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Knight Shift

Knight Shift

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Ask al. It's their fieldhouse. No, it's their donors. No, it's the NIL they spent on their QB.

Coaching matters. They got rid of the inept head coach, installed a new interim HC and an OC, and boom. Either that, or PSU was jet lagged and still sad about losing their white out.

Either way:
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Penn state treated it as a vacation. Watched the second half at a very friendly PSU bar. None of them were happy. When I gave them my opinion they all agreed.
 
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Mikemarc said:
Wow.

Good coaching does wonders - it’s crazy.

in his 2nd game, UCLA coach does 2 things we haven’t done in 6 seasons. So so so frustrating.
Beat Psu and upset a top 25 team
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Don't forget the talent. They bought the Vols QB from last year. Apparently, a former RB as HC with a QB like that was a bad combo.

Add in, PSU had no way to prep for that. New head coach had 2 games but this OC was his first game.. son of a NC winning head coach iirc. Well.. tied for NC.
 
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Knight Shift

Knight Shift

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Mikemarc said:
he’s spot on. There’s zero reason Schiano 2.0 is still winless vs top 25 teams.
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Oh there are reasons. They are called the same lame and tired excuses, repackaged as new excuses. Greg's solution to the problem is always the same--it's in the lyrics to Fortunate Son:

""How much should we give?" Ooh, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"

And the big donors keep digging deeper, living in fear of another Flood or disAshter.
 
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well this puts to rest the guy calling the shots matters more than all the excuses we've heard from the Gregites
 
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Does bring up who has more talent in b 10 issue.

was pretty clear when ucla beat ru last year. Poorly coached team but the talent differential was there. Talent held back was allowed to flourish w simplified schme.
 
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Mikemarc said:
he’s spot on. There’s zero reason Schiano 2.0 is still winless vs top 25 teams.
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LOL the last time this happened was 1985. How did Sanders and Fran Brown do yesterday?

We had interim staffs before playing the Cult. Under your boy Flood. How did that go? We also had "splashy" hire after him. Any wins there?
 
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Ru-baby said:
Does bring up who has more talent in b 10 issue.

was pretty clear when ucla beat ru last year. Poorly coached team but the talent differential was there. Talent held back was allowed to flourish w simplified schme.
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Ssssh the word is their QB also cost millions in NIL but we cannot talk about that.

It is only coaching. NIL is entirely irrelavant.

We need a splashy coach, a real winner like Fran Brown or Deion Sanders who definitely were not blown out yesterday at all.

Once we fire Greg and hire said splash all the donors are going to come out of the woodwork they're just waiting for GS to be gone!!!
 
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Knight Shift

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NotInRHouse said:
Ssssh the word is their QB also cost millions in NIL but we cannot talk about that.

It is only coaching. NIL is entirely irrelavant.

We need a splashy coach, a real winner like Fran Brown or Deion Sanders who definitely were not blown out yesterday at all.

Once we fire Greg and hire said splash all the donors are going to come out of the woodwork they're just waiting for GS to be gone!!!
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Very few people are clamoring for a splashy coach. And you are playing games between NIL and talent.
The fact is coaching matters. UCLA seemed to playing much more loose and free, letting it fly, and they were playing to win, instead of play to "not lose."
Reading some articles about Franklin at Penn State, and looking at what happened with Gundy, coaches who hang around too long in one place tend to get entrenched and fixed in their ways. It's no secret Greg had a very time finding and OC. He had to go the well once (maybe it was twice) to come up with the money to pay Ciarrocca (sp?). And the DC position was vacant for a long time before RU had to hire a retread as co-DC.
 
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NotInRHouse said:
Ssssh the word is their QB also cost millions in NIL but we cannot talk about that.

It is only coaching. NIL is entirely irrelavant.

We need a splashy coach, a real winner like Fran Brown or Deion Sanders who definitely were not blown out yesterday at all.

Once we fire Greg and hire said splash all the donors are going to come out of the woodwork they're just waiting for GS to be gone!!!
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Do you even know Nico’s story? He’s been getting a lot of heat this year until yesterday and everyone makes jokes about Tenn getting the better of the “qb trade.” Do you know that UCLA’s qb went to Tenn. He hasn’t played well til yesterday.

NI got less money from UCLA than he got at Tenn not more. I bet you don’t even realize that even though I’ve mentioned it multiple times here. He was getting around iirc 2.5M from Tenn and wanted more and Heupel said no. So he went out to see what he could get and ended up at UCLA at 1.5M or so.

UCLA has racked up 200M+ in debt from the school and couldn’t even fire Kelly because of that and then hired Foster because of it too. They’re not swimming in it. But as I’ve said many times here, with revenue sharing everyone’s NIL has gone up and that probably helped UCLA like it did for all schools.

From your response in these threads, I don’t get the impression that you understand how revenue sharing works and how it’s made a difference this year.
 
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Mikemarc

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Mikemarc said:
he’s spot on. There’s zero reason Schiano is still winless vs top 25 teams.
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NotInRHouse said:
LOL the last time this happened was 1985. How did Sanders and Fran Brown do yesterday?

We had interim staffs before playing the Cult. Under your boy Flood. How did that go? We also had "splashy" hire after him. Any wins there?
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not sure what the point is here. What does sanders, brown, flood have to do with what happened yesterday??

a UCLA coach in 2 games does TWO things Greg hasn’t done yet in 6 seasons. It’s ridiculous we can’t beat a top 25 team.
 
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Knight Shift said:
Ask al. It's their fieldhouse. No, it's their donors. No, it's the NIL they spent on their QB.

Coaching matters. They got rid of the inept head coach, installed a new interim HC and an OC, and boom. Either that, or PSU was jet lagged and still sad about losing their white out.

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Al has no clue
It starts with the HC and Staff.
 
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