Do you think Franklin can reload and get it done in the near future or is it just time to move on….
I was going to post the same thing. He can't win the big games. He currently still has the No. 1 QB recruit for next year. If he doesn't play him, he will probably be in the transfer portal before the end of the year. The No. 1 QB recruit in the country doesn't pick a school to be a backup for a year or two.Franklin is now 2-12 against top ten opponents. Eerily reminiscent of a certain pro coach who hasn't been getting it done against playoff teams lately.
I would say it's time to move on, but he did manage to bring in a 5-star QB recruit, so I don't know if parting ways with the head coach would jeopardize that situation. Retaining that kid's commitment would be the one and only reason I'd have Franklin stay.
This is about it. He's a great recruiter with an average class that ranks in the top 15 nationally and gets some of the best prospects at their position to go to Happy Valley. As you said, he hasn't shown he can consistently win the big games and many of them he has the advantage of playing at home in prime time. He's still averaging nearly 9 wins per year over his tenure at Penn State and has three 11-win seasons over the past six years. They could potentially hire a better coach, but they could find a lot worse as well. It's not like they're one of the elite teams each year, but Franklin at least puts his team in position to finish near the top of the conference each year.I was going to post the same thing. He can't win the big games. He currently still has the No. 1 QB recruit for next year. If he doesn't play him, he will probably be in the transfer portal before the end of the year. The No. 1 QB recruit in the country doesn't pick a school to be a backup for a year or two.
That is a complete bullshit statement. Their offensive line is terrible, and you know it. They weren't beating OSU with Gale Sayers in his prime.If this year's team had Saquon, they'd be undefeated right now.
Agree. For being such a great recruiter, he has struggled the last 3-4 years to build an offensive line that does anything well with consistency. This year's version is nothing short of trash.That is a complete bullshit statement. Their offensive line is terrible, and you know it. They weren't beating OSU with Gale Sayers in his prime.
That is a complete bullshit statement. Their offensive line is terrible, and you know it. They weren't beating OSU with Gale Sayers in his prime.
Yep...Offer Tomlin $20 million a season for 20 years. That should get him to leave Pittsburgh hopefully.Do you think Franklin can reload and get it done in the near future or is it just time to move on….
Agree. For being such a great recruiter, he has struggled the last 3-4 years to build an offensive line that does anything well with consistency. This year's version is nothing short of trash.
The defense has some fantastic players, but they are suffering from a season's worth of fatigue starting with being on the field 96 plays against Wisconsin and not getting much of a break the rest of the way. Only a matter of time until they broke.
Penn State's biggest problem is that they can't run the ball, and that O-line is why. If they were average at running the ball, they'd be 9-1 at worst right now and quite possibly undefeated. Instead, it's another mediocre season for Franklin, all of his own doing.
Really? Is that a fact? Barkley's average yards before contact was (0.5) for his entire career? For all 671 of his carries? You sure you're not just pulling that out of your ***?The OL was even worse when Barkley played. Barkley's average yards before contact was NEGATIVE half a yard. Meaning that on the average play he was touched by a defender behind the LOS. Barkley was that ******* good that it didn't matter. He created a run game from thin air and he was a huge factor in the passing game, being able to motion out to WR and catch balls 50 yards downfield.
Also that year, the other half of the offense was McSorley throwng up jump balls that Godwin and Gesicki went up and got.
Penn State lost to Michigan because they didn't have a playmaker other than Dotson. Michigan's defense didn't play that great. Penn State's drives were stalled on dropped balls, bad passes or penalties most times.
Really? Is that a fact? Barkley's average yards before contact was (0.5) for his entire career? For all 671 of his carries? You sure you're not just pulling that out of your ***?
It'd be great if you would provide a link to that information.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner !Great recruiter but can’t get it done when it matters. He actually reminds me a bit of Tomlin in that aspect.
USC can have him.
This is a great video that details why Penn State is struggling this year. It gets into transfers and also the coaching turnover. I don’t think people realize just how many assistants PSU has had hired away in recent years. It all adds up. It’s worth a watch to get a feel for how transfer portal is changing the game.
Of course you can't provide proof, because you pulled it out of your *** from a "draft eval" years back. Right. Don't post **** you can't back up with facts.I remember the stat from draft eval time a few years ago and it stuck with me. I’m not scouring the internet for it. The exact number doesn’t matter anyway. The point is the OL was crap. Nobody who watched Barkley play would dispute that. They were able to run because he was great at making people miss and turning nothing into home run plays. Penn State currently does not have a RB even close to that so the problems of the OL are magnified.
Franklin’s Big Ten Championship team gave people the impression that PSU was all the way back from sanctions and ready to take the next step, but that wasn’t true. It was a few great individual playmakers who masked the deficiencies.