Does anyone else LOATHE Franklin as much as I do?
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Frustrated is the word.
Is he incapable of winning the big game, afraid to make the gutsy call to win the big one, or plain unlucky?
Is he incapable of winning the big game, afraid to make the gutsy call to win the big one, or plain unlucky?
Just for the record I think Joe became head coach in 1966 and his team went undefeated in 68 and 69. It's not his fault the sports writers voted the Natl Champion in those days.
While on the treadmill Friday morning I watched Paul Finebaum say (paraphrased) “Franklin will manage to coach his team to another loss.” Frustrated is right. I mentioned the treadmill because I wouldn’t be caught dead watching Paul Finebaum were I not a captive audience.
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This ^^.
I don’t loathe the guy. He seems nice enough (never met him) and is generally a good representative of the university. I think most people’s issue is with the results, not the person.
He’s had 11 years now. That’s a very generous amount of time to evaluate results. Hell, he would have been fired after 3-4 years at most SEC schools.
I know some will be happy if PSU just makes the playoff but really nothing has changed. PSU, (along with many others), will have made the playoff not because they’ve seriously improved from prior years, but because they’ve just tripled the number of teams they let in now.
As the Ohio St game showed us, nothing has materially changed at PSU under Franklin this year (so far).
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We agree
Sincerely
Charlie Weis
Jon Embree
Curley Hallman
Jerry Burns
John Blake
Ellis Johnson
Greg Robinson
Jennings B. "Ears" Wentworth
I know Franklin as HC is overall responsible, but I don’t think he coached the team to a loss. I am way way way disappointed with our DC and our “innovative” OC, they both **** the bed with play calling, especially on O side of ball. OC acted like it was his first big game and did not know how to adjust.
Not your job to trash the guy we have either.
Loathe would be really weird. I like him as a man. He's really good as the head of a football program. He'll never be great. Whatever it is that it takes to be at that next level, he doesn't have it. Few do of course. But we have a decade of evidence that he will never compete for a title. So is 10-2 good enough? I guess, just frustrating to know it's the ceiling.
I know Franklin as HC is overall responsible.
Period. End of discussion. 100% correct.
lol. Yeah, but be honest. Did you think BOTH his new coordinators would both shut the bed in same game? Of course you didn’t. I’m sure neither did he.
I’d love to be proven wrong.
The evidence says he’s maxed out his abilities
A scumbag who was friends with Coach Paterno and was heavily rumored to be taking his place before the Sandusky mess? That scumbag?
So the 2016 Big 10 Championship game wasn't a big game? So the NY6 bowls weren't big games? Like Franklin aptly noted, Bowling Green is a big game. You lose to Bowling Green and watch heads explode.
To hate someone that has a higher winning percentage than that of Penn State's football history....
To hate someone that graduates his players .....
To hate someone that is a fine representative of Penn State University....
To hate someone that has his team finish higher in the national rankings than his rank of salary as compared to his counterparts.....
To hate someone that has the sixth highest winning percentage of coaches with more than 10 years head coaching experience....
To hate someone that has won three major bowl games.....
That person should look in the mirror as that person has a serious hate problem.
To hate someone that graduates his players .....
To hate someone that is a fine representative of Penn State University....
To hate someone that has his team finish higher in the national rankings than his rank of salary as compared to his counterparts.....
To hate someone that has the sixth highest winning percentage of coaches with more than 10 years head coaching experience....
To hate someone that has won three major bowl games.....
That person should look in the mirror as that person has a serious hate problem.
“In his prime, Paterno would take over the play calling responsibilities from time to time.” Is this what you’re saying? Just wanna be sure.
Thank you very much for the profile of James....
Spot on, accomplishments of James we should be proud.
Thomas
James is a good man, but I’m tired of his act … obviously.
He has known for four years he had a legit throwing QB, yet failed the recruit the necessary WR talent to compliment Drew.. Speaking of recruiting, a head coach’s job must emphasis recruit big money boosters to fund talent acquisition. I have no insider info, but I do have a sense that James has only a few supporters among that group. I fear, they too are suffering from Franklin fatigue and his inability to break through his coaching ceiling. “Obvivously””
He has known for four years he had a legit throwing QB, yet failed the recruit the necessary WR talent to compliment Drew.. Speaking of recruiting, a head coach’s job must emphasis recruit big money boosters to fund talent acquisition. I have no insider info, but I do have a sense that James has only a few supporters among that group. I fear, they too are suffering from Franklin fatigue and his inability to break through his coaching ceiling. “Obvivously””