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Virginia Tech's James Franklin breaks silence amid massive recruiting overhaul
Virginia Tech's James Franklin breaks silence amid massive recruiting overhaul

Penn State can make that up by hiring Matt Campbell when he brings his 3* Iowa State recruits to Happy Valley.

How happy are the folks in Happy Valley about firing James Franklin, now?

Problem is the Early Signing period closes today, unless he gets them all to transfer

Penn State's AD should have already been fired.  You don't make that move without having a plan in place

a guy in the UNL AD Tyler Kai said that Jimmy Sexton was blackballing PSU
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Jimmy Sexton, the top agent for football coaches at the prestigious CAA company, boasts a slew of top current and former football people on his client list. Among his clientele is former Penn State head coach James Franklin, who the Nittany Lions fired in October and quickly found a new job at Virginia Tech. Penn State, meanwhile, are still looking for a head coach.

For former ESPN college football insider Todd McShay, there’s a growing belief that Sexton has something to do with Penn State’s inability to find their guy even after many schools that fired head coaches a few weeks ago already got their replacement.

Appearing on The Bill Simmons Podcast, McShay suggested that Sexton is “messing around with Penn State” as payback for the school firing Franklin. He mused that Sexton might be diverting his clients away from Penn State and towards other schools.

“He’s messing around with Penn State right now because Penn State let go one of his guys, James Franklin, in a manner that he didn’t appreciate,” McShay said. “And so now they’re kinda sitting back and every time they go try to hire a coach or get serious with the coach, that coach who’s represented by Sexton winds up with an extension or winds up going to maybe UCLA. So it’s, it’s fascinating to see.”

He only got six games after getting within 3 points of a NCG. 

Other coaches saw that. 

guy in the UNL Athletic department said not much teeth in the NIL deals.
Kids can just transfer to another program
said a few guys have transferred with 6 credits to go to get their degree - then they have to take 2 years of classes at new school to finish the degree.  They don't care.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-penn-state-in-final-negotiations-with-iowa-state-head-coach-matt-campbell-173934254.html

Sources: Penn State in final negotiations with Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell. At long last, Penn State’s coaching search looks to be coming to an end. Sources told Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger that the Nittany Lions are in the final stages of negotiations to hire Iowa State coach Matt Campbell as their new head coach.

if true they could have done worse,now Capt Kirk will get a break had to leave that for a special someone here

If this is true, it would make the people in charge of paying NIL money stupid for having contracts that fail to protect the sports program, and payors, from players that leave. Perhaps the contracts are for only one year, but still, a reasonable liquidated damages provision should be in each contract.

kinda like coaching buyout clauses that seem unreasonable

if the kid can get an NIL deal w/o the provision from another program, he's not going to sign one that has the provision

I'm sure he did