Trace was an average run first dual threat QB. He was a key player because he touched the ball on every play but was mostly a role player, like it or not.
On his radio show tonight, Franklin made a cryptic statement about his future at Penn State
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It is true that Franklin flipped Saquan but it is also true that BoB brought him into the fold and Franklin does not recruit Whitehall. Franklin gets the assist but that is it.
You end your argument with an IF.
and you just watched that field general have 3 timeouts with 1:15 left and the one timeout he calls is to……Kneel.
it appears the joke is on us.
My issue is that Franklin from day one rejected power football. He rejected a full house backfield a full back the "I formation". JF could have easily developed a balanced attack over his tenure but he went 100 % RPO. That mindset stunted the ability of the O line to run block. He didn't' recruit or develop "road graders" on the O line. JF was consumed with recruiting mainly only skill players. Football is many things one thing it is not is rocket science. You have to teach and display fundamentals of tackling, blocking, good footwork. Football is situational and JF never understood that or respond to the situation. How many time do we win a game if only we had the ability and capability to control the ball. I'll buy his plane ticket west.
Disagree all you'd like, popular NCAA boards such as Reddit almost universally do not consider PSU a blue blood program.
Annually we compete better against OSU than any other program in the conference. My OSU friends would be thrilled if Franklin left. There are some valid criticisms about Franklin, but his general overall level of competitiveness vs. OSU ain't it.
Just curious is Georgia considered blue blood on those boards??
Since 2005 they’ve won a single conference championship and PSU has won three; since 1980 they’ve won one NCAA tittle, PSU has won two beating them for one (I was there). Oh, and PSU has better overall Bowl winning % too.
Lastly, don’t forget the better overall winning percentage and 50 or so more wins overall.
No, Georgia is usually out too and lumped into the same tier as PSU. Many have PSU as the top school in the next tier for whatever that's worth.
The below chart is referenced a lot. The chart only considers AP rankings so it's not how the overall list is typically created, which factors in a number of things such as wins, bowls, Heismans, conference titles, national titles, rankings, playoffs, etc., but it just so happens to align with what many often consider to be the blue blood tier so it's shared frequently. The 8 programs in the upper right are the most commonly mentioned blue bloods from what I've seen: Ohio St., Michigan, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Notre Dame, USC.
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Hmmm, ok. So basically it’s the top 8 teams with the most historical wins with SC added and Yale and PSU left out.
Interesting that some people here mentioned NIL, as I think this is going to be increasingly important in recruiting and I am curious about how PSU does compared to other 'big-time' schools.
I'll be called a kool-aid drinker, but what the hell, people forget that when JF started, Penn State was a pariah school in the middle of sanctions. He got PSU up to speed rather quickly, and (covid year excepted) kept the Lions at a pretty high level. Yes, the Illinois game sucked, and we are impatient to get over that hump and beat OSU, but consider where the school came from when Franklin started.
I'll be called a kool-aid drinker, but what the hell, people forget that when JF started, Penn State was a pariah school in the middle of sanctions. He got PSU up to speed rather quickly, and (covid year excepted) kept the Lions at a pretty high level. Yes, the Illinois game sucked, and we are impatient to get over that hump and beat OSU, but consider where the school came from when Franklin started.
