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The question was who’s having a “worse day.” I don’t care if Franklin decides to retire, coach again, or work at Subway. There’s...

Luke Fickell is 52. James Franklin is 53. These guys are hyper-competitive people and the failure eats at you. Having money doesn’t...

To carry on the metaphor of Cig being the BTen's modern-day equivalent of Hayden Fry: after Fry went to the Rose Bowl in year 3 at...

Ummm... Not breathing down his neck now, but wait until they "under perform" next year. People get spoiled fast. The footsteps will...

I was going to start a similar thread to ask who thumped louder or who landed hardest? Penn State most surprised Wisconsin not...

Not sure what price/dollar figure one can assign to one's dignity, but $50mil seems to be enough. These are high-ego, highly...

Las Vegas now has Iowa listed as a 2.5 pt favorite. This is down from PSU being favored by 10.5 points at an earlier time

Nebraska now ranked 25. Hope they keep winning. We can storm their field and steal their goalposts

Also, anyone who thinks James Franklin standing on the sidelines last night as the game wound down didn’t know his fate is an idiot. He...

That’s not having a bad day. I don’t know how there is a single—even a little— bit of a bad day in what happened. Not being sarcastic...

79-10 against Wisconsin the last two years. First shutout in Camp Randall since 1980. First shutout in Camp Randall from Iowa since 1929.

Franklin fired! I love it!

Penn State pulled the trigger. I’m surprised how quickly they yanked the rug.

Question: When they yanked the rug, did Franklin fall with an “injury”?

I don’t recall getting a 50mm buyout when I “retired” at 65 yrs old. I shoulda had such a “bad day” like Franklin did