Penn State is the big dog in the Big Ten? Since when?
If Cig leaves it won’t be because of money. He is paid well. Only 200k less than Franklin and I read our coaching staff is at 11m which OSu is #1 at like 11.43m. So, IU is already compensating our coaches well. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to pay him more, but cig is already competitively compensated as is his staff which I think to him is just as important. It’s the facilities upgrades and all the other stuff I think he will want to see. He mentioned the press box coming down prior to the season starting. So, there are things he wants done and will probably get done.
If Cig wants the chance to be the biggest dog in football he could take the Penn State job, IMO. And yeah, I think he would like to be top dog.
We have very good resources. Penn State resources for football are tapped out of the ground. They would rob and cheat basketball and all their other sports if they had to for football. Their ticket income is naturally higher and will always be. Having family ties to the area and closer to old friends may matter. Depends where he wants to live and maybe retire.
If Cig knew he wasnt going, anywhere near as strongly as the media articles saying he isnt going, we would have already have heard Im not going out of his mouth. We heard it last year, but not yet this year. Penn State wasnt open last year. I cant see Cig leaving for any other program, no way no how... Penn State? Sure, I could see it. Its the best job open this year or pretty much any other year. It is his one chance, if he wants it.
The main thing that helps us (in addition to being a great situation already) is that Cig leaving destroys this season. And he certainly cares about that. Destroying our program temporarily matters to him also Im sure.
So, I hope we hear within a couple weeks. Id wager we are in the lead by a good amount. But also see it as an opportunity for him and his staff he could be seriously interested in.
Dylan Sinn of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette made a good point that Cignetti is a climber. He went from Elon to JMU and both schools were in the same conference at the time. JMU was the big dog in the CAA much like Penn State is in the Big Ten.
Dolson better be raising a ton of money right now.
Not really comparable, but it's nice Dylan checked Cig's wiki page.
As soon as they hire Cig.Penn State is the big dog in the Big Ten? Since when?
They are 'A' big dog. There are three such programs in the Big Ten.
Hope it doesn't happen. But no way to spin other than they would easily be one of the three premier programs in the Big Ten and one of the top in the country if they hired an outstanding coach. If they hired a great coach, Cig, Michigan would be third and Ohio State would have a competitor. A merely very good coach and Michigan stays in the mix.
I hope they whiff on our guy.
OSU and UM are in a class of their own. Even when UM is down that's a top tier job, and obviously they won a national title two years ago.
PSU is a clear step below OSU and UM -- they're in the boonies have much less money. With Phil Knight's backing, Oregon is also in this second tier too. USC is probably in this group as well despite their recent struggles -- after all they pulled Oklahoma's coach.
Yeah, I forgot to put Oregon in there, with their money. Not sure USC reaches that level. I guess if we go by name, but I think they are still relying on their name and would bet Penn State is going to outspend them.
Penn State is every bit the program Michigan and Ohio State is, as far as support and facilities and, pretty much everything. They just need the coach.
Michigan wasn't shit for a couple of hires before Harbaugh. And it took him awhile.
A lifetime contract that guarantees Cig will be the highest paid coach in college football each season (a la Nick Saban) sounds about right to me.
No way. OSU and UM have superior locations, generate much more athletic dept revenue, and have larger donor bases. Class of their own.
Matt Rhule is the only coach I know of to directly address the Penn State job opening. There has been a lot of chatter about Marcus Freeman being a candidate and he hasn’t said anything about it.
I don't care about them. They can leave their schools.
Of course I'm biased but Cig will have the field if not the stadium named after him if he retires here. At Penn State he's just another good coach.
If Cig leaves after just two years for a conference rival, he will be hated here.
If Cig wants the chance to be the biggest dog in football he could take the Penn State job, IMO. And yeah, I think he would like to be top dog.
We have very good resources. Penn State resources for football are tapped out of the ground. They would rob and cheat basketball and all their other sports if they had to for football. Their ticket income is naturally higher and will always be. Having family ties to the area and closer to old friends may matter. Depends where he wants to live and maybe retire.
If Cig knew he wasnt going, anywhere near as strongly as the media articles saying he isnt going, we would have already have heard Im not going out of his mouth. We heard it last year, but not yet this year. Penn State wasnt open last year. I cant see Cig leaving for any other program, no way no how... Penn State? Sure, I could see it. Its the best job open this year or pretty much any other year. It is his one chance, if he wants it.
The main thing that helps us (in addition to being a great situation already) is that Cig leaving destroys this season. And he certainly cares about that. Destroying our program temporarily matters to him also Im sure.
So, I hope we hear within a couple weeks. Id wager we are in the lead by a good amount. But also see it as an opportunity for him and his staff he could be seriously interested in.
It has now been four days since PSU fired Franklin. I’m sure Dolson and Cig have had plenty conversations regarding this and how to handle it moving forward.
Regarding last season, I don’t really recall the timeline from first hearing a rumor to Cig/Dolson actually directly addressing it publicly, but it seemed to last for weeks.
When the timing is right we will hear something. Dolson has been on point with pretty much everything up to now, can’t imagine that to change anytime soon. He knows what’s at stake.
@cg-paul Yep. Scott has been making this all happen — from the hire to the raises and all that. He seems to know what he’s doing.
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