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Agsone said:

the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
umm, coached at Penn.


Do you think those are the same schools?
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AnScAggie said:

Teslag said:

usmcbrooks said:

They will go after Elko....book it!

They may out feelers out but they probably already know they can't win a bidding war with us.

You might want to slow that roll. PSU has the largest alumni base in the country and plenty of billionaires in their ranks. Hell one of their former players is a billionaire, so yes we may win the bidding war but it won't be for PSU being lolpoor.


Yeah, I'm not getting the comments that they can't compete with us on money.
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Lost back to back weeks as 20 point favorites. One can surmise that Oregon wasn't that good after all. Ohio state will beat Indiana. The big ten only deserves 3 teams it's an avoid a team schedule league.
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How's Pennsylvania oil money compare to TX oil money?
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YouBet said:

AnScAggie said:

Teslag said:

usmcbrooks said:

They will go after Elko....book it!

They may out feelers out but they probably already know they can't win a bidding war with us.

You might want to slow that roll. PSU has the largest alumni base in the country and plenty of billionaires in their ranks. Hell one of their former players is a billionaire, so yes we may win the bidding war but it won't be for PSU being lolpoor.


Yeah, I'm not getting the comments that they can't compete with us on money.

He's not leaving to go there.
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Agsone said:

the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
umm, coached at Penn.


Correct. Harvard and Brown are not hiring.
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Jock 07 said:

How's Pennsylvania oil money compare to TX oil money?


Pa is more of a gas market oil wells there are shallow and not big producers.
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the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.


Inb4 rumors about elko and penn state scare Aggie cigars into giving him a gigantic sumlin-esque death-raise.
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Logos Stick said:

usmcbrooks said:

They will go after Elko....book it!


He is on the list. And he will consider it. The problem is, they can't outbid us if we choose to keep him. Things could get really expensive for us though. We've got 6 more years to pay two coaches.

How do you know he's "on the list"?

EVERYONE is on the list. Day, Christobal, Sarkisian, Lanning, Kiffin, insert flavor of the moment here.
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fulshearAg96 said:

Are we going to suggest every fired head coach should be a consultant for us?


We are the zoo
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Who knows how it plays out but I seriously doubt that PSU thinks they can't grab a coach from A&M if that's what they want to do. And the no previous relationship angle is irrelevant. Cignetti's age will probably be a bigger factor than that. I hope every high profile coach they pursue will approach it like DeBoer did, refuse to commit until his season is over. It worked out better for him by doing so.

I have no doubt we can keep Elko if it comes down to it but I hope after our last two fiascos we will make good decisions and not get stuck with long term guaranteed money. All we really know right now is that we've secured a 7-5 record.
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Agsone said:

the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
umm, coached at Penn.

Do you think if somebody coaches at a school located in a particular state, they automatically want to go coach at other schools in that state?
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Jock 07 said:

How's Pennsylvania oil money compare to TX oil money?

Pretty sure PA is right behind TX in total energy production and 2nd in terms of NG production to TX.
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They probably have their guy already locked up if they were confident enough to fire Franklin mid-season.
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Zero chance he walks away from the end of this story he is writing here. Makes zero sense that he would.
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This fire has been in the works for years. Penn State was sick of him and these last few games sealed the deal.
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phatty26 said:

Lost back to back weeks as 20 point favorites. One can surmise that Oregon wasn't that good after all. Ohio state will beat Indiana. The big ten only deserves 3 teams it's an avoid a team schedule league.

Same can be said for us this year in regards to avoid a team schedule. We don't have Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Oklahoma or Tennessee this year. If we finish with 2 losses that would be mean we would be 2-2 against ranked teams this year
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then there's jimboo
NEXT YEAR IS HERE.......again
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the most cool guy said:

Agsone said:

the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
umm, coached at Penn.

Do you think if somebody coaches at a school located in a particular state, they automatically want to go coach at other schools in that state?

Do you think they automatically will turn down a great offer because they never worked there?
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Sterling82 said:

the most cool guy said:

Agsone said:

the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
umm, coached at Penn.

Do you think if somebody coaches at a school located in a particular state, they automatically want to go coach at other schools in that state?

Do you think they automatically will turn down a great offer because they never worked there?

Uh, that's not at all what I said, so…no?
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Matt Campbell might be a name to watch. He's been successful in Ames (relatively speaking) and it feels like he's hit the ceiling there
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Franklin caught lightning in a bottle at Vanderbilt and parlayed that into getting the job at State Penn as well as $49 million parting gift.

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12thMan9 said:

Logos Stick said:

usmcbrooks said:

They will go after Elko....book it!


He is on the list. And he will consider it. The problem is, they can't outbid us if we choose to keep him. Things could get really expensive for us though. We've got 6 more years to pay two coaches.

How do you know he's "on the list"?

EVERYONE is on the list. Day, Christobal, Sarkisian, Lanning, Kiffin, insert flavor of the moment here.



Everyone is not on the list, no.
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Some of yall don't seem to recognize that NIL has changed things forever.

We're a top 5 job, that's not gonna change, and Penn State has zero chance of getting Elko. It's ridiculous to even mention it.
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Would have to think Matt Campbell at ISU also gets a call
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Onionman said:

Yeah I don't think Elko would be the target for PSU anyway.

However Elko's agent will be pushing things to get Elko more $ from A&M.
Definitely a target if Elko would take it, which he wouldn't. Probably be their #1 choice.
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the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
Penn State and Notre Dame were jobs some Gameday analysts on Espn thought Elko would wait for by rejecting A&M's offer, like Rece Davis said at the time when we hired Elko - who he highly regarded.
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Sterling82 said:

Rule#2 said:

Elko probably HATES Penn State

It's possible. It's not unheard of amongst Jersey boys.

He is a U Pennsylvania graduate and no ties to Penn St so I would agree
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YouBet said:

Elko's contract is sane and heavy on incentives which is how it should be. I hope we don't blow that up with a knee jerk reaction here.
The annual salary with Jimbo was not the problem. It was the buyout.
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I'll never understand a contract that says will pay you the remaining amount of the contract if you screw up. Only in college football is this insanity.
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If any coach wants to leave a&m for slightly more money, good riddens.
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They going to come for Elko
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YouBet said:

amercer said:

If Elko wins the championship this year, give him $100 million. If he doesn't then let him go to PSU if he wants.

The 2026 schedule has disaster written all over it. Adding a 50 million dollar buyout for a coach who hasn't won anything here would make it way way worse


Elko's contract with incentives is #1 in the SEC and #2 in the country. He will do very well if he just keeps winning.
Might could get a $9 million salary at PSU and incentives on top of that. Again, annual salary was never the problem with Jimbo's contracts.
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Maybe they replace him with Vanderbilts coach and we get to watch Pavia play his 85th collegiate season as a Lion
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Ag1188 said:

the most cool guy said:

Elko has zero relationship, ties, or history with Penn State. He's not interested in the job, and we're not going to have to fend them off. Stop talking about it. It's stupid.
Penn State and Notre Dame were jobs some Gameday analysts on Espn thought Elko would wait for by rejecting A&M's offer, like Rece Davis said at the time when we hired Elko - who he highly regarded.

So, no relationship, ties, or history with Penn State.
 
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