Peak Frames Janklin
With :56 to go in the first half of the Cotton Bowl, Penn St. has a run to the 5 yard line. James Franklin immediately calls timeout, despite the fact that he has 2 timeouts and at most 2 more plays since it is now 3rd and goal. Next play is a Penn St. touchdown.
Now Memphis has time to drive for a half ending field goal. They have a 51 yard attempt with 8 seconds left, and James Franklin uses his other timeout to ice the kicker. Memphis runs another play to get 8 more yards, and makes the shorter field goal.
Franklin has to be the worst time management coach of all time.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:24 PM ^
Nope.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:43 PM ^
If trading coaches led to those results, yes, I would.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
Do you believe trading coaches would lead to those results?
December 28th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
Exactly
December 28th, 2019 at 6:53 PM ^
If it got us the same results, sure. It's not like I'm in love with Harbaugh or something. Franklin is somewhat lame, but he's not out covering up rapists like MSU or otherwise fucking over his players.
Harbaugh's job is to win as many games as possible without making the school look bad. Franklin appears able to do a slightly better job of the former, while being no worse at the latter.
December 29th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
Absolutely not.
December 28th, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
I didn’t know having more losses was an accomplishment to be proud of. Both his win over OSU and his B1G championship were the same year, and insanely fluky. We beat them by 39 that year. Was that one of those competitive losses?
December 28th, 2019 at 2:33 PM ^
I'm at the same place too.
Though I still give Jim Harbaugh credit for where he had brought the team to by the 2016 Ohio St game. What has been going on since then though, maybe Rod Serling can explain.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:38 PM ^
Just like Keith Jackson, Mr. Serling is dead. Sorry to break it to you.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:08 PM ^
How about Einstein?
December 28th, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
I just think the program as a whole hits a full on mental block when it plays OSU. Everyone else on the schedule, that’s a game they know they can win. And they’ve proven they can beat anyone else on their schedule at least every other year. But OSU is where you see Michigan make so many careless, sloppy mistakes, where they play tight, commit turnovers, etc.
How you fix that, I have no clue. That’s what getting beat down for two decades straight will do to you.
December 28th, 2019 at 10:02 PM ^
This.
December 28th, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^
Tell me about it. They are up 15 points with a chance to keep it that way into halftime. I am going to lose my PSU -7 bet mostly because Franklin is a complete moron.
December 28th, 2019 at 2:48 PM ^
Penn State's bludgeoning them on the ground.. and they come out throwing the ball in the second half
December 28th, 2019 at 3:08 PM ^
I don't like Franklin. But they will probably get an 11 win season. They'll have more to sell than Michigan.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:24 PM ^
Penn State will never have more to sell than Michigan.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:28 PM ^
That's total delusional Michigan arrogance
December 28th, 2019 at 3:36 PM ^
He's about to get his 11th win, can Michigan's coach claim that accomplishment?
December 28th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
No one will ever be as bad at this as Bo was.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:41 PM ^
well at his teams score before half-time. Harbaugh manages to screw it up every time.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
Eh whatever.
I know it gives a lot us the warm and fuzzies to bag on Franklin, but he's won the Big Ten and beaten OSU, shit ton more than we can say about our guy.
At some point, I just wish our program would do something, rather than getting good feels by ripping on other people that have actually done shit.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
He also lost to Brady Hoke.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:01 PM ^
And OSU also lost to Brady Hoke.
What does that have to do with anything?
Franklin = has done stuff in Big Ten
Harbaugh= has done nothing
December 28th, 2019 at 4:29 PM ^
Franklin has a worse B10 winning percentage than Harbaugh and worse overall winning percentage than Harbaugh. He also has a 2-6 B10 season under his belt. See, I can pick out the shitty things he’s done that you forgot to mention
December 28th, 2019 at 5:20 PM ^
Gonna quote the all time win percentage too?
We all make fun of Franklin; he had THREE years of head coaching experience before taking over an absolute train wreck of a program, still recovering from one of the most historic scandals in football history.
Harbaugh was crowned champion of all coaches before even stepping foot in Ann Arbor.
I know it bothers a lot of people; a lot of people can't accept that Franklin has accomplished more than our hero.
December 28th, 2019 at 5:25 PM ^
No one gives a fuck about win percentage. All that matters is do you bring home hardware or not. Franklin took over when Penn State was given NCAA sanctions and has done more than Harbaugh has.
December 28th, 2019 at 6:36 PM ^
NCAA sanctions didn’t do shit and O’Brien had more wins in his two years at PSU than Hoke did in his last 2 years before Harbaugh. The sanctions didn’t mean Franklin took over some shit program. They were in a better position than us despite the fact that they had sanctions because the fan base didn’t give a shit about anything but the football team.
December 28th, 2019 at 6:48 PM ^
The NCAA sanctions didn't do shit?? Are you fucking kidding me dude??? WOW.
They were in a better position???
Honestly, I cannot believe this was even a thought that ran through your head. And I will be honest, I do not think you actually believe it either.
December 28th, 2019 at 7:52 PM ^
I can. Some on here will defend and make every excuse for Harbaugh, even if it isn't factual.
December 28th, 2019 at 7:53 PM ^
Kinda scary.
December 28th, 2019 at 7:09 PM ^
Yes, two years of scholarship reductions "didn't do shit" and "had them in a better position than us".
Wtf are you smoking man?
December 28th, 2019 at 7:12 PM ^
To be honest, I do not even think he believes what he wrote.
But, at this point as Michigan fans, this is all we have. Just looking for excuses.
December 28th, 2019 at 5:31 PM ^
He also has won 11 games in a season multiple times in the B1G.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:45 PM ^
He won 11 games and his losses were not embarrassments. We have no room to talk.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:54 PM ^
This year, sure. He’s had many embarrassing losses, though. Three separate ones to Michigan, even.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
Uh...
2016, 2017? Or did I imagine those 11 win seasons?
December 28th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
At this point, I would trade Harbaugh for Franklin straight up. He's a douche but lovable if he's your coach
December 28th, 2019 at 3:55 PM ^
Hard no.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:52 PM ^
Except when Franklin got in argument with a Penn St student on the sideline a year or two ago
December 28th, 2019 at 4:22 PM ^
Didn't Harbaugh spike it when we still had a timeout? Our clock management is just as bad.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:36 PM ^
I get that Franklin is a douche and frequently makes terrible game management decisions, and I have no desire to trade him for Harbaugh, but all this criticism of a guy who's gone 42-11 over the past four years with two bowl victories and a conference title under his belt seems sort of ridiculous.
In that same time span, we're 37-14, no conf titles, and three bowl losses (and counting).
December 28th, 2019 at 4:49 PM ^
Yep, I notice our fanbase continuously makes fun of “underachieving” coaches or programs and most of the times those coaches or programs have much more success than we’ve had in recent years
December 28th, 2019 at 5:22 PM ^
That's all we got anymore. Michigan has nothing to hang their hat on in terms of accomplishing anything, so our fans try to pick on the lowest hanging fruit to boost our pride.
The problem is... That low hanging fruit (Franklin) keeps winning and has done things on the biggest stage, and has brought an absolute dead program back to quality.
December 28th, 2019 at 5:57 PM ^
Why is he considered a douche? I only know of the coaches wives comment which he was joking.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
The biggest surprise of the game was that I learned that James Franklin is black.
December 28th, 2019 at 4:49 PM ^
Racist. /s
December 28th, 2019 at 4:46 PM ^
Fuck having Memphis +7
December 28th, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
Yet Franklin just blew someone out in a bowl game and won 11 games in a season.
December 28th, 2019 at 5:33 PM ^
Yet another MGoBlog thread where the trolls and the ninnies are indistinguishable.
The program deserves a much better fanbase.
December 28th, 2019 at 5:39 PM ^
This fan base deserves a better program.