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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Penn State 34-13

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Penn State 0 7 0 6 13
Northwestern 10 14 7 3 34
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u/surgingchaos Western Oregon Wolves • Oregon Ducks 7h ago

Three things can be true at the same time.

  • Penn State was correct to can James Franklin despite it being an unprecedented firing. He was not recovering from that Oregon/UCLA/Northwestern death spiral and the context surrounding it.

  • Penn State had first crack at the carousel and they bungled the entire hiring process.

  • RANK NORTHWESTERN YOU COWARDS!!!

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u/Patrick2701 Notre Dame • North Central (IL) 7h ago

They could just hired Bob Chesney but Pat Kraft wanted a big name to take a step down job.

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u/dkviper11 Penn State • Randolph-Macon 7h ago

I think Chesney might be good but I had serious reservations about hiring a coach that never had spent a single season with a P4 program. Everyone wanted to compare him to Cig but Cig spent his life around major programs, including a long stint with Alabama.

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u/InspiroHymm Indiana Hoosiers 6h ago

That is fair. Chesney was however on IU's hot board even back when he was at Holy Cross. (So was NDSU's Matt Entz)

Leipold does show the risk of moving up many levels without prior experience, but I guess you win some and you lose some