Yes, scoring 35 points against Ohio State was a demantling of their defense. This conversation was about offense coordinators and specifically Joe Moorhead’s offense.
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Yes, scoring 35 points against Ohio State was a demantling of their defense. This conversation was about offense coordinators and specifically Joe Moorhead’s offense.
Of course because that what posters suffering from Franklin Derangement Syndrome who DESERVE better do.
This is exactly where I am. This stuff about his winning percentage and making the playoffs last year is irrelevant when you saw that he wasn’t doing the job now. He had to go.
It’s probably a moot issue anyway because I really believe that he was going to leave on his own at the end of the season after how everything devolved and look for a new opportunity. So, PSU probably was going to have to hire a new coach anyway.
Sounds to me like the kind of decision that a manager focused on budgets would make. Not that it's an especially bad decision, mind you, just that I can see the reasoning (especially if you're not a football fanatic).
I think you're probably right, but. I also think that once he tested the waters with his new AD and Prez and saw that their support was thin, he knew his days were numbered.
In hindsight, they should have parted ways in the off-season, crazy as that would have seemed.
I don’t think it’s just geographic bias. I don’t know anything about Golesh. Read his name on this board. Looked him up and saw his records as a head coach in 2023 and 2024 were barely over .500, and he’s 7-3 so far this year. Sumrall has a better head coaching record. Chesney has the best head coaching record of the 4 and has been a head coach longest. I know the level of schools he’s coached is an issue for some. Chesney has a history of beating his competition at a better clip than the other 3.
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Also surprise Bobby Ingram to interview this week. Also, Chesney gave the best two interviews of any.
I’m good with it. Kraft wanted to try something new.
Some insiders say he is in serious consideration and other insiders say he will definitely not be hired. Hope that helps.
Interesting, Engram is an alltime great but I would choose Terry Smith instead over Engram. Why the hell did Franklin never hire Engram as wr coach?
Great player, one of my favorites, but this reeks of desperation. Over a month into the process and interviewing a position coach. If he isn’t a Penn Stater, he doesn’t get the call.
Maybe Kraft is thinking possible offensive coordinator?Great player, one of my favorites, but this reeks of desperation. Over a month into the process and interviewing a position coach. If he isn’t a Penn Stater, he doesn’t get the call.
It’s imploding all around Terry Smith as we speak, so I’m not sure how you can say he won’t let anything implode (nothing to see here, everything is fine).
Idk. I have no idea how much Kraft wants to control things. I like Engram but he’s an NFL position coach.
And one of the best overall records, so hardly severe damage.
And don’t forget the countless all Americans he’ll bring in along with the top notch coordinators.
The posters who want Cheney have an “emotional” attachment to him? Interesting; very interesting.
Again, if you just sit there and downgrade every team anyone ever beat, then you’ll never be happy with the results. Not beating OSU and Michigan is not severely damaging the program or pretty much every program in the country is severely damaged.
He could have waited until the end of the year. Maybe Franklin would have fixed things, maybe not, but firing him when he did served no purpose.
The former Franklin Defense Force has settled nicely into their PSU agitator/foil roles before we’ve even hired anyone. Maybe they can start a few more threads about Franklin and VT?
Yes, I understand that we cannot truly judge the hire until we see the results on the field. But as far as the actual search is concerned, it’s been epically bad. I really do think Kraft isn’t going to make it long enough to even see the new hire’s full PSU career. How has his basketball hire played out? Completely different circumstances, but has he hired a bunch of winners? Or just won with what the AD already had in place? He really has nuked the program - if you think the decommits are bad, just watch what happens to the active roster. This became a true rebuild.
At this point, I’d hire Hartline and give him time and resources. His age and recruiting alone will jolt some life into the program.
Or give it to Smith with the caveat the search just continues into the next season.
I just can’t trust a hire like Chesney. Nobody even knew his name until like two weeks ago. No experience at all at a program of this magnitude let alone recruiting at the P4 level. Trying to replicate Cignetti is fool’s gold. Cig at least coached with Saban.
At this point, I’d hire Hartline and give him time and resources. His age and recruiting alone will jolt some life into the program.
Or give it to Smith with the caveat the search just continues into the next season.
I just can’t trust a hire like Chesney. Nobody even knew his name until like two weeks ago. No experience at all at a program of this magnitude let alone recruiting at the P4 level. Trying to replicate Cignetti is fool’s gold. Cig at least coached with Saban.
I supported Franklin when he was the coach. Franklin upgraded aspects of PSU football, but gave the impression he was all about the payday. Hard to get emotional about him when it seems to be a dollars thing. He moved on pretty fast too. He’s not the coach anymore.
I understand that it’s easy to get frustrated, but quite frankly, we don’t know any details about the search at all, nor should we.
Or we could start trashing the new coach from day one, second guess every decision, and downplay every game they win for the entirety of his career. Oh, and hope they lose every game so we look like we’re right and then call anyone that supports him a fanboy and clueless. Does that sound better?
So being a few plays from playing for the Natty last year caused “severe” damage to the program. Franklin caused such severe damage that he left enough talent to be ahead of Iowa by 11 points in the second half and lost to #2 Indiana on a last minute drive. There is some “severe damage” here but it ain’t what Franklin did to Penn State. Congrats!
Landon is reporting with 100% certainty that Bobby engrem is interviewing this week. I dont know what to think of this
Hartline and any other coach worth hiring is still coaching. How is he supposed to have someone in place yet?
Money money money. MONEY. Time will tell both how Franklin does at VaTech and his replacement does at Penn State.
This is what I mean. Why? Are we this desperate? Or is this just out of good faith because he was a PSUer?