It’s time to have a serious conversation about James Franklin.
The good. He helped modernized the Penn state football program and the athletics department.
No he didn’t save Penn state football. The kids that stayed and Bill O’Brien did that.
He won a lot of games at Penn state.
He recruited well. Not great however.
He developed a lot of kids into nfl players.
The bad.
He’s an egomaniac and a narcissist and as such is an extreme micromanager. The failure to win big games stems from these traits. The more big games he lost the harder he tried. The more he tried to control. The worst it got.
James can’t stop talking about Penn state. Getting fired was never in the realm of possibilities for JF. Remember he’s a narcissist they never see it coming. Penn state was his dream job. As a boy he wanted to play at Penn state.
You would think when he took the job at PSU he would’ve embraced the hard nose smash mouth style of football Penn state was known for. Nope he refused to allow a QB to run a QB sneak under center for close to ten years. He was hell bent on doing it James way.
He pissed off donors with his style and treatment of them and the history of the school.
Despite it being his dream job he flirted almost yearly with other jobs.
He argued and chastised fans. Turning a loyal fanbase against him. To this day he has never publicly thanked PSU and the fans. Franklin is a small petty man.
Player misuse. Franklin often stuck with upperclassmen to the detriment of the team. Giving huge NIL payments to “loyal upperclassmen”
He failed at developing talent at WR and massively failed Drew Allar.
Allar never fit the scheme Franklin ran. I honestly don’t understand why he was recruited?
Recruiting. Frankin is a good recruiter. There is a myth that he’s one of the best. Where did this come from. While at PSU Franklin loaded his classes up early. Often achieving a top 5 ranking almost a year before signing day. These classes would almost always land in the teens. He had Penn state in the conversation for tons of elite 5 star players. Being in the conversation is nice but James got told no more than a high school band geek trying to get a date to the prom.
In closing Penn state fans continue to talk about Franklin because he keeps talking about Penn state and Va tech turkeys are trying to rewrite Franklin’s history at Penn state. That history is this.
James Franklin ultimately was a failure at Penn state. 1-18 against top ten big ten teams is a colossal failure and that will be jame’s Franklin’s legacy!!
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The Penn State Nittany Lions have officially clinched their 12th NCAA Championship under Cael Sanderson, and 13th overall, at 11:14 a.m., March 22, 2025!
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A Tyler Warren orchestrated drive, capped off by a 10 YD Nick Singleton TD run
Tyler Warren so far today:
7 REC
119 YDS
1 TD
1 ATT
8 YDS
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Huge win for the Lions on the road today at the Coliseum!