Penn State hiring BC AD for same job
Per Athletic writer: https://twitter.com/matt_fortuna/status/1519680991127904257?s=21&t=CL3Mm3n0NJPlFSS5jJt3aA
Patrick Kraft had been at BC since 2020, but has made a MBB hire and has not yet made a hire to replace Jerry York (who may be a possible AD). Haffley was in place when he was hired.
Perhaps more interestingly for football, Kraft was at Temple when Rhule was hired (initially as an assistant AD). I know Franklin just got a new deal, but just pointing it out.
April 28th, 2022 at 12:48 PM ^
PSU’s previous AD was a complete moron for the Franklin contract. Negotiated against a rumor that was never going to become reality and now they’re saddled with an obscene contract for a B/B+ coach
That grade seems high, especially considering the lack of depth that will (eventually) start to rear its ugly head in Happy Valley. I mean, seriously, how long can Franklin (or any coach, for that matter) continue to field good teams when they're held together with duct tape and bailing wire?
OTOH, maybe that's why he deserves a B/B+ grade?
But he's been less successful than Harbaugh against the best and still gets better publicity for it. Personally, I don't buy the hype that is Frames Janklin.
Concern trolling comment about Harbaugh not winning all the games in 5...4...3...2...
If Franklin was smart, he'd start playing the disrespekt card.
Dantonio made a career out of it. Won championships with 2 and 3 stars by trading talent for chips on shoulders.
Eh, I never thought Sandy Barbour (the outgoing PSU AD) did a terrible job. She certainly had to fight A TON against Jay Paterno and his small but influential band of cronies on the Board of Trustees, who were always trying to leave their particular mark on the football program.
I've tended to think that the Franklin contract --- which (1) isn't that bad because it does still have favorable long-term buyout/options in the school's favor and (2) was agreed to when Barbour had to have known she was contemplating retirement) --- was a bit of an FU to JayPa and folk. Sort of like her thinking was "Here, I know you guys don't like me or Franklin and have been subtly sabotaging him (and Bill O'Brien before that) for years. Deal with this."
As long as the new AD isn't any sort of personality who will bend to the will of the Paterno acolytes, I'm fine with him/her. Barbour really wasn't that bad. She took over the job in a time of real choppy waters (2014, NCAA issues weren't really in the rear view mirror yet), there were no further scandals, finances held fine (this was always my biggest worry with her, she didn't do a good financial job when she was at UC-Berkeley), and she engaged with the PSU community.
"Here, I know you guys don't like me or Franklin and have been subtly sabotaging him (and Bill O'Brien before that) for years. Deal with this."
That would be the absolute worst, most petty reason to sign a contract, ever. It's nothing more than throwing shit on your entire fanbase and telling the world how much of an asshat you really are. It's not a shot against JayPa or the BoT, it's blatant disinterest in the state of all-things PSU football from the very person that should be putting that program first. It would be a selfish, prick move.
All that said, I wouldn't put it past a multi-millionaire administrator to fuck over everyone that pays for tickets...
I don't think the contract is that awful from the PSU POV, and JayPa can go to hell anyway, he's 100000000000000000x worse a human being than James Franklin.
Last year, in 2021, the PSU BOT voted 27-6 as regards the PSU AD getting a loan for a $45MM football facilities upgrade. The 2 BOT members very outspokenly against that were JayPa and good old Anthony Lubrano. They said it was all about "fiscal responsibility", but it must also be noted they are among the biggest Paterno acolytes on the planet (the other 4 in that vote fall in that camp too).
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. What a strange coincidence in terms of how that vote broke.
Jay has also been in a "media war of words" with LaVar Arrington (who has the Fox Sports Radio microphone) this past year too. Arrington knows what's going on: Jay's been running around for years trying to subtly stab Franklin in the back.
Anyway, even still 10 years later there is a "JoeBots vs. non-JoeBots" soap opera occurring at PSU. I know what side of that I'm on. Barbour, to her credit, was nearly always on the latter side.
There are 33 trustees on the board?
(By the way, I heard that the Michigan BOT voted 42-27 that Ohio State sucks)
lol--what the fuck has Jay Paterno done to earn a place on the PSU BoT? He's a former assistant coach who couldn't get a job on any staff but daddy's. And why on earth would anyone spend more than a second listening to that failson?
Cult of personality is a powerful drug.
good song though
April 29th, 2022 at 11:23 AM ^
9 of the BoT members are voted in by alumni, and Jay is one of them.
The power that the Paterno clan (family and cronies) held over PSU is insane.
In 2009, I toured their campus to see big I wanted to go there over my other choices, and Paterno was still an infallible god there.
I also remember I toured the school in summer of 2012 as I was about to transfer from a Penn State feeder school to the main campus, and it was crazy to see all the stuff still named for the Paternos to the amount of “us against the world” logic the tour guides and others were using there. Everything about the place just seemed cultish - sorta like everyone saw what happened, but instead of acknowledging and accepting it, they either ignored it or doubled down on their beliefs.
Ended up leaving Pennsylvania and going to Texas instead. A great choice.
I'm watching how things are playing out at FSU, where they just hired Louisville's really not well-spoken AD to try to bring the football team back to glory. There's s small town vise that a lot of schools are caught in, where football provided a lot of former revenue, on which tourism and hotels/other businesses were hugely dependent. . . there are no guarantees whatever, in a fast-changing climate that former glory, let alone revenues, can be revived. Our current mayor just worked for FSU to get the last 27 million dollars of our local city/public building fund to FSU to build fancier seats for donors in the midst of a homelessness crisis, and may lose his job because of it. A lot of other sports feel very neglected, and FSU just lost its women's soccer coach, who had won three NCs in seven years, because the AD told him soccer didn't matter much. (It certainly did to the 3-4,000 people who turned out to watch FSU's incredibly diverse squad, full of great international players, dominate college soccer and vindicate Title IX in the once-sleepy Southern town.)
I'm glad that Michigan's other sports are doing so well. Warde and even Brandon have been smart enough to improve their facilities and M is a fine enough school, like Stanford, to carve out a distinguished place in it. At the PSUs and a lot of other places, it's more challenging.
April 28th, 2022 at 12:50 PM ^
Fresh meat for Franklin's agent.
April 28th, 2022 at 12:58 PM ^
I thought the title was a reference to how years are counted
Does he know when to call timeouts?
Glass houses....???
J/K But not really.
Didn’t we score on that play?
Brilliant right. Brady distracted their D.
"Well, yabba, dabba, doo, I guess..."
I don't know any of the people OP mentioned except Halfley (OSU guy) but wither way, PSU can go eff itself and I hope whatever they're doing fails miserably.
the end
Jerry York is one of, if not the, greatest college hockey coaches in history. Just retired.
Rhule coached at Temple, then Baylor, and is now in the NFL with Carolina. Was rumored to have been interested in the Michigan job if Harbaugh was leaving.
I didn't realize Jerry York had retired. End of an era for BC and college hockey, really. Red, Jack Parker at BU, and York at BC were all, roughly parallel with each other, long-tenured legends for their alma maters.
Off the top of my head, I think that probably makes Bob Daniels the new longest-tenured college hockey coach, although he has done so for Ferris State instead of MSU. He'd never leave now, but in hindsight, seems rather crazy that he didn't end up in East Lansing when Mason retired instead of The Goblin.