And we are back, folks, here on The Michigan Insider on the Big 1050, WTKA, online at the

Big 1050.com, joining us as he does every single Monday, bottom of the 8 o'clock hour,

not only to reflect upon the Michigan game, but we can reflect upon the Big Ten.

It's our good friend, the mayor of Michigan Twitter, Scott Bell. Scott, good morning. How are you?

Happy to be here as always.

Hey, so it's, it was my contention to start the season that Penn State is and will continue to be what we thought they were as long as James Franklin is the head coach with Drew Aller, who is like the quarterback version of James Franklin.

As long as those two are there, they cannot be a national chain.

They cannot be a title winning program.

And for the reasons that we saw Saturday night, in my opinion, one of them is going

to choke this time it was Drew Allen.

Yeah, I've been really, really outspoken about James Franklin for the past decade, really,

because I think he's a product of getting his name floated every time there's an opening.

I think his agent is better at what he does than James Franklin is in terms of Franklin

just kind of is able to hold almost Penn State hostage to get these, continue getting his name out there

and getting these raises.

But when it comes to big games, I think the numbers speak for themselves.

That being said, I'm a little bit of a hypocrite because I predicted Penn State to do well

heading into the season because I thought this off

season reminded me a lot of Michigan's two years ago in Ohio States last year and they

were getting their big contributors to come back and really lining up and make a run.

So on the macro level, I thought they would have a good season this year,

but once again, when you get to a big game, James Franklin's going to do James Franklin

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