Jim Knowles (DC Penn St.)

[BUCKYLE]

That’s definitely a way to spin what I heard

I was told that Johnson had control over what the dline did no matter what Knowles called, and that resulted in confusion, anger and an inevitable rift. The specific example was “Knowles would call 1 on 1 on the outside and expect the dline to rush, but Johnson would have the ends drop into coverage instead”

I don’t know the normal hierarchy of playcalling, but the way it was described to me sounds pretty dumb.

EDIT: I’ll also add that the defense was awesome, and it’s unfortunate that a rift developed at all. From my eyes, whatever the problem was behind the scenes seems to have been rectified the second that Oregon game ended. You’d think a natty would calm hard feelings.

One other thing - I’m not a source of news, I just happened to have lunch with someone today who is

Yeah that's been the scuttlebutt.

We'll be just fine. As long as Downs doesn't follow him lol.

Can you imagine how pissed we'd be if he went to a legit contender or God forbid...a RIVAL?!

Luckily he's just going to prebb stain. Dodged a bullet there. Whew.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

Ohio State very clearly wanted it look like they did everything they could to retain Knowles, which I’m sure they did, based on the comments that they made him an offer that would make him the highest paid DC in the nation. I wish they would have just said “we wanted a DC that wasn’t a dead snail on the recruiting trail.”

 

[dragurd]

Yeah that's been the scuttlebutt.

We'll be just fine. As long as Downs doesn't follow him lol.

Can you imagine how pissed we'd be if he went to a legit contender or God forbid...a RIVAL?!

Luckily he's just going to prebb stain. Dodged a bullet there. Whew.

Considering how often we missed out on safeties and LB's that would have fit his D I'm not overly worried about it. Now if he left when portal was open it might have been an issue if people transferred before waiting on who we'd get. But now it's closed we'll be fine

 

[3074326]

Yeah, we’ve known about the rift between LJsr and Knowles for a while. But many figured LJsr would leave before Knowles

I haven’t been paying attention to the rumors much. Didn’t know what had been reported. This was the first I had heard of why there was a rift. Either way, we will get someone good.

 

[Bill Lucas]

Thanks.

Now fuck off.

 

[gmen6981]

I haven’t been paying attention to the rumors much. Didn’t know what had been reported. This was the first I had heard of why there was a rift. Either way, we will get someone good.

Yeah, the LJ/Knowles "feud" goes back to at least last season. It's the news he was butthurt over Day laying down the law that is new.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Penn st. Doesn't have the talent to make him look good. BKB says so.

 

[lvbuckeye]

Franklin plays as a tank and still spends all his upgrades to take his defense from a 90 to 95. Meanwhile that 65 offense is weeping in a corner.

I did not expect an RPG comparison in this thread.

 

[morbitzerker]

This all sounds like some soap opera drama I really don't want to care about this week.

 

[Captain Buckeye]

People need to leave his sister alone. It's not her decision or for her to try to explain

No one is after Paula. People go after her because she’s out there cursing people out etc for bad talking her brother.

I get why she’s doing it but she shouldn’t be on Twitter reading comments

 

[Captain Buckeye]

Was thinking too that we can’t just keep upping his salary either. At some point there’s value in having someone younger with other ideas. He’s not young by any means so this is as good a time as any off the back of a title.

 

[dragurd]

No one is after Paula. People go after her because she’s out there cursing people out etc for bad talking her brother.

I get why she’s doing it but she shouldn’t be on Twitter reading comments

Ahh twitter is impossible to read without an account due the idiotic change to sort by likes by Elon. And I have no desire to ever have an account

 

[Jaxbuck]

Somebody should connect Paula and Herbie.

Sounds like they’d get along famously.

 

[lvbuckeye]

Somebody should connect Paula and Herbie.

Sounds like they’d get along famously.

Where will his wife move this time?

 

[sg86]

No one is after Paula. People go after her because she’s out there cursing people out etc for bad talking her brother.

I get why she’s doing it but she shouldn’t be on Twitter reading comments

It’s impossible for a woman from Philadelphia not to be an attention-seeking loudmouth