I agree but at least a handful of them probably are good enough. Point is between that and the portal he should be able to salvage something.The commits Chesney has at JMU are most likely not B1G level recruits. Again, Cignetti caught lightning in a bottle. That isn’t likely to happen again. The level of recruit Chesney gets to commit to play for JMU in the Sun Belt conference is far different than the level of recruit it takes to compete at a high level in the B1G.
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Agree
He reminds me of Anzalone - always hurt in college and now having a really good pro career
hopefully he could replicate something similar
Yeah, but people here wanted to fire Franklin because he couldn’t win games against top 5 teams. That’s a pretty far different set of standards than hoping to salvage something. I think there needs to be a massive change in expectations around PSU football for awhile unless it’s a big name, established coach.
This is what is going to happen. I do not want it to happen and I am also being a smart ***.
After PSU beats Rutgers and they are talking to Smith on TV, Kraft is going to run up and say this man is our next HC.
If PSU loses to Rutgers, the camera will pan to Kraft crying on the bench because his plan can no longer happen.
Again, not being serious.
After PSU beats Rutgers and they are talking to Smith on TV, Kraft is going to run up and say this man is our next HC.
If PSU loses to Rutgers, the camera will pan to Kraft crying on the bench because his plan can no longer happen.
Again, not being serious.
People wanted to fire Franklin in Year 12 because he couldn’t win those games.
Of course there’s a different set of standards for a guy in year 1, even years 2-3, even for the most high profile home run hires.
It's hilarious that Franklin taking recruits is bad, but a potential PSU hire doing the same thing would be good.
I never saw Franklin taking recruits as bad. Preferred it not to happen but is what is it is. All in the game.
Yeah, people forget he brought Trace and others with him from Vandy also.
Solid hire for them if he was with DeBoer at Washington. He knows the area, recruits, high school coaches, etc.
We will not be hiring another Vandy coach.
When Kraft announces Terry Smith as our next coach, perhaps he will be honest and tell us that there was no one else left.
Chesney has slipped off the list looks like he may be UCLA's to lose. Seems we are down to Deboer Terry Smith and the mystery man if there even is a mystery man.
That’s the same thing I heard in the last few hours. I heard the coach is in place and the paperwork is completed. I heard the unknown guy but have no idea who it is.
I thought just yesterday Chesney was the odds-on favorite. I can't keep up...
Dark horse mystery man candidates could be Kliff Kingsbury (could be explanation why Engram allegedly interviewed but maybe as OC), Lincoln Riley, Jedd Fisch.
Taking current players sucks so we need to get this hire done soon- if we have a decent coach BGJ wont be able to poach more players - VT blah.
Give me DeBoer, Dabo or Sark. All three of them close the gap between PSU and Ohio State. I appreciate Terry for all he's done for Penn State but he doesn't take us to elite.
Kotelnicki should be paying attention to the misdirection here. Chesney to ucla. No, Chesney to PSU. For f*ck’s sake.
Kraft could make a lot of money with those odds.
I am not saying I have heard anything about Fitzgerald being a candidate.
However just putting it out there that if he is the hire I will throw up.
I just hate that guy. Irrationally so, I don’t know why I just do.
However just putting it out there that if he is the hire I will throw up.
I just hate that guy. Irrationally so, I don’t know why I just do.
The betting markets are just that betting markets which are purely designed to pull in gamblers with odds the house can't lose and nothing more.
Not wrong.
But the lines move on money coming in and sometimes that can telegraph sentiment from those in the know front running it.
In what way? He has a career losing record as a head coach in both college and pro football. He would be interesting in a Mike Locksley kind of way. If we fired Franklin to hire Kliff freaking Kingsbury then we deserve what we get
Kraft is under tremendous pressure to hire Terry Smith and every top coaching pursuit either reupped where they were or will be off to a destination somewhere else.
As pressure mounted around Kraft and Smith's overall performance became undeniable their assessment on Chesney began to shift and more smoke of Chesney to UCLA began to grow. Also, I think Chesney likes the idea of being on the west coast but that's just me.
Never thought I may actually want Rutgers to win so we do not get a specific person as HC. Sigh!!