It'll be interesting to see how this all ends, but once it does, we get a new beginning without the specter of a Franklin 9-3 with the 3 losses being to two obvious teams on the schedule and one inexplicable loss. I'll be excited by a new chapter, and i bet recruits will too. The portal will be kind to PSU. Also, we're hiring Brohm.
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Now he may actually be coming to PSU, but who the hell knows. Who could’ve predicted back in August that we would be battling the the LDS Church for the BYU coach? This was supposed to be a national championship year. It’s absolute insanity. Regardless of where he chooses, in doing research on him, he seems to be a damn good coach. We would be fortunate to get him and BYU to keep him. There is no other potentially available candidate that’s even close to his stature at this point.
They have not, but his name did come out last week on an insider board, and that is why I added him to the coaching poll I posted.
If it's Sitake, the sticky buns are going to become extremely hard to find in State College...
Well it appears Chesney is ready to be named UCLA's new coach. If so, and there is no homerun hire, Kraft has made a huge mistake.
Throwing the flag, that’s a 15 yard penalty. I think Daboll probably is a better candidate for your joke!
With the way this has been handled, the powers that be, which probably include more than the AD, have turned the PSU program from almost yearly top 8 to 10 program into one that has no 2026 recruiting class and is going to lose a lot of current players, and may hire a coach who will be unable to bring in a lot of own players and recruits. Just total incompetence. I don't even know why an existing coach would want to take on this mess.
Yes, a total cluster F. Supposedly the story will be told at some point after he is hired. If we find out that Krafty was waiting for Deboer to lose this past weekend, he should be fired immediately. KS, if he truly was that high on the list, could’ve been hired weeks ago, or could’ve gotten a firm no weeks ago. Sacrificing the class was beyond stupid. Elko seems to have been a lot closer to have been hired than we thought, but they just kept winning and he couldn’t leave that team. It’s as if Krafty thought long and hard about creating the most difficult candidate list ever, and created one based on playoff bound candidates and one tied very tightly to the Mormon church at a school that has an extremely small potential candidate pool. After all this time since Sandusky , we’re still not a well run university.
PSU went from having a great athletics year in 2024-2025 to having one of the most disastrous fall sports seasons, both on and off the field in almost every sport, maybe in its history, and except for wrestling and women's hockey, the winter season probably won't be much better.
They don't; it's obvious that this search was a failure and it's just a scramble now. We have to be the only Power 4 school that doesn't have a ghead coach now, except for maybe Cal. Even teams like Oklahoma State, which has won like three or four games in the last two seasons, and Stanford have hired coaches. It took MSU one day to hire a coach. This is just disgraceful to see a pretty successful program since 2016 be ripped apart.
They won't. It's a total scramble now. Totally botched. I don't think you fire Franklin that early unless you know who you are getting.
$$$ That's it.
Which means just about any coach WITHOUT a non-PSU option to land a top-paying job would jump. And that, whomever they sign, PSU will have to significantly overpay.
Which, obviously, they are more than eager to do (It is the PSU Culture).
Well PS has made a counteroffer which he is weighing today. So off again on again is the situation.
Honestly after researching this guy which before I had serious doubts he would do little more than play us for a raise, I must admit that I have warmed up to hiring the Big Fella. Seems to me other than logical logistical things which can be overcome he would be a good hire.
We can only hope this is a made up crap. You absolutely don't make a "counter offer" at this point - you tell him to take it or leave it and move on immediately if he doesn't sign. I honestly don't think Kraft could be such a moron as to be negotiating at this point.
If we want to stay relevant, make a splash, and be taken seriously, offer Brian Kelly.
The same Brian Kelly that was often on the golf course and fishing rather than running the team?!? He was a lazy disaster!
No to Brian Kelly. He’s washed and is arrogant. He does seem to do better in this part of the country, but I still don’t want him
Especially when you hold PC's directly after the firing talking about how you're going to bring in a HC who wins b1g and National championships....
Oh, I think you underestimate Krafty The Clown.... his suit is quite empty while his ego is quite large - a deadly combination in an massively overpaid executive who is really nothing but a glorified administrator.
I have no interest in him, but that actually sounds better than what they are actually doing.
I hate that idea and reinforces what is wrong with minor league professional sports…….but it sounds better than what is currently happening.
I very well might be underestimating him - this seems plausible given how poorly this circus is happening - but going and just hiring a football coach isn't that complicated and Kraft has been an AD for years. He's even been through this processing hiring a football coach at Temple.
There's nothing complicated about interviewing and hiring the best candidate by the end of November.
And that may be how the cookie Crumbl(s)
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Penn State's pursuit of Kalani Sitake could crumble if cookie CEO gets his way
Penn State's efforts to hire Kalani Sitake are being met with resistance from BYU's big donors
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Ive warmed to the idea of KS too, but what self respecting school, a blue-blood none the less should be begging for this guy? If penn state did send a counter-offer, it better have a line that says "accept these terms and this position in 15 minutes for this document will self destruct." I mean, come on......this could have been a good under the radar hire at the right price, but we're chasing ghosts now.
Apparently that CEO hires a lot illegalsAnd that may be how the cookie Crumbl(s)
Penn State's pursuit of Kalani Sitake could crumble if cookie CEO gets his way
Penn State's efforts to hire Kalani Sitake are being met with resistance from BYU's big donors
BYU supporters, mainly the church can easily match/beat any offer we make. Question is, is there any offer that they feel that is audacious enough that they go, ok, good luck out east and decide he is not worth that cost? And is Kraft silly enough to take it to that point?And that may be how the cookie Crumbl(s)
Penn State's pursuit of Kalani Sitake could crumble if cookie CEO gets his way
Penn State's efforts to hire Kalani Sitake are being met with resistance from BYU's big donors
There are interviews and then their are negotiations. When you are negotiating with an existing coach on terms, you can rest assured that their current school is also negotiating with them to stay unless the coach just hates being at their current school. Both will sweeten the pot until they hit their upper limit and a coach would be stupid not to play one against the other for more $$$$. I am in the camp that we are after someone on a team in the playoffs that doesn't want to leave their team right away. Regardless, I am not worried. Franklin hit his upper limit where his used car salesman pitches were not going to work when folks know that his cars are going to break down before you get to your desired destination. We have aspirations of winning a NC. This could backfire, but we weren't getting there under BGJ.
I would hope that Kraft wouldn't be stupid enough to get into a bidding war over freaking Sitake. It should be obvious that the plan is "here's our best offer - take it or leave it TODAY" and if Sitake says no then you move on immediately and go for Brohm or Diaz or whomever (or try to get Chesney instead of UCLA)
This is so straight forward that it is insane. You shouldn't be doing any sort of back and forth at this point for a dime a dozen coach like Sitake.
Oh, but you don't understand the genius of Krafty The Clown. He's playing 5D Chess, don't you know?
There were some chatter that he would go back to Oregon now that Stein is gone. Haven't seen anything confirming it. PSU would be crazy to hire him as a HC. He's seems to move on after a year or two at everyplace he's been since leaving Oregon many years ago