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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

No doubt it isn't looking promising. Not many solid names out there. So they have a challenge.

Penn State fires James Franklin: Top candidates, transfers and recruits​

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell
Duke coach Manny Diaz
UNLV coach Dan Mullen

Top 5 Penn State coaching candidates after firing James Franklin​

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule
Ped State associate coach Terry Smith
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell
Duke coach Manny Diaz

Associate coach Terry Smith will serve as the program’s interim head coach for the rest of the season.

Just sayin': If they strike out with Cignetti, anyone think that they would actually go after Matt Rhule?
 
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Penn State fires James Franklin: Top candidates, transfers and recruits​

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell
Duke coach Manny Diaz
UNLV coach Dan Mullen
Please make it be Dan Mullen.

I know this is a top job and all, but would it be a good situation. The school has gone to the donors for part of the funding of the stadium renovation. They are going to have to come up with the buyout money. They will have to come up with buyout money for the new coach to leave their current position. How many donors are going to be willing to give more of their money to NIL? James Franklin and Penn State have always been out of the top 10 in team talent composition and most of the current talent is not going to be there next year.
 
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Setting aside my visceral distaste for their cult, just looking at football: is this really a big time destination job anymore?

Not really an NFL factory, located in a bad spot. I mean a bad fucking spot. glory days were in the century that stated with a 19 but a fanbase that thinks they are as good/dominant a brand as OSU.

All the pressure of a top 5 job but what advantages?
 
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Cignetti has a $10 million buyout Indiana would be owed if a team like Penn State comes calling, per The Daily Hoosier. This is typically paid by the team hiring the new coach. Under this scenario, Penn State would be on the hook for $49 million to Franklin, an additional $10 million for Cignetti's buyout and finally the coach's actual salary with the Nittany Lions. Cignetti has plenty of appeal after leading Indiana to a surprise College Football Playoff appearance.
Plus they would also be on the hook for the current assistant's buyouts if any I would assume. Take Knowles for example, I doubt that 3.1 million contract comes wiyhout some sort of buyout if a new coach goes in a different direction. ( Karma's a bitch)
 
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Penn State fires James Franklin: Top candidates, transfers and recruits​

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell
Duke coach Manny Diaz
UNLV coach Dan Mullen

Top 5 Penn State coaching candidates after firing James Franklin​

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule
Ped State associate coach Terry Smith
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell
Duke coach Manny Diaz



Just sayin': If they strike out with Cignetti, anyone think that they would actually go after Matt Rhule?
I'm thinking the big payoff boat sailed years ago on Rhule and Campbell. Had their chance and stayed instead.
 
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He leads indiana to the playoffs again this year which looks like a lockj and they will make that buyout insurmoutable if he's willing to take it
I could be way off, but I don't really see him leaving for the PSU job. He pretty much has it made at Indiana. He's 64 years old and making $8 mil a year right know. If he can keep them at the level they are right now or even maintain 9-10 win seasons for 5-6 years, he can retire as a legend and the Hoosiers would probably build a statue of him. They have never had that kind of success in their history. Why leave that for the pressure cooker job at PSU, and have to deal with everything there plus the Cult? I sure as Hell wouldn't.
 
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I could be way off, but I don't really see him leaving for the PSU job. He pretty much has it made at Indiana. He's 64 years old and making $8 mil a year right know. If he can keep them at the level they are right now or even maintain 9-10 win seasons for 5-6 years, he can retire as a legend and the Hoosiers would probably build a statue of him. They have never had that kind of success in their history. Why leave that for the pressure cooker job at PSU, and have to deal with everything there plus the Cult? I sure as Hell wouldn't.
Because Penn State has the better history, stadium, tradition etc.

I agree he shouldn’t because why invite more stress for not much of a gain but it’s a better job for football than Indiana.
 
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