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Masse’s PSU-Iowa game breakdown

Penn State Offense: The sad ending to Drew Allar’s collegiate career provides a lesson. Players should take the NFL money and run while they can. Allar went from a likely Top 10 pick to now wondering if he will get a shot at all. Ethan Grunkemeyer steps in, so PSU should stop trying to ...

Indiana announces $93M extension for football coach

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Curt Cignetti’s new deal shows Indiana isn’t content with being known as just a basketball school. Indiana announced a new eight-year contract with its football coach worth at least $92.8 million on Thursday, rewarding him for pushing the Hoosiers into national ...

PSU players shouldn’t escape finger of blame

It’s been another rough week for the Penn State football program, especially after the firing of coach James Franklin. With so many factors to consider in addition to the team’s performance (among them the Beaver Stadium building project, pay-for-play support for players, recruiting and ...

Power 4 conferences demand quick results

The national rankings are signaling that change is good. The upper half of this week’s Associated Press Top-25 is populated abundantly with teams which introduced new head coaches prior to the start of the 2022 season. And those coaches are producing wins aplenty at nine schools in the ...

Penn State gave Franklin everything and he couldn’t win the big one

If you accept Pat Kraft at his word — that James Franklin’s dismissal was “not a three-game thing” — it’s apparent all that Penn State gave the coach, who by his own admission would “pound the table” for anything and everything, came with a price. Which is: OK, but you had ...

Franklin, Allar both leave legacy of failing when stakes were high

Which came first in this chicken-or-egg scenario: James Franklin failed Drew Allar? Or Drew Allar failed James Franklin? The answer, undoubtedly, is both. And ultimately, the failed marriage between those two -— from player development, to performance, to trust, to overall scheme -— is why ...