002 - James Franklin fired by PSU 101325
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
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James Franklin fired by PSU
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back inside the Inarbor studios of the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com. |
| 0:05.2 | So Michigan loses 31 13 on Saturday night. |
| 0:10.1 | They fall to 4 and 2 on the season, 2 and 1 in Big 10 play. |
| 0:13.2 | We will be discussing that throughout the course of the show. |
| 0:15.4 | That is obviously what we were mainly talking about, including with Mike Porter for the |
| 0:19.9 | Monster Moment of the game coming up at about an hour from now with Monster Tree Service of Ann Arbor. |
| 0:23.9 | We'll be discussing that most of less what we'll be discussing with Will Heineger and Scott Bell in the 8 o'clock hour with Denard Robinson, our Monday morning quarterback brought to by Golden Limousine in the 9 o'clock hour. |
| 0:33.8 | But there was another piece of news from college football yesterday that is big time news and needs to be discussed because James Franklin was fired yesterday by Penn State. |
| 0:42.3 | It's going to end up costing Penn State between $45 and $50 million in his buyout. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean, if it was me, if I was him, I would already be on the beach. |
| 0:52.3 | It wouldn't take long to be on the beach and have my feet kicked up. |
| 0:56.0 | And I know these guys want to coach again. |
| 0:58.4 | And these guys are alphas. |
| 0:59.6 | And that's like how that's their personalities. |
| 1:01.3 | But you pay me 45 to $50 million to be out of a job. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm probably going to just take it and enjoy that money. |
| 1:10.3 | Of note, their former AD, Sandy Barber, |
| 1:12.8 | not their current AD, Pat Kraft, |
| 1:14.5 | is the one who signed James Franklin to his last and insane extension |
| 1:17.7 | that cost this much money. |
| 1:19.5 | But apparently money is not an issue. |
| 1:22.3 | They're just willing to part ways. |
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