Hint. The problem isn't the coordinators. Theyre just the scapegoat for the real incompetence.
Tough conversation: is Allar good enough?
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Oregon also has a head coach with the intelligence to allow the OC to adjust and call his game.
One thing for sure. I would be shocked if Franklin gets another highly ranked QB. He has no idea how to develop QBs.
That would work out perfectly. He’ll need a job after Akron fires him at the end of the year.
27 pages? The answer is obviously 'no' right?
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Sadly, I am expecting the worst from the rest of this season. If the team implodes and Allar continues to be the current Allar, how does Franklin recover? The expectations coming into the season were sky-high and Allar was supposed to be a stud. How does Franklin compete for quality recruits if this dog sh|t pervades this season? This could be the start of a descension into full-blown crapitude.
Here’s the saddest thing to me, and I used to just get railed on here over keeping Clifford the starter:
Penn State has truly given 2 guys a chance in 7 years.
That speaks even worse than lack of development. The first guy was easy to see he wasn’t the guy. He played 4 years because I don’t know. But he was such not the guy he got benched at one point but then just thrown back in.
The second guy certainly plays like he should be looking over his shoulder for 2/3 years. Even the “good” season wasn’t really good save for one game. It’s almost the polar opposite of Brian Kelly: just absolute deference to the incumbent to the point that no one involved feels any pressure.
This is all to say that, with a sample size is of 3, Franklin is 1/3 in developing QBs.
Penn State will be competitive in recruiting for a number of reasons - money, B1G, history, tradition, location, etc. and we don't have the same issues places like Nebraska have that IMO, will keep PSU from really tanking (even BOB put up back to back winning seasons under the worst circumstances). I am personally against paying any buyout for CJF but would be fine if he and PSU both look for fresh starts soon. We may sleepwalk into the playoff and I will certainly watch, but I think the reality is Franklin just isn't 'him' and isn't going to be. And honestly, there isn't much difference in 10-2 every year vs. 8-4 - both get you the same at the end of the year; nothing.
I took so much schit all last week and I’m proven right so let me find my ring for kissing it
Regarding the playoffs, assuming they make it. Not sure that is a given. It will probably be a one and done. Or do they really get lucky enough to draw the 2 teams that didn't belong again? I dont believe they would have beaten most of the other teams in last year's playoffs, except Indiana. Maybe Clemson.
I was one of the people who wanted Clifford pulled when the playoffs were out of reach. Just to get Allar started. But seeing how it turned out, id much rather have Clifford behind center than Allar.
Not wrong but big picture, neither the guy.
It’s like going from dating one person you’d never marry to the next you’d never marry.
So we’ll dance right into the Grunk era and hope he’s good because we’re almost certainly getting 3 years of him.
No thanks, I’m married.Great sex?
Everyone thinks our 4th quarter spark was more a broken clock being right twice a day versus a sign we actually are turning the corner on offense.
Forget the playoffs. 9-3 would actually be a good season at this point. The issues have been there since game 1, and now we are 4 games in, and have lost probably the 3rd best player in the defense with no backup.
Allar doesn't have it. He has no composure. Reminds me of Morelli more than anything else: Million dollar arm, 10 cent head.
Allar doesn't have it. He has no composure. Reminds me of Morelli more than anything else: Million dollar arm, 10 cent head.
You didn't take s#!+ from any reasonable people. That should count for something.
True. I thought they were all bit of a paper tiger last year. But then again so was PSU.
I was thinking three losses also. Would not be surprised if they lose four. Allar aside, the OL has to be the largest over rated group I can remember.
Most likely a first rd loss vs SEC team IF we make it. Klatt has us at #9 playing Bama. We should forfeit, no way Big Game James is going into Tuscaloosa and winning. He will make this Saban replacement, DeBoer, look like, well Saban.
We play bama in bama over Christmas break the rick is driving down. I think tgar should join
No wallets, no id, no phones. 1k in 20s between us
I do not think we’ll make the playoffs. Let me say that differently.
The ONLY way OSU makes playoff is beating OSU and not losing to anyone else. Our resume would suck and the country’s “eye test” view ( including selection committee) of us is we can’t win ****. They’d be right, too
He has regressed so much since we first saw. Got incrementally better and then platued. That’s just bad coaching.
Yup. I don't know why everyone was laughing at our schedule this year. I said before the season began there were no fewer than 5 tough games on there.
Iowa may not be good, but they always play us tough. That's a trap game.
Nebraska almost beat Michigan, and while Michigan is not at their peak... uuuuuh... we're not much better. The Huskers are not a gimme.
Ohio State is going to maul us. That's a given.
And Indiana sent a clear message with an absolute beatdown on Illinois, while their QB missed 3 pass attempts over the course of 2 games and passed for 10 touchdowns. Look out.
After years of watching PSU football I am not sure how this is possible. Is it even legal?
Good post.
At this point, 9-3 feels every bit as likely as 10-2. Not sure what anyone has seen yet to think otherwise.
I wasn't aware that Franklin calls plays. The OSU sequence has been dissected ad nauseum and concluded he didn't call those play, because, well, he doesn't call plays. Did AK sh*t the bed, especially with #44 on the team, absolutely. There is no evidence that he meddles. The people who run this site and have way more access to the program than you do on your TV have confirmed this so many times.
10-2? We already have the 2! 9-3 looks like a stretch at this point…and it could be worse!
As Franklin said, it is all on him.
If AK sh*t the bed as you say, and AK is still the OC/calling plays, that's as much on him as it would be if he called them himself.
Like Saban said, you're either coaching it or permitting it.
You don't need access to see the dysfunction. Franklin has owned up to it all since the Oregon game, do you have access that tells you he is in fact not owning up to it behind the scenes?
No of course I don’t have access but others do such as the BWI writers.
I’m not asking facetiously, I’m not on this stuff all the time and miss articles.
Are they contradicting Franklin himself? He’s taken pretty much all ownership of the product.
I thought he “owned up” to everything after Oregon? What changed?
In fact, things got worse (for example, using Kaytron Allen).
11+!years and no accountability. In fact, he has been rewarded for mediocrity.