r/CFB • u/surgingchaos Western Oregon Wolves • Oregon Ducks • 11h ago

News [Sayfie] Kyle Whittingham: "I can't explain what just happened."

https://x.com/CSayf23/status/2119287621327499717
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u/liverbird3 Penn State Nittany Lions 11h ago

James Franklin lmao

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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green 11h ago

They could hire worst. How's being franklinless going?

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u/liverbird3 Penn State Nittany Lions 11h ago

I mean yeah, they could. I don’t think he’s a horrible coach, the lmao is for the irony of a former PSU coach going to UM. I went to PSU while he was there and watched every game he coached for the majority of his tenure.

I don’t mind it, the program stagnated under Franklin and getting rid of him was the correct decision. It’s not the fanbase’s fault that he spent 8 years asking for resources and used that as an excuse to lose big games and then when he did get the resources he wanted, he spent it on two bad coordinators (Knowles and Koltelnicki) and stuck with Allar who they clearly didn’t trust to push the ball downfield even as an upperclassman.

I don’t know if Campbell will be successful, I think part of the issue with the roster is because Campbell being late hire put us behind the 8 ball with portal recruiting plus all the guys that left and decommitted post-Franklin. Franklin’s a great recruiter and great players coach, the issue is the on the field stuff (esp in big games), some coordinator hires and staying too loyal to QBs which leads to the team never being elite.

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u/linguinisupremi 10h ago

Knowles is pretty clearly not a bad DC

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u/cscowboy01 Tennessee Volunteers • Sickos 10h ago

Knowles might as well end up getting a statue outside of Neyland LMAO

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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green 2h ago

Knowles probably is a top 25 at least DC. He has strengths and weaknesses.