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This is what it would take to fire Penn State HC James Franklin
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This is absolute insanity. Guaranteed college HC contracts. The alumni just push out grotesque amounts of money to the top football programs. Can you imagine if they took this kind of money and put it to some kind of practical use to serve humanity? 

"That means to fire him during this season, Penn State would need to pay him $56 million (including what he's already been paid to this point). If the school chooses to wait until after this season, but still wanted to fire him prior to the 2026 campaign, it would have to pay him $48 million.

That makes Franklin one of the most expensive coaches in college football to fire, and would require Penn State to fundraise a massive amount of money to both pay Franklin's buyout and hire another coach to what figures to be a similar contract."
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Tortured fan base as of late...Is it really happy?
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I certainly don't feel bad for any of these guys getting fired because they've already won the lottery of life and will walk away with more money than I'll ever see in my life. Franklin should be fired though and I think he will be
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Being a college coach now days has got to be emotionally and physically draining. Just a few years ago you recruit a kid, develop him and hopefully get 4 years out of him. Now days with having to recruit kids on your roster to stay year after year when some other program comes in and poaches him for millions of dollars, what is a coach supposed to do. Too many millions of dollars has ruined college sports and now with the BIG looking at a possible $2 Billion investment it is just going to get worse.

If Franklin goes is Luke Fickell at Wisconsin far behind?
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(4 hours ago)Greylock Wrote: Being a college coach now days has got to be emotionally and physically draining.  Just a few years ago you recruit a kid, develop him and hopefully get 4 years out of him.  Now days with having to recruit kids on your roster to stay year after year when some other program comes in and poaches him for millions of dollars, what is a coach supposed to do.  Too many millions of dollars has ruined college sports and now with the BIG looking at a possible $2 Billion investment it is just going to get worse.

If Franklin goes is Luke Fickell at Wisconsin far behind?

Man, its always been brutal, but I agree that its gotten faster pace and more complex. 

I think the glory eras of teams like Badgers are probably done - maybe a good single year here or there? Might the same apply to Bama? 

Probably not to the same degree. But even for them the playing field has leveled some.
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A lot of the good things that made college football special and different have erroded away over the last 5 years or so. Conferences-gone, rivalries-gone, Bowl games of significance-gone, commitments-gone, loyalty-gone, its transformed into a semi pro sport where the almighty dollar is the bottom line.

It's what I fear with the NFL and NFLPA in continuing to make poor decisions that aren't in the best interest of the game or the players themselves.
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Penn State has fired head coach James Franklin after 12 seasons, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel.

Franklin is owed more than $49 million, per his contract.

Less than a year removed from an appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinals, Franklin's program appeared to hit a new low when the Nittany Lions traveled out to Los Angeles two weeks ago only to lose to UCLA, a team that not only was winless, but hadn't previously held a lead all season.

The woes flew back home with the team to Penn State, and with them came "Fire Franklin!" chants at Beaver Stadium on Saturday. The Nittany Lions dropped their second straight home game, and third overall, when they fell to Northwestern, 22-21, in front of a stunned crowd at Happy Valley. Penn State was a favorite of more than three touchdowns in that game.

"I take full responsibility for all of it," Franklin said after the loss to the Wildcats. "I hired all the staff, I recruited all the players. I believe in all of them. But we're not getting it done right now."

In the loss to the Wildcats, the Nittany Lions committed six penalties for 71 yards in the first half alone. They simply could never get out of their own way, and that was before quarterback Drew Allar suffered a season-ending injury in the fourth quarter.

Earlier in the season, when the losing streak began against Oregon at Happy Valley, Franklin fell to 4-21 at Penn State against AP top-10 opponents, including 1-18 against top-10 Big Ten teams.

"I get that narrative, and it's really not a narrative -- it's factual. It's the facts," Franklin said after the loss to the Ducks. "I try to look at the entire picture and what we've been able to do here. But at the end of the day, we got to find a way to win those games. I totally get it. And I take ownership. I take responsibility."

Franklin's .160 winning percentage against AP top-10 teams is tied for the third-worst record by a coach (minimum 25 games) at a single school since the poll era began in 1936, according to ESPN Research.
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