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SleepyLion

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This is a spoof account and a fake tweet.

DO NOT believe anything you see on social media anymore unless verified by reliable sources.
Are you a verified and reliable source?

I know I just post on internet message boards.
 

Pa$ky859

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That is a ridiculous take.
Because coaches never use a job opening to get a raise or extension?

or you think Terry being preferred over a guy with absolutely no PA/East Coast ties, who’s Mormon and has a team of 60% Mormon players (last time the number was revealed. In 2020, 60% of the team had been on a Mormon mission) is ridiculous?
 

LMTLION

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Because coaches never use a job opening to get a raise or extension?

or you think Terry being preferred over a guy with absolutely no PA/East Coast ties, who’s Mormon and has a team of 60% Mormon players (last time the number was revealed. In 2020, 60% of the team had been on a Mormon mission) is ridiculous?
I am referring to Terry. You would rather have Terry than a tenured head coach who has enjoyed a lot of success. The same Terry that blew the Indiana game and has continued a mentor relationship with effing James Franklin. The Terry that has lost the entire recruiting class. That is the candidate that you would want.
 

KingLando

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Because coaches never use a job opening to get a raise or extension?

or you think Terry being preferred over a guy with absolutely no PA/East Coast ties, who’s Mormon and has a team of 60% Mormon players (last time the number was revealed. In 2020, 60% of the team had been on a Mormon mission) is ridiculous?
Preferring Terry over him is a ridiculous take
 
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Bvillebaron

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Paterno fans (not Penn State fans--there's a difference) are far worse than Eagles fans but a lot of them are the same people so...

He couldn’t muster the amount of character needed to say that he still wanted to be coach of Penn State during a press conference… at that moment he had to be fired immediately

he is the one who set this in motion. No one else.
I must have missed that. I did hear him say that he took responsibility for the losses and that he was going to fix it the day before Kraft fired him.
 

Bvillebaron

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His upside is huge
Dude is only 50 and he's won 22 games the past 2 year with the potential to win more as they just moved into the Big XII
Where is there not potential?
Why doesn't he fit culturally? Because he's a Mormon? Who cares what his religion is?
Got hammered by Texas Tech and the haters were complaining about Franklin losing to OSU.
 

Bvillebaron

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I love that I'm the ***hole but so many here hate Sitake because of his race and religion--just classic
I think many wouldn’t be enamored if he is hired because he has spent most of his career coaching in Utah, has no ties to this area and most likely would have difficulty coaching here. Why are you engaging in race baiting?
 
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KingLando

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I think many wouldn’t be enamored if he is hired because he has spent most of his career coaching in Utah, has no ties to this area and most likely would have difficulty coaching here. Why are you engaging in race baiting?
Why we he "most likely have difficulty coaching here"?
You all act like coaches have never been successful doing this before.
He doesn't need ties to the area. He'd build a staff with ties like every coach that's ever had a job before.
People are determed to be angry regardless of who is hired.
 

Bvillebaron

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I'm fine with people just wanting someone else but the culture comments (we could use a change) and the nonsense of claiming he can't recruit in Philly is just ridiculous. I wanted Elko, I'd have loved to have convinced Urban to come out of retirement, there's a bunch of guys I'd love to get. Sitake wasn't on my shortlist but he's a great coach.
Oh so now Sitake is a great coach huh? What conference does BYU play in Big Guy? How did he do against Texas Tech this year which last I checked isn’t exactly OSU. So he lost badly to the only Top Ten team he faced. Isn’t that why Kraft said Franklin was fired? How the hell do you know whether Sitake can recruit players from Philly or this geographic area when he has never done so before? If he gets hired, I hope he is in fact the home run hire Kraft essentially promised since as a life long Penn State fan I always support the team but at this point if Sitake is hired it appears that Kraft had to settle for him.
 

KingLando

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Oh so now Sitake is a great coach huh? What conference does BYU play in Big Guy? How did he do against Texas Tech this year which last I checked isn’t exactly OSU. So he lost badly to the only Top Ten team he faced. Isn’t that why Kraft said Franklin was fired? How the hell do you know whether Sitake can recruit players from Philly or this geographic area when he has never done so before? If he gets hired, I hope he is in fact the home run hire Kraft essentially promised since as a life long Penn State fan I always support the team but at this point if Sitake is hired it appears that Kraft had to settle for him.
When wasn't he a great coach?
Franklin was a great coach...change was needed
How the hell do you know he can't? There's no reason to believe he can't.
You aren't supportive. You're already crying and likely know nothing about him.
 

Bvillebaron

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I am referring to Terry. You would rather have Terry than a tenured head coach who has enjoyed a lot of success. The same Terry that blew the Indiana game and has continued a mentor relationship with effing James Franklin. The Terry that has lost the entire recruiting class. That is the candidate that you would want.
How did an interim head coach lose an entire recruiting class?
 

Bvillebaron

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When wasn't he a great coach?
Franklin was a great coach...change was needed
How the hell do you know he can't? There's no reason to believe he can't.
You aren't supportive. You're already crying and likely know nothing about him.
To the contrary, unlike you ain’t crowning him before he is even hired and, if he is, before he has coached a single game at Penn State.
 
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KingLando

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To the contrary, unlike you ain’t crowning him before he is even hired and, if he is, before he has coached a single game at Penn State.
Crowning him what? I'm not even sold he's coming here. All I've said is he's a great coach and if he does come here there's no reason to assume he'll fail. You and other just want him to.
 

Midnighter

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Feel like this thread and the 'new coach' thread should be merged....? @Tom McAndrew

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Nitanee1234

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I think many wouldn’t be enamored if he is hired because he has spent most of his career coaching in Utah, has no ties to this area and most likely would have difficulty coaching here. Why are you engaging in race baiting?
Wait until Lando finds out that Franklin is black.
 
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LB99

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JFC... that is a horrible look but I guess this is how things are done in 2025
I was listening to XM radio yesterday and Rick Neuheisel was talking about the Ole Miss/Kiffin/LSU situation, but it applies to PSU as well. He said that portal/NIL discussions are happening now. The portal doesn’t open until Jan 2 but those discussions happen immediately after the regular season ends. That’s not good news for a PSU program with no head coach. We would be naive to think that other programs aren’t reaching out to the current PSU roster.
 

LB99

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If coaches we are targeting still have seasons going on, Penn State should do the right thing and wait for their seasons to be done. We should be applauding PSU for that, if that is in fact what is happening.
BS. This is big business. It’s cuttthroat. You either be proactive and get your guy or you get left behind.
 

LB99

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I think the two activities are separate. Pat has nothing to do for bowl prep other than accept the bid to the bottom feeder bowl invite as a formality. Pat needs to focus 100% on the hire
Pat should have been focusing on the hire 50 days ago. If he is still interviewing potential hires now, he has failed miserably.
 
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wptlion

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I was listening to XM radio yesterday and Rick Neuheisel was talking about the Ole Miss/Kiffin/LSU situation, but it applies to PSU as well. He said that portal/NIL discussions are happening now. The portal doesn’t open until Jan 2 but those discussions happen immediately after the regular season ends. That’s not good news for a PSU program with no head coach. We would be naive to think that other programs aren’t reaching out to the current PSU roster.
Umm this has been known since Franklin was fired. But you have to remember that the new coach is also having discussions with players that will be in the portal. It didn't matter when Franklin was fired this was going to be an issue IF we are hiring a coach with integrity that is still coach his team.
 

LB99

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Umm this has been known since Franklin was fired. But you have to remember that the new coach is also having discussions with players that will be in the portal. It didn't matter when Franklin was fired this was going to be an issue IF we are hiring a coach with integrity that is still coach his team.
It matters because PSU has no HC at this moment and the current roster is open to poaching. With the 2026 recruiting class being a complete loss, it matters a lot.
 
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wptlion

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It matters because PSU has no HC at this moment and the current roster is open to poaching. With the 2026 recruiting class being a complete loss, it matters a lot.
So you're saying that we should hire a lesser candidate because of this? Again this was all known when JF was fired. And if he was fired this past Sunday it would be the exact same situation.
 

LB99

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So you're saying that we should hire a lesser candidate because of this? Again this was all known when JF was fired. And if he was fired this past Sunday it would be the exact same situation.
No, I’m saying Kraft had 50 days to figure this out and get his guy and here we are at national signing day with no head coach and the current roster is currently fielding offers to leave. PSU is the only P4 program without a coach. Not a good look for Kraft.
 
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wptlion

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No, I’m saying Kraft had 50 days to figure this out and get his guy and here we are at national signing day with no head coach and the current roster is currently fielding offers to leave. PSU is the only P4 program without a coach. Not a good look for Kraft.
How do you know he doesn't have it figured out? So you want a coach like Kiffin who is going to abandon his team playing for a Conference Championship? If that's not the case then you want him to settle. Like I said all of this was known when he fired JF. Guess what, they would be fielding offers if we had a head coach in place or if he didn't fire Franklin until Sunday. Kraft knows the Portal is more important than signing day in CFB today and the door does swing both ways. Mississippi had 31 kids transfer in last year including the QB.