We have done the exact same thing with Tommy Stevens, Will Levis, Beau Pribula
Official PSU - Iowa '25 game thread
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I am sensitive to the severity of cancer in anyone and the challenges associated with it for patients and their families, but the ”iowa
“ is lame. To me, it comes up way short. Sure, it makes the kids feel good for a minute, but iowa gets too much credit for it because it’s choreographed by 60,000 iowa athletic supporters on TV. It’s a nice visual, but does it really make a difference?Then there’s THON. It isn’t so visible (not choreographed, not part of a football broadcast), but it makes a difference. THON is much more than the PSU community feeling good about themselves. It helps kids with cancer and their families tremendously. THON helps save lives.
Lol at thinking only Rhule is interested
Kraft may be dumb enough to hire him but he's not the only one interested
He a program builder like Franklin
He can't beat teams with comparable or bigger talent
He's Franklin
Winning at Temple once they left the Big East was no longer impressive
See his record vs top 25. See his inability to develop his prize QB.
This is still a CJF football team....this team read all the news clippings of how great they were and weren't pushed to get better....and every other team read the same articles....and playing PSU became their Super Bowl. CJF referred to this as "rat poison" a term coined by Saban, on Game Day....however he didn't push the team extremely hard to achieve perfection to withstand everyone else's greatest effort. This is an example of soft coaching....Saban was a SOB to his players...same as Jimmy Johnson, Vince Lombardi and Joe Paterno... demanding perfection but also they knew anything short of their "A" game would result in defeat.
We are winning one remaining game. I don’t know which one. Blind squirrel theory.
How in the world do you know who wants the job and who doesn’t? This team is definitely bad, but not the worst we’ve ever had. We lost our best LB, our starting QB, and our coach…going into Kinnick at night against a top 10 defense…what did you expect?
What I struggle with is the complete disintegration of the defense. LB play is awful — The transfer #24 is serviceable, but #0 has been horrific. The DL returned everyone but Carter and is just non-existent. Opposing O-lineman are to the second level almost every play. Knowles mixes man and zone and when it’s zone it’s a soft as hell zone. It’s mind-boggling how bad the defense is now.
No way. Not even close to that bad.
OSU. We pull it out in the 4th quarter 24-21 and leave the SUCKEYE fans in tears
We go on a run and finish 8-4I'd be happy beating Ohio State then losing out. Bowl eligibility just means we have to suffer through another game with this staff.OSU. We pull it out in the 4th quarter 24-21 and leave the SUCKEYE fans in tears
Agree. Yes Grunk struggled at times, but he also made some throws. Roberson looked like he had never played organized football before.
I'd like to think that PSU could pull out the last three, but they lost to Iowa which can be thought of as an exception due to the upheaval last week.
0 got pancaked... I'm embarrassed for him. When they called the play, I bet one of the OL was smiling because he knew his assignment was 0.
Have you watched OSU? they are going to hammer PSU. Pipe dream- Let's go 1-0.OSU. We pull it out in the 4th quarter 24-21 and leave the SUCKEYE fans in tears
He might be like Scott Frost. Frost was a winner at UCF, Nebraska hired him, he was a former player afterall, but it didn't turn out well.
What did everyone that wanted Franklin fired expect? Did you think the day we got rid of him we would suddenly be beating everyone? Firing a good coach is always messy and might take years to recover. That’s why some didn’t want to get rid of Franklin. Get ready for years of this.
Worked for UCLA and yes I know you said good
Good or bad it should cause the team fight
Stop being afraid of trying to actually be elite.
We’ll see how well it works out. There are far more examples of teams getting worse or not improving after firing a good coach than the other way around. Realizing the grass isn’t always greener isn’t being afraid, it’s being realistic.
But I've never said it will be better
I said you try and if it fails you try again
It's like the Steelers. Being a borderline playoff team and losing every year in the first game isn't a reason to keep Tomlin
Franklin gets a ton of credit for building the program but he reached his ceiling. It was time.
Oh Lord. I was concentrating on the OSU beatdown and forgot about Indiana. We play both of them on back-to-back weeks. I'm not going to watch either one of those massacres.
On a bright note, we have MSU and Rutgers left and we should win both as they both stink. Good God, we can't lose to either, can we ?
And the cradle will…you know.Someone unemployed (his folks are overjoyed).
Wave…raise over $17 million. Wave…raise over $17 million. Which gets all the glory on TV and which actually does something beneficial?I am sensitive to the severity of cancer in anyone and the challenges associated with it for patients and their families, but the ”iowa
Then there’s THON. It isn’t so visible (not choreographed, not part of a football broadcast), but it makes a difference. THON is much more than the PSU community feeling good about themselves. It helps kids with cancer and their families tremendously. THON helps save lives.
I had lowered my expectations way before Iowa. That said….i did not expect horrendous offensive play calling . The bull**** trick plays were amazingly poor. On the defensive side…we kept rolling out a courageous but horribly flawed LB Dom who made it incredibly easy for the Iowa QB and RB to skip the pass and simply run by and through us. Shame on me I guess for not lowering my expectations enough.
Clifford played better at PSU than Levis played during the two years Levis was at Kentucky. Get off the soap box and look it up.
Is this the first of the “I told you so” posts about firing Franklin? Do people actually think Franklin wins that game yesterday at Iowa with his backup QB? Yikes.
The long term damage wasn’t done by firing Franklin, this team was already a mess because of him.
Give him Clifford's supporting cast. Clifford was the worst of the 3 albeit serviceable
You might be very right. Listened to the first half until the Grunk interception. My best buddy with whom I shared season tickets for 45 years gave me a recap of the second half. So some QB who no one will mistake for Michael Vick or Jalen Hurts runs for 67 yards on a draw and 130 yards total two weeks after the UCLA QB had numerous 30 plus yards scrambles. Go for it on 4th and 1 from your own 40 (suspect to begin with) and instead of running Allen get cute by trying to get the yard with a TE. Maybe Franklin wasn’t meddling with the play calling as much as his many detractors claim.
So how did it work out last night? Same old tired BS. Let’s try to win with gimmicks and trickery like two QBs in the game at the same time and running a TE on 4th and 1 from your own 40 instead of running your bell cow Allen.