Mike Poorman
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PSUPoorman’s Top 10: Intriguing Questions After Penn State’s Loss to Iowa
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IOWA CITY, IOWA — Penn State and Iowa almost always play it close. Five of their last seven games have been decided by six points or less. Including here on Saturday […]
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The Vibe in Iowa City? Nice, With Sides of ‘I Love When the Circus Comes to Town’ and ‘Penn State Is Going to Obliterate Us’
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IOWA CITY, IOWA — Iowa Nice. After spending parts of Friday inside Kinnick Stadium, walking the massive and bucolic University of Iowa riverside campus, and hanging out downtown, that’s my […]
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Kraft Picks a Smith With the Right Mettle to Lead Penn State Football: His Top 5 Tasks
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Monday was a bittersweet day for Terry Maurice Smith, Penn State Class of 1991. (He will definitely put his management degree to good use 24/7 between now and Nov. 29.) […]
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PSUPoorman’s Top 10: Why James Franklin Was Fired and What’s Next
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And just like that, after 4,293 days and $80 million, James Franklin is gone. He was the Nittany Lions’ head coach in the national title hunt until — poof, in […]
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The Question James Franklin Would Not Answer (Hint: It’s About His Future at Penn State)
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Henry Kissinger was a master of the press conference. Penn State head coach James Franklin — who has been through a number of wars himself, the latest being his toughest — […]
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Penn State’s Losses to UCLA and Oregon Still Seem to be Bruin in James Franklin’s Head
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In the days after Penn State’s frustrating 20-12 loss at Ohio State in 2023, head coach James Franklin floated the idea of moving his traditional weekly noon press conference in […]
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PSUPoorman’s Bottom 10: On Sunday Mourning, the Frustration Is Real
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PASADENA, Calif. — The headline says it all. Nothing tops about Penn State’s stunning and historic 42-37 loss to UCLA on Saturday in the Rose Bowl. It was real and it […]
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For Penn State Football, UCLA Was the Worst of Times for the Best People
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PASADENA, Calif. — James Franklin wrote a check that he couldn’t cash. Twice, in a period of eight days. First, against one of the top teams in the Big Ten […]
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PSUPoorman’s Top 10: Under Dan Lanning, Oregon Was Everything Penn State Was Not
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Post-White Out double-overtime, I had a choice to make: James Franklin’s post-game press conference and the inevitable explanation of an unexplainable 4-21. Or Dan Lanning’s, and hear what college football’s […]
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How BIG Is the Penn State-Oregon White Out in Beaver Stadium on Saturday?
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BIG. There is no other way to describe the White Out in Beaver Stadium on Saturday, when third-ranked Penn State faces BIG Ten Conference foe sixth-ranked Oregon at 7:30 p.m. […]