Who’s telling the truth? Does $7mm get you Allar, Allen, Robinson, Carter, and big baller Liam Clifford!?
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FC/OT: Franklin tells USA Today PSU’s NIL budget in 2024-25 was $7mm. PSU says close to $14mm.
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Why can’t Fraudklin move past PSU?
His obsession with being fired from PSU has to be negatively impacting his ability to impart his coaching acumen over his latest group of collegiate footballers.
His obsession with being fired from PSU has to be negatively impacting his ability to impart his coaching acumen over his latest group of collegiate footballers.
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They keep asking him about it I guess.
Regardless, they got rid of the problem!
It's possible that both can be true. PSU total may have been 13.7 (going "all in" but still not top 10) with Franklin having discretion over about 7 million and the rest tied up in deals done in which he wasn't involved.
He should learn to move on like we have.
The only person confused here is Wogenrich (and, I suppose, the folks who read his bit, without any critical evaluation).
He is citing from the EADA report - which lists PSU's Revenue Sharing $. (Not "NIL" $ from the "collectives")..... for July 1 2024 through June 30 2025.
Much of that, one might reasonably surmise (though it is not "broken down" in any official data I have seen - was likely for "transfer portal" players in 2025.
FWIW: Keep in mind, when one wants to delve into the "obsession/pettiness" topic:
Wogenrich has for years been the go-to for PSU ICA to get their "narrative" out.
Was this particular story "written" by PSU ICA "strat comm"? Who knows, but history would probably put the odds of its genesis coming from there at north of 90%.
He is citing from the EADA report - which lists PSU's Revenue Sharing $. (Not "NIL" $ from the "collectives")..... for July 1 2024 through June 30 2025.
Much of that, one might reasonably surmise (though it is not "broken down" in any official data I have seen - was likely for "transfer portal" players in 2025.
FWIW: Keep in mind, when one wants to delve into the "obsession/pettiness" topic:
Wogenrich has for years been the go-to for PSU ICA to get their "narrative" out.
Was this particular story "written" by PSU ICA "strat comm"? Who knows, but history would probably put the odds of its genesis coming from there at north of 90%.
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Facts are not welcome here
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"and the skies (in State College) are not cloudy all day......I'm absolutely giddy! LOL
I wonder what the NIL budgets were for UCLA and Northwestern; he couldn't even beat a moribund UCLA with a coaching staff that had been thrown together that week and totally outcoached his ***. Also, I guess that the NIL budget was fine when he won 11, 10 and 13 games in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The fact is that he did a terrible job of preparing and coaching his team last season, and he should accept that rather than trying to rationalize why both his players and he underachieved so greatly in and slept walked their way through most of the 2025 season.
Also, if he's complaining about PSU's NIL budget, wait until he sees what he has to work with at VT after the glow of his hire wears off; he's going to have to make due with a lot less than he did while at PSU, so that will give him a convenient excuse for when he loses to Clemson, FSU and Louisville.
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🏌️ = clown.You've posted obviously fake social media multiple times before, and now you're posting easily explained away faked up drama ... and it's about a former college football coach, and your negative obsession with him.
You're supposed to be a man ... act like one.
And save the drama for your Game of Thrones and Real Housewives threads.
Snake Oil Salesmen with same agent as other popular pinheads(Saban, etc). - ignore the unwanted behavior.
How many national championships did “pinhead” Saban win
?
You forgot DeBoar, Kiffin, Kirby Smart and Sark......just to name a few others. Pinheads?
NO it wasn't fine when he won 10.11.13 games.....psu was never near the big boys in NIL. I guess we just have to admit that Franklin did "more with less" during those seasons!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...o-rebuild-virginia-tech-football/89613671007/
“I’ll give Penn State credit, they went all-in last year,” Franklin told USA TODAY Sports in a wide-ranging interview. “But they went all in for one year.”
But with Penn State, a college football blue blood for decades — a blue blood in dire straits when Franklin arrived in 2014 — not acting like one until it was forced to see the ugly truth in 2024.
You remember the 2024 season, right? Penn State lost a gut-punch of a game at home to Ohio State — yet another loss in a big game for Franklin — and lost in the Big Ten championship game to Oregon. The Lions played that season, Franklin told USA TODAY Sports, with an NIL budget of $7 million. Seven million.
Ohio State, the eventual national champion, played with a budget in excess of $20 million. So did Notre Dame, the national runner-up. So did many other blue blood, Power conference programs chasing the biggest prize of all. Or at least a ticket to the College Football Playoff ride.
A year after Ohio State went all-in, Penn State did, too. The first time in the NIL era both teams were on the same financial level.
“The upgrade in NIL needed to be done, considering how NIL was being used before (2025),” Grunkemeyer said. “But then that comes with expectations, and as players, we have to do our part. Players should be getting paid, and the one thing (Franklin) does a really good job of is you wouldn’t know who is getting paid by the standard he sets and the culture we have.”
“I’ll give Penn State credit, they went all-in last year,” Franklin told USA TODAY Sports in a wide-ranging interview. “But they went all in for one year.”
But with Penn State, a college football blue blood for decades — a blue blood in dire straits when Franklin arrived in 2014 — not acting like one until it was forced to see the ugly truth in 2024.
You remember the 2024 season, right? Penn State lost a gut-punch of a game at home to Ohio State — yet another loss in a big game for Franklin — and lost in the Big Ten championship game to Oregon. The Lions played that season, Franklin told USA TODAY Sports, with an NIL budget of $7 million. Seven million.
Ohio State, the eventual national champion, played with a budget in excess of $20 million. So did Notre Dame, the national runner-up. So did many other blue blood, Power conference programs chasing the biggest prize of all. Or at least a ticket to the College Football Playoff ride.
A year after Ohio State went all-in, Penn State did, too. The first time in the NIL era both teams were on the same financial level.
“The upgrade in NIL needed to be done, considering how NIL was being used before (2025),” Grunkemeyer said. “But then that comes with expectations, and as players, we have to do our part. Players should be getting paid, and the one thing (Franklin) does a really good job of is you wouldn’t know who is getting paid by the standard he sets and the culture we have.”
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I've accepted that PSU isn't going be near the top in NIL; you don't have to keep saying it as it is what it is. PSU also isn't a pauper and has more money to spend than probably 90% of the other programs in the country. It had enough NIL to make it to the Final Four in 2024 and be ranked as the preseason #2 team in 2025.NO it wasn't fine when he won 10.11.13 games.....psu was never near the big boys in NIL. I guess we just have to admit that Franklin did "more with less" during those seasons!
Also, you talk about doing more with less. Let's see. In the 2025 draft, PSU had two first round draft picks and several other players who were drafted, and in the 2026 draft, PSU is going to have a first round draft pick and up to eight players are projected to be drafted. My guess is that in the 2025 and 2026 drafts combined, PSU probably is in the top five or six schools for drafted players.
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Right. He’s telling USA Today his NIL budget was only $7,000,000. He told me last season that he didn’t want to coach at Penn State anymore based on his team’s unpreparedness.
He told them- apparently accurately- that our NIL budget was $7 mil when tOSU's was $20 mil.
It’s all an unregulated mess but how does anyone know:
The rumors are so rampant about NIL that even Cignetti had to step in to dispel one:
The rumors are so rampant about NIL that even Cignetti had to step in to dispel one:
If Penn State was better-NIL. ‘ed last season, why were they such an embarrassing SH|T. SHOW. against UCLA and northwestern? Besides, I thought Franklin, Kraft, and Neeli were well maligned aligned.
‘ed last season, why were they such an embarrassing SH|T. SHOW. against UCLA and northwestern? Besides, I thought Franklin, Kraft, and Neeli were well
Our budget could have been $50,000,000 and it wouldn’t have mattered. He checked out early and his team was unprepared.
We still have KSD, Kraft stress disorder.Are we suffering from PFSD, Post-Franklin Stress Disorder?
