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ESPN: Who will be the next college football coach to win his first national title?

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"The Close Ones"
Sarkisian, Texas 🤨
Lanning, Oregon 🤨
Freeman, ND 😑
Franklin, PSU 😏
DeBoer, Bama 🤔

"Wild Cards"
Kelly, LSU 👎
Heupel, Tennessee 🤨
Kiffin, Ole Miss 🤨
Moore, Michigan 😑
Dillingham, ASU 🚚
Cristobal, UM 🙏

"Slipping Away"
USC, Riley 🚶‍♂️🚪
Norvell, FSU 🤣
Fickell, Wisconsin 🙅‍♂️

"Not included in the Discussion"
Napier, UF 🤣
 
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More resources, more talent, no excuses in 2023 2024 2025.
 
Rather have Mario than Lanning. He's at impostor at this point

Sark the Softy in big games last season: loses at home to UGA; loses in the SEC championship to UGA and its backup QB; gets outwitted by Day in the CFP semis (not to mention a missed targeting call from likely crapping the bed against ASU in the quarterfinals)
 
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DTP said:
How long does it have to be before James Franklin is just another guy who was good but never great?
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Next year or probably never.

Allar, Both backs, his usual really good defense(now led by Knowles). OSU will have a new QB, Michigan will have a freshman...and Oregon who based on talent and resources moving forward should almost never lose. But PSU has it all next year.
 
People on here are haters so they won't like hearing this, but I really don't think that far we're that far off from competing for a national championship. If we had even an average defense this past year, we easily would have made a deep playoff run. In 2025, we'll likely have another top 10 offense in the country, and if the defense can play to the level we think they can, I don't see how we wouldn't be in the mix to compete in the playoffs. Even if we snuck into the playoffs in 2024, I don't think its that crazy to think we couldn't compete with those teams just because of how good Cam and the Offense were. It would have been like every game we played this year where the offense would keep us in games, and we'd hope for a stop or two from the defense
 
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Hold My Beer said:
All things considered, Franklin did a better job at Vandy than he's done at PSU to this point
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Penn State had been down pretty bad for a while before he got there. To his credit, he’s made them a consistent winner. Are the fans tired of 9-10 wins and finishing third in the big 10 every year?
 
Hold My Beer said:
All things considered, Franklin did a better job at Vandy than he's done at PSU to this point
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I mean I think Franklin has gotten Penn States to as high as they can go. If they fired him, who would they even realistically get? What coach would really bring them to that next level?In todays era, you don't need some genius X's and O's guru to run a successful program
 
ST26 said:
People on here are haters so they won't like hearing this, but I really don't think that far we're that far off from competing for a national championship. If we had even an average defense this past year, we easily would have made a deep playoff run. In 2025, we'll likely have another top 10 offense in the country, and if the defense can play to the level we think they can, I don't see how we wouldn't be in the mix to compete in the playoffs. Even if we snuck into the playoffs in 2024, I don't think its that crazy to think we couldn't compete with those teams just because of how good Cam and the Offense were. It would have been like every game we played this year where the offense would keep us in games, and we'd hope for a stop or two from the defense
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I don’t disagree.

Let me preface this by saying I do not think we were one of the best teams in the country last year. But…last year was the first year in a really long time where we could legitimately beat any team. I’m not saying we WOULD beat anyone but our offense was good enough to keep us in a game against even the very best teams. Our defense was obviously garbage and would probably cost us a win had we made the playoff but I know we would have had a much better showing than Clemson and SMU did.
 
ST26 said:
People on here are haters so they won't like hearing this, but I really don't think that far we're that far off from competing for a national championship. If we had even an average defense this past year, we easily would have made a deep playoff run. In 2025, we'll likely have another top 10 offense in the country, and if the defense can play to the level we think they can, I don't see how we wouldn't be in the mix to compete in the playoffs. Even if we snuck into the playoffs in 2024, I don't think its that crazy to think we couldn't compete with those teams just because of how good Cam and the Offense were. It would have been like every game we played this year where the offense would keep us in games, and we'd hope for a stop or two from the defense
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The board has discussed the shortcoming of the team enough. Mario’s coaching/being in the ACC etc etc. I don’t have any current illusions of us winning #6

That said we are clearly investing and committing to the team. Looking at the last couple of years since NIL has exploded I’d say we’ve been one of the more consistent teams as far as resources

These days it feels like that will be more important than anything else. We aren’t at the head of the table but we are in the room anyway. That should give us some consistent chances to be in the conversation anyway, and not a ton of places have that

How it feels to me anyway
 
Well first basic hurdle of winning 9+ games by year two was failed by Mario. He will be the first to do it in the modern era. Really the numbers say he will never do it with this team. But like everyone else I'm hopeful the new college football era will go in our favor.
 
JHallCanes said:
The board has discussed the shortcoming of the team enough. Mario’s coaching/being in the ACC etc etc. I don’t have any current illusions of us winning #6

That said we are clearly investing and committing to the team. Looking at the last couple of years since NIL has exploded I’d say we’ve been one of the more consistent teams as far as resources

These days it feels like that will be more important than anything else. We aren’t at the head of the table but we are in the room anyway. That should give us some consistent chances to be in the conversation anyway, and not a ton of places have that

How it feels to me anyway
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Just need to navigate ourselves into either the SEC or B1G

Sooner rather than later
 
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Sark has the best team money can buy littered with 1st round picks. If he can't do it this year it won't be happening.
 
Hold My Beer said:
"The Close Ones"
Sarkisian, Texas 🤨
Lanning, Oregon 🤨
Freeman, ND 😑
Franklin, PSU 😏
DeBoer, Bama 🤔

"Wild Cards"
Kelly, LSU 👎
Heupel, Tennessee 🤨
Kiffin, Ole Miss 🤨
Moore, Michigan 😑
Dillingham, ASU 🚚
Cristobal, UM 🙏

"Slipping Away"
USC, Riley 🚶‍♂️🚪
Norvell, FSU 🤣
Fickell, Wisconsin 🙅‍♂️

"Not included in the Discussion"
Napier, UF 🤣
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Excellent emoji game
 
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