Re: You agree with Penn State firing a coach that reached the semifinal last year?

ROYBus10® · 2025-10-13T04:40:17.238Z

I’m editing this because I’ve just checked TNET at 6:00 pm today, Monday, and see that 5 players ALREADY have decomitted from Penn State. How stupid is their AD?? Wow ***Original Post below It’s not registering for me. I don’t even know much about why so I’m curious I could go through loads of coaches who went far and then had a tough start to the next year.

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I didn't think they'd do it in the middle of the year. That felt like the wrong move but they also lost Drew Allar for the season, so they're probably dead meat regardless. Idk, it's such a tricky dilemma because he did get them to a lot of double digit win seasons consecutively but he just never got them over the mountain of winning the big games against the Ohio State's, Oregon's, Michigan's when it mattered a lot of years. Losing back to back games to the conferences worst teams in UCLA and Northwestern this year didn't help his cause considering this was supposed to be THE YEAR for them.

I just don't know who they think they will get to replicate that kind of success. Cignetti maybe but he is rolling at Indiana right now and I'm unsure if he will leave there yet. I think them getting to the playoffs last year may have been their downfall. Penn State might see themselves as some sort of CFB juggernaut when that's not entirely the case.

Personally, I think when the dust settles, Penn State may have made a big mistake firing James Franklin. We shall see though. I do feel for their players and Franklin himself. They loved him, he loved PSU and he did pour a lot of effort into getting them back on track of being nationally relevant again. But he's getting a big pay check now, so that helps dull the pain.

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There are a number of things going on at the same time with Franklin:
1) he never wins the Big Gane.
2) he only won the Big 10 once- nine years ago
3) he was preseason 2 and lost three in a row, two to bad teams
4) QB was hurt and out for the season, ie: a belief that things were not going to get better the rest of the season.
Last and maybe the most important given the above, he is not a likeable guy. Folks like Franklin and Brian Kelly don’t get the benefit of the doubt because people don’t like them and as soon as it starts going south no one feels bad for then or makes allowances for them.
The other thing to remember about Penn State is that when Franklin took the job it was still a toxic place that most coaches would not go to. O’brien was there for a year or two before he bolted and Franklin got the job. Enough time has passed from the Sandusky/Paterno stink that Penn State is an attractive place for college coaches

You agree with Penn State firing a coach that reached the semifinal last year?