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The We Are podcast - Ep. 23: Evaluating James Franklin

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jarrod Prugar and Cory Giger evaluate the job Penn State head coach James Franklin does both on and off the field because there are two totally different results. Cory and Jarrod also take a look at some of the other high-profile coaches in other sports at Penn State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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It's on Prime. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the We Are Podcasts in the UK Pittsburgh Sports Podcasts Network. He's Corey Geiger. I'm Jared Puggar, and we are your hosts on this fine podcast. Corey, it's the offseason, of course, and there's not really much going on

0:56.4

Penn State-wise with other than a couple of recruits here and there. But let's evaluate the coaching

1:03.4

staff. The first up is James Franklin. To me, James Franklin, I think there's a great job off the field.

1:11.3

The recruiting is there.

1:12.5

He's a great role model.

1:13.6

He's obviously a biracial male.

1:17.2

So he's got that.

1:18.6

He's a minority.

1:20.5

He does a great job of adding minorities to that staff and being an outlet for that and being a guy and a

1:29.0

leader in that area on the field, not so much. The results haven't really added up recently,

1:36.4

not since they had some pretty good teams that, like they had offensive players of the year,

1:42.1

defensive players of the year, obviously, and guys that are

1:46.5

playing in the NFL on Sundays. So, Corey, what do you think about that? What does James

1:52.6

Franklin do well right now? Yeah, I think this is an interesting topic. I hope Penn State

1:58.3

fans enjoy this. We're going to break this into a couple of

2:01.9

segments here about Franklin. This is from my live questions file earlier this week. Commenter

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