Paul Finebaum hits Penn State football’s James Franklin with harsh reality check
Penn State football’s James Franklin gets a reality check from Paul Finebaum.
As the Penn State football team lost to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, it adds another big loss to head coach James Franklin’s resume. There have been Penn State football team fans saying that Franklin should be fired due to his inability to win big games consistently as this was talked about by analyst Paul Finebaum.
Penn State football’s James Franklin gets reality check
The college football analyst was on “The Matt Barrie Show” where he said bluntly that Franklin “can’t win a big game” and that “he’s not going to do it any year.” He would even bring up the playcalling on the Nittany Lions’ last drive which ended in a turnover as Finebaum said he did not want to “play the odds of overtime.”
“Let’s just be honest James Franklin can’t win a big game, he didn’t do it this year, he’s not going to do it next year, and he’s not going to do it any year because that’s just who he is,” Finebaum said. “That doesn’t make him a bad coach, it just makes him a jinx coach in these situations. People will say well what are you talking about can’t win a big game he’s in the semi-finals, he had SMU and Boise State. Nobody’s ever had a luckier draw and that doesn’t qualify as signature wins from my book.”
“I think James Franklin is thinking to himself, I’ve got to do something different, I just can’t play the odds of overtime,” Finebau continued. “Listen when your record is as bad as his is, it’s like in golf, every time that you go for the flag on the left side of the green at 11 at Augusta and you knock it in the water, so you say oh I’ll just try to turn the ball this time and then you over hit it. I think that’s him, he can’t win.”
