Is our fan base willing to do this on top of normal NIL? They raised $135K to bring back 5 players that would have declared for the NFL draft last season.
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Why Can’t Penn State get to the National Championship Game?
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I'm gonna throw weight toward the offensive line. Washington's won the national award for best o-line. Michigan has had pros on their line the last 2 seasons. Bama and Georgia we know what they've had on the lines in their championship years. To me, it all starts with the line. If you can't open holes and protect your QB, the offense bogs down and the defense ends up being on the field longer than they should be. Eventually, that all-star defense cracks. We've had a couple of guys like Olu and McGovern get to the NFL but largely, the line has been a very inconsistent unit. Remember how Barkley would get swarmed over on a number of handoffs per game? Yes, part of that was the scheme but the o-line has been too inconsistent over the years to help get us where we want to be.
Alabama is using their loss to generate more NIL contributions so they can buy rent better players so they can win more games.
Looks like four players. Hope these guys had a better reason for staying than a average of less than $35k p.c.Is our fan base willing to do this on top of normal NIL? They raised $135K to bring back 5 players that would have declared for the NFL draft last season.
2023 Campaign — One More Year Fund
1 other thing I would also put in why Michigan has been successful is the portal. Harbaugh has been very active in the portal from day one and used it to fill gaping holes on his team. PSU and Franklin have been active in the portal but took them longer to embrace it. PSU has also not done as well as Michigan in evaluating talent in the portal and fits for the program needs. One only has to start with Cephas at WR. Look at Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss the crew he has coming next fall at Ole Miss. Like it or not JF the portal is here to stay, its where you can fix holes on your team quickly if you can evaluate talent. Based on the PSU WR room this is an area where PSU struggles.
OL and DT are the biggest glaring weaknesses. Our OL draft picks since 2015 - Scruggs (R2), McGovern (R3) Walker (R7), Fries (R7), and Menet (R7). Our DT draft picks since 2015 - Austin Johnson (R2 in 2016) and Robert Windsor (R6).
Interesting chart - Allar’s name isn’t listed but the PSU logo is under Alan Bowman and Fernando Mendoza.
In effect, you are saying Allar is performing below the Mendoza line.
The answer is because PSU doesn't have the kind if money to spend in the portal that Michigan does. It's as easy and sad as that.
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THE thing is, all but Menet and Windsor are now every day starters in the NFL.
You don’t need NFL first rounders at WR to have success - see Hamilton, Butler, Norwood, etc. More astounding than missing on portal WRs is missing on almost all of the 4* guys we recruited. That is historic bad luck or our staff is asleep at wheel.
Several OL made it to the NFL from when Franklin has been coaching. McGovern, Donovan Smith, etc and they are on Superbowl contending teams. This leads me to believe that the talent is there and the offensive schemes and blocking assignments are the problem. How can we have this talent and not open up holes? Its the schemes!!
Michigan has two five star players on its roster and is below Penn State in bluechip ratio. Bama has 18 5* players and the best bluechip roster ratio ever this year. In fact, the average of all Bama players is 75 in a given recruiting year. So, at every position on their roster they average a Top 100 player. That is the entire roster.
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Hence the revolving door at WR coach. Is it a chicken egg thing?
Maybe we should hire a new OC to work on that.
Because winning is very hard. Very very hard and the amount our program wins is unattainable consistently for most programs. It's why there are only a handful of programs who win as much or more than we do consistently.
How about BigBen as a QB consultant? At least try SOMETHING, and you've got a guy with the 5th most passing yards in NFL history in state.
Michigan's NIL is a disaster and we have ridiculous restrictions on transfers with regards to credit. You aren't even close
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Franklins Big10 championship year we got hosed by the committee mentality . Maybe things break differently if that happened .
Franklin is the number 1 problem. He is a terrible coach, no leader of men. Not much else needs to said.
