Marcus Freeman?

Matt Rhule?

Manny Diaz?

https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/college...686499007/

1. Matt Rhule?

2. Jon Sumrall?

3. Eli Drinkwitz?

4. Matt Campbell?

5. Clark Lea?

https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb...s-best-top

Some of these names may be guessing and not leaks.

(10-16-2025 06:19 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Marcus Freeman?

Matt Rhule?

Manny Diaz?

https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/college...686499007/

1. Matt Rhule?

2. Jon Sumrall?

3. Eli Drinkwitz?

4. Matt Campbell?

5. Clark Lea?

https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb...s-best-top

Some of these names may be guessing and not leaks.

Unless you hear a wild out of the blue name its clearly just a guess.

Alex Golesh or Ryan Silverfield

(10-16-2025 06:19 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Marcus Freeman?

Matt Rhule?

Manny Diaz?

https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/college...686499007/

1. Matt Rhule?

2. Jon Sumrall?

3. Eli Drinkwitz?

4. Matt Campbell?

5. Clark Lea?

https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb...s-best-top

Some of these names may be guessing and not leaks.

Drinkwitz is already making 9m+ per year. Freeman is only at $7.5m this year, though it's hard to see ND letting him walk for any price that PSU would pay. Not sure about the others.

James Franklin's firing just made Curt Cignetti one of the highest paid college coaches, 8 years at $11.6 million per year to stay at Indiana.

(10-13-2025 05:48 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  

(10-13-2025 03:16 PM)Squiggles Wrote:  Dan Mullen is a great offensive mind but he has three major issues.

1) While he has a good eye for talent, he hates recruiting.
2) He is not a likable person and really good assistants don't want to work with him.
3) He quit at Florida

1 can be alleviated some by NIL and some by the fact that in the B1G, he can probably still finish in the top 20% of the conference each year in recruiting.

2, I dunno... a tiger can't change its stripes, can it? Everyone thought the issue at MSU was that it was hard to get good assistants at MSU and he would have a better pool at UF. But he really didn't. He had some good hires but they seemed to leave as soon as they could. Maybe if PSU gives him a budget greater than all others, but it's not like he was short of funds at UF.

3, he was trying hard for an NFL gig in 2020. He wanted out of college football. He neglected recruiting not expecting to be back at UF in 2021. When he didn't get any job offers, he pretty much quit and dared to be fired since he knew he had a big buyout.

I think because of his ego he likes to be in the world of college football and stay relevant and will keep putting his name out there, but I think his issues are still there and he'll probably quit again.

You listed good points. Dan Mullen during stints at Mississippi State and Florida, received complaints about his lack of energy being put into recruiting. He is known for signing several excellent players that later have shown to be very impressive in the NFL. Dak Prescott is one of those.

Mullen is doing exceptionally well at UNLV. Let him stay there for awhile.

UNLV has had a lot of close calls against mediocre or sub-par competition (looking at you Miami U, Idaho State and UCLA before it fired its coach...hell basically the whole schedule so far).

Color me unimpressed. Credit where credit is due for being undefeated, that's what good teams do but, meh...

Can PSU upgrade now with Cignetti locked into Indiana? Letting Franklin go may turn out to be a mistake.


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