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This flew under the radar here.
PSU loses commitment of 4-star QB Troy Huhn after James Franklin exit
Four-star Penn State quarterback pledge Troy Huhn pulled his commitment from the Nittany Lions, a source told ESPN on Thursday night.
Signing day is in December for 26 class (which all of PSU’s commits are looking elsewhere or decommitting). If a new coach isn’t hired by then, it’s going to be daunting job for the new coach to pull in any semblance of a recruiting class. The 27 class is all gone and the current roster will be able to portal out. So, the new coach will have to start hitting the portal hard immediately on day 1 and then try to mend fences with 27 recruits and establish relationships to bring in a 27 class while being way behind. It’s going to be an uphill battle right from the start.
Yup. Firing a coach mid season has massive consequences, but this is what some wanted.
If the last coach would have hit the portal hard he'd still have his job today!
Texas Tech went from mediocre to Top 10 in one season and IU went from garbage to the playoffs in the same span because they paid for a team. In these days of pay for play, there’s no reason why you need to wait several seasons to become good.
If the last coach would have just done his job the past two weeks he’d still have his job today.
Believe it or not, this isn’t the first coaching change in college football history and the teams that tried it previously were able to field teams the next year. Some even got better
Yup. And it’s a huge gamble, especially now with the portal open to the current roster. Time will tell.
God, even Purdue, which fired their coach last season and lost a bunch of their best players to the portal, including a tight end to OSU and a linebacker to Clemson, is a much more competitive team this season than last season.
Just like every other program in the country. Sack up, it will be fine
What are you talking about? If we fired him after the season it's the same problem
As it would have been if we fired Franklin at the end of the year
Yes… I give Franklin tons of credit for that. And I was not in the “Franklin must go camp” until the waning seconds of the Northwestern game. I still deeply appreciate everything he did here, but the poor was just not going to rise any higher than the plateau where he had long been stuck.
That’s true, but it appeared that after the Oregon game, he mentally checked out as well as the team. It just was time both for him and the program to move in different directions.
So when exactly IS the right time to part ways? After the portal closes? Before spring ball starts? Never?
Well, this season under his leadership was an unmitigated disaster and definitely not fine despite playing an unbelievably easy schedule and having a bunch of multi-year starters. I was a Franklin supporter, but this was one of the worst coaching jobs of a PSU team that I’ve ever seen, and I saw my first PSU game in 1975.
I did say one of the worst and not the worst. At least that 99 team was 9-0 at one point, despite having a mediocre offense, and did beat teams like Arizona, Miami and OSU, and TA&M in a bowl game; that team actually may have overachieved up to the Minny game because it was limited offensively.
You can hide in the closet until it’s safe if you need. We’ll stay out here and keep an eye on things
You're staying out here on the internet? What heroics, you must be so proud.
