James Franklin pokes the bear

Well - "here are the receipts", as they say for OOC games:

Franklin has been HC since 2014 and PSU has played - Pitt (x4), Auburn (x2), WVU this yr. - 7 games vs P5 teams.

Also - Temple (x3), Akron (x2), Buffalo (x2), Kent St. (x2), U Mass (x2), App. St., Army, Ball St., Central Fla, Central Mich, GA St., Ohio, SDSU, and three D-II teams - Delaware, Idaho, & Villanova.

Harbs has been HC since 2015 and we have played - ND (x2), Colorado, UF, Oregon St., Utah, Washington - 7 games vs P5 teams.  Plus we played BYU & Cinci which are now P5.

Also - Hawaii (x2), UNLV (x2), Western Mich (x2), Air Force, Army,  Bowling Green, Central Fla., Colorado St., UConn, E. Carolina, Middle Tenn St., N. Illinois, SMU.  Zero D-II teams.

And I'm pretty sure it's understood that coaches might have some input on schedules but not that much and the Covid year and the UCLA series could not be re-scheduled.  Franklin can really fuck all the way off on this one.

i was too lazy to look up their OOC, but just knew it was true lol

Well, it's a game, and blowhards gotta blow. And--learning from guys like Deion--it's easier to talk crap before the game than after your ass is handed back to you on a platter.

Appropriate.

"Remember when the circus came to town,

and you were frightened by the clown?"

I like the part where the little girl says to Ryan Day “tell me again, mommy”

Wendy, thousands of dollars and decades of therapy went into erasing all vestiges of that song from my memory.  Thanks.  Thanks a lot.  I'm also humming "I am Woman, hear me Roar", which is a bit awkward for a 59 year old white male public school counselor.  

Ugh, how was Helen Reddy ever a thing? I unfortunately remember those days well.

FWIW - the exact text of the question and answer is below. 

Franklin should name teams instead of vaguely saying "there's a team in this conference" and "another team" ----- but as I read this, Indiana is the team referred to in paragraph 1, and Michigan in paragraph 4.

I'll criticize myself: I believed the Twitter quote and replied elsewhere in this thread before doing any further reading on my own.  But after getting the FULL quote, IMO this is rather clearly not him criticizing Michigan.

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Q. Last month, you were asked about scheduling teams like Delaware and you said there was pretty good data to suggest that scheduling like that in the non-conference helps teams win championships and get to the playoff. Do you see that approach to non-con scheduling changing or staying the same with a 12-team playoff arriving soon?

A: Yeah, I would say there's a team in this conference, specifically, that's buying out of a ton of game contracts that are already signed, to go in the complete opposite direction. No, I don't think it's changed.
 
I would say you could even make the argument it's magnified and that's why people are changing their schedules because you look at who people are going to have to play, just in our conference, it's going to be even more challenging than it's ever been. 
 
I don't think the philosophy or the model has changed. You've got to do whatever you possibly can to give yourself a chance, number one, to be undefeated at the end of the season, to your point, with a bigger playoff, there's probably a little bit more wiggle room in terms of, right now it's kind of undefeated or at-most one loss, and then on top of that, if you're not scheduling to be undefeated, you're scheduling to have the least amount of losses possible to give yourself a chance to be in the Playoffs. 
 
There's another team in this conference that has had a ton of success the last couple years, and again, I think it would follow the same argument. So no, I don't think so, and from the ADs and head coaches and people I've talked to, if anything, I think it magnifies it even more. 

underrated

Is UMASS a rival?

I think he just meant this year in which almost everyone in the B1G is worse than usual (except us, probably psu, and maybe rutgers).