James Franklin misplaced one other huge recreation on Saturday as Penn State fell to Michigan by 9 at dwelling. The Nittany Lions misplaced 24-15.
Sure, 15. As bizarre of a quantity as it might be, it isn’t a typo.
Franklin elected to go for 2 after every of his staff’s two touchdowns. Neither labored.
Deciding to not kick the additional level on each touchdowns was questionable, to say the least. The second was particularly horrible. Embarrassing, even.
When requested in regards to the thought course of throughout his postgame press convention, James Franklin acquired very sassy. He was on the protection and proceeded to tear into the reporter who requested him a particularly reasonable query.
David Jones of Pennlive.com requested the preliminary query in regards to the two-point tries. Franklin defined the primary.
We felt like factors have been going to be arduous to come back by. We’re down by 4 [with only an extra point]. We wished to place ourselves able to make it a field-goal recreation.
— James Franklin
The pinnacle coach didn’t actually reply to the second two-point conversion try, which prompted Jones to push again. After which issues spiraled right into a chippy alternate from there.
JONES: I don’t perceive the logic there. You make it an eight-point recreation to maintain your staff alive.
FRANKLIN: You don’t must agree with it. I’m simply telling you that’s the choice.
JONES: I didn’t assume the reply had something to do with the second. The primary one I perceive.
FRANKLIN: We’re attempting to get again. We’re attempting to get factors. We felt like factors have been gonna be arduous to come back by. We wished to get it again.
JONES: There’s two-and-a-half minutes left within the recreation at that time.
FRANKLIN: Davy, I answered your query.
JONES: I don’t assume you probably did.
Franklin was visibly enraged by Jones’ remaining response. He stared on the reporter like he was prepared to leap over the desk and strangle him. Fairly, he stared by the reporter, into his soul.
Jones had each proper to maintain prying as a result of Franklin by no means actually gave a logical rationalization for the second two-point attempt. On the flip aspect, although, Franklin didn’t must reply something.
It’s simply not look to get into it with the native media after dropping a crucially essential recreation in entrance of the second-largest crowd in program historical past. The 51-year-old head coach by no means took accountability, and tried to elucidate away his baffling selections with generic solutions about factors.
That isn’t going to fly if Penn State continues to lose the large one!
Jones was merely holding Franklin’s ft to the hearth and ended up getting in a sassy alternate with one of many greatest names in faculty soccer. You’ll be able to watch the total alternate HERE.
