How about this headline...

[57stratdawg]

Joe Moorhead a Bigger Loss for Penn State Than Saquon

 

[RightOfCenter]

Lots of people seem to be high on Joe. Makes one curious about how no team got to him before MSU.

 

[NWADawg]

Lots of people seem to be high on Joe. Makes one curious about how no team got to him before MSU.

It's a great situation. The Penn State and Fordham folks, the ones that actually know JoMo, sing his praises. I could care less what those that don't know him think.

 

[mount lefroy]

Lots of people seem to be high on Joe. Makes one curious about how no team got to him before MSU.

My take is they don’t have a John Cohen conducting the search.

 

[11thEagleFan]

Maybe he was approached by other programs but chose Mississippi State because it was a great situation. He walked into a situation where he’s inheriting a 5th year senior quarterback, arguably the best two-deep defensive line in the country, and his main in-state recruiting threat is in a downturn. That’s a dream scenario for a first year P5 coach. Yeah, he’s in the SEC West where it’s hard to win, but that’s why the money is so good.

 

[Son_of_34]

Maybe he was approached by other programs but chose Mississippi State because it was a great situation. He walked into a situation where he’s inheriting a 5th year senior quarterback, arguably the best two-deep defensive line in the country, and his main in-state recruiting threat is in a downturn. That’s a dream scenario for a first year P5 coach. Yeah, he’s in the SEC West where it’s hard to win, but that’s why the money is so good.

Met him at the starkville JA Kentucky derby party back in May and those where basically his exact words...also used the phrase sleeping giant when referring to the team...I was ready to run through ten walls for him at that very moment

 

[johnson86-1]

Lots of people seem to be high on Joe. Makes one curious about how no team got to him before MSU.

He was a coordinator at a major school for two years. How quickly did you expect people to jump on him?

And what coaching vacancy came up this past year that was nearly as desirable a situation as States?

UF and FSU are obviously big time programs, but they weren't likely going to look at somebody with Moorhead's experience.

Texas A&M is suppose to be a sleeping giant (I have thought they were although they are working to convince me otherwise) but they were breaking the bank for a national championship coach.

Oregon has Nike money and I have no clue how they landed on Mario Cristobal.

UT was a big name program at one time, but has awful culture problems to pair with unrealistic expectations of getting back to their glory days.

Nebraska is UT without the culture problem but they also were set on Scott Frost (as they should have been).

Arkansas is a good place to land but the roster is not in good shape.

Arizona, and Arizona St are both solid places. But not the SEC and not sure what kind of shape they're in after firing

UCLA is a place that should be able to win but for whatever reason mostly doesn't.

I'd say UF, FSU, A&M, and Oregon are the only schools that were hiring this past year with the history, money, and advantages to be more desirable jobs than MSU. And I'd say A&M and Florida both made hires that matched their program's status, while FSU did relatively poor but still got a hot name and Oregon did terribly. So basically Oregon should have picked up the phone, but out of the rest of the schools, it makes perfect sense Moorhead ended up at MSU. Roughly comparable places as far as ability to win, but SECW money and also a program built to win immediately.

 

[MSUDC11]

Lots of people seem to be high on Joe. Makes one curious about how no team got to him before MSU.

Well we did move extremely fast in our search. Bigger name schools went for established coaches and bigger name hires, and most did make good hires in my opinion. Tennessee is the one who totally missed the boat. They went from dreams of Jon Gruden to having to settle for our second choice.

 

[RightOfCenter]

Makes sense. I guess I was thinking that all across the CFB world the past two years has been the PSU offense. Like someone said, maybe he knows a good thing when he sees it.