Pat Kraft compares the college football calendar with Frankenstein

The current College football calendar can sometimes feel like a monstrosity, it seems to think so Pat strength. The Penn State Sports director compared it with the classic novel Frankenstein from Mary Shelley.

The monster in this story was created from several different parts of the body that were forced to fit together to make something of a person, but that was not quite the same. Similarly, it is power that the College Football time plan feels a bit incoherent and outdated and demands a change.

“We have to watch the football calendar,” he said in a press conference on Monday. “The calendar when you look at it, recruitment and everything is like Frankenstein. There are parts from years in which it was only classified here, and we are in a completely new world. “

The upcoming college football season has been marked by the fourth since the beginning of the Nile era in 2021. Last season was the first for the extended college football playoff with 12 teams that ended on January 20.

This is about two weeks longer than the season before and overlaps with the winter transfer portal, which was opened on December 9th and was closed on December 28, long before many teams, including Penn State, ended their season.

This meant that some teams lost players against the portal. The Nittany Lions lost the backup quarterback Beau Pribulawho had appeared in all 13 games before her playoff run started.

There were some discussions about the potential expansion of the CFP field to 14 or 16 teams, but strength argued that the schedule had to be remedied beforehand.

“This refers to the CFP, because if you add two more games to yourself – if you go 16, nobody really gets goodbye,” he said. “I have to be honest, I don't know if this is good, bad or indifferent. If you look at what happened, I want to keep our team in motion and do not take it free for two or three weeks. But I also think that we have to see when you start the season to do that? How do you have no Beau situation?

“We have to see the portal. I mean, we all rate spring football. That is a question we go to foot. I don't know what spring football will look like next year. But that is in the context of the entire 12-month calendar. “

Pat Kraft made it clear that he is still for another playoff expansion. However, he believes that there must be a clear vision of what the schedule will look like if this is the case.

“I don't think it's a bad thing to achieve 14 and 16,” he said. “The more teams in and the more tournament you have, I think it's great. I only have – we still have to look at all other aspects. If you have 16 teams, what will we play in March? Are we going to February?

“Like football players, go to class. You have to go to school. So what do we do? I think we have to understand the greater effects of it. I don't have the answer, but I know it is being discussed. I am not around 14 or 16 years old. I just want to know what this whole calendar looks like. “