OT: Penn State fires OC
November 30th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^
From browsing the Penn State blog, I expect they'll be ecstatic about that.
They'll also expect that they're bringing in Chip Kelly as their new OC.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
for PSU, I think they have two choices - Hire Chip Kelly i.e. a very big splash hire or accept their fate as a middling BIG team. The Sandusky stain won't fade easily and MSU and OSU have big head starts on them and they just got lapped by Michigan in the race for relevance. It is put up or shut up time in Happy Valley and Franklin will not do. This was the token "Borges fire" but they are going to have to get real pretty quick as to whether they want to be a player or not.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^
He does not strike me as a top-tier coach. You need one of those to compete in the B10 today.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 5:38 PM ^
No need to insult used car salesmen.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^
Did you really just write, "the Sandusky stain won't fade easily..."? Because that is super gross...
November 30th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
man, there was no "that's what she said" type quip intended there. If that statement registered as "super gross" to you than you have your mind in the wrong place(on a number of levels).
November 30th, 2015 at 6:47 PM ^
For apparent good reason, that offense was terrible. The TE coach needs to go as well, Breneman should have been much better than he is.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
I believe this was posted in another thread yesterday. I think we should just have a permanent coaching carousel thread until all of it dies down. Will save a lot of new threads from popping up.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^
That seems a bit impractical. Boards posts cycle off the main page every 24 hours or so. I don't see the problem of having new threads when stuff like this happens because most people aren't likely to keep going back and checking the same thread every day.
Then again, I'm not a mod so that's easy for me to say.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
Solution: Sticky threads on the sidebar
November 30th, 2015 at 7:44 PM ^
I really do.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
In this case the post on the firing of the Penn State OC is about to knock off the front page of the sideboard the post on the firing of the Minnesota OC.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
Yeah... that'll help, Penn State.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
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November 30th, 2015 at 3:29 PM ^
Millen
November 30th, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^
WR's.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:56 PM ^
You beat me to it. He's the perfect and obvious choice!
November 30th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
could be a real possibility there. Makes sense geographically and in terms of the kind of football be coaches.
November 30th, 2015 at 8:06 PM ^
I can't see him leaving Pitt for PSU. Those two are historical rivals and they're renewing the series.
November 30th, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^
Matt Rhule? He has done a great job at Temple and is a Penn State guy.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^
firing their offensive line coach too, or maybe the guy who recruits offensive linemen for PSU. I wonder if this is motivated by a desire to persuade Hackenberg to return for another year?
November 30th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 3:58 PM ^
I remember seeing photos of him recruiting at Cass Tech. He's probably got this area for all positions.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:27 PM ^
If I were the PSU AD, I'd be calling Mark Richt to see if he might be interested and, if so, send Franklin a thanks, but no thanks, card.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 4:37 PM ^
I've got Richt sitting out a year. It's rare for a fired coach to get another HC job immediately. He gets $4.1M next season for not coaching. Is Miami willing to pay that on top of his salary?
November 30th, 2015 at 3:34 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 3:34 PM ^
I was thinking: When was the last time firing a coordinator really made much of a positive difference for a team?
I'm sure there are cases where it's made a difference, but it seems like most of the time it just presages the head coach eventually getting fired himself.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^
Good catch - I forgot about that one.
November 30th, 2015 at 6:28 PM ^
With Oklahoma, the improvement in offense might be more the new QB than the OC. Two years ago Oklahoma beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Their offensive coaches didn't just suddenly turn stupid last year. They had no good option at QB. This year Baker Mayfield dropped into their laps because Kliff Kingsbury dragged his feet in granting the scholaship he'd promised Mayfield (who was a walk-on freshman starting QB). Without Mayfield, it's doubtful OU would be in the position they are today.
November 30th, 2015 at 5:35 PM ^
Along those same lines, Mike Bellotti was a pretty good coach at Oregon. He had some great years but for the most part he averaged 4 losses each season running a pro style attack. In 2007, fresh off a 7-6 season he hired a little known offensive coordinator from UNH that ran an up tempo spread. That man? Chip Kelly. Kelly was such a good hire that Bellotti "retired" in 2008 after a 10 win season at the age of 59, turning things over to Kelly full time. Today, when you think of Oregon, you think of Kelly. Not Belotti, who essetially built Oregon's program.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^
Yeah, I'd say this makes it sound as if Hackenberg is gone. He won't want to learn a new a system while simultaneously getting pummeled.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
in fact, allegedly donovan wanted to change some things around with the offense early in the season to better suit hackenburg's game, and franklin put the kibash on it. not loving some of the stuff that's being put out there recently.
i don't like penn state's chances of contending in the B1G east anytime soon...i hope you guys count your blessings that you had a guy like harbaugh available to get the program back on track. unless some kind of miracle happens, i see a long tread through national irrelevancy in penn state's future. maybe the pieces will fall into place in a decade or so.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^
We certainly are fortunate that everything fell into place last year so that we could land a superstar coach. But remember, that came after two disastrous hires. The past decade of Michigan football has been pretty rough.
We haven't been quite as fortunate as OSU, which had to suffer all of one down season in between Tressel and Meyer.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:24 PM ^
fuck those guys ;-)
oh well...
November 30th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
Not saying it's likely, but keeping the status quo wasn't going to do it.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^
It's fun to see just how awful James Franklin is as a coach.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
That is too bad, as I was hoping that franklin would keep his staff intact.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^
but I'm perfectly happy that he stays in Happy Valley and continues to coach PSU to middling levels, their fans are assholes and they deserve any shityness they can get bestowed upon them.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
I've got to say that my personal experiences with PSU fans have been very positive. I sat by some really nice fans at last year's game. I can't explain why their internet fanbase seems to have more jerks. I guess they're just following the lead of their moderators.
November 30th, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^
Well, with Franklin's entire assistant tenure on offense (except a year as DB coach at East Stroudsburg), I'm not sure Donovan is the guy at fault here.
I'm thinking this goes about as well as Borges -> Nussmeier. We were all celebrating Borges getting canned, and saw Nussmeier's two years at Alabama as reason for optimism. WHOOPS.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^
No doubt Franklin is already neck-deep in pictures of coaches'wives. Only the coaches with the hottest wives need apply!
November 30th, 2015 at 4:17 PM ^
November 30th, 2015 at 4:32 PM ^
He's already (indirectly) blamed his struggles on his predecessor.
If you don't know the 3 envelopes joke from the business world, look it up. I wouldn't be shocked if he's opening up that third envelope in approximately 52 weeks.