Josh Is The SEC Version of James Franklin

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They really aren’t very similar at all, though. Franklin won by playing almost mistake free, efficient offense that usually wasn’t too high flying and bottling up teams with Shoop’s defenses. Kept the game close and tried to win it at the very end. Josh typically seems to want to score a thousand points early and hang on until the end.
 
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volfeeva said:
Just last week some threads on this forum wondered if we were going to lose Heupel. My how fast things change
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Oh if he cleaned up all the sloppiness we're in here beetching about, there would be 4 or 5 threads on who is going to steal him. Most Bipolar fanbase in college sports. At least they can rest easy on OU coming after him now.
 
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Ned Ray McWorkher said:
You can whittle that bs list down to one impactful win. That's the 2022 Alabama. The 2024 Alabama team lost to Vandy. Yikes.

Florida hasn't been good for 15 years. We've just been worse.

LSU just fired the trash coach of theirs we beat.

Hes put a huge big o'fer against Georgia.

Hasn't sniffed the SEC title game.

One legit win in 5 ****ing years. Give the man a contract extension for crying out loud...
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Hilarious we are acting like wins vs Florida and Bama don't matter now....
 
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West Vol said:
We have almost identical recruiting talent to Oklahoma. We certainly have a better roster than Mississippi State and Arkansas, but we fart around and end up in a dog fight with them.

You don’t need 20 five stars to be fundamentally good. You have to prioritize it in practice. We don’t.
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This. See Cignetti and Clark Lea who are winning at a clip with 3 stars.
 
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Even if Heupel wasvthe SEC version of James Franklin it would take 10 seasons to recognize it.

But I don't believe that to be the case anyways. Heupel still has a better record vs top 25 opponents at 44.5% compared to Franklin who was at 38.5%. Also you have to account that this is the first year Tennessee is above the 50% blue chip ratio. On the other hand, Penn state has been above the 50% threshold since 2018. In fact they were as high as 68% this year and 61% last year.

So for me, there needs to be multiple years of being above that BCR threshold coupled with sub 40% record vs top 25 to be comparable to Franklin.
 
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I have an honest question I was discussing with a friend today and we had no answers other than "well maybe he's a player's coach":

Why is James Franklin considered a good coach?
I was baffled when he left VU for PSU.
Other than "doing the best with what he had considering the GPA standards," his body of work was pretty meh to me.
 
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