Details but they won the B1G in 2016.
Still not the program that it would seem for popularity.
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Details but they won the B1G in 2016.
Still not the program that it would seem for popularity.
Missed that one (ChatGPT gave me the wrong answer lol). Anyway, they have 4 Big 10 titles in football since joining. Not exactly tearing it up.
That and the screaming at the refs for rightfully not calling offsides in the Big 12 championship game. That was incredibly embarrassing.
Besides the two really bad losses this year after Oregon to UcLA and Northwestern (where PSU was 20+ point favorites), Franklin’s real downfall was a 4-21 record against Top 10 ranked opponents. AD says the expect to “regularly compete for National Championships.” So you need to regularly beat Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana and Michigan, as well as CFP opponents. I submit those expectations to you, Matt Campbell, their 11th choice by some reports.
I guess I don't blame them for firing him necessarily. I guess maybe the point of disagreement is I don't think James Franklin is particularly likable, but I suppose it's possible that PSU fans like him but just think he's incompetent in big games.
We don’t really know how long the leash is. But I’d offer that the AD has set the expectation to “beat Top 10 teams regularly and compete regularly for national championships.” Their fans view the Mangey Lions as a blue blood. This new coach is just “some guy from the B12. If he doesn’t align to expectations at any point, he’s easily disposable. He’s not like Saban or Urban Meyer, who have proven they could meet those expectations. I could be completely wrong, too….
I may have a Bingo Lingo game that randomly generates Bingo cards using Matt Campbellisms.
18-22 year old
Asking ourselves
Best version of themselves
Book read by him/team
Craft (refining, developing, perfecting, honing)
Culture
Day-to-day injury status
Elite
Fiesta Bowl
First of all
Gee
Global perspective
Going to work every day
Gosh
Great job
How do we get there?
Leadership
No doubt about it
Ohio
Players. Formations. Plays.
Poise
Reality of the situation
To be honest / To tell you the truth
Trust/love the process
Veteran-ness
What we’re trying to build here
Where are we as program?
Who do we want to be?
Winning in the margins
Wow
Yeah, no, great question
Yeah, ya know
You talk about
Young man
That’s just AD talk, just about every new hire gets the same talk about competing for championships in the P4.
Also this is purely anecdotal but none of the PSU alums I know or have interacted with have that level of privilege that many on here as assigning them to. They want to beat top ranked teams as a top ranked team more then franklins 4-21 record which honestly isn’t a huge ask.
To your point though the leash might not be long if he doesn’t majorly step up the recruiting and if he drops some of the games he dropped at ISU that’s going to be a very hot seat. He wasn’t their top choice by a lot and most people aren’t super excited to have him
My Twitter is littered with Penn State fans right now for obvious reasons. They are definitely going to have themselves talked into essentially playoff or bust expectations by the time next season starts. They’ve decided that Matt was actually the best hire they could’ve possibly made. The bowl game today has them believing that momentum is strong and keeping Terry on will continue it. All this combined with one of the easiest schedules anyone could imagine and Matt’s margin for error in year one will be quite small.
I was referring to the trip to NYC, not the last three weeks.
Regarding what Campbell could do one this trip?— interact/evaluate/recruit roster players that may not know if they are returning to Happy Valley. Rub shoulders with wealthy alumni who helped Ped St bankroll $30+ million in NIL. Be the face of a program which he is now the HC.
Yeah there aren’t wealth alumni at the pinstripe bowl to watch a 6 win PSU team. Maybe you get a couple that live in New York already but they aren’t showing up for that.
I'm laughing at the image of Campbell having to suck up to wealthy boosters.
It’s the pinstripe bowl for a 6 win team in a baseball stadium.
Dude come on now. Why in the world would anyone of real wealth/means go to that. As I said maybe if they were already in New York or planning a NY trip then I could see it but otherwise no way.
Yeah...and the cold weather was talked about during the broadcast as much as the play on the field was! Agree...that was not where many of the "influential" Penn State fans were today!
I’m guessing Matt won’t always be able to say…. “It’s really difficult to win at a place like Penn State”…. like he got away with here.
Yeah NYC got some crazy amount of snow, the pictures from Central Park were awesome
Cold isn’t a huge deal with box seats but still no one who matters is going to that pity bowl
Because they like to follow/support Ped St? I know it’s hard to grasp, but there may just be more than two out there.
Uh, I am going to take a wild guess that YANKEE STADIUM has some rather nice luxury boxes for big money Penn State donors to use.
