Mike in Marlton is a pissed off Penn State alum who wants the team to replace James Franklin with Tim Walz:

Pretty good troll from Mike in Marlton. The tampon joke didn’t land and I would’ve went with a running the pick six line, but to each their own. You had Mikey Miss hook, line, and sinker there for a little. I give the troll a 6.5 out of 10. Definitely not the greatest, but definitely not the worst. Kind of like James Franklin’s tenure of mediocrity at PSU.

I thought Mikey Miss actually gave some good sourced information in that answer about how the Penn State administration likes how Franklin conducts the program, which has to be bananas to hear if you’re a Penn State fan. Lets talk about on the field stuff. You can’t be happy just wading in mediocrity. I know he wins 10 games, but no one goes to Penn State to win 10 games and play in the occasional Rose Bowl. With the amount of mileage he uses on that helicopter and the recruiting hotbed of PA, NJ, NY, and Ohio they should be competing for Big 10 championships every single year and they aren’t. Now, he’ll most likely make the CFB Playoff this year barring a complete meltdown because the Big 10 is in a down year and the format expanded. But anyone not drinking the Happy Valley Kool-Aid will tell you the administration has their heads up their asses if they really enjoy the way he runs the program – and that’s before you get into the off the field stuff. He had two players kicked off the team for rape charges earlier this year and handled the media session as poorly as one could, relying on the PR department to take the heat instead of just deflecting like a coach, who has been mired in scandal since he was at Vanderbilt, should be equipped too:

Using the university’s statement as a shield plus the awkward way he cowered behind the PSU step and repeat made the video go viral. He also cost Penn State’s health system $5 million in a lawsuit in May after firing a doctor who complained about him while trying to protect players who were injured from rushing back. There was another lawsuit for a team hazing scandal. And don’t get me wrong he’s not the only coach in college ball that has scandals. It’s just that not everyone is treated equally. Kirby Smart and Nick Saban won’t be held to the same standards as Franklin because they fill trophy cases. Franklin continues to show his ass, but he’s lucky he’s got a $60 million shield to protect him.

And one more thing, to go back to the call – I never understood why the rebuttal from sports talk guys that get trolled is always, “Why would you sit on hold for that long ….?” Like we don’t have enough content in our lives or enough apps to scroll while keeping the phone on speaker. I’m not a troll, but waiting 20-30 minutes is nothing. This is a generation who scrolls 30 minutes at a time on Twitter, IG, and TikTok while taking a dump. Mikey Miss better get out of the business before the iPad kids grow up. Those fuckers are filled with so much brain rot there isn’t a hold long enough for them to concede.