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The OFFICIAL Franklin Has No ******* Clue Thread!
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The only thing Franklin is concerned with is his bank account. Most overpaid coach in all of sports. He should be working at McDonald’s !
Ordinarily I might agree with you. But you're talking about a team that gave up 400 yards to Iowa, while managing to gain about 120.
Seems it is now our MO. Every highlight show I watched today said that Penn State always under performs in big games.
Coach says points were going to be at a premium. So why not kick the two extra points and get two premium points easy? Shocking decision making by this coach. I sat in the stands for all of halftime shaking my head over the first two point try. The second really took the cake and the play they pulled out of the hat to run for that asinine decision. You cannot make that up.
At this point how can anyone in their right mind think Franklin and/or Yurcich are good coaches, how can anyone defend Franklin? Oh yea, after today how can it not be clear that Allen needs to be the feature back? Penn State doesn't suck, our players don't suck, Franklin and Yurcich both suck, he's a horrible coach
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What is especially frustrating is how so many people are only now becoming aware of this.
Nothing has changed. This dumbass offensive scheme has been there all season with the exception of last week when they played fearlessly against an opponent they knew they were going murder.
Why were so many people blind to these deficiencies? I’m genuinely asking, not trying to sound like a rhetorical dick.
I am a terrible speller. Your point is well taken. You have a good sense of humor
“Everyone knows the Swiss are officially neutral. However, unofficially they are dirty sons of bitches”
May Norm Macdonald Rest In Peace.
Not sure what side I'm betting on here, but Rutgers is so bad that if PSU loses Franklin ought to resign on the spot. Think he has that much character?
Give JF a break. If he made the 2 pointers, we would have only lost by 5 points instead of 9. I think that would have helped some of the bettors.
Well, that explains everything, because the people who hired him weren’t coaches either.
Didn’t Yurcich prove offensive “genius” at others schools? He is handcuffed by Franklin’s philosophy.
Yurcich gone, Diaz gone, recruits and starters gone…
I am not one to be critical of Franklin but this was a head scratcher of a game. He seemed to make all the wrong calls at all the wrong times.
After the first touchdown you see him signalling going for 1 on the extra point. Always take the easy points.
After the first touchdown you see him signalling going for 1 on the extra point. Always take the easy points.
I agree. I think we have the talent. That’s what makes our performances against OSU and Michigan so frustrating.
Franklin is our Mark Richt...
Who cares about any NY6 Bowl? Half the team will opt out anyway.
Out coached by a team with no coach. The 4 and 6 on our own 30 was the final straw for me. M scored the easy short field TD and game was essentially over. Steelers offense and ours must be drinking the same something in the water. I will take the Steelers over GB tomorrow though. No happiness in the valley for another year. The inability to get over the hump is our annual Chinese water torture. It sucks having to accept the fact we will most likely never beat M or OhowIhate in the remaining years I have left. I just want to see one more shot for a championship before my time is up. Recruits visiting today will be leaning to M I guess.
Needed to run Allen. Look how Michigan used Corum. 26 carries. Kaytron should have been used similarly.
It's derisive. A derivative of the appellation Oklahoma fans bestowed on Bob Stoops early in his career when he was winning championships. When he went into 10-2 mode, the moniker stuck.
While I had issues with several decisions yesterday, I still am dumbfounded at how many are blasting Franklin for this one…this is a spot where he got it right, but fans/announcers/writers everywhere continue to fail to adapt and understand.
8 more yearsBoo fn hoo
Didn’t you hear? We’re going to start a GoF*ckMe page for the buyout. Let lesser folks pay to take out the trash. That way, we can use our good money to pay the next guy.
You are wrong. He ended the game at that point. Going for one allows his team to try an onside kick or allows his defense a chance at a turnover, giving his offense a last chance to score and tie. Failing the two the game was over. He needed to extend the game and he failed.
I was thinking to ask you, as someone with vast high school coaching experience, how a head coach should handle an OC?8 more years
Should he:
1. Apparently be hands off in the development of the game plan and sign off on it without comment?
2. Stand stoically on he sidelines, arms crossed, and allow the OC to continue a failed course of action?
3. Not intervene during the game and correct things he does not like in the play calling?
4. Blame the OC after the game for not giving his quarterback plays to establish confidence?
As someone with vast, high school, coaching experience I want your insight into how a head football coach should interface with his OC.8 more years
Should he:
1. Apparently be hands off in the development of the game plan and sign off on it without comment?
2. Stand stoically on the sidelines, arms crossed, and allow the OC to continue a failed course of action?
3. Not intervene during the game and correct things he does not like in the play calling?
4. Blame the OC after the game for not giving his quarterback plays to establish confidence?
Do you think the odds of converting the two point conversion later are somehow higher than converting it earlier?
He waits to go for two, and he doesn’t know if we need one more score or two. Go for two earlier, and you have that information.
The odds of winning are low regardless, but I’m glad he maximized our chances in that situation (however small they were). I have no interest in “extending the game”, I’m interested in maximizing the chances of winning the game.
Thankfully, more and more coaches are realizing this and going for 2 in that spot (Kevin Stefanski did it on Sunday as the announcers questioned it…”old school” guys don’t get it, but those that understand the math/analytics behind it do).
Trying to get ahead of the analytics and failing means everything next is meaningless. You remove the momentum from the TD. Take the XP, and it's a one score game. Cross the 2pt bridge if/when you get to it. And when you do, don't f*cking call a joke play like a swinging gate.
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