It's no secret that James Franklin has had a successful yet dissapointing career and Penn State, and it needs to end. Since becoming the head coach at Penn State Franklin has an 84-36 record, including a Big 10 title. Despite this Penn State is 3-4 in bowl games with Franklin and an even more disappointing 12-23 against ranked teams. Coming into today Franklin had only beat Ohio State and once again he fell to the Buckeyes being outclassed and outcoached. Penn State kept it close going into half time but they were once again outcoached by Ohio State and Penn State. So what's the problem here? It's not the talent, the long list of Penn State stars in the NFL is too long for this blog but just to name a few Micah Parsons, Saquon Barkley, and Chris Godwin. So if it's not the soldiers it must be the Commander. James Franklin has always faltered against top teams, and this isn't changing anytime soon. He just gets outcoached by top Coaches and play-callers. This should not be the standard at Penn State they are simply too good of a program to be ok with mediocrity. Now Penn State if they keep Franklin will be a common fixture in the 12 team playoff, but will always be a first or second round exit. He simply just cannot hang, and if Penn State fans need anymore motivation after today just look to TCU. TCU fired head coach Gary Patterson after a long historic run down in Fort Worth. They hired Sonny Dykes and while this year they are down (but not a bad team by any stretch) they made the playoff in his first year. Something Dykes could never do. TCU now has life and a leader who can take them to the promise land. This was supposed to be Penn States year, this was the team that could have made a crack for that coveted playoff spot. But Franklin failed again, his new name to me is "Jabroney James" I'm sorry Penn State fans (I'm not) but he needs to go this program deserves more and better. Get Franklin out of there and go find a coach who can win the big game. Until then Penn State is going to be a mediocre team who will never challenge the powers in the Big 10. Remember the Big 10 is about to add a whole bunch of west coast powers, and the team in happy valley is going to get lost in the muck.
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