Penn State

[JMSqb11]

Of the remaining true candidates, I think he is a good gamble.

They were tired of him in Ames. Ten years is a long time these days for coaching in one place.

After 10/12 years, we grew tired of both Coach Majors and Coach Fulmer. I can relate.

Good move by Lions IMO.

I can assure you that the folks in Ames were no where close to being tired of Campbell.

He had topped out there but he was their best coach ever in his time there.

 

[give_him 6]

Well I’m back from the party. Most are content with Campbell but they really wanted BYU’s coach.

They did confirm the Sexton rumor. Apparently early in the year Sexton was trying to get an extension for Franklin (before they lost any games) but the biggest name on the board shut that down and got into a shouting match with Sexton.

Apparently Franklin was already talking about moving on from Penn State if they didn’t get to the NC this year and once they started losing games, he basically checked out which does explain how they lost to teams like UCLA

Sexton was the one that leaked that Penn State was going to hire BYU’s coach to give them time to counter offer and keep him. He was angry at Penn State and wanted to mess up their search

This is all from a reliable source but obviously you can choose to trust it or not.

I 100% believe you. I think Sexton was working against Penn State at every single turn after they fired Franklin. Was there any discussion of perhaps making a mistake in how they handled parting ways with Franklin? Also, did they mention having strong confidence that they had someone lined up at the time of letting him go? That was what was baffling to me in the whole process.

 

[NighthawkVol]

He can apparently recruit enough to make Iowa State somewhat competitive. Iowa State is in a recruiting wasteland. I think Campbell is a good coach but I don’t know that he’ll do any better than Franklin. The majority of Franklin’s losses against ranked teams were to Ohio State and/or Michigan, which have been two of the best teams the last few years. Penn State is generally the second or third best team in the conference and that’s probably not going to change. However, with the playoffs, second or third can get you in and then you have a chance.

There are coaches who can do more with less. There are coaches who can take a collection of elite talent and win big.

But few can do both. At big time programs like PSU, you have to be able to do the latter. At Iowa State, he did the former (in a weak conference). And that’s fine for some programs. But not for Penn State.

 

[CAVPUT]

There are coaches who can do more with less. There are coaches who can take a collection of elite talent and win big.

But few can do both. At big time programs like PSU, you have to be able to do the latter. At Iowa State, he did the former (in a weak conference). And that’s fine for some programs. But not for Penn State.

And then there's Heupel and Co.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

I 100% believe you. I think Sexton was working against Penn State at every single turn after they fired Franklin. Was there any discussion of perhaps making a mistake in how they handled parting ways with Franklin? Also, did they mention having strong confidence that they had someone lined up at the time of letting him go? That was what was baffling to me in the whole process.

Sitake was a done deal, he was essentially number one on their list and they had him until Sexton came in and ruined it

They don’t think they handled anything wrong with Franklin and just blamed everything on Sextons ego

 

[Carl Pickens]

I 100% believe you. I think Sexton was working against Penn State at every single turn after they fired Franklin. Was there any discussion of perhaps making a mistake in how they handled parting ways with Franklin? Also, did they mention having strong confidence that they had someone lined up at the time of letting him go? That was what was baffling to me in the whole process.

You think Sexton telling his up and coming clients to beware of PSU because of the way they fired Franklin is working against them?
He wouldn’t be doing his job if he didn’t.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Dadgum, now the CJH to PSU rumors are going to fire back up. Hey Siri, pull up FlightTracker

Lol