Backup QB, backup coach!
So who's having the worst Sunday...
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thedukeofearl
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James Franklin is having a rather bad Sunday
From The Athlete
He will be paid around $50 million for his buyout
From The Athlete
Penn State fires James Franklin
He will be paid around $50 million for his buyout
Dadman
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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
HawkeyeHypnosis
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Penn State pulled the trigger. I’m surprised how quickly they yanked the rug.
guffus
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That's a good thing for Iowa, right?
Dadman
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Question: When they yanked the rug, did Franklin fall with an “injury”?
Fryowa
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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. Someone tell me how this is a bad day, please.
He was in a town where everyone had come to hate him, in the highest stress profession in the country, working 7 days a week year round, getting scrutinized by hundreds of thousands of people, and being forced to have weekly press conferences where he had to go on video answering questions about why he was failing at his job.
Today, he got paid $50 million dollars to leave all that behind. He’s old enough that he won’t have to go look for another of those jobs and forfeit his buyout, and he wouldn’t find a job that high-paying again after this.
This day??? This is the best day James Franklin has had in years and years. He has generational wealth and neither him, his wife, his kids, or grandkids will ever want for anything material in their entire lives. They’re good, folks.
Luke Fickell is about to have his best day in the past three years as well. No sympathy needed. Neither of those guys wants to be a football coach anymore, and they’re getting paid to leave a situation they don’t want to be in.
He was in a town where everyone had come to hate him, in the highest stress profession in the country, working 7 days a week year round, getting scrutinized by hundreds of thousands of people, and being forced to have weekly press conferences where he had to go on video answering questions about why he was failing at his job.
Today, he got paid $50 million dollars to leave all that behind. He’s old enough that he won’t have to go look for another of those jobs and forfeit his buyout, and he wouldn’t find a job that high-paying again after this.
This day??? This is the best day James Franklin has had in years and years. He has generational wealth and neither him, his wife, his kids, or grandkids will ever want for anything material in their entire lives. They’re good, folks.
Luke Fickell is about to have his best day in the past three years as well. No sympathy needed. Neither of those guys wants to be a football coach anymore, and they’re getting paid to leave a situation they don’t want to be in.
Fryowa
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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 knew before the game took place. If you don’t think the powers that be hadn’t had pulled him aside and told him if things don’t turn around you’re going up the river, I don’t know what to tell you.
As if it wasn’t already obvious enough, did any of you watch the end of the game? You could see it on his face. Did you see how he went to midfield, stopped and just stared around the stadium for a couple mins? He knew full well that was the last time he was going to be allowed on PSU property. Did you see how he went out with players for their post game huddle/prayer? He knew that was the last time he’d see those guys in a football capacity.
Let’s not act like Franklin didn’t know this was happening. He had been told, and if it didn’t happen against NW he knew it was coming the next L they took.
As if it wasn’t already obvious enough, did any of you watch the end of the game? You could see it on his face. Did you see how he went to midfield, stopped and just stared around the stadium for a couple mins? He knew full well that was the last time he was going to be allowed on PSU property. Did you see how he went out with players for their post game huddle/prayer? He knew that was the last time he’d see those guys in a football capacity.
Let’s not act like Franklin didn’t know this was happening. He had been told, and if it didn’t happen against NW he knew it was coming the next L they took.
Garandx
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It was like when Odgeron was fired from LSU
"When do you want me out and what door should I use"
Generational Bag securement day for franklin,
Garandx
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Not really. Theyll play looser now that theres no expectations. I could see them winning easily.
NCHawker
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I was going to start a similar thread to ask who thumped louder or who landed hardest?
Penn State most surprised
Wisconsin not shocked but damn
Oregon WTF just happend?
Florida State
Fryowa
Administrator
Nah…
His buyout is bigger than the one Franklin had, he’s got 7 years left on his contract, and he’s in the same spot as Matt Campbell. No one breathing down your neck expecting wins. Wins are just a bonus
Nobody’s gonna pay Indiana $57 million and then turn around and start paying Cignetti $10-12 million a year.
NCHawker
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Seth53
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Ummm...
Not breathing down his neck now, but wait until they "under perform" next year.
People get spoiled fast. The footsteps will start soon.
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 Iowa, if Michigan or Ohio State came calling with busloads of cash, would he have left Iowa City?
trj
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Luke Fickell is 52.
James Franklin is 53.
These guys are hyper-competitive people and the failure eats at you. Having money doesn’t always fix that…see Bill Belichick. Both are just young enough where they might be willing to reset as coordinators and make one more run to be a head coach in 3-5 years.
