Football REPORT: Penn State DC Manny Diaz expected to be Duke Head Coach

[RickinDayton]

So, what's Scrap up to these days?

I'm sure he is enjoying retirement.

 

[Bondist]

Manny Diaz: “I accomplished everything I could possibly accomplish at Penn State. It’s not my fault that James Franklin and the offense are so incompetent. Bye Penn State!”

This is an accurate statement?

 

[Bondist]

it’s been commented quite a bit that Elijah Robinson does not like James Franklin. The story that I heard was that Franklin bad-mouthed Robinson on the recruiting trail and Robinson found out.

Same question, this is verified? If your two posts are true, very sad for the state of affairs at Penn State!

 

[ValentinoRossi]

This is an accurate statement?

Seriously? Of course it isn’t. You really think Manny would say something like this?

 

[PSUSignore]

it’s been commented quite a bit that Elijah Robinson does not like James Franklin. The story that I heard was that Franklin bad-mouthed Robinson on the recruiting trail and Robinson found out.

First I've ever heard of that.

 

[Psubiomed]

Just can't win in the coordinator game anymore, can't hold onto these guys. The reality is that if they suck, they get fired.....If they are good, they get HC jobs. Just is what it is. Frankly, programs were sniffing around Poindexter last year and if Manny doesn't take the Duke job and Poindexter doesn't get promoted, he'd probably be gone.

Nobody wants Poindexter lol

 

[Psubiomed]

Like I said you go out and hire someone who has done it before and is as good as Diaz.

Or go right ahead and lose 35-13 to Ohio State again next year.

 

[PSUSignore]

Nobody wants Poindexter lol

Internal promote from within hires are rarely very sexy.

 

[ram2020]

Nobody wants Poindexter lol

Really? Wasn't he interviewing last year elsewhere?

 

[Psubiomed]

Really? Wasn't he interviewing last year elsewhere?

Link please?

 

[Psubiomed]

Internal promote from within hires are rarely very sexy.

Or very successful. Ricky Rahne.

 

[AWS1022]

Like I said you go out and hire someone who has done it before and is as good as Diaz.

Or go right ahead and lose 35-13 to Ohio State again next year.

Just pick one off the fantastic coach tree…I mean coaches a a good as Diaz are just laying around out there and every one of them is dying to come to Penn State.

 

[Thomas1945]

Just pick one off the fantastic coach tree…I mean coaches a a good as Diaz are just laying around out there and every one of them is dying to come to Penn State.

Well then the problems solved and nobody should be bitching.

 

[PSUWrestlingFanSince2011]

Poindexter. That is who I think should be the next PSU DC.

He coaches both?

 

[PSUWrestlingFanSince2011]

I want a guy who actually wants to be a DC. Manny said early on that he wanted to be a HC. I didnt like that.

 

[LandoComando]

I want a guy who actually wants to be a DC. Manny said early on that he wanted to be a HC. I didnt like that.

Who doesn't want to be a HC someday?

 

[Psubiomed]

It's going to be Poindexter. My sources have already confirmed.

 

[PSUWrestlingFanSince2011]

Who doesn't want to be a HC someday?

Lots of Coordinators

 

[RickinDayton]

It's going to be Poindexter. My sources have already confirmed.

Good.

 

[LandoComando]

Lots of Coordinators

Name 1 that has stated that never wanted to be a HC
Even most life long coordinators wanted to be a HC and it never happened. See Bradley.

 

[Psubiomed]

Good.

If Dan Connor comes with him, yes. If not, no.

 

[Westcoast24]

If Dan Connor comes with him, yes. If not, no.

Have your sources confirmed Connor yet?

 

[Crusher1950]

Franklin needs to look up Jim Leonard but he isn’t smart enough to do that he will just blame it on the new coordinator

 

[SLUPSU]

Formal now...

 

[LMTLION]

Good.

I agree!

 

[doctornick]

Formal now...

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They didn’t have a picture of him not wearing another team’s apparel?

 

[LandoComando]

They didn’t have a picture of him not wearing another team’s apparel?

Or they're selling him as "coming from Penn State"

 

[wilbury]

It's going to be Poindexter. My sources have already confirmed.

you mean the other board?

 

[LandoComando]

you mean the other board?

His BFF Nate

 

[fastlax16]

Or very successful. Ricky Rahne.

Pry really sucked.

 

[PennState_one]

Poindexter should do well if he gets the promotion. Keeping the transition seamless as possible seems wise. We already have a new offensive coordinator to break in in terms of building player relationships. The least staff movement is likely best.

 

[voltz99]

Pry really sucked.

Pry was overrated.

 

[LandoComando]

Poindexter should do well if he gets the promotion. Keeping the transition seamless as possible seems wise. We already have a new offensive coordinator to break in in terms of building player relationships. The least staff movement is likely best.

Honestly no one has any idea how he'd do. It's a risk. Experience is obviously preferable

 

[PennState_one]

Honestly no one has any idea how he'd do. It's a risk. Experience is obviously preferable

For sure. To figure this out is why they get paid the big bucks.

 

[RickinDayton]

Honestly no one has any idea how he'd do. It's a risk. Experience is obviously preferable

He has experience as DC @ UCONN when they were good.

 

[doctornick]

He has experience as DC @ UCONN when they were good.

I was about to say this as well. I'm not advocating for Poindexter necessarily, but the fact that he has been a DC before is IMHO good because he has that experience as well as institutional knowledge of our current players and how Diaz used them so effectively.

 

[LandoComando]

He has experience as DC @ UCONN when they were good.

You're correct. My bad but they weren't good then. Averaged less than 4 wins a year during his 3 years.