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No choice but to wait and see. I'm not familiar with Howle's body of work, this guy's even less so.
I think a lot of the people who have bad gut feelings are gunshy because of how often we've been burned lately, which is entirely fair and I'm not about to tell them they're wrong for feeling that way. But I'm going to reserve judgment for the time being.
- jMMF has gone on record saying he doesn't like working with people he doesn't know/trust
- JMMF thinks PSU was wrong to fire him and didn't think anyone was unable to do their job
- The external hires JMMF has brought in lately (the Texas OC, Andy K, Jim Knowles) have all under performed. He's going back to the guys he trusts
We had a chance again this year. All we had to do was beat freakin' Louisville and we blew it.
I mean you now have an org that can work on what can be claimed to be there own interest to get more tv money. Like making a conference change. You wouldn't get an ACC grant of rights with this setup because no way they sign without reading everything this isn't college presidents now its a bunch of lawyers making sure the company has their interests met.
Twelve is plenty. And we've already seen enough of any team that doesn't make the cut.
Not sure I want some investor group to manage my rights, and keep the profits.
That's excellent.
No, it's a lot closer to what Penn State had.
I'll take it.
If he can produce a better line and QB than drones, I'll allow it.
I can't emphasize how low the bar is after Fuente and Pry as head coaches.
We've got a lot more money and should have a better staff for sure, for recruiting especially.
It's still much closer to what we had before than it is to Georgia, Ohio State or Indiana
Howle bears some responsibility for the bad QB play and that's one of many reasons why he shouldn't have been the OC hire.
Last two or three OCs and every DC since Pry left. Knowles hasn't performed to the level of Pry, Diaz, or Allen.
I remember when this same very thing happened to Logan Thomas. Lol. Went to whatever camp and worked with some renowned coach.. played worse than before.
I cannot express how unimpressed I am with Franklins hiring thus far.
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# | Thamel: PSU QB Coach Danny O'Brien to take same role at VT O'Brien also played for Franklin at Maryland in 2010 (Ralph Friedgen's last year), then with Randy Edsall in 2011, before transferring to Wisconsin to play for Bret Bielema.
No no, this is VT — the TEs throw the passes here.
Look, I'm thrilled James Franklin is our coach. His staffing decisions so far are fine. There's some reasoning behind them if you or I don't totally love them and I'm good with giving them a chance. This right here? This is just a bad hire. PSU's QB play has been, let's say less than stellar, for awhile. And while this guy was only there the last 5 years, I'd say its pretty notable that the guy coaching Drew Allar sees Allar's stock go from top prospect potential 1st round NFL QB to "does this guy suck?". If there were a position to hire outside of Franklin's loyalty tree based on his history, QB coach would be the one to look outside of the family. Disappointed in this hire
eh,
so far we have one proven high performing coordinator, one mostly unproven coordinator and a very meh-to-average position coach.
This is honestly super underwhelming. Someone close to JMFF should probably suggest that hiring the same people whose inability to do their job properly got him fired at his previous job may not be the best way forward.
We keep bringing it up but I just thought I'd be more impressed with the hires. We keep saying "I trust JMFF. Let's see how this plays out." I don't expect us to pull an OSU and hire some P4 OC to be a position coach or anything, but I want some hires where we're all like "Hell yeah f*#% yeah!" Instead of "let's wait and see..."
All we heard was Drones is working extra hard , working out with Cam Ward, getting his footwork right. Doing extra practices, first in the beamer barn last one off, blah blah blah. Turns out, whatever he was doing made him twice as bad as he was in 2024 which was twice as bad as he was in 2023. Point being, it's not going to be any worse than we've had the last X years.
I'm not super stoked about this hire but it's got to be an improvement over what it's been.
Following the thread it says we turned down the ECU OC, who preferred us. Which if true is interesting.
Oh cool, that means we were national champs for the '99 season
Transitive wins has only been used for teams that are literally back-to-back in the rankings.
If the playoff committee ranks ND 10th, ALA 11th and MIA 12th, the Miami win over ND is only counted for each teams' merits- it can't perform magic and make Alabama disappear.
Similarly in the initial 4-team playoff (2014), a lot of fan & talking head chatter was being made about Baylor vs TCUs chance to make the playoff.
The problem is, they were always several rankings apart. Baylor's single loss to a 7-5 team was considerably worse than TCUs only loss to an 11-1 team (even though it was Baylor).
The playoff committee was never going to let #6 Baylor leapfrog #3 TCU, #4 FSU & #5 OSU because of a transitive win somewhere in there.
It's very clear that the only time a transitive win matters is when considering back-to-back ranked teams.
It's a rare bit of "objective rule" lipstick in the Beauty pageant committee's purse, but it's been generally consistent.