Penn State and James Franklin agree to new 10-year deal: Here's what we know

Ram20

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I had a buddy ask me about this deal today and I replied:

"I am going to tell my sons to grow up to be football coaches. The way this racket works is you get a 50% raise for exceeding expectations. You get a 30% raise for meeting expectations, you get a 10% raise for barely underperforming expectations. You get fired if you fall significantly short of expectations, but they hand you a check for $10M and you head to the beach." His response: "Good gig if you can get it"
 

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Bvillebaron

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I am glad he is staying. I believe the silent majority agrees with me. Yes, not a stellar gameday coach but he’s a good recruiter (except OLine), good representative of Penn State. He’s not a shitbag like a lot of other coaches (a la Jim Booger Harbaugh). One would feel their son is in good hands playing for him.
Yeah and Harbaugh gets more despite never winning a Big Championship or beating OSU. MSI coach who is barely above 500 and got smoked by OSU in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score right after he signs a more lucrative deal Go figure.
 

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I am glad he is staying. I believe the silent majority agrees with me. Yes, not a stellar gameday coach but he’s a good recruiter (except OLine), good representative of Penn State. He’s not a shitbag like a lot of other coaches (a la Jim Booger Harbaugh). One would feel their son is in good hands playing for him.
I believe there is something to be said for stability perhaps now more than ever as other programs grind through coaches.
 

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I had a buddy ask me about this deal today and I replied:

"I am going to tell my sons to grow up to be football coaches. The way this racket works is you get a 50% raise for exceeding expectations. You get a 30% raise for meeting expectations, you get a 10% raise for barely underperforming expectations. You get fired if you fall significantly short of expectations, but they hand you a check for $10M and you head to the beach." His response: "Good gig if you can get it"
Yeah, but you gotta be good at bulls*****ing high school kids.
 
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PSUFTG

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Yeah and Harbaugh gets more despite never winning a Big Championship or beating OSU. MSI coach who is barely above 500 and got smoked by OSU in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score right after he signs a more lucrative deal Go figure.
Harbaugh is paid far, far less than what Franklin was earning - and, obviously, even "more less" now that Franklin was given this latest cache.
You may not remember, but Harbaugh agreed to a massive pay cut after his team's crappy performance during 2020.
 

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I am glad he is staying. I believe the silent majority agrees with me. Yes, not a stellar gameday coach but he’s a good recruiter (except OLine), good representative of Penn State. He’s not a shitbag like a lot of other coaches (a la Jim Booger Harbaugh). One would feel their son is in good hands playing for him.
Never had any doubt that James was staying.