Does Penn St hire Rhule

[king_kong_]

State college is actually the isolated small town that the rest is the country thinks Lincoln is

Runways are too short in happy valley the team has to shuttle to PHI for long flights!

Dumpsville full of pedophile enablers

 

[Kazman5k]

The fact that Joe paterno’s son is on the PSU board of trustees is actually insane. This program embraces child molesters.

 

[herbsinator]

The fact that Joe paterno’s son is on the PSU board of trustees is actually insane. This program embraces child molesters.

Can anyone with an OWH sub give the cliffs on this article?

 

[Carm]

I believe with certain that PSU is Rhule’s dream job regardless of what’s said publicly. He loves that program and his dream scenario is being their next Paterno. I think assuming anything other than it being his dream job is kidding yourself.

I don't think I am kidding myself. How is something your "dream job" and you won't take it? Aren't you actually saying it is a job with an emotional pull but that also has disqualifying flaws? And that maybe the job he has now is really the job that has what he wants now?

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Can anyone with an OWH sub give the cliffs on this article?

I don't have a sub, but paywalls are flexible:

Penn State will "swing for the fences" in its upcoming coaching search, taking a broad view of the landscape rather than zeroing in on one or two candidates.
That's a prediction from Jay Paterno, who's spent his entire life around the program and now sits on the university's Board of Trustees.
Paterno, whose dad Joe won a record 409 games and two national titles in a 46-year run as Penn State's head coach, was a backup quarterback and later a long-time assistant coach for the Nittany Lions.
He coached the Nittany Lions' tight ends in the 1990s when Nebraska coach Matt Rhule arrived as a walk-on tight end before becoming a linebacker.

Paterno told The World-Herald Monday — a day after Penn State fired James Franklin — that he plans to stay out of the university's coaching search, which is widely expected to involve Rhule.

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He said he thinks Rhule is doing a "great job" at Nebraska and that the Huskers have a chance to run the table this season and contend for a playoff berth. He also said he's not involved in any potential Penn State pitch to Rhule.
"I'm not going to text him or try to encourage him," Paterno said. "If you live in Nebraska and you're wearing red, don't think that I'm in here trying to take your guy."

Rhule, who told reporters at his Monday press conference that he's not going to talk about other job vacancies, has been at or near the top of most national media lists of potential candidates.

Paterno said he does not expect to play a formal role in the search, though he'd weigh in if the school asks him to. The Board of Trustees has a role in approving head coach contracts, but isn't central to the process of identifying or vetting candidates.



But he said he knows athletic director Pat Kraft well enough to know that Kraft will run an aggressive search.
"I think one thing Pat Kraft has shown is he’s not afraid to go be aggressive and swing for the fences," Paterno said. "He went out and got the women’s lacrosse coach (Kayla Treanor) at Syracuse, who was an established coach at a very, very established program to come here. Same thing with the baseball coach, Mike Gambino, came from Boston College. He went out and really pursued him. I think it’ll be a really broad search. I think he’ll be aggressive in the marketplace, which is what Penn State should be."


Paterno said he expects Penn State to pursue elite head coaches. That can create messy conditions.
"The timelines are difficult to predict on these things because if School A is going after the head coach at School B and School B is having a really really good year," Paterno said, the head coach at School B may say 'you know what, I’m good, we’re in the middle of, we’re undefeated right now, we have a chance to make the playoffs, and I’m going to stay put.'

"Those are the levels of coaches you’d hope a place like Penn State is chasing."
Rhule, whose Huskers are 5-1 and No. 25 in the AP Top 25 heading into Friday's game at Minnesota, has deep ties both to Penn State and to Kraft, who was the athletic director at Temple when Rhule was the head coach.

Those connections have made Rhule an obvious target.

But Paterno is skeptical at the notion that Penn State is locked in on a small handful of candidates.
"Most (athletic directors) have a list of some guys, but that’s all in the abstract," Paterno said. "Once it happens, then you pull out that list, but then you also go ‘who else might there be?’"
"I think it's going to run the gamut," he said. "I don't think there's one guy out there that everybody will be happy with."

 

[Cash68847]

The fact that Joe paterno’s son is on the PSU board of trustees is actually insane. This program embraces child molesters.

Ohio State’s biggest booster is a big time chimo too. It’s a BIG thing.

 

[Flabio]

The fact that Joe paterno’s son is on the PSU board of trustees is actually insane. This program embraces child molesters.

Why is Sam interviewing him? Is he trying to fuck our recruiting class by keeping the Rhule to PSU talk hot?

 

[Cavalot]

I promise you, as long as Cignetti is at Indiana they are going to be a major player. He doesn't gain anything at PSU that he doesn't have at Indiana right now.

Really? PSU has a greater fan following, a greater stadium, a greater amount of history and prestige, and I feel like the list goes on. What would be one thing that Indiana has that is greater than PSU?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Why is Sam interviewing him? Is he trying to fuck our recruiting class by keeping the Rhule to PSU talk hot?

That is the local media play usually.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Really? PSU has a greater fan following, a greater stadium, a greater amount of history and prestige, and I feel like the list goes on. What would be one thing that Indiana has that is greater than PSU?

Forgiveness for a 3 game losing streak

 

[Carm]

Why is Sam interviewing him?

Because he knows what people will pay to read

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Really? PSU has a greater fan following, a greater stadium, a greater amount of history and prestige, and I feel like the list goes on. What would be one thing that Indiana has that is greater than PSU?

What does chat GPT think?

 

[Kinish]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone throws a bunch of money at Jed Fisch, particularly if they can make it a package deal with Williams

lets not forget that Dannen hired Fisch. moved quickly and sealed the deal while Zona's AD was stuck at Wazzu because of weather.

was a hilarious coaching search

 

[Alcaus]

Why is Sam interviewing him? Is he trying to fuck our recruiting class by keeping the Rhule to PSU talk hot?

Funny thing is DB told Sam the day after the Franklin firing that this story is only going to have legs if the media gives it legs.

Sam’s response “that’s not up to me”

Dude knows his audience.

 

[PonyBoy]

Same thing with the baseball coach, Mike Gambino, came from Boston College. He went out and really pursued him.

Dude had a .440 winning % at Boston College (.320ish conf %), not something I'd highlight for an AD hiring someone.

I do like him though, and curious to see them in 2026.

 

[EwokRhuler]

I've been thinking about it and, right now, the simplest way I can put it is:

1) I would understand if Rhule takes the job at his Alma Mater

2) I think it would be disastrous for all parties involved. Penn State is going to have insane expectations that don't adjust for the new parity that we are seeing in CFB. Rhule would get shitcanned in 3 years. Nebraska would be gutted between players and staff. Fans are exhausted from doing this for 30 years.

People can make the argument that we will just hire someone else, but I think it would feel like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat just after you got back on your feet.

We will have to see what plays out but I have a terrible feeling about how this could go.

 

[DuckSker]

Jobs better than PSU? In no specific order I'd have these jobs as "better": Georgia, Bama, OU, Texas, OhioSU, Michigan, Oregon, USC, LSU, Miami, Florida State. I can also make an argument that Nebraska is a better job than Penn St. as well.

Florida, Notre Dame, hell even A&M are arguably better jobs than PSU also