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Jim Knowles (DC Penn St.)

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THE BREAKING POINT. Brandon Marcello and Richard Johnson have the tea about Jim Knowles. The CBS college football writers reported Monday that Knowles, like other veteran coaches, “has a breaking point with directives.” After the Oregon game, when Day said Ohio State re-engineered its defensive philosophy and scheme, Knowles “reached his limit.”

Jim Knowles’ defense is not static and is certainly malleable to suggestions, but even a veteran coach has a breaking point with directives.
The coordinator reached his limit after three years at Ohio State, where he successfully revamped and revitalized a struggling unit into a championship-caliber group in short order — but not without interference and pressures from head coach Ryan Day, who inserted himself in defensive meetings more often this season and asked for changes to be made midway through the season, sources told CBS Sports. Last week, their short marriage ended with Knowles bolting for rival Penn State. A bigger payday and more autonomy to run his scheme await him in State College, where he will be introduced Tuesday in a press conference.
The departure was not a surprise for Ohio State staffers. Knowles also fielded discussions with Oklahoma and Notre Dame, and rumors of a departure for the Sooners hit a fever pitch as the Buckeyes prepared for the national championship game against the Irish. It never distracted Ohio State, particularly because Knowles, lovingly referred to as a hermit with a coach’s whistle, never relented from his habits: locking himself in his office, studying opponents’ film and developing concise game plans before emerging behind closed doors with a plan that always seemed to wow his players.
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That’s it. That’s the tea.

Knowles’ departure is increasingly looking like the best outcome for both parties. If winning a national championship couldn’t help Knowles look past Day’s directives post-Oregon loss – directives that, you know, led to the Buckeyes winning said national championship – then the relationship was irreparable.

Oh, well.

Before the season, if someone told me Ohio State would win a national championship but lose Jim Knowles, I’d make that deal. (Damn good deal.)

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he successfully revamped and revitalized a struggling unit into a championship-caliber group in short order — but not without interference and pressures from head coach Ryan Day
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Well now, apparently Knowles was not the coach I thought he was. So, his breaking point was being told to pull himself toward himself and to stop laying back like he was.

I couldn't understand that rather sheepish and muted celebration of the defense. Now, I realise he looked that way because it wasn't the defense he wanted to run.

And he reached his "breaking point"? Amazing.

I feel much better now about Franklin's national championship run.

My apologies to Ryan Day.
 
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