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Last year you said Rojas was the biggest liability on the defense
I'll never forget Brady slicing up PSU s defense in 99 for a comeback win....and of course Derek Fox getting targeted one play after another
As I have said comic relief. In addition to the laughs, you also know how other people feel. I am always in absolute amazement of the powers of the great and powerful Lando!
Rojas missed way too many tackles and struggled in coverage. Was that untrue last year?
We have zero depth at LB this year as we've seen since his injury
Haven’t had the stomach to watch. Care to elaborate about said question (and his response)?
The last question was, "You seemed like you were more involved with the offensive play calling today, was that the case?"
Franklin said (paraphrasing): 'Today was no different than any other game this season, and no different than it's been for the last 12 years. I don't know where that's coming from.'
To that end, I see the same problems with Franklin that Paterno had for many years until the Dark Years forced him to change: he has too much loyalty to guys that he's recruited. Paterno used to always repeat these platitudes about guys, "paying their dues," and so forth. That's garbage. Put the best players on the field.
I don't care if a guy is a three year starter. If a freshman comes in and outplays him for that spot, the freshman is playing, end of story. You want to portal out to Ohio, or Delaware, be my guest. The best players need to be in the game, not the guys that have been there the longest, or are team captains, or are swell guys, or are being paid $3 million in NIL money, or are the best at CoD, or whatever else.
If there is seriously no one better on that sideline than DeLuca, then that is all-out program failure.
I think you could get some insight to part of the problem here. I forget the exact question asked but it was about his commitment to coaching here and his answer was (paraphrasing) - it’s all about the kids and they’re hurting in the locker room. They’re hurting and I wish I could take the pain away from them’.
It’s too much of the coach trying to be their friend and buddy rather than their head coach. Could you see Saban saying that after his team lost 3 in a row, the most recent to Vanderbilt?
The other thing that hit me was he’s beginning to sound like the old Eagles coach Rich Kotite. It all begins with me…..I take full responsibility…..That’s on me…. blah blah.
We’re now 3 weeks into a losing streak and he’s yet to fix it. Kotite was famous for saying that type stuff only to go out week after week and watch it happen again and again.
They asked about the run game troubles the past 3 weeks and he says he has to look at the tape and gave a non answer. Have you not looked at the tape for Oregon and UCLA already?
It’s too much of the coach trying to be their friend and buddy rather than their head coach. Could you see Saban saying that after his team lost 3 in a row, the most recent to Vanderbilt?
The other thing that hit me was he’s beginning to sound like the old Eagles coach Rich Kotite. It all begins with me…..I take full responsibility…..That’s on me…. blah blah.
We’re now 3 weeks into a losing streak and he’s yet to fix it. Kotite was famous for saying that type stuff only to go out week after week and watch it happen again and again.
They asked about the run game troubles the past 3 weeks and he says he has to look at the tape and gave a non answer. Have you not looked at the tape for Oregon and UCLA already?
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He clearly has no idea what to do, how to fix anything, how to motivate the players, lead the program, you name it. One of us could probably be on the sidelines vs Iowa and we would get the same losing result that he will. Talk about a complete and utter dumpster fire that he is 100% accountable for. His whole world has come crashing down. Now he has created this huge problem for Pat Kraft and Penn State.
He was actually quite average in college. 30 td's and 17 ints. 61.9% completion rate. Why he was a 6th round pick
I don't understand the focus on Deluca, a walk-on. Plenty of 4 stars getting blown up on that defense.
I think it's more the idea that, like... there's no one else that can play better than this? We have all these touted recruits, but no one is better than the walk-on that's constantly getting exposed?
I think this is one of Franklin's biggest weaknesses as a coach. He's too buddy-buddy with the players, and not business-oriented enough. DeLuca is a 3-year captain, right? And Franklin feels like he's just earned the right to be out there, and he won't take it away from him. But a GOOD coach would make that call. A good coach would say, "Dom... you're getting knocked out of the play every single snap. I can't keep throwing you out there. I need to put the guys on the field that are going to WIN the game."
For years?
You're a troll. Peskier than most, but still a troll.
20 people could tell him that and he still won't believe it......... lol....
In my mind, that's what is missing. I keep asking the question, what is Cignetti doing down there in Indiana. The whole team just started playing like 5 stars pretty much in an instant. It has to relate to motivation. Believing. Playing with emotion.
Reminds me of a story Adam Breneman told about Bill O'Brien. Breneman went into O'Brien's office and asked why he wasn't getting more playing time. O'Brien told him he couldn't trust him based on what he saw in practice. And that was that. Breneman practiced more intensely.
I don’t know if u saw IU game…Iu was a recipient of a terrible no call hold on receiver/pi call and Cignetti went ballistic got a warning but was directly in face of official then appeared to yell to the players. You can’t fail to be fired up after that.
What you just described is the most basic tenet of being a head coach.
"Hey coach, why am I not getting playing time?"
"Because you're not as good as the guy that's playing in front of you."
It's really that simple, and there are very few other factors to consider (maybe a guy is in trouble do to off-field antics).