe more. Those “participation trophies” are going to start looking pretty good soon.
I dislike Kelly so much, I’m not sure I could ever watch a PSU game if he was HC.
Actually it’s more like a foolish captain who is set adrift by his crew while he continues foolishly searching for the northwest passage. The crew was better off by themselves than with a captain who couldn’t coach a big game to save his life. I am going to call Franklin “Captain Hudson” from here on out.
Someone should have said to Saban “ if Georgia beat your *** every year, and you went 3-7 against LSU and Auburn over the course of a decade - they would’ve run your *** out of Tuscaloosa”
Bad example…because they threw the oars out after they knew they didn’t have an outboard.
Well, if that happens, then the new coach will have failed and we’ll be looking for a new coach. PSU even would’ve made rinky dink bowl games in 2012 and 2013 under O’Brien during the sanction years, and did make them under Franklin in 2014 and 2015.
And there’s no guarantee the new coach will do any better than the old new coach. Could be Nebraska 2.0.
It really bothered me that he did that stuff. I’m a PSU grad. He isn‘t. It felt disrespectful the way he let it simmer each time he was mentioned for other jobs. I got past it and supported him, but I never forgot it. It’s his way of doing business. He had the power to do it and he did. But people remember it. He played hard ball. This year he was on the receiving end.
I respect your view on many things, but we were put on sanctions in 2012 and won the Big 10 in 2016. No portal. No NIL. It’s possible to turn things around faster now.
Bill O'Brien and his 53 player NFL approach to dealing with adversity. BOB saved PSU football.
2024 was a another failure…beat absolutely zero teams with a pulse.
The three teams we beat (unimpressively) could combine their roster and still not have a team 1/3 of PSU’s.
Lost whatever respect I had left for Saban after his patronizing BS.
I'm interested to hear the argument in favor of, "It was unfair."
Or if DeBoer at Bama goes 1-10 vs LSU or Georgia then in year 12 loses to two mediocre SEC programs back to back will he think he needs to still have his job.
