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Let's Talk Penn State Football (2 Viewers)

I went to my first ever big ten game last weekend.  What a great experience--awesome tailgating, super friendly people, great seats, stripe-out game.   And then Franklin destroyed it.   What a horrible, horrible game coach.

 
Tom Servo said:
Franklin has the offense throwing leading by 12 and runs all of 19 seconds off the clock. Then, he decides to call a TO on the on side kick. :hot:
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The coaching staff is “too clever by half” sometimes.  Literally the ONE thing Polk caught all day negated by his head coach.

 
Strange game today.  Defense only gave up six points.  Special teams gave up 11 and offense gave up the other 7 on a pick six.

Nice to see the team hang onto a late lead for a change.

 
Tin Cup said:
Strange game today.  Defense only gave up six points.  Special teams gave up 11 and offense gave up the other 7 on a pick six.

Nice to see the team hang onto a late lead for a change.
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It's Iowa; those games are always strange and weird. :6-4stillhauntsme:

 
Tom Servo said:
I'll be missing today's game. I fear I won't be missing much. <_<
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You kidding?  Penn State by 3 today.  Franklin's usually good for one really good win to frustrate the hell out of you, because it won't mean anything in the big picture of the season.  That's today.  Mark it.

 
Well that was embarrassing. I see 8-4 and unranked. We're back here. 

What are we thinking? Dollar General Bowl or Cheez-It bowl?

 
DocHolliday said:
Yes.  You believed that he was a good coach and thought that he was going to lead PSU to a W today.   Some of us knew a beat down was coming today.   
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I thought the team might pull a W out of their ### today, yes.  Look back over the thread this season.  I'm far from being fooled by Franklin.

 
Eh, still far ahead of where I thought we would be in 2018 back in 2012 or 2013. Franklin is a great recruiter and program guy. Not great at in game thinking. Needs great coaches around him. Have seen him get rid of guys in the past. Need to see that again this off season. And needs to learn how not to screw up in game calls. Just be average there.

 
Coaches certainly deserve some blame but I've been disappointed in a lot of the players. I think everyone knew coming into  the season that the offense would only be as good as the OL and Trace would allow it to be, and I've been disappointed in both. Even before the knee injury Trace hasn't seemed to be nearly as good throwing the ball this year as he has been in the past. No doubt the WRs have dropped a lot of balls and probably had trouble getting open, but there have been a number of throws where Trace has missed guys that were open, or thrown the ball too high or behind the receiver. Not sure what's caused his problems this year, but I really thought he'd be better. His running has been very good up until the knee injury, but now he isn't a running threat on the options so those plays aren't going to work very well. I don't think they ran more than a few options last night and he and Sanders messed up the exchange on one of them. Even when he was healthy it seemed like he wasn't reading the options very well, there were a number of times when it looked like it would have been better if he had kept the ball instead of giving it to Sanders or vice versa. Considering Trace as mentioned as a possible Heisman candidate coming into the season I've been surprised at how out of sync he and the offense have appeared this season. Hate to see his career ending this way.

As far as the D goes, I think it doesn't have nearly the talent it has had in the past. The fact that so many of the guys seem to be incapable of tackling has shocked me. Maybe it is just inexperience, but they really seem to be struggling with basic fundamentals on D. A former player that observed some preseason practices this year said he was surprised at the lack of contact drills during practice and thinks that is causing a lot of the problems we're seeing on D. He understood the lack of contact drills when the team was low on scholarship players due to the NCAA sanctions, but doesn't understand why they are still avoiding contact drills now when they have more scholarship players.

 
ConstruxBoy said:
Eh, still far ahead of where I thought we would be in 2018 back in 2012 or 2013. Franklin is a great recruiter and program guy. Not great at in game thinking. Needs great coaches around him. Have seen him get rid of guys in the past. Need to see that again this off season. And needs to learn how not to screw up in game calls. Just be average there.
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Great post.  PSU fans should reflect to where the program was 5-6 years ago and even back to 2000-2004 when they won 26 games over five seasons.  For those who want Franklin gone, who are you replacing him with?  Let's see how it goes over the next few years with the highly ranked recruiting classes. 

 
gcoast3 said:
Great post.  PSU fans should reflect to where the program was 5-6 years ago and even back to 2000-2004 when they won 26 games over five seasons.  For those who want Franklin gone, who are you replacing him with?  Let's see how it goes over the next few years with the highly ranked recruiting classes. 
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I'm in favor of giving him a little more slack, but the notion of comparing where we are today vs. post-sanctions is absurd.  How many more years will it take?  

The recruiting has been there.  He's excellent at recruiting.

Coaching?  Not so much.

He needs to run the table next year or we move on.

I was hoping for this Franklin, but we got this one instead.

 
I mean, there were people saying it would be a decade until we were relevant again. I think he’s set expectations higher than maybe he should, but I like the general direction. He needs to get better at in game management (although lots of coaches are bad at this), be able to fire underperforming coaches (which he has done in the past) and tone down the emotion a bit. 

 
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