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Penn Snarl head coach James Franklin is now not the truth is going to terminate assist out and talk about about rumors in regards to the vacancy at the College of Southern California. He’s now not going to claim one thing else about it the least bit, the truth is.
Talking to reporters Wednesday, Franklin mentioned these form of rumors pop up yearly and addressing every of them has change into redundant. As a replace, he plans to address it with the leaders of his Nittany Lions program and jog forward from there.
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James Franklin on USC and why he doesn’t appropriate issue “no” appropriate now to any of the speculation. pic.twitter.com/yBRiMJwXRX
“With out reference to what you issue, folk are now not satisfied with,” Franklin mentioned. “So I’ve determined that I’mma address this internally.”
USC fired head coach Clay Helton two video games into the 2021 season, ending his seven-year tenure atop this device all the intention by which he compiled a 46-24 file (36-13 Pac 12) with four bowl appearances and a Rose Bowl victory over Penn Snarl in 2017.
Now the man who lost to Helton in that sport is on the brief listing to replace him.
Essentially based on The Dan Patrick Expose, there is “mutual interest” between the Trojans and Franklin.
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A offer tells Dan that there’s mutual interest between #USC and James Franklin for his or her Football Head Instructing job #Trojans pic.twitter.com/gSYAmUTi3B
“James Franklin used to be at Vanderbilt, escaped Vanderbilt, then got to Penn Snarl and, by all accounts, I maintain he’s finished a slightly appropriate job there,” Patrick mentioned. “, it’s miles the next suppose. These kinds of coaches see at it as ‘smartly, finished with this, subsequent suppose.’ Perchance that is the case. I maintain now not know.”
Patrick smartly-known that he expects to listen to tons extra names thrown available as the educating search goes on.
Franklin, a Pennsylvania native, has been at Penn Snarl since 2014 and has led the Nittany Lions to a 62-28 file with four consecutive nine-grab seasons from 2016 to 2019. Alongside the device, he’s earned victories at the Pinstripe Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and Cotton Bowl whereas finishing contained within the AP High 10 rankings three instances.
That is the form of consistency USC desperately wants. Whether or now not it’ll be ready to pry Franklin a ways from Ecstatic Valley, on the different hand, stays to be seen.
