I think he ran the QB more than he wanted to because we lost three backs in a week and only had true freshmen backs.
Woah - Ciarrocca Done
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Thanks for clarifying. Your previous post was too complex to understand
I know we were a little hard hit in the RB department this year, but it seemed to me most of our running game was centered around QB runs. They may have been good runners, but you need diversity. Everybody knew on 3rd or 4th and short when Levis came in he was going to run with the ball. You may be able to get away with that once or twice, but you go to the well too often, the well is going to run dry.
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I remember when we used to credit our success to the longevity & stability of the coaching staff.
Who's replacing Pry? Is that in another press release coming soon. Because it doesn't matter who we have as OC if we're letting wide open receivers walk into the end zone as I saw early in the season.
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Texas at one point had the #1 HS QB committed to them for '22 didn't they (Quinn Ewers)? He's an OSU verbal for now; wonder if Day kicks the tires on the NFL if Yurcich is able to get back in the door...
Great talent makes great coaching......you have to be pretty simple to think Ryan Day is a coaching genius with the offensive talent at Pitt. Franklin built a career on success at every stop in his coaching career. His demonstrated accomplishment as an assistant coach presented him with an opportunity to be a HC....He took that opportunity at a place NO ONE has prospered at and produced unprecedented results. Was he a "figurehead" at Vandy? To assume he couldn't be an OC is just foolish.
Lulz....I have no idea how badly I typed something that auto correct came up with Yadkin!
Cool story. I would not hire him as an OC at Penn State, fortunately for me, he is our HC.
To be clear.....this is as close to a home run hire as they come. I'm really optimistic. However, perfection will never be achieved on the football field and only that will please many here.
Penn State hires Texas' Yurcich to handle offense
Penn State has hired Mike Yurcich as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach to replace Kirk Ciarrocca, whose departure from the team was also announced.
www.espn.com
“Penn State went 4-5 in 2020 while averaging 430.3 yards per game on offense, which was second in the Big Ten to Ohio State. The Nittany Lions' offense had 32 total touchdowns in nine games, which was also second in the conference.”
The average person reading this might be dumbfounded by the firing of Ciarrocca. My guess, as a real know-nothing, is a personality clash between Franklin and Ciarrocca, bad chemistry between Ciarrocca and the players, and/or the notion that Franklin wanted to hire Yurcich before Ciarrocca. I suppose it’s possible that Franklin made the move due to red-zone issues and turnovers, but I don’t think you fire a coach over these issues after just one season, and a COVID.
season at that.on my quick read of the Texas messageboard, they seem to speak very fondly of him and think he will do very well here.
https://247sports.com/college/texas/board/21/Contents/mike-yurcich--158813309/
https://247sports.com/college/texas/board/21/Contents/mike-yurcich--158813309/
I’ve never read nor heard anyone in the program, nor on this board to my memory (which admittedly may be faulty - I am getting on in years) distill all of the variables of PSU football into the Essence of the only success metrics. So, mock the simplicity, rage that it is stating the obvious, smirk at the supposed lack of nuance - but it had not been articulated before. So, I’ll repeat for those who went to WVU: there are 3, and only 3 success metrics for Penn State football’s on-field performance:
1. beat UM
2. beat O$U
3. win the Big Ten
accomplish this in a season - good chance at playing for an NC; don’t - no shot of doing so.
Many of our football experts here would not have hired JVP for OC or DC either. He was among the best on coaching and scheming on both sides of the ball.
He always wears a headset and has been carrying a play card since Moorhead was at PSU. At one point, he was wearing it like I use to do as a playcaller. If he gets out of the offense, he can focus more on managing the game.
Similar thoughts to mine. From what I've seen they don't really play defense in the Big 12. Not being able to outscore 80-90 percent of those defenses with Texas talent is concerning.
Well actually it is. Coaching high school football or other lower endeavors doesn’t automatically make one an expert on major college football coaching. It does provide an insight that people who haven’t coached don’t have, but at times that insight maybe flawed or overly protective. I’ve heard odd and in accurate comments from both sides here on coaching issues. Well at least there odd and inaccurate from my point of view, for which I imagine if I commented on them some people would immediately find fault.
The one consistency is that no matter what you say the other side will ridicule it out of a belief that they know more than the other guy. When if truth be told, I don’t know of anyone on this board that actually has been a head coach at a major college football program. And even if we had one, his views would at times be questioned, because why in the hell would he be hanging out here instead of actually coaching somewhere.
I've seen him flipping the head set up and down but didn't see him with any play sheets, this year, until Illinois.
They mostly wanted Jay to go. I think most fans liked Vanderlinden and LJ.
I believe that’s an admirable response in that situation. However it’s also highlights the difference between high school and major college football. Tell that story to a bunch of wealthy donors at a banquet who lay out big bucks and whose only interest is winning, and you’re ass is probably fired before the rubber chicken is served.
There was wide spread criticism here for our short yardage situation failures. A package (in reality a wildcat) with Levis as the battering ram had great success. It wasn't welcomed here because 1. the QB wasn't under center 2. some decided that these were quarterback runs..... you can't make this shit up.
This move lowers my opinion of CJF even more. Maybe the new OC will last more than one season, or even maybe less than one. Hopefully he is a QB miracle worker because Penn State’s QB room has not been much of late. The product put on the field this past season was subpar, and that does not relate to the talent level, because it certainly was not horrible like the dark years.
Defense, player attitude and overall team preparedness were also lacking, some of which lies with the head honcho. Does the new hire excite me - no. Is it an upgrade? I don’t think last season was any indicator of what the OC’s offense really was because there was not the opportunity to fully instal the offense. I am taking a wait and see attitude before I anoint the new hire as the second coming. I wonder if there was some strife between CJF and the OC, which led to his ouster.
The defense still needs to be fixed.
Defense, player attitude and overall team preparedness were also lacking, some of which lies with the head honcho. Does the new hire excite me - no. Is it an upgrade? I don’t think last season was any indicator of what the OC’s offense really was because there was not the opportunity to fully instal the offense. I am taking a wait and see attitude before I anoint the new hire as the second coming. I wonder if there was some strife between CJF and the OC, which led to his ouster.
The defense still needs to be fixed.
To be fair, "we" only bitch about the plays that don't work....
I wish we had Fields so we could bitch about him running.....
Stay tuned if you don't like what you've seen. Check out the schedule for next year.
Can you say Mansfield and going to School in the same sentence????
Bloomsburg 89!!!
So many clueless people on this board. Let me guess, you're a Joebot?
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