His team beat Notre Dame and is undefeated. He literally does do more with less as he was quoted a few months ago lamenting how little resources he has at BYU versus what he saw was available at PSU during the coaching search. The Notre Dame team he beat today has at least double his NIL war chest. Per insiders a number of his best players were coming with him to Happy Valley before cookie crumble got involved and ruined Krafty the Klown’s pinky swear non-written agreement. Goodness what could’ve been.
Sitake would have been a better option than Campbell
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Gotta give credit to Pat Kraft for identifying a great, out-of-the-box coaching candidate.
I blame Kraft for not hiring Bob Chesney.
He and Neeli were enamored with him but deserve no credit as he could not get him across the written finish line. He then lost Chesney who wanted to be here but left with the news on Sitake and then was left with Daboll and Rees until Campbell came along. We are totally effed over the next 3-4 years if Campbell cannot get it together. We cannot afford to go a different direction with that buyout. This is looking worse than the sanction years. At least that depleted team had balls.
We are not getting it together in any significant way. Kraft can't get enough NIL so we will do okay in the portal for next season but not spectacular. Call it 7-5 maybe 8-4.
Probably 8-4 in '28. Then what? We are never getting close to elite or 10 win seasons under Campbell from what I see and if we do make the playoff it is only because it expanded to 24 and we lose in the first rd.
Need to cut bait with Campbell after year 3 while canning Kraft next year. Then the new AD can reenergize/revitalize NIL and have Campbell on a 2 year secret probation. My prediction is the new AD won't be satisfied with the trajectory of the program after the '28 season and cans Campbell.
Then a new search which hopefully is better than what we just went through and we get a guy that is actually a keeper.
I have to agree with this and I’ve been highly critical of PK. Of course, he never got him over the finish line with is a massive blunder.
I never saw the fit with Sitake but no question his team was playing tough football last night and he is a winner. Looks like it would’ve been a good hire.
Spent yesterday traveling and didn’t see any games. After seeing the final score of the PSU game and the team and player stats, as well as the surprising scores of several other games, I think Campbell is gonna be fine. Caveat: he needs to recruit a little better, and he has to understand it and follow through on it.
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He was not leaving the temple. Everyone needs to get over it already. Especially the trolls here.
For the record, I think Matt Campbell gets the job done at Penn State.
We lost yesterday due to horrible QB play in the second half. Interceptions are going to happen, but the first play after halftime that we have the ball and our 5th year QB throws the ball into triple coverage. An interception was the most likely outcome. The second interception showed the lack of arm talent and vision. The TE started turning up field if QB waits one more second and throws it down the side line over the DB it could have been a touchdown or big play. The fumble was also bad as our QB had no idea that he was under pressure......
the other aspect is that our run defense is god awful. DL and LB cannot get off of blocks. If 13 is not making the tackle then we are in trouble. 8, 10, 31 cannot get off of blocks and when they do, they are too slow to get to the RB.Everyone is congratulating Carr for the comeback by Michigan, but other than the two ridiculously defensed runs from Carr, what did he do? 3rd and Goal from the 10 and he runs into the endzone....it almost seemed like a give up play by Michigan to settle for the FG and it scores a TD. A 4.8 40 yard QB runs for 26 yards down to the one and a 10 yard scamper into the end zone..........
Other than the safety call that could have been a safety......it was one of the better officiated Mich - PSU games showing how far Mich has fallen too as they did not get the Wolverine calls that they usually do.............. 3-0 at halftime. Give up 3 TD in second half against the worst offense that Mich has put on the field since the 60s.
the other aspect is that our run defense is god awful. DL and LB cannot get off of blocks. If 13 is not making the tackle then we are in trouble. 8, 10, 31 cannot get off of blocks and when they do, they are too slow to get to the RB.Everyone is congratulating Carr for the comeback by Michigan, but other than the two ridiculously defensed runs from Carr, what did he do? 3rd and Goal from the 10 and he runs into the endzone....it almost seemed like a give up play by Michigan to settle for the FG and it scores a TD. A 4.8 40 yard QB runs for 26 yards down to the one and a 10 yard scamper into the end zone..........
Other than the safety call that could have been a safety......it was one of the better officiated Mich - PSU games showing how far Mich has fallen too as they did not get the Wolverine calls that they usually do.............. 3-0 at halftime. Give up 3 TD in second half against the worst offense that Mich has put on the field since the 60s.
I'm getting an appointment with my optometrist, because I'm having difficulty seeing "excellence at the highest level, and the national championship our fans deserve," from where I'm standing.
(some of us) deserve better
The NIL nonsense has reached epic levels of ridiculousness
Much like those claiming the sanctions were still impacting us years later
The hope of firing Kraft then Campbell is fine (hopefully we steal Will Stein at that point) but NIL isn't the problem you all pretend it is based on "made up" numbers
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