James Franklin Archives

Marcus Freeman was ‘angry’ with James Franklin’s press conference comments

"He was angry. He was angry with the press conference thing… All the anger went toward us and that anger went onto the field."

Urban Meyer has ‘no interest at all’ in being college football commissioner

"Why would (the top) teams ever raise the others?"

James Franklin proposes Nick Saban as commissioner of college football

The 73-year old has carved out a prominent media career in his post-coaching days.

James Franklin blasts ‘JV’ press conference setup after Oregon band interruption following Big Ten Championship Game

"How is this a smart setup?"

Penn State’s James Franklin, Maryland’s Mike Locksley explain tense postgame handshake, conversation

"But a couple things I will say..."

Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo incredulous over Penn State’s CFP ranking

"Let's have Penn State play Georgia and ask Vegas what the line would be. Georgia would be a 10-point favorite in that game, for crying out loud."

Gus Johnson was in rare form calling Ohio State’s 20-13 win over Penn State

"Focused. Determined. Disciplined. THE world-famous Buckeyes win it 20-13..."

James Franklin apologizes for press conference behavior: ‘I didn’t do a good job there’

"Difficult, difficult, situation and I gotta own that I did not do a good job of that."

James Franklin has chippy conversation with reporter in press conference

"I answered your question." "I don't think you did."

Joel Klatt on James Franklin comment on Fox broadcast: ‘ Wish I could have had that one back.’

"My intent was not to take a shot at James Franklin. I'm here to tell you I wish I would have handled that differently."

Reporter Cory Giger addresses James Franklin’s takedown of his question, threats he received

"I asked a bad question to James Franklin. No doubt. I own it."

Eli Manning on “Chad Powers” Penn State tryout: “My No. 1 concern of that was don’t pull a hamstring.”

"It wasn’t really until that day that I was told I’d have to run a 40, do a 5-10-5, do a broad jump, triple broad jump. My No. 1 concern of that was don’t pull a hamstring."

Eli Manning went undercover at Penn State as walk-on ‘Chad Powers’ for an ‘Eli’s Places’ segment

This was certainly a fun bit from Manning.

James Franklin shows media the purple butt he was left with after Penn State goes paintballing

The Penn State head coach came away with plenty of bruises after a team paintball day.

Keegan-Michael Key channels PSU’s James Franklin as he hilariously responds to Mike Francesa’s comments

The mascot and the band need to play too.

Mike Francesa explodes on Penn State coach James Franklin for icing a kicker up 56-0

Penn State head coach James Franklin isn’t worried about making any friends or winning any popularity contests. A...

Penn State’s James Franklin blocks ESPN reporter on Twitter

Penn State head coach James Franklin blocked an ESPN reporter on Twitter today, seemingly because that reporter pointed...