Reason Behind James Franklin Getting Pushed Hogs’ Way Doesn’t Hold Up to Scrutiny

Photo Credit: Craven Whitlow / ImagnIn the pecking order of college football desirables, Penn State football coach James Franklin might as well be the slightly junior sister of that really hot girl you would have loved to take to the prom in high school.

Hang with me here.

He’s not, to be clear, A+ material. Driving Penn State into a serious fender bender in the form of last Saturday’s 42-37 loss to previously winless Penn State showed that. (As did, of course, the Nittany Lions’ loss to Arkansas football in the 2021 Outback Bowl and their choke job in the playoffs vs Notre Dame last year.)

In more than a decade since he’s returned to his home state, Franklin keeps coming up short in his quest…