Josh Heupel
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Vandy is a better team than this Tennessee team; they are a legitimate top 10 caliber team this season. They finished 10-2 while playing a SEC schedule.
Absolutely. Multiple Big and Natty Championships coming soon. Nothing to it.
Franklin is a solid coach. I thought the goal was to hire someone who would win Big and National Championships. Are we to lower our expectations already?
If not the coach should be booed off the field and his family verbally abused. It's tradition here.
wtf, with all the hunters orange he will feel right at home
Soooo, no news today? Shocking.
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If there is any truth to this, yikes. If anything, it points to PSU being turned down by everyone else.
How is possible that Kraft has let this drag on to the point of still interviewing into December?
Just give it to Hartline.
Interviewing now--after 5 weeks, a real screw up by Kraft if true--and that is a big if.
I'm still on the Chesney train.
If true about the interview this search has been a colossal failure
Laughable - do not give it to Hartline (zero head coaching experience and duhO$U didn't even trust his abilities to be OC by himself....) half an OC and zero HCing experience at any level, no thanx. Way rather go with Chesney who is a proven successful HC at all levels - in addition, will bring players which is going to be hugely critical when Smith and our entire roster (and recruits) go to Blacksburg.
Agree. I would like Heupel, but it is a bad idea to delay this any longer - if there hasn't been some secret previous interview with him already then he should be off the list.
I get that there may have not been any "home run" option out there but you have to make the best choice among the candidates you can get and get them signed and announced. I've been willing to give Kraft the benefit of the doubt because realistically any candidate wasn't going to be announced as signed until today but as this day goes on without anything official I have become much more worried. If it is Hartline or Chesney or Sitake (or even someone like Campbell or Key) then it should be announced today.
I fully expect someone to hire Chesney - if not us then UCLA it seems - so the fact that he hasn't been announced as signing somewhere suggests to me that he's other going to be the hire or he's a backup for us to someone else we are negotiating with and we are stringing him along. Personally, I wouldn't want to lose him over a wish for someone else and would rather they just get it done with him and move on.
I wouldn't hate it. May be in the minority. Full disclosure, I was all in on Meyer. Once he was out, I liked Drinkwitz. Actually think Heupel is a better choice than Drinkwitz. Hoped it would be done before signing day, but that probably wasn't realistic. Need a very strong portal presence and recruiting focus beginning in 2027. And need to try to keep key players from leaving.
Chesney has no experience AT THIS LEVEL and no thanks to his JMU roster. Moot point anyway, he’s headed to UCLA.
Hartline is the best recruiter in the country. Provide him with a good supporting cast and see what happens. A La Lanning at Oregon.
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It's a parody account. Been around for years. Writer announced his own "resignation" last year.
And Hartline has no experience AS A HEAD COACH. To me that’s a far bigger concern than not having coached at power conference school.
If Chesney were going to UCLA for sure, he already would have been announced. I’m confident that he’s still in play/high option for PSU (or at least some other non-UCLA school)
That’s what I figured Pepsi, when no one else was reporting it. TY.
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Least of my worries. So many good coaches had no HC experience before getting their shot. As long as they had good HC to learn from that is all I need.
Kirby Smart, Dan Lanning, Marcus Freeman, Ryan Day. None had HC experience. Heck, Joe Paterno didn’t have head coaching experience before he was named HC at PSU.
Yup. I’m getting that you are using that as a negative, but I thought BO’B did a fine job.
No, BOB was fine given what he had to work with. Thinking about it, if the portal existed when he coached, he may have done better with the limited roster size. He could bring in experienced players rather than recruit
I’m not saying a coach can’t successfully jump to being a HC without prior experience but IMHO there’s more to worry about whether a position coach has the skills to be a HC than if an established HC has the ability to perform on a Power 4 team as HC. Chesney IMHO is lower risk than Hartline with similar level (albeit very different) of upside. If we aren’t getting someone like DeBour - we aren’t - I hope it’s Chesney.
I appreciate your perspective. I’m ok with Chesney. However, I think it is a huge jump from G5 to B1G football. I think perhaps, a coordinator in the P4 may know the interworkings of a P4 roster and coaching staff more than a G5 HC. I hope I’m wrong if it is Chesney.
Well, I don’t know of any of us going to the airport and flipping them off on his flight out of here.
Chesney will still be there in four years if this hire doesn’t work out for us. UCLA isn’t a destination job, let them do the Clone Cignetti experiment.