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I'm with you. I'm not going to react to every single hire as it gets announced. No point until we know what the whole staff looks like, what the final incoming class (including portalling in and out) looks like, and how things look when we start to get a sense of scheme that will be implemented. While some may have wanted splashier hires, I'm gonna give Franklin the benefit of the doubt that he can put together a staff that works toward implementing what he thinks is a successful vision. Give it a year to transition, a year to build upon the foundation, and ask me again in year three how things are going (barring any catastrophic boneheadedness).
They fired a coach that took them to the playoffs last year and are happy he's gone. The delusion factor is incredibly high there.
and against ACC competition, his stats would likely be much better than they were at PSU
Allar's stats would make him second all time at VT in passing yards and first in TDs and first in completion %
PSU's "splash" hires at OC and DC blew up in their face. Kotelnicki needed a different skill set at QB; and apparently Knowles' D isn't something you install overnight (...and he didn't get along with his boss)
If we keep Brooks and Moore (seems to be quite possible) and run something like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq74KEV51gY) with a bunch of stellar RB's and TE's; I'm down with it.
How are top ten defenses closer than what we had before than to Ohio State, Georgia, or Indiana? Because that's what Pry had a number of years as DC.
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I don't care about perceived quality of team or blowouts or anything like that, I just don't. Every team deserves an objective path to a national championship devoid of human fuckery.
The fact we are handwringing now over the ACC or ND getting a spot while the SEC has 5 teams in a 12 team playoff is horseshit. It's an invitational for rich teams
Your line of thinking seems to align with this
James Franklin's mistakes at Penn State were hiring two glamorous expensive coordinators that stole the headlines. Both Kotelnicki and Knowles turned out to be poor fits that couldn't adapt to their personnel.He is getting away from that and going back to his roots that won at...— Sekrah (@sekrah) December 10, 2025
Well, Terry Smith pretty much has sided with Pat Kraft who was openly critical of both on field and NIL decisions made by Franklin during his unhinged rant.
So the remaining staff at Penn State has been stuck in a situation where they're either Franklin guys or Kraft guys. Dunno about you, would tend to call that divisive.
Jim Knowles has frankly not worked out...and isn't a Franklin guy. The OCs have been a revolving door of mostly outside hires.
After experiencing the Penn St fans firsthand over the last few weeks, I've come to the realization that I can't trust anything I've heard out of Happy Valley recently
I've never seen a private equity firm that didn't value profits more than they valued people.
I get that and these are all valid concerns, I just want to give them a chance to not completely flop first.
Came here to say this, but you beat me to it. Hopefully he does not suck like every other QB coach we have had in decades.
What divisiveness? It seems like Franklin is re-hiring everyone whoever worked for him.
The fans were fed up with the guy who almost took them to the championship game last year, and had expectations to go there again this year. While I can understand that, I think they over-reacted. And when we've seen this in the past at other places, it didn't go all that well.
The expectations will be high, but winning cures everything. And I don't doubt that this group can do better than 3-9.
We won't know until we see the results.
Yep, I think there is just a lot of sense of "been there, done that" at this point.
It's also not confidence-inspiring when PSU fans generally seem to be overjoyed this guy is leaving. At least he's an actual QB coach with experience though, beats trying to shoe-horn Bowen in like Pry did.
I can get the idea that Franklin wants "his people"--the tea leaves seem to suggest that there was alot of divisiveness among Staff @ PSU. Hell, Terry Smith has now taken a WWE-style heel-turn on Franklin. That's rarely a good environment for winning.
Still, its hard to completely wrap your head around supposedly offering top-level Assistant money and the results being largely getting raises and promotions for guys that were loyal to Franklin @ PSU. Some with very spartan resumes. Particularly, as some of the names we were interested in like Poindexter and Trautwein are conspicuously absent.
All I can say is that the on-field product better be stellar or it could get ugly.
Neither should be used because they ignore the rest of the schedule.
Transitive wins can't be used either because they are just circular. if the argument if head to head matters then why would ND schedule A&M. They could have played bethel cookman, gone 11-1 and been "better" than Miami.
If the goal is for the best teams to get into the playoffs then ND has been the better team throughout the season. Losing to Miami doesn't make miami a better team, they were just better on that day.
Sounds like my golf game
I can't say I enjoyed watching VT football this year, so I'm sort of glad not to have to watch one more game of Drones misfiring throws and then taking the entire team on his back.
This year was anxiety without a lot of enjoyment.
More like someone who wants to take your future profits. I'm casting doubt on the idea that a group of investors can hire better lawyers than you can hire. I've never had any problems at all finding lawyers.
They will lie straight to your face. They will do what appears to be "stupid" things in relation to the actual business. All in the name of the all mighty EBITDA.
Utah football ~2-3 years from now:
After (at least) 4 of 5 rounds of layoffs, has top executives at the all hands meeting get up there and say:
"Our people are at the forefront of everything we do."
"People are at the heart of what we do. When we create a culture where people feel they are valued and they belong, we enable them to deliver their best work."
Oh wait, is this not the hatin' on thread?
Yeah there are positive and negative angles to look at every hire he's made. Until they've got their unit out of the field it's kinda aimless saying you're 'out on this staff' or 'gonna win a natty'
This has been my take for a while, NIL created a lot more parity, it has issues but most things do the transfer portal needs work because I don't know any one playing for is ever but the realignment is what is killing football. I want to play WVU and I want to beat the pants off them. I dont care about cal or smu. I want pac12 after dark. The flutie hail Mary was between two independent but has been a Bigeast moment and now is an ACC moment. Some of the best Rose Bowls are just conference moments now. Now they want to tear down the rose bowl. The tradition and pagentry is being trampld on and that's what made college football great.
Allars decline also started with Kotelnicki. Franklin went out and hired big splash names and it blew up in his face last year. Going back to what you know is probably right.
I am starting to think that we've had the one "splash" hire we are going to get...which is Franklin. From now on I am going to look forward to splash recruits, but that is about it.