Who is closer to the program? You or her?
Toney was like 185lbs when he came to PSU. He put on a fair amount of weight and size
So why did Hakeem Beamin lose 40 pounds? Why are psu defenders always out of position?
Beamon had an illness. Do you think Franklin caused the illness? The topic was Toney. I followed his recruitment pretty closely. He even visited Pitt after verbaling to Penn State. He was small and a project. I think he ended up putting on a fair amount of weight and muscle at Penn State. I’m not really debating the other topics here currently focusing on Franklin. Also, there is some bad blood between the family and Penn State. They had a Twitter post
I personally don't care about the quote or who made it but if you follow this program and Franklin, he has a demonstrated preference for position coaches (the ones that develop talent) that recruit more than they coach. He has made a couple of moves recently that have demonstrated he may be getting the need for balance by hiring Poindexter and Stubblefield but the rest of the staff is heavy on recruiters, light on developers. Heck, look at the distribution of jobs. With the exception of a couple of individuals, linebacker play has been an issue since Paterno/O'Brien holders graduated. Coincidently, we have had a true linebackers coach since 2015. Look at the amount of receiver talent that we squandered when Gattis was the position coach. Gattis is a horrible position coach and a horrible coordinator. Kind of like Franklin and Rahne really. He is very likely to make a solid head coach though. We have had too many of those guys around this program. Everyone knows this. It is why the results on the field don't match the NFL draft.
It is always easy to pick out the anomaly. The outlier. Tony is both. There are always outliers. Try defending his full record instead of cherry picking one player to fit your argument. Your bias is blinding you to reality.
I left bias in like 7th grade dude. Get a grip.
My guess is she never stepped into the PSU football locker room. Seriously, do you haters stay up at night thinking of more BS to criticize Franklin about? I repeat what I said elsewhere, criticize Franklin when it’s deserved (like the poor prep last year vs Illinois) but the constant bitching when it’s not deserved is ridiculous. Franklin wasn’t the reason Penn State lost yesterday; they lost because they turned the ball over 4 times (all by a 6th year starting QB) and OSU had 0 turnovers. I also challenged the critics on this board to name one strategic decision Franklin made last year in the Michigan and MSU losses and I never got one damned response.
He recruits soft non-football athletes vs football players. That is part of tbe strategy in College Football. And Franklin is failing at it vs what he has at his disposal.
He recruits the a lot of the same kids OSU does, so I guess OSU’s players are soft too.
Well Shaka made it to the NFL so not sure what the complaint is
Hey dummy, he didn't cherry pick Shaka. The OP was about Shaka. Try to keep up.
Paragraph 1 agreed. Paragraph 2, we have been performing on average at least with our recruiting talent composite since Franklin has been here. Some years below, some years above. We are likely to finish above this year.
PSU defenders are NOT always out of position. This is an absurd statement.
I think what he ius saying is this:
There was a Twitter post questioning Toney’s playing time at one point from a family member. I do remember that.
I wouldn't doubt it, they are very involved. I do know once he started getting a lot of playing everything on sisters twitter has been pro psu and pro JFF.
Yes he is and that was probably an issue with his inability to maintain more weight. Not questioning his religious choice, but the dietary restrictions had to be a contributing factor. Shaka wanted to play DE and was what PSU agreed to. But in hind site, his body type was more fitted to LBer.
Unless there is more context, I don't see this as a criticism.
I saw a different one that I can't find now from his sister. Heck, I can't even find her on twitter right now. Elon must have cancelled her. I posted about it right away. I wish I was 8 ML's in so I could remember verbatim what she tweeted.
