No doubt. This team is playing harder and with more energy and passion and quite frankly they appear better prepared.
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I love this power football. Franklin had no control over AK.
You did well.I don’t know where to look.
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Again, Coker won it after inheriting a NC caliber roster then buried the program. We don’t have a NC roster for Terry Smith to inherit.
Can find the answer below the mason dixon line.
You're entitled to that opinion
His speech is exactly why he'd never have the ability to make the decision
He used air time to try to get his way as he knows many of our fan base are Paterno loyalists and will buy that nonsense.
A broken bitter man ruined the team early in the year.
I’m actually warming up to Knowles now that he’s learned we’re better playing aggressive.
I could see him keeping Knowles. The defense has gotten better. AK, not so much. I could see him moving on on his own.
Terry has brought this team back from the dead.
Franklin's team would be struggling here with Nebraska.
Franklin's team would be struggling here with Nebraska.
Going to be a 6-6/7-5 team somewhere that doesn’t want to get Penn State in their bowl game.
TY Coach Smith .
Good for Terry. This is a fellow PSU alum Terry (as are 2 brothers, a sister and my father) and luv the JoePa 409 Pin. Awesome!
Then the question is would Terry be able to work the portal well enough to rebuild? That’s what we don’t know.
I'm not necessarily advocating for Smith, but how would we know that about any of the names that's been mentioned. My take is the players look for money and opportunity.
It does but we don’t have much of a choice right now
So what's the downside? You're likely paying him relatively nothing versus top-paid FBS coaches and can replace him with minor expenses. Nothing but upside with Smith, unless I'm missing something, and he has the additional bonus that he can begin immediately at tying-down and stabilize the 2026 roster including 2026 recruits. So what is it that I'm missing???
The portal didn't exist under Paterno--there's nothing "unlike Penn State" about recruiting the best--which is what the portal is
4th & 9 for kNU: Durant with sack/perhaps a small gain on a scramble by Lateef (kNU QB)
PSU takes over on downs
PSU takes over on downs
Unless AK was doing Franklin's bidding. I'm wondering about that
Nebraska is starting to feel like Custer’s men as the new waves of Lakota warriors came riding over the ridges and down the draws. This is an ambush
The downside is he's not prepared for this job and you take a massive step back then look for a coach again next year
Stabilizing 2026 isn't a factor in anything that an intelligent AD would be considering.
They are definitely playing better. Can we recruit the players he needs to run his system? I believe the knock on him was his system was hard to learn and required specific types of players?
His position would have been much, much better if they'd beaten Indiana.
It could put the program in a hole we don’t dig out of for years. I’m not saying it would, but there is definitely a downside as other programs have found out.
This team is fun to watch. They play hard for Coach Terry Smith.
I think Franklin had them playing way too tight. Especially Allar, he was afraid to throw the ball.
I think Franklin had them playing way too tight. Especially Allar, he was afraid to throw the ball.