Says the guy who thought HACK was one of the best qbs in the country even though he was near the bottom of the B10 QBs and that was with O'Brien as coach.
Football Bruce Feldman names James Franklin a top five coach in CFB
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I would say top 10 myself. And I could understand someone not putting him quite there but he’s pretty undeniably top 15 or so.
No one suggests Paterno was a top coach from somewhere around 99 on. Let's swag it to say, he was for about the first 1/3 of his time in the B2G.
JF is excellent in all aspects of being a CFB coach, except for actual coaching. You can pretty much align PSUs up and down years under JF with the quality of coordinators.
Before anyone says that this is true for every team, then we need to agree that saban has pretty much never made a poor hire(unless you think the talent at Bama is so good it hides poor coaching)
PSU seemed well coached in '22. QB was older than half the QBs starting in the NFL. It will be interesting to see how Mike Y does with a new, but talented QB and it will be even more interesting to see how PSU does after Mike Y departs for a HC gig.
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As do those who have opinions that matter. Empirical evidence exists in the form of contract extensions.....the last one that has every penny guaranteed for 10 years. Should PSU win 11 again, I think it's likely he'll get another bump after this season.
Wasn't Y the OC in 21?
Funny how loses are Franklin's and wins are staff. LOL
They will name five or more coaches who don’t even come close to meeting the standard they hold Franklin to (except for Saban and Smart).
Dear God voltz...do you mean 2021, when PSU was on it's way to 6-0 until Clifford got hurt during Iowa and lost b/c QB2 had zero prior reps and couldn't even facilitate a clean snap....and then Clifford played the 2nd half of the season with severe rib pain?
Do you mean 2021, in which PSU had zero dynamic RBs?
Is that the season you are trying to hold up to disprove my assertion?
You guys are frankly, ridiculous. I like Franklin. He has all the soft skills necessary to be successful as a CFB HC (all the skills that O'Brien lacks BTW)...but pretending that JF moves the needle as an actual FB coach is not supported by any evidence.
Players matter, of course, but the question is whether coaching makes them better. During the decade of JF, we've seen a wide swing in the execution of fundamentals and game management. JF has been THE consistent piece. Coordinators have shuffled and you can find plenty of critique on this baord of Rahne, Shoop, etc and you can lots of praise for JoMo, etc. There are lots of variables, but it seems pretty obvious that Mike Y and Manny D moved the needle on football execution and game management this year.
Right. The year we beat Ball State, struggled with Villanova, and had no back up qb. Who was the OC?
He’s moved the needle quite a bit and he did so at Vandy as well. That doesn’t happen by accident.
