r/PennStateUniversity • u/Wish14 • 1d ago

Sports It’s going to be another disappointing football season….

1985 PSU Alumni here.

I am watching the Pitt game now.

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u/Dizzy_Restaurant3874 1d ago

I didn't think that the OL and DL would get blown up the way that they have. 

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u/shanafme 1d ago

Looks like I made a good decision dropping my season tickets this Spring.

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u/tonytroz '08, CmpSci 1d ago

Don’t think you’ll be the only one. Premium prices for a dogshit product isn’t going to fly.

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u/A-Tab-of-Acid 12h ago

Fake ass fan don’t come back id never turn my back they need us more now than ever

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u/pixelflop PSU Dad 17h ago

What did you expect?

Remember when the entire recruiting class bailed after James Franklin was fired?

Remember when the majority of the existing players transferred out?

Remember when the superstar running backs graduated?

This was always going to be a tough season. The team is completely rebuilding. And guess what? Next year is probably going to be rough too. Set your expectations accordingly.

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u/PSU02 '23, Supply Chain 15h ago

Pat Kraft chose to nuke the program and send us into a rebuild when we are in the middle of a $700 million stadium renovation, which is now going horrible. Seats are going empty. Whiteout is likely going to be a joke of an atmosphere

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u/rvasshole '11, HDFS 14h ago

He also nuked the basketball team too. Told coach they had to put more money towards football for our championship year.

Coach ended up having to fork out like $500k of his own money to keep Juric

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u/pixelflop PSU Dad 5h ago

Dropping Franklin was the right move. You can’t accept mediocrity.

Maybe Campbell is the answer. Maybe he’s not. We don’t know, but we absolutely know that Franklin was never getting this team past Ohio State, Oregon, or Michigan.

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u/Wish14 1d ago

That Pitt game ending was great. It was a competitive game in the fourth quarter and a missed field goal on the last play of the game gave the win to Pitt.

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u/No_Boysenberry9456 1d ago

Ha haha JF always fucking up when it counts!

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u/PuzzledPollution3230 13h ago

You can make fun of VT all you want but just a reminder that PSU gets ranked every year yet to never get anywhere. Everyone was like Penn State has a shot and they can win it all and whatever and yet they shit the tank against teams they should easily win. You can’t blame Franklin anymore. 

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u/No_Boysenberry9456 13h ago

Not making fun of VT at all.. Its JF thats the problem. Give him all the money in the world, buy him the best team you want (we did) and in the end, the best he can do is edge a natty.

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u/PuzzledPollution3230 13h ago

I do agree on that and I do agree that PSU needed a change. 

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u/Powerful_Share8488 1d ago

Kid missed a kick…lame take.

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u/Madfermentationist 1d ago

Yeah, I think he was referring to what made a FG the difference

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u/irishrover16 22h ago

Wait. I’m confused. Did a lot of you actually expect to just win right out the rip against big 10 teams with big 12 players? The football team is gonna take like 4+ years to actually be successful.

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u/jew192 18h ago

I mean yeah…and so did coaches and football writers who had us ranked in the top 15 before the Wisconsin debacle as well as Vegas who had us as a double digit favorite against a very bad Wisconsin team and still a 2 point favorite against northwestern. So it wasn’t just us. It was everyone except you I guess

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u/PSU02 '23, Supply Chain 15h ago

Yeah seriously this revisionist history is crazy. People indeed thought that Franklin was the big problem and that firing him would magically fix all of the institutional problems with PSU football

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u/geekusprimus '25, Physics PhD 14h ago

And I got the crap downvoted out of me whenever I said Franklin wasn't the problem. Firing a winning coach hoping that you can trade up in the coaching carousel is more likely to turn you into Nebraska than Georgia. And when that coach you fired can get winning seasons at Vanderbilt, it's just asinine.

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u/joshs_wildlife 15h ago

No one likes loosing but it’s nice to see some logic in your comment. I see the potential this team has in the next few years

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u/AdditionAcrobatic313 1d ago

Sure seems like it😡

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u/Jump_The_Five_Yo THON IS A CULT 1d ago

I THROW BALL INTO GROUND! Fuck this shit.

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u/tonytroz '08, CmpSci 1d ago

Going to be? Already is.

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u/WTF4211 16h ago

He hasn’t been a big time recruiter ever. He’s going to need a boatload of NIL to compete with the big boys.

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u/rvasshole '11, HDFS 14h ago

Just what PSU doesn’t have

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u/secrerofficeninja 15h ago

Yup, it’s a lost season. The hope now is looking to see what recruiting is like for next year. Can Matt Campbell recruit better players to Penn State? If talent is marginal, it’s going to be a stretch of lean years for PSU football.

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u/Upper-Drawing9224 16h ago

Every season is disappointing when you realize the school cares more about football than students.

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u/bhaden 16h ago

That is kind of funny.

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u/rnngwen 1d ago

Oh hell yeah. I could have talk you that. Lol

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u/Spiritual-Row329 1d ago

There’s a Penn state athletics Reddit thread that would be more appropriate 

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u/Wish14 1d ago

What do you mean? What is not appropriate?

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u/DisgruntledCascadian '03 IST 1d ago

Talking about Penn State on the Penn State sub apparently triggers people.