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Geez, he was never offered. His buddy Kraft got him that extension.
Is that really what you learned from that nightmare. The press and narrative were crippling to the school and it’s effects continue to be felt until this day.
Probably right--we really can't go much longer or we jeopardize the future--bowl game is meaningless
That's exactly what Franklin did. Well, "good for him" Hope he likes sludging through that big bad ACC.
Not at this point of the season...we can't make the playoffs.
The future is way more important than finishing 500 during a wasted season
LOL yep. That's my wife's job she's the real and successful gambler in my house.
Who cares about him being an alum?
Or the amount of time?
It's about getting a quality coordinator that's ready. Hartline is ready like Smart was.
Landon T posted today that he basically has no idea .
No one else on X is commited to a choice either . Pate may make the call tonight
No one else on X is commited to a choice either . Pate may make the call tonight
At my golf course pro shop this morning… guy tells me he was at gym this morning…. Extremely wealthy PSU alum and donor is there and they begin talking. The Alum tells him the decision has already been made. He didn’t know who, but his source says it will be a surprise. He does not think it is Terry Smith, he thinks it is DeBoer…
Oh yeah I forgot; multiple Big Ten and Nattys are right around the corner. The post I was responding to was about Kraft having a difficult choice but whatever floats your boat.
I'm stuck in Folsom prison and time keeps draggin'
on.
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The rest of this season, or bowl games don't mean nothing just because you declare that they don't. For the vast majority of people in this country, the college football playoff, the national championship, and the whole season in meaningless. Does that make it so?
I care far more about beating Rutgers and winning a bowl game than I care about when PSU hires a new coach. You know who else cares more about these things? The coaches and players on this team.
Controversial take but Kraft has run a very tight ship on this hire - no photos of anyone visiting PSU, no families touring the town, no ADs or governors making big statements. Talking heads know very little but are acting otherwise. Good chance we’re surprised here I think.
I personally think it’s Chesney but holding out for an Alabama loss to get DeBoer.
It's not my declaration--it's a reality
the fact you don't comprehend how comical it is that you care about winning a bowl game is honestly hysterical
I promise you not all the players care--some won't even play
What is the fixation with the 2026 class?
After the B10 title game means it's Hartline which is our best option==and has always been option 2 after Elko
Everything still says it's Hartline unless someone like Meyer changes their mind
We gotta hire Narduzi too if that's the case, two nards are better than one
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I have it on good authority that they are going the Ex-PSU Player route - not Terry or Bobby but the best TE that every played for PSU and the guy who lit it up in the East West Shrine Game a few years ago is coming back to save the Team - you next Head Coach is Hingle McCringleberry.
People saw Bob Chesney walking around, but just thought he was going to work at some random law or accounting office. I am fine with Penn State hiring him to be the coach, but I'm still not completely sure who he is.
I find it comical that someone who spends all his free time commenting on a Penn State football message board doesn't care about the outcome of their football games! Or at least claims not to care to try and make a stupid point.
I cared when we lost to Oregon and UCLA and Northwestern. Once we lost to NW winning and losing was secondary to the future. The playoff hopes were gone and all that was left was pride. Simple
FWIW: Whatever may have happened before Oct 17th:
5 days after (VT)HCJF was fired, Matt Rhule's team laid what was possibly the largest egg of the entire football season - in that dog's breakfast in Minneapolis. At that point, I doubt that even Rhule's most ardent devotees woulda' coulda' hired him. It was that bad.
Did that game pull the pin on any Rhule to PSU potential? If there was that potential prior to Oct 17th, it most surely has disintegrated since then.
And since then he has added on a couple more losses - including the embarrassing implosion/beat-down just this past Saturday at Beaver Stadium.
Aside from Nebraska (which is DESPERATE to not look impatient, after what they all have gone through) I can not imagine a single program that would be knocking on Rhule's door right now.
Nebraska's "rebuild" continues to look more like a train wreck.
Who will PSU end up with? For sure, IDK
But I surely know T Smith would be a viable and defendable candidate to address some of the largest concerns currently facing PSU FB. I also feel rather confident that many of the decision makers would very much NOT like to have T Smith as the next coach - for many reasons aside from his abilities as a coach.
Time will tell (unless PSU4U, or Josh Pate, or Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick, or some other insider wants to clue us in early
)Their pride is meaningless to my interest in wins and losses. Pride can be found even in defeat. But this goes back to bowl games don't matter...its merely a reward for mediocrity much like a participation trophy. We'd be 3-6 in conference play. We failed to meet every goal for this team this year. Period.
I think any chance of Terry staying got destroyed by the push of many to make him the HC.
It is a Pat Kraft problem, and a Chesney problem. He has a stadium to pay for on top of a football team he is hoping gets back to championship caliber fast. That takes donors and a lot of money from them.
Chesney, or whoever the coach is, would be handcuffed in the portal and recruiting. That equals 8-4, not 11-1.
There is a name circulating that I won't repeat because I didn't hear it first hand so they can share it if they want that was shocking
