2027 Recruiting Thread
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The insistence of featuring small highly athletic DTs plagued the defense throughout most of Franklin’s tenure. Mustipher was an exception (never the same again after the injury), but other than him it was mostly smaller athletic DTs. That style worked very well to beat lesser competition, but if stronger conference opponents wanted to run the ball down our throats nearly every down to put us away like Michigan in 2023 or Illinois in 2021, they could do so. We always feared in big games we would start wearing down in the fourth quarter. The twitchy guys are fine if paired with a large DT.
I wasn’t talking to you, sophomore.
What I disagree with is the name calling. We can all have our opinions. Disagreement is no reason to label someone a "moron".
Franklin won the conference in 3. I don't see HCMC getting more than that in this era of "college football." I'd like someone to wager that if "excellence at the highest level" and the "NC our fans deserve" are not achieved by year 12 that either will be at PSU.
Of course I understand that the every major school has an Addidas or Nike deal but the PSU deal was quite large. That might be because it's one of the newest. It's probably also because PSU has a top 10 fan base which should get them a better deal with outfits like Addidas than most schools.
I agree that I would have liked to see the $700 billion stadium redo scaled back to $500 billion with the other $200 billion going towards players. $200 billion would provide a lot of NIL money for a decade or so. Unfortunately I don't think it works that way. Donors would prefer to sponsor a facility with a long lifespan instead of an unproven player who will be gone in a few years. I also don't think it's legal. The university can only spend $20.5 million directly and I don't know the rules for direct donor payments to athletes. Besides, PSU doesn't have $700 million for stadium renovations. They're borrowing most of the money and expect to make it back over time with higher revenues from tickets, suites, and other events. I think they've "only" received $50-$100 million or so in donations (Misitano Family, Founders, etc) so the rest is being financed.
I think Bacon and Campbell are both a seniors so neither are part of a long term rebuilding plan. It would have been nice to have both players this fall because Rojas is the only other highly rated LB and who knows how he'll be after surgery.
My guess is that coach would have liked both players but he couldn't justify paying Campbell more than Bacon. There has to be some parity or you risk conflict between players.
That's how I've felt from the beginning but the problem isn't that our stadium is too nice. It's that you can only get so much from the donors.
PSU has an uphill battle trying to match the amount of money some other schools are able to raise but I think they should be able to hang around 15th.