Marcus Hayes, The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — James Franklin once told a radio show, “I’ve been saying it for a long time: I will not hire an assistant coach until I’ve seen his wife. If she looks the part, and she’s a D-I recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That’s part of the deal.”

Two years later, Penn State hired him anyway.

They knew what they were getting.

Franklin always reminded me of good old Freddie Mitchell, early Jeffrey Lurie and continual Joel Embiid.

His arrogance always outstripped his accomplishments.

There was some winning, true, and Penn State is 3-3 this season, and so they could be worse. But there also was buckets of bluster and loads of disrespect, and now, in the middle of a season, after back-to-back huge upsets and three losses in a row, an

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