The program has ascended from the mediocrity of the 2000’s and risen from the ashes of the scandals to the heights it currently rests. The fanbase can’t seem to appreciate the god given talent bestowed upon Drew Allar. Heck, fans still don’t give Sean Clifford his props as a top level QB. Drew out performed every PSU QB that’s come before him and is on track to rise higher. James Franklin has an eye for quality players and 2024 is the culmination of everything he’s worked so hard for. Andy K is precisely the mastermind needed and that was the final piece. God bless Penn State University 🫡
I agree with Penn State not being OSU but nothing says Penn State can't be an OSU. Michigan is worse in NIL then PSU and PSU out recruits Michigan every year.
You get what you pay for. Franklin always finishes right around where he's ranked in terms of pay and where psu ranks in terms of $ spent. You want to be top four, spend like the top 4. Otherwise you're asking for miracles.
So why isn't someone explaining the $-to-wins thing more? That's legitimate info and a good discussion to be having. Separate but related topic that should also be discussed: Some people in the PSU football world cannot admit that everything about the program had fallen so far behind it's peers (even before the Sandusky thing) that a full rebuild was at some point going to be necessary and expensive. School leadership had no stomach for it, and so they failed in the moment. Unfortunately, that hole had gotten so deep, and the school admin was so 'meh' about it, that it's taken a long time and a lot of patience and chipping away to get pointed in the right direction and moving. I doubt Saban or Smart would've been able to move it faster... This is a passionate, but visionless and impatient fan base. For some God-knows reason, PSU and it's fans refuse to understand *where they are*, and the guest's point about this is a good one. It doesn't mean the program is stuck there, but the will needs to accompany the desire. This is the tension between what we want PSU football to be, and what it actually is. Firing CJF will not make any of this go faster. Then what happens? These folks will run the next guy out of town and it's square 1 all over again. No. Remove the entrenched institutional speedbumps first, build the thing correctly, with patience and vision, and be grateful for being in the conversation every year.
Has nothing to do with wide receivers….it all starts with the offensive lineman. No one on the offensive line is a meat eater. They are all Starbuck’s baristas.
The program has ascended from the mediocrity of the 2000’s and risen from the ashes of the scandals to the heights it currently rests.
The fanbase can’t seem to appreciate the god given talent bestowed upon Drew Allar. Heck, fans still don’t give Sean Clifford his props as a top level QB.
Drew out performed every PSU QB that’s come before him and is on track to rise higher. James Franklin has an eye for quality players and 2024 is the culmination of everything he’s worked so hard for.
Andy K is precisely the mastermind needed and that was the final piece.
God bless Penn State University
🫡
I agree with Penn State not being OSU but nothing says Penn State can't be an OSU. Michigan is worse in NIL then PSU and PSU out recruits Michigan every year.
You get what you pay for. Franklin always finishes right around where he's ranked in terms of pay and where psu ranks in terms of $ spent. You want to be top four, spend like the top 4. Otherwise you're asking for miracles.
No offense but you can't trust PFF rankings. Why anyone is still using PFF I will never know
The data is good. Simply needs to be applied with appropriate context.
So why isn't someone explaining the $-to-wins thing more? That's legitimate info and a good discussion to be having.
Separate but related topic that should also be discussed: Some people in the PSU football world cannot admit that everything about the program had fallen so far behind it's peers (even before the Sandusky thing) that a full rebuild was at some point going to be necessary and expensive. School leadership had no stomach for it, and so they failed in the moment. Unfortunately, that hole had gotten so deep, and the school admin was so 'meh' about it, that it's taken a long time and a lot of patience and chipping away to get pointed in the right direction and moving. I doubt Saban or Smart would've been able to move it faster...
This is a passionate, but visionless and impatient fan base. For some God-knows reason, PSU and it's fans refuse to understand *where they are*, and the guest's point about this is a good one. It doesn't mean the program is stuck there, but the will needs to accompany the desire. This is the tension between what we want PSU football to be, and what it actually is.
Firing CJF will not make any of this go faster. Then what happens? These folks will run the next guy out of town and it's square 1 all over again. No. Remove the entrenched institutional speedbumps first, build the thing correctly, with patience and vision, and be grateful for being in the conversation every year.
Three paragraphs of nonsense.
Max, I think the continuous allegations of Franklin meddling with the offense was going too far. You should apologize
Has nothing to do with wide receivers….it all starts with the offensive lineman. No one on the offensive line is a meat eater. They are all Starbuck’s baristas.