There’s a flight from Philly to State College as well. Start the speculation now whether PSU is interviewing the Villanova, Temple, Penn, or Delaware coaches.View attachment 1047665
Not sure if Kraft is flying out to beg Hartline tomorrow or if a private flight company is making the most inconvenient stop at State College's airport before returning to NetJets' headquarters in Columbus
Your incessant blabbering about hire Smith, fire Kraft is getting tiresome and stale, give it a rest already.
Yes, it may be a “cut your losses” kind of decision now. Terry could probably retain most of the current roster and get some guys in the portal and do ok. Kraft has to be let go for massive failure. If he can’t deal with Sexton in any way, then PSU has to remove him and install someone who can in the future. If you watch the video I posted from McShay (who hates Franklin and agreed with the firing FYI) he alludes to some fighting behind the scenes between Kraft/Franklin/Sexton. I get the impression Kraft acted a little too big for himself and we are all paying the price now. He has been ineffective at his responsibilities.
So you are saying there is a chance?View attachment 1047665
Not sure if Kraft is flying out to beg Hartline tomorrow or if a private flight company is making the most inconvenient stop at State College's airport before returning to NetJets' headquarters in Columbus
They fired Franklin because he lost to UCLA and Northwestern after assembling "his best roster ever". They wouldn't have canned him if he kept doing his 10-2 jig and losing to any top team he played.
Typo. Sorry. I’ll fix it. Although, I wish OSU could intervene at this point. We’d be better off.
It’s feeling more like Kraft fired Franklin because of their inability to get along.
Remove Kraft immediately and promote someone who can function as a competent AD and do business with him.
Also felt like Franklin quit doing his job because they couldn’t get along. They both deserve(d) to be fired.
Agree. There were times in the UCLA game where I wondered if he was trying o get fired?
Sounds like Sexton’s ego is bruised. Money doesn’t motivate him so much as power.
Gateway never won states. Very well might have had they existed in their heyday.
I didn’t say that. I agree Terry may be the only reasonable option at this point to stop the bleeding.
All of his clients that PSU was rumored to be targeting got massive raises and extensions. That’s money, right?
Yeah, how’s it working out for PSU right now? PSU has an ineffective AD right now because he’s been blackballed by the most influential agent in college football. I wonder if Kraft acted alone in much of the firing and coaching search? If so, not too impressive on his end.
Then they really didn’t want to leave their schools. Somebody posted that Kraft chose the toughest list of candidates to go after: coaches at good schools already paid well and comfortable there. Oregon took a coordinator for its head coach. So did Georgia. So did OSU. Kraft went after the toughest possible candidates, and there’s no indication any of them really wanted to leave.
I’m sure Chesney is cool with his agent making decisions for him. Easier to believe the several other “insiders” who said Chesney was very interested but was turned down by Kraft.
No one's going to see it coming when Pat Kraft's 10000 IQ master plan finally pays off in the hiring of championship-winning Nick Sirianni tomorrow! All I can do is laugh at this point - clearly this cycle has gone sideways and hopefully the administration can see the Athletic Department was unprepared in handling negotiations and that Kraft isn't going to win championships for us, he's going to prevent us from doing so.There’s a flight from Philly to State College as well. Start the speculation now whether PSU is interviewing the Villanova, Temple, Penn, or Delaware coaches.
SirianiThere’s a flight from Philly to State College as well. Start the speculation now whether PSU is interviewing the Villanova, Temple, Penn, or Delaware coaches.
Then he would have leveraged Chesney for a big pay raise. Per McShay, Sexton didn’t like how Franklin was treated (even if warranted). That’s about more than $$.
Exactly. This was his major misstep. Too much $ Power 4 in this era for schools not to match to keep there coach. Sounds like he could have had Stein weeks ago. Too chickenshit to take a chance on a coordinator.
Then that’s on Kraft, nobody else. And he should have abandoned that strategy a week or two ago and grabbed a guy like Chesney or Stein.
Agree, and that might have been a very bad decision. Wait and see who Kraft hires. As for the coaches who got raises, did Sexton use his “power” to prevent a coach who wanted to come to PSU from doing it? Or did those coaches decide like Franklin, a Sexton client, to parlay it into a raise? Sounds from McShay that Sexton is running his mouth about being upset, and probably trying to suggest he’s screwing PSU, but is it true? Likely not. Sexton and Franklin are the same, both out for themselves and very thin skinned egomaniacs.
But am I wrong? Some of us were reluctant for him to be fired for the very reasons we are seeing now. To be fair, I didn’t think Kraft was an incompetent idiot, so that made it far worse.