He supposedly lied to players telling them he was returning and also didn't meet with the team to tell them he was leaving. Ofc the 2nd part is tough with it being winterbreak.

May be down a bit but man can we identify a right leg. Every kicker in the nation gonna be flocking to KICKER U.

uh, holy **** is PSU a cesspool

https://www.change.org/petitions/coa...-supported-him

gl to whoever takes that job

http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index...der_arriv.html

I especially like the part where you sign the petition if you even *know of* any such supporter. Also the part where they seem to live on another planet.

Charlie Strong looks like an excellent hire, although sadly it likely puts an end to those prank calls offering people the Texas job.

Listening to him talk, and watching his teams play and hearing what people say about him he seems like a good coach and seems like he'll do well.

But he's still essentially pretty unproven. In 4 years, Louisville played a schedule that's weaker than what most MAC/Sunbelt teams play, and went 2-2 against ranked teams and lost 13 games to unranked teams, many of which they had absolutely no business losing. Also, he had GOATwater for 3 of those 4 years (although to Strong's credit, GOATwater and the team around him improved each year).

They lost the *only game* that they played this year against a top FORTY team, which is a softer sched than most 1-AA teams play.

he took a team that had a rough couple years after Petrino and went 7-6, 7-6, 11-2 with that inspiring victory over UF but two losses against garbage UConn and Cuse that they had absolutely NO BUSINESS losing, and then 12-1 this year against a slate of teams that a substantial number of teams would've had no trouble going 12-1 against.

I think he'll probably turn out well, but his resume is basically based mostly off of one win right now. Hope he does well and continues to build on that

lol texas

https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/st...33640987987968

Other negatives include the fact that they were unwilling to go to Texas

Strong's resume as an HC isn't amazing, but he also gets a lot of credit as Florida's DC on some great teams.

He doesn't have to be amazing to win at Texas, mostly he just needs to make sure he doesn't Mack it up and let the program fall behind the times. The Texas job doesn't need you to be super elite in terms of strat, the talent will make up for that.

It's pretty cool that a black dude can get this gig imo.

Guess who's back...

Mark Mangino is now Iowa State's OC! And Iowa makes a ton of corn and pork so he'll love it there

I agree with all of this. I'm very familiar with the Louisville area and of course familiar with the program. Louisville is considered a success the last two seasons just because of that win. They had NC aspirations this season, but were worried about the schedule of course. They underachieved with that schedule this season, as did Teddy Bridgewater. Many games were much closer than they should have been. I think he and Charlie are both a little overrated, but I hope they do well. Hopefully Texas will go 12-1 every year, losing the RRSO each year of course.

lol

just to be clear, I'm loling AT YOU dids

Yeah, I mean Texas' talent differential compared to their schedule every year SHOULD be about roughly what Louisville's is to it's schedule, so if Charlie can produce 11 and 12 win seasons at Louisville, he should be able to at Texas as well.

That's why I made the Gus comparison - when he was hired, his resume as a head coach was limited (A short stint at Arkansas State where he ran really hot), but was bolstered by substantial success at a high level as a coordinator before that

Wonder which cyclone gets the job of wiping his ass?

I can't wait to see the offensive slug match that is KU-ISU.

I guess checking who assistant coaches are following on twitter is the new "checking flight aware" in carousel rumors. James Franklin's assistants are following a lot of PSU commits including guys who are already on campus as early enrollees and these were recently added.

Vandy's DC (Pry) was a candidate for HC at Georgia Southern but has withdrawn his name. This means:

1) Franklin is staying and has leveraged another big raise for his assistants

2) Franklin is leaving and has leveraged big raises for his assistants at new job

3) Franklin is leaving and Pry thinks he has a chance at the vacancy

4) **** all

Twitter is all over Franklin to PSU. I guess, but I still maintain that unless that's his final destination he's better off waiting for another gig, but I think it's a great fit for PSU.

Hopefully they can lock him up for more than 2 years with a buyout that has some teeth.

$6.5 mil is a pretty high buyout (especially for a coach getting paid less than half that). The original $19 mil or whatever was crazyland.

lulvul getting rich rod would be great

highly doubt he'd make that move tho

It sounded high to me too, but I don't think the NFL even flinched.

You're not getting a good coach to agree to a buyout so ****ing high that he can never ever ever leave for any other job.

Why Vanderbilt Should Pay James Franklin $5 million Per Year