Can we finally agree Franklin is a Fraud
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Been like this since day 1….
Been like this since day 1….
Im waiting for the morons to defend him for going for 2 in the first half
Bone headed call no doubt. But I don’t agree with your thread.
Someday you will, at this point not sure what it would take. He is the worst game day coach in America and its not close. His poor decision making was bailed out today. By losing by 9...but he is a horrible coach when it matters....which equals FRAUD
I think give the Head Coaching job to Manny Diaz before he leaves to go somewhere else. This is the furthest Franklin can take them. Time for change
I have been a Franklin fan but today shook my core. Absolutely stupid decision to go for 2. Absolutely atrocious to keep the offense playing in a 20 yd box. Allar is still too slow progressing through reads.
I've been trying to overlook Franklin's coaching gaffs in the past but today there is no excuse for that STUPID 2 point conversion attempt in the 1st half. You never do that early in the game. And it got worse from there. Franklin stunk today. Drew Allar stunk today.
We are wasting TOP talent. Given our talent, both OSU and UM were winnable games.
We are wasting TOP talent. Given our talent, both OSU and UM were winnable games.
Totally winnable. But some of the coaching decisions are total head scratchers. Still trying to figure out why the 2-point attempt after the 1st half TD
There were a few who did in the game thread even though it was indefensible.
For Eagles fans that was a Rich Kotite level decision.
Only one explaination...he's retarded....no offense intended to those truly mentally handicapped.
He’s very limited as a head coach. Can somewhat compensate due to his charisma and recruiting ability, but that’s it.
At least any future agent-led sniffing for raises by threatening to leave are pretty much empty threats now.
At least any future agent-led sniffing for raises by threatening to leave are pretty much empty threats now.
James Franklin, the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, has a contract that guarantees him an annual compensation of $7 million from 2022 through 2031123. This includes a yearly base salary of $7 million, retention bonuses of $500,000 each year, and a $1 million annual loan for life insurance4. The total value of his contract, signed in late 2021, is $82,500,000, as long as he stays in town2. This does not include performance incentives2. If Penn State fires him without cause, the university will owe him every penny he is owed for the remainder of his deal in base salary, supplemental pay, and life insurance loan2. With nine years left on his contract, that means Franklin is guaranteed a total of $76,500,000 if he is fired today2.
Yes - good coaches adapt to the talent they have to work with.
Not so much retarded as he just suffers brain lock under pressure. So many of these gaffs come when TIMELY decisions have to be made. He would be better served to take time outs in critical situations rather than make STUPID f**king game changing errors.
You are right - and only the confusion of the team forced to call time out in the first half and make the right decision to punt.
Watching this former walk on at Utah running innovative and creative plays is very frustrating. Penn State’s is so vanilla. Did they even pitch to a RB once to try the outside?
And the problem with his assinnine decisions always seems to come in big games - mostly OSU and Michigan
Have to chuckle at your "charisma" comment. I have stopped watching any of his press conferences since he's so "rote" in his responses he wears me out....
As the face of the program he's good. As an in game coach, and this is from day one, he's been in over his head. Without some of the assistant coaches over the years this team would be more like 60% win ratio.
If Diaz leaves, this program could end up struggling for the foreseeable future. The additions coming to BIG present a lot more challenges than does 2 games a year.
His answers in the PC were Kotite level.
Then they weren’t because he couldn’t take the heat about going for 2 at the end…and walked out.
Going for 2 at the end was indefensibly stupid. No coach‘s reputation can recover from a bonehead decision like that one.
James Franklin, the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, has a contract that guarantees him an annual compensation of $7 million from 2022 through 2031123. This includes a yearly base salary of $7 million, retention bonuses of $500,000 each year, and a $1 million annual loan for life insurance4. The total value of his contract, signed in late 2021, is $82,500,000, as long as he stays in town2. This does not include performance incentives2. If Penn State fires him without cause, the university will owe him every penny he is owed for the remainder of his deal in base salary, supplemental pay, and life insurance loan2. With nine years left on his contract, that means Franklin is guaranteed a total of $76,500,000 if he is fired today2.
Sandy Barbor - the gift that keeps on giving.
Very true. A name I hadn’t thought about in a long time.
All Franklin need to do it start his post game press conference by saying ‘it all starts with me…’.
Watching 5-4 Florida against 6-3 LSU. The Florida QB is hitting quick slants on the money hitting the receiver in stride. The offense has flow and moves the ball. Even lower level teams have a more seamless somewhat affective offense than you see at PSU.the Penn St offense is painful to watch.
The only games I’ve seen as incompetent on offense is when you start seeing Pitt vs Syracuse type teams.
I’ve been saying this seemingly forever. I watch other games and do not see anyone, nobody have as much problem sustaining drives like PSU. Going 3 and out all game long is a thing of the past just about everywhere else , and it doesn’t matter who is calling our plays or who the qb is. Same crap every year
And remember other than the MD gsme last week, this offense was not very good all year.
Or use “without question” a lotVery true. A name I hadn’t thought about in a long time.
All Franklin need to do it start his post game press conference by saying ‘it all starts with me…’.
Yes, it is the coaching IMO.
It’s been a decade. 10 flippin’ years and this is the result, (with multiple players/ OCs/DCs etc)-
1-9 vs Ohio State
3-7 vs Michigan
4-5 vs Michigan State
8-21 overall against the top 3 teams in the BT east.
Not even averaging 1 win a year against those 3. There needs to be a serious attitude and expectation change in the program.
The worse part about going for two in the first half is that Franklin doesn't learn from his prior mistakes. Recall 2019 when we went into Minnesota with each team 8-0. We fell behind early and Franklin panicked, going for two still early in the game. if he had just kicked the extra points, we would have been in position to have won the game at the end of the 4th quarter with just a field goal. Egregious mistake. If Franklin truly believed that "points will be at a premium" as he stated in the post game presser, then why not take the sure single points? I am dumfounded.
You are so correct. I can’t think of any other blue-blood high-profile program that keeps a head coach for 10 years when that coach loses 80% of his games to rival programs (Ohio State and Michigan). Mind boggling.
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