The team we saw today was the exact same team that played every week this season.
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They're doing a $500 million dollar stadium renovation and building an $80 million dollar museum, but can't come up with enough to negotiate a buyout?
I thought the stadium renovation was $700 MM.
I‘m sure that PSU could pay Franklin’s buyout, but they choose not to.
When there's a threat of NIL money drying up because of coaching, PSU may change their minds.
Good point. Some real leverage there. All it would take would be the promotion of the perception and a few threats.
I think NIL will eventually kill the sport anyway. How many programs will be able to compete at the top level? Ten, maybe.
Revenue sharing may keep things close for a bit until big corporations get into NIL then it's screwed.
NIL will soon be replaced by programs paying their players.
I had this game as an L in September, Michigan is good all around. Our shot was OSU.
The big difference between us and them is the O- Line. Asking the question - what do they do
that PSU doesn't in development? In my opinion not only are they big in mass they are not
bulgy, they block into the second level quicker, and really hold the pocket well.
The question after the OSU game was about the toughness of PSU, they are tough and athletic,
but i think ( don't bash me ) it's the nastiness they lack, everyone should play like Katron.
The big difference between us and them is the O- Line. Asking the question - what do they do
that PSU doesn't in development? In my opinion not only are they big in mass they are not
bulgy, they block into the second level quicker, and really hold the pocket well.
The question after the OSU game was about the toughness of PSU, they are tough and athletic,
but i think ( don't bash me ) it's the nastiness they lack, everyone should play like Katron.
I'm sorry, but how can you say that this defense is "grab-azz high school"? With both UM and OSU we held them to their season lows in scoring. In both games, we were basically within a score of beating these teams and it was primarily due to the defense against the #1 and #3 teams in the country, not just the B1G.
What’s is intensely ******* insane is that the buyout s almost as much as an 80 miilion $ unneeded museum.
FWIW:
Total cost on the museum deal is well over $120 Million.
The NEW museum is over $80 million (I'd have to check the exact figure), plus another $40 million + to "repurpose" the old one.
Didn't the Athletic Department help fund the museum too? Contribution from Big Ten Media revenue maybe? Could be misremembering.
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Kinda' sorta'... though all the monies inside the Big Black Box of PSU are, of course, fungible.
What you are probably recalling (accurately) is that Eric Barron took a chunk of ICA money (around $4-5 million) to pay for the design work.... and stated that the "plan" was to take a similar amount each year to help pay off the debt. (Of course, he also said they would be tapping into buckets of philanthropic money for the project. A spigot which seems to have run dry). He also said the museum would attract 400 - 500 thousand visitors per year. So there ya' go.
As you may have read the numbers for those projects is higher and PSU is borrowing to fund them. Guess what that will do to its bond rating, particularly when the agencies wake up to find that PSU has done virtually nothing to address its operating deficit (which was $195mm p.a. at last report, which hasn't been updated in months).
Then just borrow to fire the coach and kick it down the road. It's the way of the world. I'm only half joking. To say there's no options but to keep him isn't being honest.
Great idea. That way PSU can continue to perpetuate the myth that no tuition dollars go to support athletics (only to debt service).
Ok, then have the AD tell him he can't hire any of the coordinators from here on out. It's the AD that hires everyone. See how long he lasts.
No idea what that has to do with financing Franklin's buyout. Reality is that PSU is stuck with him for a while.
I'm not sure he'll do that. In the meantime the program goes into the tank, which is not good for its immediate finances and could result in longer-term damage.
Not sure this all gets laid at the feet of Ms. Excellence. I'm thinking Matt Schuyler, but that's just a hunch.Sandy:
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