James Franklin has already turned Vanderbilt around, won a Big Ten title with Penn State and earned three Coach of the Year awards in 2016.
But, according to an anonymous coaches’ poll conducted by CBS and published Sunday morning, he’s one of the most overrated head coaches in college football.
CBS said its writers spoke with one-fifth of the 129 FBS coaches and asked about the most overrated and underrated coaches. When it came to overrated, both Franklin and Florida State’s Willie Taggart each received a poll-leading 20 percent of the vote.
Here are two of the anonymous quotes CBS picked up on Franklin:
- “His coaching peers know he is full of it.