1000% agree. If he wants the job he is going to have a lot to deal with that he doesn't have to right now.
BREAKING: Matt Campbell, Penn State in final stages
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And I look forward to that. The money and NIL and probable playoff run will ease things a lot, but the daily grind will be annoying.
Not our problem, it is CMC's. Truly, I wish him well. He's no dummy, the contract will be to his liking imho. Great place to be if you're aiming at a top-echelon, Blue Blood football job.
Campbell will beat Ohio State, Michigan and Oregon more often...meaning he'll at least beat them one time it matters. The bar is low because Penn State hasn't beaten the big dogs in a loooooong time.
He'll also probably be worse at taking care of the Marylands and Iowas than Franklin was because Franklin was incredibly reliable there.
I agree he will win big games more often, based on the fact that he beat better Teams than ISU consistently here
I don't understand why he will do worse than Franklin against the bottom half of Big10. PSU is not like ISU, they have more talent than those Teams. At ISU he has not had better recruits vs. his competition
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We played 10 P4 teams this year. Our worst two games were against the worst two. It wasn't just this year, it was pretty consistent.
Franklin was way better at blasting teams he should blast. It's maybe my only critique of Campbell, I was overall not a "hater" and still am not.
What happens after Campbell leaves is not his doing. It's a function of the current structure of college football with the portal and NIL.
Campbell would leave ISU in a much better place than when he was hired. He's the first ISU football coach since Earle Bruce (nearly 50 years) that didn't leave the Cyclones during a down cycle.
It's just reality of coaching turnover in the current environment, any new coach is going to have to create his own program because every player is a free agent.
Understand ISU did not always win games easily, but my thinking is that will be a lot easier to do when you can over-whelm those worse teams with talent. Winning every week at ISU is much harder as you have to actually play well every week which is very hard. Bad bounces and bad calls that hurt ISU will hurt but not call Ls when PSU has much more talent at every position. PSU can play C game and beat Maryland
How many teams now use a long-range and a short-range kicker?
Seems like that Big 10 money could solve that problem in a similar fashion?
I don't really like Penn State but my gosh all the people from the Paterno/Sandusky era are long gone.
But the benefits of years of their success: infrastructure, money, etc. are built on the backs of that atrocity. Burn it.
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The longer it's deathly quiet from an official stance, the better chance I think we have of him reconsidering. Might be a long shot, but it's not over until it's over.
It might be a 1% chance, but it is a chance.
Well it does involve a cover up of child rape, so it sure sounds like something you can truth HOAX!!! about.
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