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

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ScriptOhio said:
THE GREAT PUMPKIN LOSES IT. Without doubt the highlight of my post-victory formation night was James Franklin absolutely melting down in his postgame press conference. I watched all 11 minutes with my mouth pleasantly gaping in bewilderment. It was like performance art.



The highlight for me was when the Pumpkin King heatedly brought up players skipping class as something that could have made up a one-point differential in the football game he clearly could have won with better game management and coaching.

Imagine losing the biggest game of the season at home against the top team in the conference in spectacularly improbable fashion for the second-straight time and then choosing to complain about teens cutting class in the opening statement of your postgame press conference.

What a guy.

It's not like dealing with college students as a college football coach is a situation unique to him. Every coach on an elite team has to handle immature kids while trying to win football games, and be accountable for the players they recruit. They just all clearly do that better than James Franklin does.

Franklin was right about one thing though – Penn State isn't elite. And based on what I've watched the past two years, it might be an elite coach away from reaching that point.

Keep your head up though, coach. Maybe you'll have a 13-point fourth-quarter lead to blow next year.

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Gotta be honest, I was impressed with his press conference. His general message in what it takes to go from great to elite (in life, as well as in football), his accepting responsibility, his passion, his basically admitting that OSU is on another level rather than giving excuses. His Jersey Shore-eque antics have always bothered me but I think Shetuck made a good point that it might just be the NE culture coming through. Doesn't make the antics less annoying, maybe just a little more forgiving.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
kids didn't go to class, so we called a RB draw on 4th and 5.
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He didn't say it as an excuse, he was using it as an example of how much attention to detail is needed to make that next step. I liked that he didn't focus it on just football things actually. The whole thing to me sounded like a huge compliment to Urban and how he does things.
 
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shetuck said:
It's a northeast thing. New York, New Jersey, Philly (actually more like Bucks county) kinda "ethic". Midwesterners always read this as being "dickish" and stuck up. To northeasterners it's considered the real deal, what it means to "be a man". To midwesterners it just looks like a permanent case of sandy VJ.

The easiest way to understand it is if you imagine any number of characters from the Sopranos... Tony Soprano as a head coach.
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BigJim said:
Gotta be honest, I was impressed with his press conference. His general message in what it takes to go from great to elite (in life, as well as in football), his accepting responsibility, his passion, his basically admitting that OSU is on another level rather than giving excuses. His Jersey Shore-eque antics have always bothered me but I think Shetuck made a good point that it might just be the NE culture coming through. Doesn't make the antics less annoying, maybe just a little more forgiving.
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I'm guessing that Franklin was just having his "I am Spartacus" moment.

:slappy::slappy::slappy:
 
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shetuck said:
It's a northeast thing. New York, New Jersey, Philly (actually more like Bucks county) kinda "ethic". Midwesterners always read this as being "dickish" and stuck up. To northeasterners it's considered the real deal, what it means to "be a man". To midwesterners it just looks like a permanent case of sandy VJ.

The easiest way to understand it is if you imagine any number of characters from the Sopranos... Tony Soprano as a head coach.
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Can I imagine in Afrikaans, leaning toward the original Dutch? He acted like a doos.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Living here the past 7+ years, the most populated part (south east) is 100% more east coast than midwest.

They are a little more toned down than NY and NJ so it really isn't that bad but they are nothing like midwesterners until you start to get west of Philly.

Problem is that you then quickly get out into the sticks and that has the same underlying sickness as all extremely rural, hillbilly places do. Thus the old saw that it's Pittsburgh on one end, Philly on the other and Alabama in the middle.
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This...after the game, I overheard two different conversations bemoaning JF as a coach...and his skin color doesn't help AT ALL.
 
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Vanderbilt Commodores (Southeastern Conference) (2011–2013)
2011 Vanderbilt 6–7 2–6
2012 Vanderbilt 9–4 5–3
2013 Vanderbilt 9–4 4–4
Vanderbilt: 24–15 11–13

Penn State Nittany Lions (Big Ten Conference) (2014–present)
2014 Penn State 7–6 2–6
2015 Penn State 7–6 4–4
2016 Penn State 11–3 8–1
2017 Penn State 11–2 7–2
2018 Penn State 4–1 1–1 (East)
Penn State: 40–18 22–14

Note: 2011, 2014, & 2015 were obviously rebuilding years, etc.

Just sayin': His record does say he is a pretty good coach.
 
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