Watch Penn State head coach James Franklin's postgame press conference following 33-24 win over Indiana
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I really wish Franklin was as defiant on the field and to his players as he is to the media. Just wonderful play acting trying to convince us that he was actually happy with that performance or that the effort yesterday, at any any point, approximated his multiple uses of "awesome." I really don't know what insecurities are being protected by his play acting? His? The players? ACs? Either way, weird watching a coach clearly upset unable to say he is upset. Would be nothing, to borrow his word from last weeks press conference...."devisive" about admitting the team didn't play to their standard. They weren't prepared by the coaches to the standard.
Admittedly, that was my first reaction. After reflection, what would be the net gain for lashing out at the team publicly? It might make us (fans) feel better that the boys are chastised for disappointing us. That isn't his job. I think we both know there will be more than a few come to Jesus moments this week.
Did you see the look on Manny's face?
Thats a reasonable take. He just seems so defensive about his program and I guess I wonder if its what is best for the team to reach their goals. Im not one for old school coaches that yell and get in the faces of coaches and players, but I think he needs to do it more. For one, I thought the offensive line showed very little effort yesterday and I would have chewed them and trautwein out bit time....maybe in the press conference too. There is a place for tough love.Admittedly, that was my first reaction. After reflection, what would be the net gain for lashing out at the team publicly? It might make us (fans) feel better that the boys are chastised for disappointing us. That isn't his job. I think we both know there will be more than a few come to Jesus moments this week.
Did you see the look on Manny's face?
“There is a place for tough love”???
Didn’t someone here remind us last week in a separate thread that it starts and ends with I love you?
Its not resonating, especially om the line
...maybe it needs to start coming from the top
Perhaps. I wonder how many posters here get 100 positive results when they "chew out" their children. The problem with football is there is actually another team conditioned to prevent you from being successful.
If Franklin were worth half of what we pay him, he would put a stop to that other team trying crap.
Don't confuse fanboys with facts. CJF is no higher than #12 in college football. I suggest he's under paid. Brace yourself. After the bloodletting at the end of this season, he won't be top 15. If he wins 10 or 11...there will be an adjustment...if he stays.
Franklin is a fraud. An arrogant fraud who thinks he is smarter than he is. He only has idiots left defending his record and his behavior.
I thought the 2018 Ohio State postgame press conference, the infamous "Elite" spewing, was awful. This happy face BS after a near horrific performance against the worst team in the B1G may have that beaten. He must have thought, "I'll distract them with this angle of how I love the effort and finding a way to win. That will do it. If they want access they wont hammer me with how flat, unprepared, and distracted my team looked."
Well James, you did not distract most of us with your cheery bull****. Your act is getting old.
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Yeah, you either do it one of two ways, the head coach is the dick and the position coaches are the nice guys or the position coaches are dicks and the head coach is the nice guy.
You geniuses ignore one fact. That is the boss is always responsible. He can't duck it, it is part of the job description. Accountability for a program, every part of it, goes back to the head man. He hired the assistants, he recruited the players, he trained them, he signed off on the gameplan.
Franklin has a ten year record of bottom feeding to pad his wins and awful performances and losses against ranked teams 80 percent of more of the time. He can be judged by that. The excuse making for him is nonsense.
One can only hope. The outrage will continue to amuse and entertain me.
Yeh, it will. You do enjoy defending him like he is your brother in law. He DESERVES $8.5 million. He has EARNED it hasn't he?
Franklin hates the questions. He hates having his record questioned. He hates the criticism. Guess what? It has only started.
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