Larry Kehres stayed at Mount Union for 27 years. You don't think he was offered 'better gigs'?
Anyways, F Pedo State & I hope they slide into mediocrity worse than Nebraska.
Matt Campbell to Penn State??
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Anyways, F Pedo State & I hope they slide into mediocrity worse than Nebraska.
This is a Marcus Freeman stan account for the foreseeable future
Yeah but college football coaches like to bet on themselves. So it's only bad job stability if you don't do a good job. Otherwise you are golden.
If THAT job opens, we'd also have to worry. Let's just hope Penn State hires Matt Patricia whoever the hell he is.
Given my industry I have no excuse for being so insensitive.
For those, uhh, rigidly literal-minded folks I retract my use of “anxiety”.
It was non-literal, that is hyperbole.
As someone who is also considered “neurodivergent” due to ADHD I should have known better.
I’m sorry for the confusion.
That's kind of where I'm at. You are walking into a bit of a ********. Basically going to be rebuilding a roster from scratch with zero freshman class. You'll definitely have money to spend, but you're filling alot of holes. You also have a fanbase that knows you were with 8th choice and an AD/fanbase that hasn't shown much patience.
Yeah I was thinking the same here. Will expectations be high? Of course, they are a power football program. That said, firing Franklin midseason is not an indication of them being a championship or you're fired in 3 years type of school. Franklin was actually in his 12th season this year! That's a pretty long tenure. It was fan apathy about him that did him in. Campbell had as good/better record against top 10/top 25 teams at ISU than Franklin at PSU for crying out loud. Franklin racked up a decent number of wins, but that long track record of failure against good teams is what did him in.
Penn State will end up with either a mid major HC, coordinator or if things go extremely south, one of the slimy retreads (Freeze/Petrino/Brian Kelly/etc.). No established coach with options is going to jump at that job after what they pulled on Franklin.
Patrick is old-school and probably wouldn’t just blow smoke—or have someone on to do that, not sure who you’re saying reported this—but if that’s true…I guess it’s apt, because that’s waving the white flag. What, you tell Sitake, “Hey, my door is always open”? Wait for someone else to get fired? No way the fanbase is getting on board with that. You don’t know what other schools or NFL teams will be hiring, either. No, if you’re going the actual interim route you would’ve announced it the minute after your season ended. Doing so now would mean every criticism of Kraft online is true
Exactly. And to do that at Iowa State compared to the resources Franklin had at Penn State is an indictment on Franklin's coaching ability as much as it's a compliment to Matt.
Thanks for the correction.
I’m very prone to off-by-one errors.
Edit: Also, I knew they had been exceptionally stable, but assumed Paterno skewed it dramatically. I really think they have literally only fired 2 coaches (Paterno and Franklin).
This isn't 2015. How many of ISU's current roster would go with him?
I don't think he's leaving but if he does it's actually better for him that they don't have a ton of guys coming in that he didn't recruit. He can ask his current players to go with him to bridge the gap and some of them likely would.
You’re all good. Not trying to call you (or anyone) out, just trying to add perspective.
Thats one coach though. It's almost impossible to find a bunch of coaches that did that. Most of them move on to the next biggest gig.
From what Campbell and built to the message he constantly preaches...he definitely going to be okay with being the 8th choice and take a job at this point where he would likely be so far behind he'd be fired in 2-3 years. PSU is best of going with the interm guy for at least next year at this point so that they can hit their hire early next season.
I've been thinking he's exactly what VT needed and maybe just not the right guy at a TIPPY TOP job.
And D3 coaches historically (no matter how successful) have not had a lot of chances to move up. They often move around D3 for better opportunities but for whatever reason D3 coaches were labeled a "D3 coach" like it was an illness.
I don't think anyone trusts them to recruit. It's an entirely different ballgame.
I know Chris Winter at Wartburg has been looking to move up the chain and hasn't had any luck getting any traction.
Not so hot take: I think Campbell would crush it at PSU, but I think they screwed up waiting too long
I know coaches will do coach things but after just signing this class of kids I don't see Campbell leaving and leaving ISU and the kids in a lurch. CMC has shown time and again that he's not your typical coach. I can see him talking with Penn State because why wouldnt you, but he's not leaving. The amount of pressure and hate you get with a fanbase like Penn State would be incredible.
