Even more than a results-oriented business, coaching has ever-increasingly become a “What have you done for me lately?” business.
What James Franklin did lately at Penn State, losing to UCLA and Northwestern to extinguish any hopes of a Big Ten or national title, prompted his firing despite a conference-record $49 million buyout. That's the realm that Franklin and Ohio State coach Ryan Day both walk in.
"That's the world we live in," Day said. "It's something that, I think, for all of us, we need to make sure we focus on what matters to us and what's at hand.