The Penn St Dumpster Fire Thread

[sufan59]

Their fans would revolt. They need a splash. Cignetti, Rhule, Gruden, Doug Pederson would fit IMO. Cignetti has no reason to leave. Rhule has been a disappointment IMO thus far.

Which by the way is kind of hilarious. Very few guys out there will be able to outperform Franklin. Maybe they find them. I hope they don’t lol. Also the head coaching job in general is so different than even a few years ago. Sometimes it’s better to hire someone on what you think they can do in the future, not what they’ve done and hope they improve or replicate it.

 

[Toga]

Owed $49 million.

 

[Archimedes]

I'd hire Drinkwitz. Missou extended him over the summer but didn't get a big buyout. The SEC has their blue bloods and Missou is never going to be one of them. Knows offense and can recruit. He's in Fran's peer group but probably a little ahead.

 

[sufan59]

 

[Ttk.gman2]

Recruits and players will be having a mass exodus get ready to start getting more 4 and 5 stars in the region. I think we will end up getting legacy Jett Harrison . This is a huge deal also we play Penn state in 2027.

 

[sufan59]

I’m assuming Fran Brown was on Matt Rhule staff at Temple while Pat Kraft was AD there?

 

[Newhouser]

How can they afford that? If this is the new normal SU is not built for this era.

 

[sufan59]

Recruits and players will be having a mass exodus get ready to start getting more 4 and 5 stars in the region. I think we will end up getting legacy Jett Harrison . This is a huge deal also we play Penn state in 2027.

I like your thinking. We have to reap some benefits of a destabilized Penn State program. This doesn’t happen often.

 

[ElwoodJBlues]

Nah

I don’t think Penn State would hire a coach like Fran unless Cuse had a 9 win or so season. That being said, if Fran were to leave, Jeff Nixon could take over and find a new DC.

 

[OburgOrange]

 

[Briancuse]

I don’t think Penn State would hire a coach like Fran unless Cuse had a 9 win or so season. That being said, if Fran were to leave, Jeff Nixon could take over and find a new DC.

I love fran and he might leave one day. They would tear down that campus if ped st hired fran, they need a major splash

 

[HRE Otto IV]

There's some rumblings Dillingham is the guy they want, but who knows.

If that is the case then Penn State fans will be rooting hard for ASU to not make the playoffs this year.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

I like your thinking. We have to reap some benefits of a destabilized Penn State program. This doesn’t happen often.

Yes Fran and the staff need to full court press these kids in this region I have faith in them.

 

[Blanko97]

They could do something about not deifying Paterno when there was clear evidence he was part of the coverup

I have no idea what the average fans role in that was, but if that’s the rationale we are making some strong assumptions about 100s of thousands of people. I truly doubt Jim down the street with the Penn state flag is claiming it was okay Joe covered up the molestation but I also doubt that means he’s going to never cheer for his alma mater. The university is quite a bit bigger than one man.

I don't, in any way shape or form. Their fan base was in in denial about those events, then to help vindicated when that scumbag Joe Paterno got his wins reinstated, and gleefully re-erected his statue.

If anything, the fan base deserves more blame than what they got. They learned nothing from this horrendous scandal, and in fact feel as though they've been wronged.

Screw all of them.

What exactly we’re the fans supposed to learn? they’re not running the team. It’s not like the Syracuse fan base up and ran the minute the fine allegations came out. i recognize we didn’t build the guy a statue but it wasn’t like the dome was empty the next game.

 

[Symphony Steve]

One more Ped State decommit with an SU offer:

Gabe Jenkins Recruit Interests

247sports.com

 

[sufan59]

This guy gets it, but hopefully the people making the decisions there aren’t smart enough to do this approach.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

If Harbaugh is let go soon, that might be a fit. But he is getting up there in age.

 

[Frozen]

They should Hire him for the Head Job, he has SEC hEad Coaching Experience

So did James Franklin.

 

[sufan59]

This is not our Josh Gattis

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Rhule is so overrated. I do hope it is him. We can take advantage of Penn State going from an 11-2 to 9-4 type of program.

 

[llandz]

Keep your grubby Ped State hands off Fran. Dillingham also, but most of all Fran.

 

[djorange1989]

Rhule is so overrated. I do hope it is him. We can take advantage of Penn State going from an 11-2 to 9-4 type of program.

Disagree. He did great at Temple, he inherited a complete dumpster fire at Baylor and did great there and now Nebraska is learning how to win again with him. I think his NFL stint makes people think he is overrated.

 

[djorange1989]

I have no idea what the average fans role in that was, but if that’s the rationale we are making some strong assumptions about 100s of thousands of people. I truly doubt Jim down the street with the Penn state flag is claiming it was okay Joe covered up the molestation but I also doubt that means he’s going to never cheer for his alma mater. The university is quite a bit bigger than one man.


What exactly we’re the fans supposed to learn? they’re not running the team. It’s not like the Syracuse fan base up and ran the minute the fine allegations came out. i recognize we didn’t build the guy a statue but it wasn’t like the dome was empty the next game.

Jay Paterno, is this you?

 

[longtimefan]

The fan base deserved more blame?

Not blame--scorn.

The fan base as a whole continued to support and make excuses for Paterno and his program, even as more and more damaging details emerged.

 

[sutomcat]

My guess Fran is going to be a little too much an unknown for PSU this time around...but not by much.

This. And something Fran said when he was hired. Said when he visited Syracuse to interview, he asked to be take to the worst neighborhood in the city of Syracuse. He saw Syracuse had the same type of neighborhoods he grew up in Camden.

Said that clinched things for him. He knew then he was meant to coach at Syracuse. He wants to put a strong focus on the worst neighborhoods, spend time there and show people there there is reaso for hope and a way out.

I have been to State College. The pastures and the farms are nice but it doesn’t look remotely like Camden. It just isn’t a good fit for Fran and what his priorities are.

He might leave Syracuse someday for a place like Rutgers or Maryland or Michigan but I don’t think he goes to Penn State. It is a great job but it isn’t what Fran is looking for.