I don’t think he has the self-awareness and humility to get better at this point in his career. I hope I’m wrong, but at this point he is what his record says he is.
There are a lot of posters on this board that think 10-2 is worth $8m a year. They’re satisfied with that result, and they love to compare us to lesser programs and point out they’d all love to be us. They don’t seem to understand that $8m/year specifically says, “You better be competitive with the top programs in the conference.”
He has shown zero evidence that he can learn from his mistakes. I doubt he can start now. Combine that with the fact that in my memory. he has never taken responsibility for any failure. It's way easier to find a scapegoat and blame him. Personally I'm tired of the act. After the MI debacle he says it's not good enough and fires the OC. Just once I'd like to hear him say "I have to do better", or " in retrospect I made some bad decisions ". I won't hold my breath.
The challenge is effectively modeling PSU’s lack of executional ability. Can the computer make the situational and play calls? Can it formulate the game plan during the week?
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Following analytics is the right thing to do. My concern is that Franklin doesn’t properly interpret the analytics.
In 3 of the last 4 games against the big 2, it was a one score game deep into the 4th qtr. That’s “competitive”.
And then what happened?
Yeah, analytics do not take into account momentum of the game or situational awareness. He does use a chart that says hey when you’re down five points, you need to go for two, but that chart isn’t to be used in the first half of the game. You have to take into account time And number of possessions that you would have left as well. I know analytics also say that going for two on the last touchdown is the right call, because you know whether you need one possession or two, but in the pace of the game, as well as the Home crowd. It’s an automatic to go for one there and get the game back down to one possession. Yes, it does mean that you need to get two to tie at the end but you’d much rather go into overtime at home then on the road so in that situation you need to play for overtime.
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A good fact-based articlePlease read Mike Poorman's article in StateCollege.com. I wonder based on his experience how he became a head coach to begin with? He must have interviewed very well at Vanderbilt.
Poorman’s All-22: James Franklin Fires (Another) Offensive Coordinator in Mike Yurcich
We interrupt this All-22 of Penn State’s 24-15 loss to the Harbaugh-less Michigan Wolverines to bring you the All-22 on the firing on Sunday of (former)
At this point, I’d take a 10 year old with Xbox experience calling plays
. @LionJim could explain it. And then you add hope.
Question 1. Answer - He panics. No balls.
That's fine, but what if it ain't working?Franklin: If I ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
The 2-pt chart doesn't have a column for emotion and the ebb and flow of a game unfortunately. That requires judgement from the HC.
That's a whole different problem. I'm just referring to in-game situational decisions (go for it, punt it, go for 2, etc).
And CJF is terrible about using field position and the student section location in the south end zone to his advantage. He just does not factor that into his/the analytics' decisions. Like the 4th down where he burned a timeout trying to decide what to do. Looked like they were going for it. Everyone around me was saying "punt the ball. Pin them deep. We have a great defense. And there is less than a minute left in the quarter and Michigan will be down in front of the student section when we switch sides." After burning the timeout, he does decide to punt and the exact scenario we wanted played out. But he burned a valuable timeout to get there. Just boneheaded. How do we fans think that situation through in a few seconds, but Franklin needs a timeout to so decide?
Regarding the second two point try in his post game presser he said it was based on analytics (same with the first). I think he thought it was a 10 point game.
Interesting Franklin said his decision to go for 2 after the first TD was analytics driven. Go figure.
Yeah, I'd be interested to know more about their analytics on that play. If it is late in the game, I'm all for it. it should also depend on your true probability of getting 2 yards (which may have been closer to 40% than 50% vs UM).
Yeah, well, a guy who won 409 games used to say "take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves!" Little things like knowing whether to go for 2 and when to punt or go for it on 4th down.
