2025-26 Coaching Carousel

[herbsinator]

Penn State doesn't need a program re-builder. They need a program take the next step-er guy. They need a Dan Lanning. Bama is back if they find a way out of Kalen this offseason and hire Lanning. If I'm Penn State I'm putting out the feeler to Lanning now and unofficially making him say no.

I’m sure Lanning would go to Bama if they called, but is PSU an upgrade from Oregon?

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

I’m sure Lanning would go to Bama if they called, but is PSU an upgrade from Oregon?

I dont think so, its lateral at best

 

[Quint]

I’m sure Lanning would go to Bama if they called, but is PSU an upgrade from Oregon?

Not if I’m Lanning.

There is nothing PSU has that Oregon doesn’t that lends itself to building a championship team.

There is a really long list of schools that PSU is a definite upgrade to in comparison. Really only maybe half a dozen today that aren’t.

 

[Bulldog10]

I’m sure Lanning would go to Bama if they called, but is PSU an upgrade from Oregon?

You don’t think Bama called when they hired Deboer? Lanning ain’t leaving

 

[ZJSARENOTFREE]

You don’t think Bama called when they hired Deboer? Lanning ain’t leaving

Agreed. He isn't leaving until Phil Knight dies. Once Knight goes down, will be interesting to see what happens with Oregon. I imagine there will still be a plan in place, but it definitely won't be the same.

 

[cwessel76]

Agreed. He isn't leaving until Phil Knight dies. Once Knight goes down, will be interesting to see what happens with Oregon. I imagine there will still be a plan in place, but it definitely won't be the same.

Imagine the amount of zeroes on the check that Knight is going to leave Oregon when he dies.

 

[V-Doub]

How many more losses does Prison Mike get down in Tallahassee before we add him to the thread. Or maybe I just did? Anyway, I think if he loses 2 more games he’s probably toast and Tony White will be out of a job.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Counterpoint: Taggart (lol) and Cristobal (no longer lol) both left Oregon.

Maybe they were Florida Men at heart but I wouldn't be surprised to see any major job make a run at Lanning because having more money than God hasn't kept dudes there is the past

 

[Bulldog10]

How many more losses does Prison Mike get down in Tallahassee before we add him to the thread. Or maybe I just did? Anyway, I think if he loses 2 more games he’s probably toast and Tony White will be out of a job.

Would getting the interim help him get a HC job? Cause if so I hope Norvell gets fired after the season, then he’ll be without a job and won’t get the HC experience.

 

[Bulldog10]

Counterpoint: Taggart (lol) and Cristobal (no longer lol) both left Oregon.

Maybe they were Florida Men at heart but I wouldn't be surprised to see any major job make a run at Lanning because having more money than God hasn't kept dudes there is the past

Oregon knew those guys weren’t worth backing up the Brinks truck for. They aren’t letting Lanning leave.

Also times have changed a lot since then, you can pay players now which has massively benefited Oregon.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Oregon knew those guys weren’t worth backing up the Brinks truck for. They aren’t letting Lanning leave.

Also times have changed a lot since then, you can pay players now which has massively benefited Oregon.

That's totally plausible. Lanning may have ascended to a height where Knight just writes whatever check he needs to, but Lanning flames out early playoffs again, does he start to get the can't win when it matters rap?

I'm not saying it's likely, but in both the pre and post paying players environment Oregon has had everything you could ever want and they still have lost dudes

 

[Bulldog10]

That's totally plausible. Lanning may have ascended to a height where Knight just writes whatever check he needs to, but Lanning flames out early playoffs again, does he start to get the can't win when it matters rap?

I'm not saying it's likely, but in both the pre and post paying players environment Oregon has had everything you could ever want and they still have lost dudes

Now that’s the question to ask, is Lanning actually as good as everyone gives him credit for. I feel like he gets a ton of credit because he kind of changed Oregon from the gimmicky “fast” football they always played to a tougher more defensive focused football but I could hear the argument that he’s a little overrated atp.

Oregon hasn’t had a coach leave in the NIL era? It went from being an attractive job to being a top 5 job in the sport with the ability to pay players imo.

 

[Quint]

That's totally plausible. Lanning may have ascended to a height where Knight just writes whatever check he needs to, but Lanning flames out early playoffs again, does he start to get the can't win when it matters rap?

I'm not saying it's likely, but in both the pre and post paying players environment Oregon has had everything you could ever want and they still have lost dudes

Taggart was a joke at Oregon and would have gotten run off if he’d stayed longer.

Word on Cristobal is he lost a lot of the important boosters, and maybe even Knight, when they got their asses kicked…twice..in one year by Utah.

Both of those departures aren’t about ‘Losing dudes’, but letting dudes go.

That’s not to say that Lanning is untouchable, but to go from one high pressure, high paid situation to another, be it Penn State, Alabama, etc., unless there is ill will we don’t see, why do it?

 

[nscottie]

That's totally plausible. Lanning may have ascended to a height where Knight just writes whatever check he needs to, but Lanning flames out early playoffs again, does he start to get the can't win when it matters rap?

I'm not saying it's likely, but in both the pre and post paying players environment Oregon has had everything you could ever want and they still have lost dudes

I think both of these arguments are valid. Cristobal and Taggart weren’t going to get it done at Oregon prior to NIL. They just led a team with ever changing uniforms.

Lanning is a whole different situation. He’s a good coach with unlimited funds. The big question is whether he ever wins it all at Oregon. I don’t see him leaving for Pedo State, but Alabama is more a possibility. Recruiting big southern boys is easier in Alabama

 

[Quint]

I think both of these arguments are valid. Cristobal and Taggart weren’t going to get it done at Oregon prior to NIL. They just led a team with ever changing uniforms.

Lanning is a whole different situation. He’s a good coach with unlimited funds. The big question is whether he ever wins it all at Oregon. I don’t see him leaving for Pedo State, but Alabama is more a possibility. Recruiting big southern boys is easier in Alabama

Lanning also has spent seven or eight years down in the South, so he’s known to area HS coaches. That makes a big difference as well.

That said, I still don’t know if I leave Oregon for Alabama if I’m him.

 

[Pipe Line]

I’m sure Lanning would go to Bama if they called, but is PSU an upgrade from Oregon?

I was just stating what Penn State needs at the current moment, not what Lanning needs. I think Lanning's only promotion is Bama, but I think if you're Penn State, you have to throw the kitchen sink at him and be told no before you move on to another candidate.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I was just stating what Penn State needs at the current moment, not what Lanning needs. I think Lanning's only promotion is Bama, but I think if you're Penn State, you have to throw the kitchen sink at him and be told no before you move on to another candidate.

I think that's right.

 

[BorWhiskey]

To me that tells your team you give up

It feels like a “let’s not accept a bowl game” decision. I thought Fick might be their Callahan, but he might be their Frost.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

James Franklin is easily safe this year, regardless of how the casual PSU fan feels. He's had 3 consecutive double digit win seasons with 2 playoff wins last year. He has 6.5 years & 50 million left on his contract, & PSU would have to pay that on top of an extraordinary premium they'd have to pay any new coach who'd be a clear upgrade.

IMO, they'd have to keep struggling this year, then have another very mediocre season/multiple bad losses next year before he'd realistically be on the hot seat or have any practical bearing on the coaching carousel.

 

[V-Doub]

Would getting the interim help him get a HC job? Cause if so I hope Norvell gets fired after the season, then he’ll be without a job and won’t get the HC experience.

Gus Malzahn will get the interim position if Norvell gets fired mid season. But I don’t think he will. I think two more losses will probably get him the axe, but more than likely at season’s end. IMO