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Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:04 PM
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They aren't messing around
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:05 PM
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Not seeing it...
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:09 PM
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Thanks!
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:17 PM
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With $56 mill buyout, he can probably still make his house and car payment. lol
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:06 PM
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$58 million buyout…. Big money donors showing they’re gonna do what it takes to win.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 5:51 PM
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$49mil or $60mil - either number should cause Dabo to look over his shoulder and pay attention to the job at hand.... 
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:06 PM
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Holy Cow !
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Didnt see that coming***
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:11 PM
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:13 PM
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I'm assuming they will offer the Indiana coach.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:13 PM
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He’d be el numero uno on my list for sure
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:19 PM
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Don't count out Dan Mullen.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:34 PM
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Yeah, that might be more like it because I don't think cignetti will leave Indiana. They'll pony up to keep him. He's a rock star there now.
Don't rule out Brent Key.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 4:20 PM
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Yeah, that might be more like it because I don't think cignetti will leave Indiana. They'll pony up to keep him. He's a rock star there now.
Don't rule out Brent Key.
If the BIG BUCKS come talking, most coaches would start walking. PSU is a much more likely job for the hottest coach in CFB.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:13 PM
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I wonder if Cignetti will finish out the year or go ahead and start recruiting for Penn state
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 2:55 PM
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He's probably pouring over the roster to see who he'll take with him like he did when he was hired away from JMU.
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:13 PM
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Too bad we will never have the guts to do it. Imagine that. Pre season top 5 and natty contenders. Sounds familiar.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 2:23 PM
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I knew it was coming but felt they'd wait until the end of the year. The donors wanted him out after the Oregon game. To be fair, it's the 1-18 record against b1g top 10 teams. So, anyway, that's not apples to apples. And to answer your question, we actually DID do that to Bowden... which is a good comparison to Franklin.
The fire him now heat really got loud after ucla. But at that point, they were willing to give him to end of the year because technically, they still had a chance making the playoffs.
But after yesterday, and you just DON'T lose to northwestern... bought like us and cuse. Plus, they lost Allar on season ending injury.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 6:43 PM
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CGA ..... I'm not a Franklin fan at all. I still remember what he swept under the rug when he left Vanderbilt. However, for the vast majority of those 17 games he lost to top 10 teams, he probably did not have the best roster in any or at least very few of them. Still you expect to win more than 1.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:37 PM
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Too bad we will never have the guts to do it. Imagine that. Pre season top 5 and natty contenders. Sounds familiar.
Does two Natty’s sound familiar, too?
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:49 PM
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No but the last 5 years are. It’s not about what you did it’s what you are doing.
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I am glad I don't work for you....***
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Oct 12, 2025, 3:27 PM
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Standout [211]
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Re: I am glad I don't work for you....***
Oct 12, 2025, 8:29 PM
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Me too
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:14 PM
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They’re paying him $50 million not to coach for them. Fired coach is best job ever
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:14 PM
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Been wondering if this would ever happen. He’s never been able to win the big game. There’s been a ton of NFL talent at Penn St. under Franklin’s Tenure. ..no excuse not to get it done.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:18 PM
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Fans booed him on the scoreboard introductions before the game
He had no chance if he lost to Northwestern. And yeah.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 2:26 PM
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You're right, they did. But he was out after the Oregon game. Fans up here after Oregon said he wins the natty this year or he's gone.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 2:35 PM
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Wow, I'm very surprised. Thought for sure he'd get another year. Coaches have very little room for error in today's era of college football.
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little room for era? his record agaisnt ranked teams was bad
Oct 12, 2025, 2:40 PM
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he had years plus a talented team coming back from last year and they lost to northwestern
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 4:45 PM
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True. But he's much richer as a result of his firing.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 2:38 PM
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He was gone regardless, sooner than later...
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:39 PM
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PSU has replaced Clemson as this seasons most precipitous fall from expectations.
For that , someone ( Franklin ) must pay.
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:45 PM
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PSU has replaced Clemson as this seasons most precipitous fall from expectations.
For that , someone ( Franklin ) must pay.
Biggest fall for the year. In total, we have dropped from dominant on a national scale to stunbling around mid pack in the lowly ACC. When the big drop off comes next year, the uneducated are going to be in for a shock. We have talent in most spots this year. Cupboard will be almost bare next year.
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Eh I dont agree
Oct 12, 2025, 4:42 PM
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We have a few big gaps next year, but the team will still be very talented. CB, S, LB, DT, OL, TE, RB, WR, K - all will be talented. We need some immediate elite transfers at DE and QB especially. I wouldn’t mind a few others tho. We could use another couple LBs, an experienced center, and an elite senior RB.
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Re: Eh I dont agree
Oct 12, 2025, 7:41 PM
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We are not talented enough at all at CB next year.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 4:46 PM
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The reason Dabo has to hit the portal hard. If he doesn't, he may receive the Franklin treatment.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 2:40 PM
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Didn’t see that coming…
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:48 PM
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I don’t know how I feel about this. Maybe he just lost the team. The UCLA game is kind of understandable. Sometimes one loss turns into 2 if you are not motivated. But 3 in a row. To lowly NW. At Home. His terrible record against good teams had taken on a life of its own. I guess it was time
I think another B1G coach is on his way out. Fickell at Wisconsin is on a 4 game losing streakand sitting at 2-4. And just lost 37-0 to Iowa. That’s more points than Iowa has scored in all their games of the last 2 years combined. Wisconsins next 5 games are against Ohio State, Oregon, Washington, Indiana, and Illinois. At a combined record of
27-4. Thy could easily finish with 2 or maybe 3 wins.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 4:48 PM
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Some might say Luke is experiencing the fickle finger of fate.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 6:38 PM
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That’s quite the alliteration
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:49 PM
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Nope, but these Schools are just stupid! These buyouts are so high because as a whole the Schools have elevated tbe amounts. The AD' s need to hold a closed door meeting and decide on buyouts limitations as a group. These coaches (Dabo included) are getting pad way to much when tbey fail at the jobs they are paid to do! This is part of the reason why the NIL push for player pay was so big.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 3:08 PM
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Yeah Coach Franklin is the one paying alright….lol
So they’re going to pay him 56m to not coach. They’re going to have to pay someone else that much to coach, assuming they want someone more elite.
And they better hope that guy is so much better that he can beat out Ohio state and Oregon.
Otherwise “doing what it takes to win” is just rich old dudes lighting money on fire.
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I dont know how these schools allowed agents to
Oct 12, 2025, 3:18 PM
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Manipulate the market to where tens of millions buyout is expected. It’s ridiculous.
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Re: I dont know how these schools allowed agents to
Oct 12, 2025, 3:31 PM
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Big business of today's universities. Boosters must have the control of this. Big time boosters should demand realistic termination terms. If it were standard at P5 schools that termination was 1 year salary plus benefits for 1 year post termination it would change things. But all schools have to fo it together. If they all did agents are a non-factor. Some say impossible, but if all schools fidelity it the coaches could take it or leave. An average of about 6.5- 8 million to go away isn't a bad gig??
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It's called capitalism. And, as long as there are boosters who....
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Oct 12, 2025, 4:38 PM
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..... are willing to offer guys the big contracts with guaranteed buyouts there will be coaches willing to take them.
Couple of examples I'm very familiar with.
1. Jimbo Fisher. He won 29 straight at FSU. Then he started flirting with other schools. His agent, Jimmy Sexton, managed to get two schools - LSU and aTm - into a bidding war. Everyone assumed he was going to LSU, but when aTm entered into the bidding war Sexton did a great job convincing aTm it was worth paying Jimbo a ridiculous salary with a 100% guaranteed buyout or he would go to LSU. aTm agreed.
2. Mike Norvell won 19 in a row at LSU. Nick Saban retired. Jimmy Sexton got FSU and Bama into a bidding war for his services. Sexton convinced FSU to pay him 10 million a year with a buyout that started at 70+ million bucks and decreased at 9 million per year or he would sign with Bama. FSU agreed.
Sexton didn't put a gun to the head of aTm or FSU. He did his job. Negotiated the best contract possible for his client. Huge contracts happen when two schools want the services of the same guy.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
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Oct 12, 2025, 3:47 PM
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Penn State ain't winning no National Championship. Don't matter who they hire, fire, or hire.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 4:50 PM
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They've won a couple in the past.
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So Did Army.
Oct 13, 2025, 12:42 PM
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Unless they catch lighting in a bottle with a coaching hire, and spend a TON of money, and get lucky on the recruiting front, I don't see them doing any better than what Franklin did.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 13, 2025, 12:50 PM
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Penn State had a 7 point lead with 5 minutes left in last year's semifinal. That's pretty darn close to a Natty.
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in the semi...
Oct 13, 2025, 4:09 PM
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they didnt play for the natty.
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Re: in the semi...
Oct 13, 2025, 4:12 PM
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Correct, that's why my post says "semifinal"
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1-17 in games against top ten opponents.
Oct 12, 2025, 4:29 PM
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The knock on him was he could beat the teams he was supposed to beat but never beat the teams he wasn't supposed to beat.
This year, he started losing to teams he was supposed to beat. (23+ point favorite against UCLA) Fans were looking for something that would convince the administration to fire him. They were ready weeks ago.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 5:46 PM
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I always think it is a mistake to fire a coach without a replacement on the line - especially in the middle of the season.
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Re: Penn State Fires Franklin
Oct 12, 2025, 7:50 PM
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I’d forfeit my Social Security, probably for life for a year of these crazy buy outs. This is ridiculous! Priorities are out of my realm.
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