Terry Smith needs to tell Pat Kraft he is relieving Andy K of his game planning & play calling duties immediately. Let Ty Howle take over. Frankly Kotelnicki is another failed OC experiment and Knowles isn't far behind him.
Penn State is the first college football program in history in which the head coach has no say over which players actually play.
. Sorry, this is ********There are definitely a number of things wrong with AK's playcalling. The worst on the list might be the insistence of running some wildcat snaps AFTER your QB1 was injured for the season. Now you already have reduced QB depth, and by running wildcat with QB3 you are putting the whole room in serious danger if another injury happens. Guess what, Smolik got hurt. Then he keeps doing it, doubling down by now running it with Clifford. WTF is he doing?! Honestly this is a bad look on Terry Smith and may keep him from getting serious consideration for the head coach job as well. Smith shouldn't have allowed the 2 QB plan with Smolik to ever see the light of day, yet it happened and is still happening. I don't think Smith ever really had much of a shot anyway, short of really galvanizing the team and winning most of the games after Franklin was fired, but this decision is something I think rules him out as a good decision maker as head coach. You simply can't intentionally put more QBs at risk for injury after you've already lost one for the season.
Believe what you want but Smith has a reputation for not spewing BS. You could argue that Smith should be the one making the personnel decisions, but if he's saying that decision is being made by the coordinator then I believe him.Penn State is the first college football program in history in which the head coach has no say over which players actually play.
This would make him the only head coach in America who has no power over who plays. Sorry I am not buying it
So far after the 1st drive this is not aging wellPutting it up right now so that we can come back and review this Saturday about 4pm. The memories are fresh from "going to have some life infused by Howard and Denmark" from last week followed by: Denmark 1 snap, Howard 7 snaps.
But hey according to some, actual personnel decisions are not made by head coach Terry Smith
Exactly. The nation's only head coach with zero say on which players OR plays get called
He didn't say he has no control over it, he said the coordinator was the one making the decisions. There's a difference. Perhaps he has since changed that, and has now decided to take more control over personnel decisions given that we are finally starting to see more involvement from some of the younger players.
I don't understand how you can critique anything in any game the rest of the season. It's a scrimmage. We lost a head coach, our QB and our best starting LB. There's no conclusion to be made from any play call, game result, etc. Most of these players won't be here next year and they know it.Putting it up right now so that we can come back and review this Saturday about 4pm. The memories are fresh from "going to have some life infused by Howard and Denmark" from last week followed by: Denmark 1 snap, Howard 7 snaps.
But hey according to some, actual personnel decisions are not made by head coach Terry Smith
All the players are still there. Everyone has people hurt. Our head coach was a liability. They had a good second half yesterday. Donāt understand why we didnāt do more to get the first down and end the game though. Ak went into turtle mode at the end. Then we were in prevent defense which didnāt help either allowing Indiana to get a miracle catch in the end zone.
To all the people criticizing the defense for playing a "prevent" at the end...did you actually watch the game? It's not like we played Cover 4 the entire last series, rushed 2 or 3, etc. I believe we rushed at least 4 every play, and blitzed several other times. The big play they hit down the middle looked like it was against a Tampa 2 (they hit it over the LB level and between the safeties). We had another play where we blitzed and pressed and gave up a potential big play over the top.
We rushed 5 (edit we rushed 4) and sacked him. Then we backed off of that. Dbs were moving back at the snap. Mendoza was struggling under pressure. Should have kept that up. Crowd was super loud on that series.happened right In front of me.to be fair the offense should have run the game out and never put the defense in that position.
I just suffered through the last possession again to make sure I had it right...this is where you think we "rushed 5 and sacked him, then backed off of that"?
We rushed 4 on the first down and got home. Appreciate your sarcasm.
I donāt even think we had a play called in on the 2nd and 17. Campbell was trying to yell at guys where to go as they snapped itā¦seemed like everyone was dropping due to the confusion. That play wasnāt indicative of anything that we were doing.
Nothing better to shut a loud mouth know it all than proof. Excellent job good Sir!
Exactly. The entire second half we hold them to 3 points then drop back and give up 30 plus yards in prevent. Thank you for proving my point that we switched up what we were doing so well in the second half. That led to two fluke catches near the end zone and in the end zone. They should never have gotten that far.
Yep. This worked. Then The next play we drop 5, 5!!! 10 to 20 yards back and they catch another 20 yarder. Nice how you left that out. But you keep leaning into it. lol.
They sent 4 guys on go routes on that playā¦ideally, we would have had more help deep, but it was a great zone beater call. Nothing at all about our alignment pre-snap or the call itself leads towards āpreventā.
Dude. Give it up. That is prevent. We donāt check them or bump them and they run free. Their number 1 receiver was out the whole game. Our defense shut their other guys down for 58 minutes. Then we drop way back and they all look like Lynn swann and John stallworth. If you want to talk to yourself the rest of the way have at it.
He's a little petulant child who thinks he knows all about all sports
. It's a guarantee he'll be yelling at clouds even after you undressed him on this repeatedly
Ok just one more with the help of tfrank.
The only play call I had an issue with was 3rd down with 2:09 left. No benefit to run the ball there because you only burn 9 seconds. So why run a tight set and only slip the TE out in the flat? It had no chance of getting a first down. Should have spread them out and made them cover 4-5 throw options. They struggled with that all game because their secondary isn't that athletic.
