And history of PSU football. And a slap at Rutgers.
http://www.offtackleempire.com/2016...-state-football-from-glory-to-hype-and-beyond
True, James Franklin somehow won 9 games at Vanderbilt. Twice, actually. But we know a lot less about those circumstances than we do the last 26 games he's coached at Penn State (which seems more directly relevant to discussing how James Franklin will do at Penn State). And here's what we've seen:
Thus, the big boy pants financial injection is best represented as a blood transfusion into a brainless Frankenstein who is armed with a club, blindly swinging at the pitch black darkness, but generally missing his targets - unless that target is Rutgers, who is just dumb enough to guide Frankie's club toward its own stupid face.
Comments are pretty interesting.
http://www.offtackleempire.com/2016...-state-football-from-glory-to-hype-and-beyond
True, James Franklin somehow won 9 games at Vanderbilt. Twice, actually. But we know a lot less about those circumstances than we do the last 26 games he's coached at Penn State (which seems more directly relevant to discussing how James Franklin will do at Penn State). And here's what we've seen:
- His 2014 spring roster featured exactly two offensive linemen with any game experience at all, and just five total non-true freshmen offensive linemen. So he chose to implement an old school smash-mouth run blocking scheme.
- Oh by the way? The old school smash-mouth was run from the shotgun, featuring read-option action by a completely stationary, pocket-passer at QB who kept the ball a grand total of one time in two years.
- His passing scheme of choice was the traditional Bill Walsh "west coast" - a massively complex and tightly integrated timing scheme best executed by savvy, long-time veterans. By rule, college football never has long-time veterans, so very few coaches attempt to run traditional Bill Walsh "west coast" offenses in college. This tenet became coaching dogma once Bill Walsh struggled to implement the Bill Walsh west coast offense at Stanford in 1993. Still, Franklin broke that dogma anyhow.
- He had 3 receiving TEs and 0 blocking TEs, so he made them block and didn't throw them the ball.
- 2014 Northwestern couldn't stop the run, so he passed 36 times and ran the football exactly one time in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.
- He ran a jet sweep "fake" punt from Michigan's 33 yard line, that everyone saw coming because of the jet sweep pre-snap motion, while Michigan was in punt safe, because no one expects to return a punt when the other team is kicking from your 33-yard line.
- And on, and on, and on.
Thus, the big boy pants financial injection is best represented as a blood transfusion into a brainless Frankenstein who is armed with a club, blindly swinging at the pitch black darkness, but generally missing his targets - unless that target is Rutgers, who is just dumb enough to guide Frankie's club toward its own stupid face.
Comments are pretty interesting.
