Fair enough. It's not like we have an abundance of information to validate an opinion either way. Some people want to be cheerleaders, fine.That doesn't mean that everyone has to be. And being reticent or having reservations does not mean that we are advocating or desire to see failure.
Moorhead has a stronger twitter game than the previous OC....
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Fair enough. It's not like we have an abundance of information to validate an opinion either way. Some people want to be cheerleaders, fine.That doesn't mean that everyone has to be. And being reticent or having reservations does not mean that we are advocating or desire to see failure.
First of all, I have no preconceived ideas or predictions for the Moorehead hire. I will hold out a final opinion until his group's performance on the field and his analysis of such occur.
My opinion was about the hiring process and how it related to Franklin's public comments about such.
I find the contrast between Franklin and others (Saban and most recently Mark Richt) who bring in new faces from new places (both established and up-and-comers) when they get new coaching positions.
I question one or more of following: that Franklin had a significant list of prospective coaches, that people on that list had significant personal contact with him, that people on that list he had contact with had sincere interest in coaching under him.
It would be a little comforting getting a proven entity at this level and not a projection, however logical that projection seems. Since Joe, this staff has had a least one coach that in the end was going through on the job training that cost them at least 2 wins each season.
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Being a manager has taught me one basic fundamental. An employee's resume and interview doesn't necessarily translate into his/her performance if hired. That's why a new employee always has a probationary period. I like the Moorhead hire. He has a good resume and naturally he must have impressed Franklin at the interview. But he is on probation until I see the results on the field. I wish him luck!
Well, the first order of business in college football is getting the "Jimmy's and the Joe's". As Franklin said, 70% of what every team runs is the same as every other team. Just get the athletes and much of the rest will be taken care of. And getting the athletes is "marketing".
Charlie Weis and Gerry Faust were pretty damn good recruiters. Just saying. There's a lot of truth to what you're saying but if Moorhead can't coach we'll find out pretty damn quick. I'm very very optimistic about the hire but the PSU coaching staff has a lot to prove.
So long as Moorhead can do a better job than Donovan, I think most here will be satisfied. If he can repeat the success he had @ Fordham, I think think most here would be doing cartwheels!
Oh, absolutely. Like I said, I'm very, very optimistic. Weis and Faust are actually poor examples, seeing that they had unusual backgrounds for first-time college head coaches. I really, really want this to work because if it doesn't work with the talent we're bringing in, then it's gonna be very very depressing.
Since that response was not directed at you, nor was it regarding Moorhead's performance at Fordham, I'll redirect your question back to you.
I'm very interested to see what Franklin does with Ricky Rahne. I'm quite confident that JoeMo will want to coach the QBs. Does that push Rahne to the TEs? If so, how happy is he and does he look elsewhere? Does he give him special team work too?
Hard? Moi? Well, not in public anyway. And don't mistake volume for quality (said the man with over 35k posts.....holy shit, time sure flies when you're having fun).
And, BTW, since so many are so gung-ho about Twitter, how about a "We Are.......worse" tweet?
