Fun fact. When he played at the University of Oregon he played left tackle, left guard and right guard under head coach Chip Kelly. I have nothing negative to say about Traut, but he would likely be gone after this year as it was. Talk is he wants to transition to the NFL; failing that I suspect he would go with Franklin. Clanton has experience at different positions on the OL.
I would think at this level it should be a collaboration between the OL coach and OC. The OC determines, formation, motion, and point of attack and the blocking schemes should be designed based on that. It seems that most PSU blocking schemes was always like a sliding zone(someone had mentioned that before on this board) and back had to determine where the hole was. This is where the little details(blocking schemes, blocking angles, OL footwork and leverage, etc) matter that I feel have been missing under Franklin.
Had no idea (until right now) that Traut played on Florida's 2 championship teams under Urban.
In order of importance, it’s Campbell, Terry and now Pauley. WR coach was the weakest link for years.
DC is not confirmed. ISU DC Heacock was heading to retirement soon and may be coming onboard at PSU as an analyst. It is not yet known if Knowles would be retained then either. It is not known if the ISU OC is coming over as an OC either. Other boards think Campbell might go with a new OC. We only know OL and WR for sure. Everything else is being worked out this week. Good news that Derek Hoodjer, ISU GM who is so good at identifying talent, will be retained by Campbell as the GM here at PSU.
I for sure think not retaining Howle is a big mistake.
And probably your Noots too. Ouch!
Please send Hagans to VT. That would be even better than a box of cookies.
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Howle is extremely important but is up for OC at VT. Franklin knows how important Howle is for competing versus PSU in DMV recruiting. We’ll see if it’s important enough that he would go with Howle versus an experienced OC. Franklin is also considering Connor and Poindexter as well for different coaching positions. Love him or hate him, Franklin is going to be a potent force to contend with in this region. He is gonna take a few of these guys away from us, no doubt.
Until the HC left and then suddenly WR’s were getting open. Lol.
I keep harping on Franklin, so this will be the end of it. But I'm not worried about Franklin scooping our primary targets on the recruiting trail.
Just like ohio state has more resources yet you expected psu to beat them
There’s quite a gap between Iowa State and Penn State money wise. Does Ohio State have more money than Penn State yes but it’s close. I expect Penn State to roughly beat them 40% of the time under competent coaching and not blow double digit leads in 4th quarter against them.
Confirmed. I wonder if Olesh or Reynolds will follow him? Of the three, I want to keep Rapp.best all-round of the three. Lots of movig parts between now and Spring practice.
Yep . Maybe Franklin setting himself up for 9-3, 8-4.
The VT fans on the 247 board are very unhappy with Howle at OC. They are starting to learn that Franklin values friends above performance. No offense to Ty at all, huge loss for us, but not the type of experienced hire the fans at VT want.
Yup, the VT fans are going to learn that they will have better talent than ever, but coaching and execution will fall prey to loyalties....until of course Franklin fires Howle in 3 years in an effort to save his behind. Good for Howle to get the experience, but I hope he is smart enough to leverage any success quickly. All OCs and QB's degrade quickly under James.
I can understand their fans wanting to hire an experienced play-caller. We would be saying the same thing. But, I do think Ty has a lot of potential to become a very good play-caller. He's been getting prepared for this for quite a while at this point.
Personally think it is a great move by Franklin. Pry is a good DC, gets along well with Franklin and brings tremendous familiarity with program, roster and recruiting area.
Eh, was he though? Decent enough, sure. But Manny and Allen took it to a whole new level.
A counter for what? Virginia Tech is 2-3 tiers below Penn State. They haven't been relevant in 2 decades. Again, he's going to do well there - but they aren't going to be able to go head to head with PSU, OSU, Michigan, Clemson, Bama, Georgia, etc. with the elite blue chip guys. Franklin wasn't even able to do that in PA at PSU.
We fired him for a reason and have an upgrade in MC, but do not underestimate his ability to be a thorn in our side recruiting that region. We need some coaching assistants with ties to the high school programs in that region. PA and NJ are not enough for us.
Yes but now he gets Pitt and his good friend Narduzzi....
Yeah, and really, who else was Franklin going to get? It's hard to imagine a worse boss as an Offensive Coordinator. With the exception of JoeMo(who wasn't here long enough to get infected), the OC job at PSU has been career threatening. Yes, people will mention Rahne getting the head coaching job at ODU(I think Franklin pushed him there). Honestly, with the exception of JoeMo, who had their image improve after being OC at PSU?
