Penn State won the B1G Championship in 2016 (Franklin's 3rd season). However, they lost to Pitt OOC and Michigan in the B1G. That led to the CFP Committee choosing Ohio State with only one loss (to Penn State) instead.
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Figures we’d get a milf. No silicone though, definite plus. Not full of ink either. I’ll allow it.
Yeah, which still kind of makes my point. It's not like they have these 3 coaches who all spent half their life at PSU, it was one guy who spent 45 years there, then two others.
Somewhere there is a Penn State 5 star recruit saying "what's a GPA"?
Many of us are around 50 and Iowa has only had two coaches our entire lives. A lot of that is just luck.
Their next hire when Kirk retires could be the Todd Lickliter of football and they could become a revolving door. Nebraska used to hardly ever change coaches too.
Yeah to put a very fine point on it he specifically could not beat Michigan and Ohio State even close to regularly. Fans/boosters saw this year well funded Oregon was added to that same group he couldn't beat and it was over.
Maybe someday they will manage to eliminate playing and losing to Big 12 teams in favor of only SEC out of conference games so those two conference can just consistently jerk each other off to this idea.
I am 100% with you. Going back as far as the MAC title game qualifier at home against PJ Fleck he lost right before taking the ISU job, it really came down to the more disciplined and maybe even talented team failing to execute (due to tightness), weird decisions to throw in situations where the run was clearly working, and messing up the end of the 1st half and the beginning of the 2nd, horrible punt return play.
If I recall, Campbell's team was leading in the 2nd quarter, botched a punt return, which led to a last minute go-ahead score for Western Michigan, and then on the first drive out of halftime, western put the game away on 4th and Goal. Toledo was in the top 25. Western was definitely not.
Sound familiar?
Campbell was not hired for the gamesmsnship: he is a vanilla, average play caller with clock management skills that have improved to average. What he brings to the field is great discipline and an elite culture and mindset.
I think that will fit and be welcome at Penn State at first, and I think he will probably do things like beat Ohio State on occasion, a la Michigan, but when he does that, they lose the title game. That is something we accept happily at ISU. I dont know if PSU is groovy with it.
The Big 12 is a super conference full of middle of the pack teams for the most part. A conference with Oregon, USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and now Indiana is way better.
Again the numbers say that outside of two teams, the Big 10 is the exact same thing. Maybe with a lower bottom.
The Big 12 is a joke in football dude. It really is. I mean a conference that has to add UCF to try and make it better is pretty sad.
I've watched 2+ decades of the Big 12 being by far the elite basketball conference and never get credit for it. It's like a secret nobody is allowed to say out loud.
Remember last year how media was having orgasms about SEC basketball? Big 12 is 15-3 over SEC this season and not one peep about it.
Tech could win the NC in fb this year and Big 12 teams could start dominating head to head and the media would still be committed to the narrative that it's the fourth best fb conference (in reality it's very clearly the third best way better than ACC).
Your last paragraph is straight on. As great as Matt was from Sunday-Friday, and he was elite at building culture, developing players etc, he was still struggling with in game decision making that cost him wins when at Toledo and continued at ISU . “The reality is” if he doesn’t improve in game day decisions PSU will be similar to what Franklin brought. You could argue we under achieved 4 out of the last 5 years but Matt did get us the 10 win season we never had and for that I will always be grateful!!! Wish Matt and crew the best but time to move forward with Coach Rodger’s!
Because people don't give a **** about Texas Tech or any of the teams in the Big 12. Im a fan of a big 12 team and I don't even want to watch Big 12 games. They aren't appealing. Tech isn't good enough to win the NC.
But again, I think Franklin is the first coach they’d ever fired for performance (and Paterno was the only other coach they’d ever fired fired).
Franklin was there for over a decade.
Don't mind him, he's still just mourning the Chiefs being ass this year
Damn it, now I feel old. I’ve been around for 50% more Hawkeye coaches.
