It sounds nice to sit on your couch and just say that Ped St should just fire Franklin. But several points need to considered before making such a coaching change. 1. Buyout, a $56mil buyout is MASSIVE, and that's just to make Franklin go away. The AD then convincing the Board to put up enough money to pay his successor a comparable salary, because if you fire Franklin they can't expect to then hire some young up and comer for half the salary. Then they'd be admit that they're not on the same level as OSU, Oregon or scUM.
2. If Franklin is fired, Ped St then has a hard decision to make on their future. Right now, imo, Ped St is in the place Nebraska was when they fired Pelini. They had a successful HC who had reached his ceiling as an annual 9-10 win coach. But they wanted to mentioned in the same sentence as OSU, Bama, USC, etc. And they didn't realize that the next hire isn't guaranteed to bring massive success, and you could be left between football purgatory or just being a bad program. I'm sure Nebraska fans would love to get the Peilini era back. Ped St could face a similar result.
But something tells me, that Ped St will talk a big game in public, but in private realize that they're an above average program playing in a top 2 conference in BFE, PA. They're history is wrapped around one man who dominated when Ped St wasn't in a conference, and the program will forever be stained by that man allowing despicable acts by his own DC, because he was a good defensive coach. Franklin has hit his ceiling, may sneak into the CFP damn near yearly when they expand the CFP to 16, and he can tout his nice win PCT. One thing the Ped St boosters don't want, to slip to the level of Rutgers, Wisconsin or Nebraska
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