So this stuff happens every year, coaches leave and/or get fired presenting lots of opportunity for ambitious head and assitant coaches. I worry about the PSU assistants, Yurcich in particular.
@lakerie Do you think with the team JF has now along with the current #1 recruiting class that he would leave?
Yep.
It will not surprise me at all if JF bolts before the bowl game (no Championship series) or after the Championship Series ends (we get in). I think the only thing that keeps him at PSU is not wanting to be under the pressure that any coach at LSU is going to experience, especially based on the $factor and no excuses BS that he escapes with the PSU Admin. Basically all he has to do at PSU is go $ Bowling every year and run a clean program; beating OSU and Mich is not even a termination factor, IMO.
I guess it just depends on the money. I think his success along with the #1 recruiting class makes his resume the best it’s been. Also Louisiana or California are better recruiting grounds than Pennsylvania and New Jersey. That said, I hope this is just the usual talk when the college coaching carousel starts and he is perfectly happy here.
Team with ridiculous fanbase that demands a coach be fired after a National Title 2 years ago has an opening
Journalists: "It's a great job!"
Reputable Coaches: "So I can win a NC there and still be on the hot seat every week? No thanks"
Journalists when they hire someone not on their "short list": "I don't know why they hired this guy"
Definitions again
Reporter - some facts and accountability towards facts
journalist - softer than a reporter with facts but still some professional ethics towards softer facts?
Editorialist - opinion, less accountability
Blogger - softer than editorialist
Talking head - mostly speculators with no facts paid to fill time with useless dribble. ESPN, Weather Channel during Hurricanes and I'll avoid the political ones. No accountability, now work. just filling time.
I have no idea how Franklin thinks because he is too much of a salesman. He sells he is a PA guy, a family guy, academics matter, team is family, not win at all costs. And it is easy to tell people what they want to believe anyway. Who knows. I should say very little surprises me anymore but that is not true, regularly people tell me something and I think 'that is ridiculous, it can't be true. And I check and it is true.
I sit an wander what a realistic expectation for someone like Orgeron is. Beat Saban half the time? We know that LSU pretty much has the same standards as AL but man if every team in the top 20 fired a coach because he wasn't in the top 4 every year...
Let me guess that he didn't Oscar Meyer a Coed...that would be ignored if he was in the finals.
