Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)
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New report confirms suspicion about the timing of Penn State's decision to fire James Franklin
The Penn State Nittany Lions fired head coach James Franklin this past Sunday after the program's third consecutive loss (Franklin was fired after a loss to Northwestern, which came after losses to UCLA and Penn State). Three straight losses is enough to make any coach's seat warm in this...
According to a new report from On3's Chris Low and Pete Nakos, Penn State's "money people" had made up their mind before Penn State's loss to Northwestern that Franklin needed to go.
The "money people" were simply waiting on an "opening" -- which the loss to Northwestern provided -- to fire Franklin.
“There were donors and money people at the school that had made up their minds that he wasn’t going to be able to get the program over that final hurdle, winning a national championship,” said a source to On3. “They were waiting for an opening because they knew you couldn’t fire a coach who was in the semifinal of the playoff just the year before....They got that opening after the Northwestern loss, especially after losing the week before against UCLA, where it looked like he had lost his team.”
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