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I'll be happy with 6 and a bowl game. Sure I'd like to see more but this team has all the hallmarks of a "rebuilding year".

I agree. At the same time I think that's the standard operating procedure in college football. Everyone seems to do it. I think there's some nuance in there where we could hopefully prevent the opposing team from just running between the DBs all the time for an easy catch. Granted our...

Our defense is very roughly middle of the road in the B1G stats wise (with a pounding by the clear #1 in there) ... that's not great but it's NOT the biggest problem this team has. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/big-ten/2025-team-defense.html Granted tackling could be WAY...

We had good luck with Rossi.

Either way OL needs to get get better so we have the option / threat of a run. I got no problem with passing if we can protect The Drake.

Hell a QB injury can get you left out of the playoffs if the committee wants to ...

I’ve yet to find reliable data on NIL numbers.

I feel like every school is waiting on the right folks to care. Arkansas talks about Walmart money… never seems to happen.

I think just the math works out that an unlikely event such as a coach who takes a middle of the road school to the playoffs ... is more likely to occur elsewhere than at the one school you're watching. There's just lots of those middle of the road schools / chances.

Agreed. Unless he is burnt out, Franklin seems like a HC kinda guy.

And two QBs. Ultimate wildcat ... Meanwhile the center: Guies come on this is not an easy job as it is ...

I think we can't even start our blocks much of the time. I suspect the idea of letting it play out slowly is to let the RB find the hole because ... it might not be where it should be / often isn't. Some of our best runs seemed like the RB went to a different spot than the blocking would...

Yup, our offense is far worse compared to the rest of the B1G.

Penn St. showing they don't care about $49m .... UVA got that kinda money?

Is our defense ... bad? I know the Purdue game gave up a ton of stats (except for points) but overall I thought our defense is roughly middle of the road. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/big-ten/2025-team-defense.html

Yeah when I saw Koi up on the line with the WRs I was not pleased.

Paterno also had fairly cyclical ups and downs record wise… something Franklin has largely avoided.

Yeah had Purdue pulled up 2 scores or something late ... I would get it. That would have been the end. Purdue's antics are akin to AK shhhhhing the crowd ... in the 1st. Little early.

Penn State has been horrible the past few weeks. But this whole playoff team a few months ago, a few weeks ago a loss vs Oregon because a knee maybe hit a few blades of grass … to FIRED. This was insanely fast.

Yeah I like him. He kinda reminds me of PJ in some ways. But I don’t see him as proven to be a coach who earns the top tier jobs.