Penn State new Off Coord. Ricky Rahne

[DAWG61]

Thought I'd read up a little on how PSU's new O.C. was doing. Check out this gem someone left on his wiki.

Following coach James Franklin, Rahne spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons as the Penn State Nittany Lions quarterbacks coach. Working with quarterback Christian Hackenberg, Rahne helped him break all of the Nittany Lions major career passing records. Hackenberg finished his career with 693 completions, 8,457 passing yards, 48 touchdown passes, 9 career 300-yard passing games, and 21 200-yard passing games.[SUP][12][/SUP] After the final game of the 2015 regular season, John Donovan was fired as Penn States offensive coordinator, and replaced by Rahne as the interim to coach the TaxSlayer Bowl. During preparation for the bowl game, it was announced that ex-Fordham Head coach, Joe Moorhead would be taking over as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the 2016 season. Rahne took over as tight ends coach, a position that was previously held by Donovan.[SUP][13][/SUP] In this role Rahne mentored Mackey Award finalist Mike Gesicki as he broke the Penn State career record for receptions (123), receiving yards (1,419) and touchdowns (15) by a tight end. Gesicki was selected first-team All-Big Ten in 2017 and second team in 2016. Gesicki set single-season records at Penn State for receptions (51), receiving yards (679) and touchdown catches (9) by a tight end.[SUP][14][/SUP] On December 1, 2017, Rahne was named Penn States offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after Joe Moorhead left the Nittany Lions to become the head coach at Mississippi State.[SUP][15][/SUP] In his first game as a full-time offensive coordinator, Rahne led Penn State's offense to a Fiesta Bowl record 545 yards of total offense in a 35-28 win over Washington.[SUP][16][/SUP] On September 29, 2018 Rahne called the worst play in Penn State history to lose the game against Ohio State.

 

[msstate7]

Penn state is better in ppg and total yardage this season despite losing gesicki, Barkley, and MOORHEAD

 

[dawgstudent]

That's because they have the right personnel. This is all on coaching. Moorhead is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with Fitzgerald being a consistent passer of downfield throws.

 

[DAWG61]

Penn state is better in ppg and total yardage this season despite losing gesicki, Barkley, and MOORHEAD

Would you rather have Trace McSorley leading your offense or Nick Fitz?

 

[msstate7]

How about we just tweet the offense to what works? You realize fitz led the sec in total yardage last season, right?

 

[DAWG61]

How about we just tweet the offense to what works? You realize fitz led the sec in total yardage last season, right?

Probably the best move but which coaches are gonna help him that were here last year? He just gonna let Fitz run last year's offense without any help from anyone on his staff? What Moorhead probably should have done was hire more Mullen assistants initially than he did to help in the transition.

 

[$altyDawg]

This is absolute truth. Fitz, as far back as his high school days had great numbers running, with below average to average numbers passing. He has not adapted well to Moorhead's system, and up to this point, Moorhead has adapted poorly to Fitz's still of play. Something has got to give.
Also, if you noticed, Mullen isn't running Filipe Franks up the middle 20 plays a game. That's because that ISN'T HIS STYLE OF PLAY! Once he get's his style of QB, he'll probably go back to it.

 

[Mjoelner]

That's because they have the right personnel. This is all on coaching. Moorhead is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with Fitzgerald being a consistent passer of downfield throws.

To be honest, Fitz probably looks like Dan Marino in practice due to the combination of throwing against our DB's with the luxury of not being hit.

 

[SirBarksalot]

To be honest, Fitz probably looks like Dan Marino in practice

That, I would bet against.

 

[wsjmsu75]

That's because they have the right personnel. This is all on coaching. Moorhead is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with Fitzgerald being a consistent passer of downfield throws.

On the subject of square peg/round hole, what baffles me is- did Moorhead not ever even get a clue that this could be a problem from watching the scrimmages back during the spring or in August? If he didn't get a clue, go figure. If he did, then it is totally on him for not adjusting his scheme to fit our personnel.

 

[Bulldog45]

And with the game on the line against OSU on 4th and five, with possibly the best college QB in America this year, he calls a run with the RB and gets stuffed. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Which offensive assistants would you have liked for him keep? Gonzales? Hev? Knox over Huff? Whoever the 17 our kid QB Coach was? Come on.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

To be honest, Fitz probably looks like Dan Marino in practice due to the combination of throwing against our DB's with the luxury of not being hit.

Fitz’s inaccurate *** couldn’t look like Marino Against air.

 

[West Tn Dawg]

And with the game on the line against OSU on 4th and five, with possibly the best college QB in America this year, he calls a run with the RB and gets stuffed. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense.

Oh no, it's not that it may have been the perfect play but just maybe the D disguised something and blew it up. It had to be because the coach was just plain stupid. Nobody ever seems to realize that there is a coach on the other side trying to blow up what ever you call. Some times he wins, sometimes he loses!

 

[dickiedawg]

From the looks of things Hev would be. Huge upgrade.