James Franklin on coaching again: ‘I don’t know anything else’
By Jacob Moss
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The firing of former Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin last weekend caught many off guard and quickly became one of the biggest stories in all of college football so far this season.
Franklin had been the coach up in Happy Valley since the 2014 season, where he won 104 games, a Big Ten title in 2016, and guided the program back to the upper echelons of the sport following one of its darkest chapters.
Now, Franklin is back on the job market for the first time in over a decade, and he mad it clear during an interview on College GameDay that he has no intention of moving on from the coaching profession any time soon.
“I don’t know anything else,” Franklin said on the broadcast. “I don’t have hobbies. I don’t golf or fish. It’s such a big part of my identity and my family.”
It’s clear that Franklin still has the passion and desire to be a football coach, even if his tenure with the Nittany Lions didn’t end in the way he probably envisioned it would have.
With his resume, it seems likely that Franklin won’t be out of a job for very long either, as there are plenty of programs that would kill for the results he put up every year at Penn State.
