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Student athletes?
When was the last time you heard of a player on ANY team being academically ineligible? They get paid now. It’s a job. It’s big boy business now. Like it or not. It has been for a very long time, it’s just out in the open now.
Kind of annoying to listen to unless you want to hear 15 minutes on Dom DiSandro. The only new coach takeaway is “Penn State has a plan”. So unless things fall apart at the last second then it sounds like Kraft has his guy and probably at least one backup.
nobody here knows anything
Criteria #1 for the next coach should be one who ensures that the kids that play for this football program are students AND athletes.
Every time I contemplate the right way to handle that, I stop and think, "not my $50,000,000 dilemma to solve."
Then PSU should join the Patriot League. Please stop being so naive. I don't even know if most of these players even go to class anymore. They're basically employees of the school now who are paid to play football, just like professors are paid to teach and janitors are paid to clean the classrooms.
That would be the only explanation that would save Kraft. Anything other than a home run hire at this point makes this coaching search a failure. IMO, Hartline would be a great hire but if that is our target, it should have been announced way earlier.
Student athletes?
Ineligible players: ‘It’s not our fault’
Two of the seven football players who were declared academically ineligible Aug. 29 insist they were misinformed about what credits they had earned and were unaware of being in academic jeopardy until…
temple-news.com
Especially when they transfer every year - it seems to limit them to being University Studies majors
How about a whole program?
FBS program ruled ineligible for 2025 postseason due to academics
An FBS program won't be able to participate in a bowl game this year after its Academic Progress Rate fell below acceptable levels.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com
Please stop the nonsense. D-1 college football has absolutely nothing to do with academics anymore, and nobody even is trying to hide this anymore.How about a whole program?
FBS program ruled ineligible for 2025 postseason due to academics
An FBS program won't be able to participate in a bowl game this year after its Academic Progress Rate fell below acceptable levels.www.saturdaydownsouth.com
They still let them play the whole regular season, why? $$$$$ Why do you think they suspended them for the postseason? Because they suck and would not have made the postseason anyway. This is not a penalty, it’s a formality. Follow the money.How about a whole program?
FBS program ruled ineligible for 2025 postseason due to academics
An FBS program won't be able to participate in a bowl game this year after its Academic Progress Rate fell below acceptable levels.www.saturdaydownsouth.com
That concept, if it ever existed, is so far gone it is unbelievable.
"Penn State has a plan"... so did Custer
Just because most of all the other top programs do things the wrong way doesn't mean Penn State has to.
Maybe if we targeted kids who valued going to class and had some smarts, they wouldn't be dancing after sacking Mendoza instead of getting ready for the next play...
I guess you haven't been listening to current PSU players speak and write; they aren't going to PSU to become doctors, lawyers and nuclear scientists.
Also none of them will be replacing James Franklin. It's also likely none of them would work for Pat Kraft.
PSU’s kids did go to class under Franklin. I can vouch for that. But pretending that college football isn’t all about the money is so insanely naive it’s unfathomable.
More drivel and speculation from someone suffering from Franklin Derangement Syndrome. Hopefully after Kraft finally selects a coach you all will stop beating a dead horse b
With this it’s Sitake unless he’s just using us as leverage then it’s back to square 1. Appears PK is lost.
Correct. It is a term used by me and other fans who expect an AD who fires a coach and states publicly in a press release that he was fired for not meeting Penn State’s “standard” of Big and National Championships and says at a press conference held the next day that the fans “deserve” a National Championship to back up that big talk with a home run hire.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson
There should be no "talks" at this point - there should only be a deal that is already signed but not announced. If Kraft hasn't already wrapped something up, then he has failed miserably.
Maybe true or not, but I was watching a Big 12 podcaster last night who said he believed there was near zero chance for Sitake leaving BYU as he's a devout Mormon and the church is more important to him than money, but he could be wrong too for all we know.
Sitake seems like a great coach and disciplinarian etc, opposite of Franklin in many ways but I’m just not sure the fit in the NE compared to out west. He’ll need Terry Smith, with I think he’ll agree to, but he’ll need more than that.
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week,"
-- George Patton
PK could just be getting played for BYU leverage on a new deal. $3M now can be doubled overnight.
Well you still have to name a coach for that to happen. Early signing period is December 3-5 and the only annual portal window is January 2-16. It’s one thing to miss out on an entire high school class but I would expect current players to portal out if there isn’t a coach named soon.
It's all sunshine, rainbows, and unicorns according to the NCAA grad rates.
The graduation rates for Division I (D1) student-athletes have shown significant improvements over the years. The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for Division I student-athletes has increased from 74% in 2002 to 91% in 2024, reflecting the impact of NCAA academic reforms. However, disparities exist, with sports like football and men's basketball still having lower graduation rates, at 83% and 85%, respectively. For detailed statistics on graduation rates by specific sports and schools, you can refer to the NCAA's official reports and analysis.
The real sin is the average student going to college is poorly prepared. Google search for the UCSD report on remedial math.