Penn State Fires James Franklin
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:01.1 | Coming up at 745. |
| 0:03.3 | We'll go around the NFL with the junkies. |
| 0:04.9 | Blitz play overreaction or reality. |
| 0:09.3 | But over the weekend, the reality for James Franklin is he's out of a job as Penn State lost their third straight, this time to Northwestern. |
| 0:19.3 | And that was the last straw. |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah. At some point, you know point the administration and the donors and the athletic department has to, |
| 0:27.0 | they have to say enough. |
| 0:28.1 | Like it's one thing to lose a big game to Oregon when they're ranked in the top five. |
| 0:33.5 | I can't remember. |
| 0:34.1 | They might have been three at that point when they got together in Happy Valley. |
| 0:38.0 | But then to drop two more games to UCLA and Northwestern, |
| 0:43.3 | I mean, this is a team that was hyped to be a college football playoff contender |
| 0:47.8 | heading into the season. |
| 0:49.7 | And they've just turned into an abject failure. |
| 0:53.6 | Well, they were clearly, |
| 0:54.6 | they were clearly overrated to start the year. |
| 0:58.9 | Drew Aller was projected as a first round quarterback to start the year. |
| 1:02.7 | He clearly isn't. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, unfortunately, for him, his college career is over because the injury suffered. |
| 1:08.3 | But they were, they just weren't very good. |
| 1:10.9 | I mean, they played three cupcakes to start the year, didn't play anybody. |
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