Important Life Lessons To Take From This

[PSUAllegheny]

I have often heard sports is a microcosm of life and there are certainly some great life lessons to teach young people and take from from this entire situation. I remember a teacher who used to say these things to me when I was young and they all seem to fit this situation.

1) Never make important decisions you can't take back when you are angry or emotional. You can usually later still make that same decision if you wish.

2) Just because you are within your right doesn't mean it's right or the right time to do it.

3) Life is like chess -- before an important move, anticipate what could happen 5 moves ahead.

4) A great deal is not always the right deal right now.

5) Self-respect is knowing the difference between accepting you weren't a first choice and refusing to be a last choice.

 

[PSUSignore]

6. Get it in writing

 

[BocaBob]

6. Get it in writing

7. Don't assume the job is done until you know it's actually finished.

 

[BobPSU92]

8. Quitting is better than persevering.

 

[fairgambit]

Perhaps my favorite quote, and the one I think of most often as I age, is:
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'." John Greenleaf Whittier

 

[Thorndike2021]

 

[doctornick]

Don't procrastinate and gets things done ahead of the deadline.

 

[Corner Room Breakfast]

Being mediocre, making bad decisions, unrealistic expectations, and promises on others
that can't be fulfilled might and will cost you your job.

No one is above losing their job.

Most importantly when is the amount of money you are making enough, talking multi millions
here.

 

[ChandlerPearce58]

Promise Less....Deliver More!

 

[Meats Lab]

I have often heard sports is a microcosm of life and there are certainly some great life lessons to teach young people and take from from this entire situation. I remember a teacher who used to say these things to me when I was young and they all seem to fit this situation.

1) Never make important decisions you can't take back when you are angry or emotional. You can usually later still make that same decision if you wish.

2) Just because you are within your right doesn't mean it's right or the right time to do it.

3) Life is like chess -- before an important move, anticipate what could happen 5 moves ahead.

4) A great deal is not always the right deal right now.

5) Self-respect is knowing the difference between accepting you weren't a first choice and refusing to be a last choice.

The Earth has been here for 4.5 billion years. If lucky you get 80 trips around the sun. My guess is most here have used up at least half. Spend the remainder being thankful and use them wisely.

 

[SkiSkiSki]

8. Quitting is better than persevering.

9. It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than to do the reverse.

 

[BostonNit]

"The earlier you fall behind the more time you have to catch up."

 

[OUIrPSU]

"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

- Abraham Lincoln (but it also could be Mark Twain or Samual Johnson)

 

[PhillyBillyReprise]

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two--is gone.

Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 

[LionJim]

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.



Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar was a better mathematician than a poet, and he was a hell of a poet. The Persian mathematicians from the 9th-12th Centuries, they rocked.

 

[JustSomeRandomGuy]

To me, the lesson learned from this is that cooler heads prevail.

I am a Buckeye and we almost had the same situation happen last season. It was the same story here. After the loss to TTUN, the cries for Day's head were intense. People were angry and bitter over choking away a game we simply had no business losing. The coaching decisions and gameplan ware horrendously bad. The players didn't show up mentally until the second half. Missed chip shot field goals, interceptions, and defenders tripping over themselves left and right.

Many fans were convinced that Day had lost control of the locker room and he would never take the team anywhere. Four straight inexplicable chokes to TTUN. Blown leads at the last minute in the semi-finals multiple times. A choke job against Alabama in the Natty. Almost everyone was convinced that Day was never going to take the team to the finish line. After the loss to TTUN, the 'Fire Ryan Day' chants carried on for five minutes until everyone was hoarse.

And then they handled four straight top-ten teams and totally blew out the #1 team. The outcry stopped. Day became the hometown hero and everyone started claiming it was silly for wanting him fired...lol.

IMO, firing a head coach should only be done when you have a plan in place and you know who you want to replace him.

 

[Bison13]

F b!tches, get $

 

[johnmpsu]

If at first you don't succeed, sky diving isn't for you.

 

[JoeBagobagels]

 

[Binder74]

To me, the lesson learned from this is that cooler heads prevail.

I am a Buckeye and we almost had the same situation happen last season. It was the same story here. After the loss to TTUN, the cries for Day's head were intense. People were angry and bitter over choking away a game we simply had no business losing. The coaching decisions and gameplan ware horrendously bad. The players didn't show up mentally until the second half. Missed chip shot field goals, interceptions, and defenders tripping over themselves left and right.

Many fans were convinced that Day had lost control of the locker room and he would never take the team anywhere. Four straight inexplicable chokes to TTUN. Blown leads at the last minute in the semi-finals multiple times. A choke job against Alabama in the Natty. Almost everyone was convinced that Day was never going to take the team to the finish line. After the loss to TTUN, the 'Fire Ryan Day' chants carried on for five minutes until everyone was hoarse.

And then they handled four straight top-ten teams and totally blew out the #1 team. The outcry stopped. Day became the hometown hero and everyone started claiming it was silly for wanting him fired...lol.

IMO, firing a head coach should only be done when you have a plan in place and you know who you want to replace him.

We got it half right.

 

[Woodpecker]

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

 

[Midnighter]

Let everything happen to you / Beauty and terror / Just keep going / No feeling is final

-Rilke

 

[dougt24]

6. Get it in writing

A MOU or LOI is not enforceable but a contract is. There was no way Sitake could sign a contract without involving BYU as he was under contract with them,.

 

[EricLAllen]

IMO, firing a head coach should only be done when you have a plan in place and you know who you want to replace him.

That game was blown on purpose to save it up for the playoff last year. Doesn't compare with the situation here.

 

[94LionsFan]

Put your faith in Kraft only for cheap mac and cheese.

 

[pendal1]

8. Quitting is better than persevering.

Quitting or don't even try.

 

[Steve JG]

I have often heard sports is a microcosm of life and there are certainly some great life lessons to teach young people and take from from this entire situation. I remember a teacher who used to say these things to me when I was young and they all seem to fit this situation.

1) Never make important decisions you can't take back when you are angry or emotional. You can usually later still make that same decision if you wish.

2) Just because you are within your right doesn't mean it's right or the right time to do it.

3) Life is like chess -- before an important move, anticipate what could happen 5 moves ahead.

4) A great deal is not always the right deal right now.

5) Self-respect is knowing the difference between accepting you weren't a first choice and refusing to be a last choice.

 

[PSU87]

Omar was a better mathematician than a poet, and he was a hell of a poet. The Persian mathematicians from the 9th-12th Centuries, they rocked.

Has Kraft interviewed any of them?

 

[OUIrPSU]

"I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

- C. Davis

I hope I didn’t break protocol by posting twice in this thread

 

[BobPSU92]

A MOU or LOI is not enforceable but a contract is. There was no way Sitake could sign a contract without involving BYU as he was under contract with them,.

Kraft sent Sitake a MOM — Memorandum of Misunderstanding.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

My Dad’s fav “all things in moderation “

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Let everything happen to you / Beauty and terror / Just keep going / No feeling is final

-Rilke

wut?

 

[Ludd]

Don’t make long term decisions based on short term situations.

 

[Nits74]

Don’t make long term decisions based on short term situations.

This may be far from a short term situation.

 

[Ludd]

This may be far from a short term situation.

Going 3-3 was a short term situation.

 

[SkiSkiSki]

Going 3-3 was a short term situation.

This wasn't short term:

James Franklin holds a career record of 4 wins and 26 losses (.138 winning percentage) against Associated Press (AP) top-10 ranked teams as a head coach at both Vanderbilt and Penn State.

Breakdown of Record

Team	Wins	Losses
Vanderbilt	0	5
Penn State	4	21
Total Career	4	26

 

[rigi19040]

This wasn't short term:

James Franklin holds a career record of 4 wins and 26 losses (.138 winning percentage) against Associated Press (AP) top-10 ranked teams as a head coach at both Vanderbilt and Penn State.

Breakdown of Record

Team	Wins	Losses
Vanderbilt	0	5
Penn State	4	21
Total Career	4	26

Which puts him ahead of many candidates. Matt Rhule has 0 top ten wins for his career. 0 wins vs teams that finished in the top 20. Best win was #19 navy who then finished unranked. Sitake has 2 wins in 9 seasons. Cignetti has one win this year. Chesney 0. Sitake didn't get good until Oregon, USC and Washington left the conference.

About 10 of the Franklin losses were to Ohio state. Who has a good record vs them?

Top ten right now is 109-11. That is .09 winning percentage. The next coach is probably not coming from the top 10. He will be from the group with the .09 winning percentage this year.

 

[SoCalLion]

Life lesson: If one of your employees blatantly quits while on the job (like James Franklin did aftre the Oregon game), fire him quickly.

 

[SkiSkiSki]

Which puts him ahead of many candidates. Matt Rhule has 0 top ten wins for his career. 0 wins vs teams that finished in the top 20. Best win was #19 navy who then finished unranked. Sitake has 2 wins in 9 seasons. Cignetti has one win this year. Chesney 0. Sitake didn't get good until Oregon, USC and Washington left the conference.

About 10 of the Franklin losses were to Ohio state. Who has a good record vs them?

Top ten right now is 109-11. That is .09 winning percentage. The next coach is probably not coming from the top 10. He will be from the group with the .09 winning percentage this year.

Does it put him ahead of most though? You listed a count of their wins, but how about their overall win percentage against the top 10? Are any of them as low as Big Game James? When I research it, I find this:

"Franklin's .160 winning percentage against AP top-10 teams is tied for the third-worst record by a coach (minimum 25 games) at a single school since the poll era began in 1936, according to ESPN Research."

BGJ is historically bad during his time at PSU.

 

[rigi19040]

Does it put him ahead of most though? You listed a count of their wins, but how about their overall win percentage against the top 10? Are any of them as low as Big Game James? When I research it, I find this:

"Franklin's .160 winning percentage against AP top-10 teams is tied for the third-worst record by a coach (minimum 25 games) at a single school since the poll era began in 1936, according to ESPN Research."

BGJ is historically bad during his time at PSU.

It does put him ahead of most coaches. I listed the composite win percentage for this season. 11-109 vs the top 10 which is a .09 winning percentage for the field compared to franklins .138. There are only a handful of coaches ahead of FRanklin and they were not coming here.