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U are the only dude who actually shows the process behind the new OC. So tired of all the bitching and moaning from the old guard PSU reporting crew. Thank u for a truly meaningful analysis

@ForTheBlogy

3 ай бұрын

We appreciate it. Our goal when we started this site 5 years ago was to provide Penn State football coverage that traditional media outlets either couldn't or wouldn't.

@jonbutton3259

14 күн бұрын

1000%

Andy Kotelnicki is the sole reason I’m buzzing for next year

Andy K is the greatest hire Coach Franklin has made to date. The training wheels are off the offense and there is no ceiling to how high we fly in 2024

@jwhine

3 ай бұрын

manny diaz was pretty good

@Jrm-xs9qi

3 ай бұрын

You are gonna go 9-3 or 10-2 again next season and if you make the playoff you are gonna have a first round exit and your friendly reminder pennstate is the irrelevant team in the big ten 🤣🤣🤣

@FranklinFanatic

3 ай бұрын

@@Jrm-xs9qi if you told me Penn state will go at minimum 9-3 or 10-2 every single year I will take that deal every single time.

@Jrm-xs9qi

3 ай бұрын

@@FranklinFanatic and you will lose the first round of the playoffs every single year if you even make it 🤣

@davidsprenkle8723

3 ай бұрын

You guys smell that, smells like haterade from a guy who probably feels threatened

Considering none of these examples require an athletic QB, it feels like Penn State's superior talent compared to Kansas could take these concepts to a whole new level. Although when they don't work, I'm sure our rational and composed fanbase will call them Harry High School crap lol

@ForTheBlogy

3 ай бұрын

Note: We think they are clever. But admittedly, a lot of Kansas fans complained like crazy about Kotelnicki's sugar huddles.

@teekay_1

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, PSU fans watch what Michigan and Ohio State does and how they win games, and they're wondering when they'll see teams that impose their will on opposing teams.

I mean, this is just a small portion of available examples of this guy “scheming” wide open receivers on 3-4th downs. Yurchich couldn’t do this when it mattered. There was none of this.

@mikescatena5732

3 ай бұрын

And let’s not forget that Kansas had MAYBE 1 NFL player on offense and he absolutely lit up Venables’ defense. Imagine what he’s going to be able to do with an offense with 8-10 NFL players Startinf on offense

@davidsprenkle8723

3 ай бұрын

And on top of that with a slack division team like Kansas to make them this good offensively says something

BP would be great with his running ability

@ForTheBlogy

3 ай бұрын

We'd be shocked if there wasn't a thorough Pribula sub-package of plays this year.

Really appreciate in hindsight your review. One of the distinctions you don’t make is the plays from year 2 vs year 3. (Year 1 was basically a throw away season because they didn’t get hired until after spring ball was over so August was the first time they got to do anything together.) Below, you make the comment about KU fans complaining about the sugar huddle. I think a chunk of that comes from it not being executed very well the first season/year 2. Unfortunately, some people don’t change even when the results change. I wonder if the success rate changed from year to year as the players became more comfortable with the plays. Thanks for the review, opportunity to reminisce.

I like AK, I think he has a very creative offensive mind and a big time "football guy" personality that Yurcich didn't have or at least show but my biggest concern is this is another OC coming from the Big 12.

@johnlee7085

29 күн бұрын

I seem to recall Coach K did a number on psu even when he was at Buffalo. His last stop just happened to be in the Big12. That’s a correlation but hardly a causal correlation.

Im curious, you mentioned he runs a lot of inside and outside zone. Does he vary his run schemes much?

@ForTheBlogy

3 ай бұрын

More at Kansas than he did at Buffalo (which was majority zone scheme), but not as much as Yurcich did at Penn State...although Yurcich is premarily zone-based at OK ST and TX, so perhaps Kotelnicki will implement more gap stuff at PSU.

Now I want Coach to host a hidden camera dating show where he's the wingman to a single woman. Basically coach sees video of crowded bars and clubs and with a telestrator lets the women going in know 'he's eligible, he's eligible, he's not eligible, he's eligible'. And when the woman goes to the crowded bar to get a drink, he goes 'there's a gap here, here, here, here and a gap here"

@ForTheBlogy

3 ай бұрын

Curb IS BACK!

@johnlee7085

29 күн бұрын

This is one of the most insightful comments ever. One of those reality tv sports mosh pits.

But what about the amazing....check with me stuf

Does Kotelnicki run anything conventional? Everything I've seen feels like Im going to the circus

@ForTheBlogy

3 ай бұрын

Not sure if serious or not...but if so, Actually we're gonna examine ALL Kotelnicki's stuff -- even the standard stuff. But right now we're distracted by the shiny stuff.

@johnlee7085

29 күн бұрын

I think it was prior to the OSU game in the second half of last year, they asked coach Gundy on Monday about the KU offense, and he said it was an option offense. On Tuesday, they asked coach k about running an option offense, and he said something complimentary about Coach Gundy remembering something from ten years ago, then proceeded to rattle off a half dozen descriptors to describe the offense; pro, option, rpo, spread, … Conventional probably isn’t a good word to describe it. That’s not to say it’s all gimmicky. Simple and stressful are probably the most common words to describe it. Simple for the O, and stressful for the D. There is almost always motion - the sugar huddle being an exception.

@johnlee7085

29 күн бұрын

Correction - Gundy called Coach K a “Wishbone guy”. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKCB08ytc9C1YrA.html

@jonbutton3259

14 күн бұрын

That's exactly the point....