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James “not elite” Franklin (HC Penn St. Nittany Lions)

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NFBuck said:
History doesn't show? O'Brien had two pretty solid-to-okay seasons in Rhythmic Slappy Valley with a fair share of coaching hiccups. Franklin won 9 games in back-to-back seasons with Bowl wins at VANDERBILT...a historical doormat program. I'm not saying that guarantees he's going to succeed, but I certainly don't think he's shown to be any less than equal to Bill O'Brien.

But anyway, still a douche.
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Best win was beating a 8-5 Georgia team without a defense. O'Brien coached the first year after sanctions, pulled that team together and had a decent season. Last year he started to feel the effects of the sanctions but still did decent and beat Wisconsin at Wisconsin. Franklin is going to start with the worst team from sanctions this year so I want to see how he handles that. They are thin in multiple places but the offense is the worse hit. No big time WR to bail them out and the offensive line is MAC level. Hackenberg is going to take his worse beating yet. I bet he doesn't finish the season. But I underestimated O'Brien so maybe I'm underestimating Franklin, too. Franklin looks like a much better recruiter right now so that will help him in the future.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
A head coach is only as good as the sum of his assistants, etc. I do think Franklin is a very good coach. However, I don't know if he and Ricky Rahne will be as good of QB coach as O'Brien was; and if Bob Shoop/Sean Spencer will be as good of defensive coordinator/defensive line coach that Larry Johnson was.
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You're asking the wrong question. The correct question is, "how hot are their wives?" That's what matters.

Also, I think Jimmy's record has been broken down pretty thoroughly. He became just barely bowl eligible by beating the worst in the currently down SEC East along with a thoroughly cupcake OOC schedule. It doesn't prove that he can't coach, but I don't think it proves that he can either.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
You're asking the wrong question. The correct question is, "how hot are their wives?" That's what matters.
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You be the judge:

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NFBuck said:
History doesn't show? O'Brien had two pretty solid-to-okay seasons in Rhythmic Slappy Valley with a fair share of coaching hiccups. Franklin won 9 games in back-to-back seasons with Bowl wins at VANDERBILT...a historical doormat program. I'm not saying that guarantees he's going to succeed, but I certainly don't think he's shown to be any less than equal to Bill O'Brien.

But anyway, still a douche.
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I think we should come up with a new word for Franklin. "Douche" doesn't fit him as well as it fits the real "douche."
 
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Camp Franklin will give Penn State staff chance to bond

Penn State head coach James Franklin has found going on a staff retreat before the start of a season to be beneficial in his coaching career, and that does not appear to be changing now as the head coach of the Nittany Lions.

“We always do a staff retreat in the summer, before camp starts,” Franklin said in a story published by The Patriot News. “I always find it’s good to get away from the office because it’s hard to sit down and get a lot of concentrated amount of time together. Because if you’re in the office, everybody’s getting pulled out for something. So we’ll go away and do a staff retreat.”

Will there be camp fires and roasted marshmallows and hot dogs? That is unknown, but Franklin will use the time to have talks with his entire staff they may not be able to have often in the football offices at Penn State once the season prep ramps up.

“That’s a time for us to talk philosophy,” Franklin explained. “Coaches never want to take the time to talk philosophy when we’re drawing up plays and blitzes and things like that. And I think making sure that we’re all on the same page every year, especially when we have staff come and go and new members come in.”

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...in-will-give-penn-state-staff-chance-to-bond/
 
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ScriptOhio said:
“That’s a time for us to talk philosophy,” Franklin explained. “Coaches never want to take the time to talk philosophy when we’re drawing up plays and blitzes and things like that. And I think making sure that we’re all on the same page every year, especially when we have staff come and go and new members come in.”
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Coach Plato will be talking to us about the basics, you know - getting the fundamentals right, Berkeley will roll out the old conundrum about the Penn State tree falling in the Big Ten forest and did anyone hear it. Descartes has been working on something about "we stink, therefor we am." Nitsche will challenge us with his paper on Joesus being dead and then we're going to sit around and smoke cigars with Freud and ponder the size of Sandusky's pecker and whether it was rape or rage against his father."

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...in-will-give-penn-state-staff-chance-to-bond/
 
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