Snowflakes Thread: Coaching Vs. Penn State

Watching James Franklin coach brought back bad memories of fat Hoke. 

Glad that pathetic coaching is another school's problem. About damn time we decisively out-coach another team.

I think Baxter has lost his "guru" status, at least for now.  We've had a special teams disaster five weeks in a row.

Send Franklin a Christmas card. His clock management is just mind-boggling.

Our coaches are awesome!
9 Win pos-bang!!!
Harbaugh!!!

I've had some questions about Baxter for a few weeks now, but if anything bad happens against Ohio, I will start banging the Fire Baxter drum. Also, can we make these guys run stadium steps or something to keep them from jumping offside? And Glasgow must have set some record for most Illegal Snap penalties in college football history. Seems like at least one a game. Absolutely ridiculous.

The referees were godawful, but I do think Harbaugh is complaining a lot. I almost feel like he's feeding into the refs' awfulness instead of tempering it. 

on at least two of those field goals. That is not second guessing, I thought so at the time.

James Franklin is an idiot and a charlatan. He looks to have lost his team already. That last timeout, none of the players even looked at him as they came off the field.

something was not right with Hackenberg at the end of the game. He should not have been out there. I'll be waiting for the concussion story.

Franklin is the worst in-game coach in all of football.  Wasting all his TO's, goal-line decisions, play-calling.  Just horrible.

On the other hand, Harbaugh won 2 straight late-season road games, and 3 in the last 4 games.  That's coaching, and that's the biggest difference between he and Hoke/RR.  His red zone playcalling is masterful.

Hackenberg must hate Franklin so much.  Under O'Brien he's a future all-american/Heisman candidate.  Under Franklin he's a beat-up scrub.  

Jake is playing lights out, and his improvement is just incredible.  That said, if Harbaugh had Hackenberg this year, we'd be undefeated.

Go Blue!

and Franklin must've both went to the school of Ron Zook game/clock management.  

I believe our coaching has overcome the reffing calls in all our games except for 1. 

That's good coaching. Franklin going into the half without even trying to score with 45 seconds in the 1st half I think was a big mistake. 

I've been very happy with our coaching decisions. Hard not to be being 9-2 going into the last game of the regular season.

I think we can all agree Utah would have been a huge ask for the coaching staff to win in game 1. On the road. With a QB that wasn't here for the summer.

 

I haven't really seen Franklin all that much, other then the last few Michigan games.  But damn he's not hard to outcoach.  I don't think I've ever felt such gratitude toward an opposing coach.

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This team takes wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many penalties, even with the referee-induced ones taken out. Its mind-boggling. 

Really need to cut that out before next week. 

I just want to make it clear to everyone.... the last half of the 4th quarter.... when they were going on and on about Hackenberg's decision for next year.... that was a thinly veiled evaluation of the PSU coaching. The announcers saw and have seen all year long that PSU does not have good coaching. They have a big talk rah rah guy who can't coach his way out of a spider web. He's a fraud. That conversation about Hackenberg's decision does not happen if PSU has competent coaching. Then they contrasted that with "88 years of NFL" experience on the M side. Thank God we are on a good track.

I liked the quick passes and abandoning run up middle into PSU DL strength, not giving time for pass rush to get to Rudock. Took the outside bubble screens for 4-6 yards. They also attacked the Tampa 2 seems up the middle. Took what D gave them, very much in contrast to Borges.

I love Harbaugh's rants on the sideline. They are epic and they fire up our team. A good coach should never be quiet during a bad call.

I love how this staff is using Peppers. They let him develop as a defender, where he's totally necessary, but slowly integrated him into the offense. It's a testament to them that there haven't been many plays where he runs the wrong direction, etc, because they put him in without enough practice and it hasn't harmed his defense.

They can't have him be running back too much more than they're doing - RBs get beat up way too much - but they're preparing for him to have a major role against OSU.