Coaching Rumors: James Franklin to USC, Brady Hoke to Charlotte
This story LINK details some interesting rumors out there. There's a lot of buzz this week about Franklin to USC, but this is the first I've heard that Hoke could be a leading candidate for the Charlotte job. I'd forgotten that Hoke is the DL coach for the Carolina Panthers. I'm sure he'll write the Charlotte AD a letter in all capital letters saying how much he'd like the job.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:35 PM ^
His offense would be deadly with the talent they can bring in.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
If they are missing talent at USC maybe this makes some kind of sense but Frames has a ceiling that a USC type of program should not settle for.
This could be the best scenario for PSU.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
If I were USC, I'd wait and go offer the Hollywood sign to get some guy named Pete Carroll (who's on the hot seat in Seattle) back. Let's just leave Franklin right where he's at! I like having him and his giant brain farts in the B1G Ten East!
November 21st, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
Pretty funny that the PSU job has become a launching pad for coaches (O'Brien, Franklin) to get better jobs. I guess they are not as big time as they thought they were.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
What does Franklin even bring to the table for USC?
If you are just going to hire a figurehead that is going to watch everybody else do all the work you can go get Herm.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:25 PM ^
Franklin likes to flirt with other jobs to get himself a pay raise. Unless he really wants to get out of the Big Ten East (or just wants to live in L.A.) I don't see much point of this for him.
November 21st, 2018 at 5:22 PM ^
This is a great time for him to escape the B1G. Nobody seems to realize that he has a nice approximate .1 win ratio against the three good programs in his division.
Hea clearly at the most generous, the fourth best coach in the East.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
I'd never heard of the Charlotte 49ers before now. To me, they were just UNCC and Cornbread Maxwell, damn him.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
Would love to see Hoke succeed somewhere. Guy needs to catch a break.
November 21st, 2018 at 5:44 PM ^
I think we saw from experience, a crazy outlier year at Ball State and SDSU were his ceilings. Great position coach, not a head coach.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
Honestly surprised that USC isn't just waiting one more year to see if they can snag Urban.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:47 PM ^
Got to give Franklin credit for recruiting. In a place where the death penalty was a given, I couldn't believe he was getting recruits to Penn State. Good recruits. In a time when they couldn't go to a bowl. Friggin 4 and 5 stars! To this day I don't understand why any player would want to go there back then, so props to Franklin for that.
November 21st, 2018 at 10:53 PM ^
He wasn't there when they were on probation. That was Bill O'Brien.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:52 PM ^
USC opening the purse strings to try and lure Urban from OSU makes more sense than Franklin to USC.
November 21st, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
Urban's wife isn't letting him go near a school that has coeds in bikinis ever again.
November 22nd, 2018 at 1:26 AM ^
No worries, Urban always has a headache.
November 21st, 2018 at 4:52 PM ^
Advantage for Hoke:
It's a much shorter walk to get to that job!
November 21st, 2018 at 4:56 PM ^
What USC needs more than anything else is a coaching staff that can develop players. It seems like USC's recruiting was fine, and I don't think Helton has a terrible rep as a game manager. But, the offensive line has been a disaster, and the defensive line has been disappointing To be sure, recruiting could be better; USC isn't top 3 every year. But, be better at the rest and the recruiting will improve from an already healthy level. Franklin strikes me as sort of mixed on that score.
So, I would think that Franklin is more valuable at Penn State where you can entertain the idea of regular top-ten recruiting classes, but you gotta have an excellent recruiter to achieve that.
November 21st, 2018 at 5:20 PM ^
I want James Franklin in Happy Valley for as long as possible
November 21st, 2018 at 5:42 PM ^
USC deserves Franklin, Franklin deserves USC
Hello Greg Schiano at Penn State
November 21st, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
Things seem to go sour quickly once the head coach starts yelling at people in the stands after games, so I'm not really shocked, but I am surprised USC would consider Franklin.
Anyway, good luck to Hoke.
November 21st, 2018 at 8:02 PM ^
IF Fames Janklin to USC, then Greg Schiano to Penn State in 4, 3, 2,.....
November 21st, 2018 at 8:13 PM ^
I mean the guy helped cover up Sandusky once, so why not go back to the well...
November 21st, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
I really dislike USC so I am fine with them struggling with J Franklin for years to come.
November 21st, 2018 at 9:31 PM ^
Can’t blame franklin for wanting out of the meat grinder that is the B1G East whereas he’ll be teaching basic tackling techniques to PAC 12 players and facing off with arch rivals AZ and AZ St. ?
November 22nd, 2018 at 12:24 AM ^
Pac 12 south will be good very quickly. Herman's doing a nice job at ASU, Wittingham at Utah always has the Utes solid and Kelly will do some things at UCLA. Throw in AZ with a good coach and recruiter now and the P12 South will be very good in 1 or 2 years.
November 22nd, 2018 at 1:23 AM ^
Hoke is seriously the DL coach for the Panthers? I totally lost track of where he ended up. I guess I’m glad he’s got a job but wow...
November 22nd, 2018 at 2:48 AM ^
Huh, I was at the lions game last week and didn’t see him clapping after those missed kicks, guess I missed him.