That’s the series that made me say out loud that I wondered if he was trying to get fired.
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It wasn’t just the Minny loss though. It was laying an egg the last three weeks of the season after being a preseason favorite to win it all and being ranked #2 all season.
Yesterday might be the worst ever
1985 was the last time any top 10 team lost to an 0-4 team
40 years! The Berlin Wall was still standing the last time this happened
1985 was the last time any top 10 team lost to an 0-4 team
40 years! The Berlin Wall was still standing the last time this happened
That 2004 team was one that didn't quit despite their record. I was at the goal line stand game at Indiana on 11/13/2004 and that team cared and played hard despite being 2-7 at the time and playing on the road in front of a high school game sized crowd. I see no such passion in this year's team.
Loses to Cincinnati in '83 and Toledo in 2000 were bad. That Miami blowout was embarrassing too (although that Caines team was loaded).
1997 Michigan drubbing although Michigan was very good. Even worse, the season ender in East Lansing. PSU was a 1 loss team and they went to East Lansing and got curbstomped by a 7-4 Sparty team that rolled up 596 yards of offense. PSU gave up 452 yards rushing. Sparty had two RBs go over 200 yards in that game. PSU started the season ranked #1 and spent 8 weeks that season ranked either 1 or 2.
That team did not lay an egg…they lost 3 very tough games to some good teams.
They were ranked #2 and lost the the last three games of the year. They laid an egg.
At least that 1983 team was coming off of a NC and had to replace a lot of starters. They also were crushed by Nebraska, which played for the NC, but they recovered and ended by beating Washington in the Aloha Bowl and finished 8-4-1.
Interesting because BWI guys reported decent energy.
I love all the psychologist here who know what’s going on in Franklins head at specific moments. Good stuff.
I was at that one....
In the endzone it looked as if the sea parted and in the middle was a green man running with giant steps right down the middle of it.....
It was awful.
It doesn’t matter if it’s his time to go and it very well may be. The buyout makes that prohibitive.
Didn’t Michigan State just run the ball down our throats that year like maybe 2 RBs near or over 200 yards?
correction, as another poster stated above it was 97, not 99
There's something going on in Franklin's head? Who knew???
Minnesota was a solid team that finished 18th and Glen Mason was a good coach. And what happened at the end of the Minnesota game was a fluke. We kicked too many field goals but Minnesota got into FG range off of a fluke play. That Minnesota team would boat race ucla yesterday. We were dominated yesterday by a staff that had two days to prepare and a team that was blown out by new Mexico. No comparison.
Call it what you want. It started a three game slide that made what was supposed to be a national championship level season a real clunker.
Preseason and early season rankings are all bs. What we have out “on paper” the first 5 games reveals who we are, a mediocre team with some bizarre coaching decisions.
Yeah, there were no quitters out there that I could see (at least when the f-ing usher would get out of the way). PSU just got out-executed and a number of players, especially Reynolds and the o-line, came up small when we needed them.
And the '99 team was a much better team that this one. To me, this year and this loss isn't even close to '99. '99 was a disaster - all those NFL players on that roster but we got stuck watching Derek Fox struggle over and over.
Is quitting and making many of the same mistakes often the same thing? Or is one lack of execution and not quitting.