Deland McCullough - RB Coach (2022-2024)

[stlnd01]

Kinda hard to explain if it’s not personality’s. Can’t be much different money wise.

Personally I think he watched Jeremiah Love's touchdown run and simply decided he wanted to coach THAT guy.

 

[jprue24]

I wonder if Singleton and Allen are regretting coming back...

 

[Huntr]

But we don’t have to make this a Seider > DMC thing at all.

Absolutely.

What this hire is is one of the best ND could get. There shouldn't be much of a drop off, if at all, in the expectations from the RB room.

Pretty jazzed. Now, put a bow on it, and lock up the GM.

LFGGGGGGG

 

[NDFAN2008]

What amazes me the things Penn State fans have said on twitter.
1. Penn State will have the best OL next year
2. They have the best coaching staff
3. Their running back room is the best

 

[CanadalovesND]

What amazes me the things Penn State fans have said on twitter.
1. Penn State will have the best OL next year
2. They have the best coaching staff
3. Their running back room is the best

All pretty factual, and not unreasonable to believe.

1. They just might
2. They just might
3. They just might

 

[RipWheeler]

All pretty factual, and not unreasonable to believe.

1. They just might
2. They just might
3. They just might

Let us not forget they also have this!

 

[stlnd01]

All pretty factual, and not unreasonable to believe.

1. They just might
2. They just might
3. They just might

That's basically the story of Penn State Football over the last five or so years though, isn't it? They just might be that good. But in the end they never quite are.

 

[Dale]

All pretty factual, and not unreasonable to believe.

1. They just might
2. They just might
3. They just might

1. No
2. No
3. No

 

[Huntr]

I wonder if ND is using Matrix Analytical's CRI services.

Who uses the CRI?

CRI has been used by personnel in every FBS conference. Athletic Directors use CRI for coaching searches and to create a better understanding of the career ability of their 11 on field coaches, Football Ops Personnel, and Head Coaches utilize CRI for staffing to be better prepared each year for positive and negative coaching movement. 3 star and better coaches have CRI for marketing and to enhance their resume profiles and separate themselves from other coaches.247 and CBS Sports use it as the largest source of coaching performance analytics in College Football.

 

[Rizzophil]

Penn State fans online are generally in disbelief. They think the move makes zero sense. Probably the same fans that thought they were the better team in the Orange Bowl.

That’s how this board was when Alford left ND to go to OSU

 

[HouseofPain]

The PSU boards are rich. They can’t fathom why he’d go to a “lateral move” behind an inferior offensive line that was decimated in the portal. Some are blaming it on ND having more money as if they didn’t just make Knowles the highest paid DC in CFB

Inferior OL? Who are they kidding?

 

[CanadalovesND]

1. No
2. No
3. No

What OL, what coaching staff, and which RB room are you putting ahead of them? I'm genuinely curious.

 

[irishu]

What OL, what coaching staff, and which RB room are you putting ahead of them? I'm genuinely curious.

I personally can’t consider a coaching staff led by James Franklin to be the best coaching staff in the country

 

[NDFAN2008]

What OL, what coaching staff, and which RB room are you putting ahead of them? I'm genuinely curious.

Our OL, our RB room is even say our coaching staff is better than theirs. We have a top 3 head coach, top OC, top 10 QB coach, top OL coach, top RB coach, move on to defense. We have the best DB coach in college, we have a top 10 LB coach, Washington is a top 20 DL coach only question mark is defensive coordinator

 

[greyhammer90]

Anyone is going to be a downgrade from Deland but what a great statement of intent by ND after a pretty rocky beginning to the offseason.

 

[Dale]

What OL, what coaching staff, and which RB room are you putting ahead of them? I'm genuinely curious.

Handful at OL and many at coaching. RB - ND for example. PSU has Franklin still, and I don’t think Kotelnecki is that good a OC for a playoff team. On OL, they don’t have the elite higher end talent to be the best, they can be good, but a ND, Texas, UGA have the recruiting talent to be better. Oregon and Miami as well with portal additions.

PSU is just never the best at anything. Good? Sure. But they are not the best.

 

[NDhoosier]

What OL, what coaching staff, and which RB room are you putting ahead of them? I'm genuinely curious.

1. There will be plenty of Olines that will compete for that title, including ND who looks to be stacked in 2025 themselves. It is simply too soon to tell
2. Sorry, but James Franklin still has a lot to prove in the big games, no way they are considered even a top 5 coaching staff right now. Honestly, Freeman has a better resume already than James Franklin.
3. They are definitely in the conversation with Texas and ND. This is probably their best argument, but a lot will depend on Olines. I think ND's lack of a passing game and struggle at Oline this year limited what Love/Price could do; I do not see many, if any, ND fans wanting to trade RBs rooms with Penn State.

 

[irishandy]

Freeman telling Franklin after the game, I am coming after your RB coach if mine leaves; he won't say no

 

[HouseofPain]

What OL, what coaching staff, and which RB room are you putting ahead of them? I'm genuinely curious.

You have had to been sleeping under a box for years if you think PSU can touch ND in coaching staff, OL or RB

 

[CanadalovesND]

You have had to been sleeping under a box for years if you think PSU can touch ND in coaching staff, OL or RB

The conversation was not ND vs PSU, it was PSU vs the national landscape.

 

[SeekNDestroy]

Inferior OL? Who are they kidding?

All they know is that ND lost 3 OL to the portal, including 2 starters. They don’t know that none of them were going to start next year.

 

[SeekNDestroy]

I personally can’t consider a coaching staff led by James Franklin to be the best coaching staff in the country

How could ANYONE consider that? Franklin, statistically, is the worst big game coach in CFB.

 

[stlnd01]

The conversation was not ND vs PSU, it was PSU vs the national landscape.

Penn State probably has an argument to be *among* the best at RB, OL and - especially now with Knowles - coaching staff. But so do we, Ohio State, and several SEC teams. I think there are other teams that are as good at one of those elements, if not all three.
They're good - they did make the final four and beat everyone on their schedule who they were supposed to - but they're not uniquely good (as evidenced by the fact that they lost to the three best teams they played).

 

[AKRowdy]

Pedo State still has a sub par QB. I don’t get how they think they are better off this year? They lose their 2 best playmakers and return absolutely no WR talent. They are a top 15 team.

 

[DillonHall]

Pedo State still has a sub par QB. I don’t get how they think they are better off this year? They lose their 2 best playmakers and return absolutely no WR talent. They are a top 15 team.

What 10-15 teams would you put ahead of Penn State?

 

[AKRowdy]

What 10-15 teams would you put ahead of Penn State?

ND, OSU, UGA, Clemson, OU, Texas, ASU, UT, Ole Miss, USc

 

[Ndaccountant]

ND, OSU, UGA, Clemson, OU, Texas, ASU, UT, Ole Miss, USc

I hate pedo like most of you, but there are some stretches on this list. ASU?

 

[irishu]

ND, OSU, UGA, Clemson, OU, Texas, ASU, UT, Ole Miss, USc

Explain what OU has going for it hahaha

 

[Irish#1]

Anything on the timeline for announcement?

 

[AKRowdy]

Explain what OU has going for it hahaha

Sorry UO. Or Ohio University. Whatever you want to believe.