{"id":388575,"date":"2025-11-18T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388575\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:55:12","slug":"did-penn-state-rush-to-fire-james-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388575\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Penn State rush to fire James Franklin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn State<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/penn-state-fires-james-franklin-256550454\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>fired<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/james-franklin-56\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Franklin<\/a><\/b> on Oct. 12, a day after a loss to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/northwestern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Northwestern<\/a><\/b> dropped the Nittany Lions to 3-3 and just nine months after the program&#8217;s first College Football Playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p>In the five weeks since, several of the Nittany Lions&#8217; rumored coaching targets \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/texas-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/mike-elko-1055\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Elko<\/a><\/b>, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/indiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana<\/a><\/b>&#8216;s\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/curt-cignetti-268\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Curt Cignetti<\/a><\/b>, and <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/nebraska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nebraska<\/a><\/b>&#8216;s\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/matt-rhule-1095\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Rhule<\/a><\/b> \u2014 have all <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/texas-am-football-coach-mike-elko-finalizes-new-six-year-contract-through-2031-season-261590122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>signed lucrative extensions<\/strong><\/a> to stay put.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Franklin <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/james-franklin-virginia-tech-head-coach-hire-261745664\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>landed<\/strong><\/a> at <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/virginia-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virginia Tech<\/a><\/b>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/virginia-tech\/article\/james-franklin-a-program-defining-hire-for-virginia-tech-sparks-potential-for-immediate-recruiting-surge-262023642\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>local<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/virginia-tech\/longformarticle\/media-reacts-to-james-franklin-hired-as-virginia-tech-head-coach-262043985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>national media<\/strong><\/a> instantly celebrated his hire. Franklin and the Hokies are already <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/virginia-tech-trending-for-talented-2026-recruits-this-is-the-james-franklin-effect-262124767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>trending with multiple big recruits<\/strong><\/a>, including several from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/Season\/2026-Basketball\/Commits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn State&#8217;s 2026 class<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Did Penn State pull the trigger on Franklin too soon? Was his exit inevitable? And is there growing concern inside the program about how the coaching search is unfolding? Team insiders share the latest sentiment from Happy Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State\u00a0fired\u00a0James Franklin on Oct. 12, a day after a loss to Northwestern dropped the Nittany Lions to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115573170133981135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}