DisruptU PSU Presents Quite Franklin With LaVar Arrington And Penn State Football Coach James Franklin. In this engaging conversation, LaVar and Coach Franklin discuss the historical significance of the Sugar Bowl, the current state of SMU's football program, the implications of the transfer portal, and the structure of the college football playoffs. They also celebrate the achievements of All-American players and share insights on preparing for cold weather practices, all while reflecting on the rich history of Penn State football.
Takeaways
•It's important to educate people on the history of Penn State.
•SMU has a strong football history and a successful alumni base.
•The transfer portal has complicated athlete transitions.
•A football commissioner could help streamline college football decisions.
•Starting the season earlier could alleviate end-of-season pressures.
•The playoff structure needs to be more consistent and fair.
•Celebrating All-Americans reflects the program's success.
•Cold weather practices require a balance of old and new school methods.
•Maintaining player health during cold practices is crucial.
•The atmosphere at home games can be intimidating for opponents.
#upongame #fsrweekends #2Pros
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, guys, everybody lock in and load it up. We
got the playoffs coming on. It's coming up this weekend.
I'm going to talk to Coach Franklin. We're going to
preview the SMU game on this day. Right later on
in the week, we're gonna preview it. So let's talk
about what SMU represents. Let's talk about a little bit
(00:20):
of a history lesson. I don't know if y'all know
about the whole we Are thing, but me and Coach
Franklin will discuss parts of where we are came from.
The name Wally Triplett may trigger your your memories and
may trigger some thoughts, but you might not have known
the story that there were actually two games, two teams
(00:41):
that were connected to it. So we're gonna get into
all of those things. We got to all Americans. If
you hadn't heard, you'll hear us talk about that as well.
So get locked in. As I mentioned, here we go.
It's quite Franklin. Coach Franklin LeVar Arrington three two one.
Let's go, coach. It's a big week. It's historical week.
(01:12):
I wasn't really and I didn't I take pride and
known about my school, and I didn't even realize that
it was the Sugar Bowl and it was uh SMU
that Penn State was playing. That led to the it
was the second iteration of it. Obviously, my I knew Miami,
but I didn't know that there was a second part
(01:34):
to it that they you know, they said the same
exact thing to the Sugar Bowl when talking about Wally
Triplett and his teammate not being able to play. Does
does that create any significant value to how you're you're
looking at the game?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean, it wasn't. I don't It wasn't SMU's fault.
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was kind of like was it the Bowl game
that that that didn't want, you know, at that time,
to have minority players contributing and participating. They told them
basically to stay home and the other players And now
we are, we are a team and we're gonna play
together or we're gonna not play together. It's just y'all's choice.
(02:17):
But how cool is that?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You make history by being in the playoff. But there's
like there's a connection to the past, the way way
back past.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
To the present and time right now.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, I think most importantly it's an opportunity to tell
our story and talk about where we are came from.
So I think whenever you have an opportunity to educate people,
it's amazing how many people don't realize that's really where
it comes from. That's where I think the value this team,
this coaching staff, obviously they have nothing to do with
(02:58):
any of those types of things, but it is an
opportunity for us to talk about our history and and
where we are comes from, which which is always a
tremendous opportunity to educate people in the history at Penn State,
this institution, this part of the country, and something we
should take a ton of pride.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In s m U.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
They're there, They're stick city in the rankings, they're eleventh.
They they look to have a scoring of a high
scoring offense, and they they they look like their speed
and their quickness just by by a glance on film
is what gives teams problems when they play against them.
(03:36):
What is it that you know you've been looking at,
hitting into What is it that you're preparing for for
this SMU team?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's a combination of Texas speed in Miami speed. The
head coach was the offensive coordinate at Miami. When he
came to s m U, he brought a bunch of
transfers with them, and that combination has really done some
good things for him. They made a change the quarterback position,
got a very Lamar esque type quarterback, very athletic and
(04:06):
make plays with his feet, you know. I think obviously
they're leading the conference and one of the better scoring
offenses in the country at like thirty nine points a game.
But defensively they're number one in the ACC and rush defense,
they're number one in the ACC, I think in total defense,
(04:28):
and then I think they're like fourth, you know, in.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The ACC and third down percentage.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So they do a really nice job on the defensive
side of the ball. They're usually because of their style
of offense, they're usually playing with elite. They were not
in the championship game against Clemson, but came back. I
think they were down twenty four to seven and came
back and had a chance to win that game.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Is I think it was thirty one all So they've
done a nice job. They know how to win.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They got a ton of transfer portal guy I think
they have forty eight transfer portal guys on their team.
So you know, they've done a good job building. And
I think the other thing that I don't think people
realize is SMUs one of these programs, private school, ton
of money, ton of very very successful graduates. But what
(05:19):
make them different than maybe a Vanderbilt or some other
schools like that is they have a tremendous football history.
And now when you talk about the changes in college
football with the NIL and all these other things, they're
able to capitalize on that alumni base and that history
and that passion, and they've made it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
They've made a significant.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Push from a facility standpoint, from a player retention standpoint,
and a player attraction standpoint.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Coach the portal.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We talked about it on the show on Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe, and how the portal has
made it difficult for for athletes and teams to be
able to almost in a way part amicably, you know,
or or part in a way where it doesn't interfere
(06:11):
or intrude on the current season. Can you expand on
that just a little bit, because obviously, you know, it's
sad to see you know, Bo enter into the portal,
Purbula go into the portal, but super happy to see
and hear that Drew obviously is coming back, but in
(06:33):
years past, I still think that bo is best served
by staying put right where he's at. But I get it,
and I do understand it. He is a talent and
could be starting probably at ninety percent of the other
schools out there. So but just talk to me a
little bit more about, you know, the idea of how
(06:55):
to address if anyway is this because obviously there's quarters
and then there's semester schools, and there's the whole conversation
of trying to make it work because of how the
academic calendar works. How you know, what's your take on
do you think you have like would there be an
ideal way of approaching the portal?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I think a couple things, and I mentioned this earlier
in the week.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I think we need a football.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Commissioner that's going to make decisions that is in the
best interest to the student athletes and the best interest
of the sport. But when you're a commissioner and you
got to do what's best for your conference, and a
lot of it is based on revenue decisions, you need
somebody that's away from all of that that can sit
(07:43):
there and say that this is what we need to
do that's going to serve both the student athletes and
the game.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I think that's important.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
A couple suggestions that I would make is that we
need to start the season a week earlier. I think
that would create some flexibility late in the season. If
we started a week earlier in the season. I think,
get rid of the conference championship game. It's too many
games already at this point, so get rid of the
(08:12):
conference championship. Last week it was weird, like you have
people playing a conference championship game that if they lose,
there was fear that they would be pushed out of
the playoff. So you're being penalized for playing the game.
Other teams are sitting still.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
There's a lot of conversation about Notre Dame not being
able to have a buye.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Well they do have a buye, they don't play a
conference championship game.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
That would also, I think help us if we could
have a consistent model where everybody's playing eight or nine
conference games that's consistent across the board. So I think
those things would be a really good starting point. I
think there's been some pretty good discussions that people have
talked about about moving spring ball to the summer, almost
(08:55):
like OTAs that now all of your guys on your
your high school summer en rollies could be a part
of your transfers could be a part of I think
those things make sense as well, But I think the
most important thing is move the season up a week.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And get rid of the conference championship games.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That would help as much as anything, take the pressure
off the end of the season right now with the playoffs,
the transfer portal, and everything else is going on, obviously
the academic calendar.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You mentioned the playoffs. Do you think that there should
be a reseeding after each round, like going into it
or whatever. Do you think that they're you know, looking
at the way things were ranked and seed it, do
you feel like they got it right or do you
feel like there should be an alternative to how the
seeding is done?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Again, when you have the conference championship game.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And then when you have this whole system where certain
teams are guaranteed their conference championship teams.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Are in and how that all lays out, it just
there's too many constraints on it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So at the end of the season, rank it one
through twelve, one plays twelve, two plays eleven, you know,
like most people do, or like most conferences and sports
do that. That's what I would suggest. There's just too
many there's too many moving.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Parts right now. Like no disrespect, but for.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Some schools to get a bye in week one when
nobody has them ranked in the top four teams.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In college football, I don't know if that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just I think we want to make it as
consistent and fair as we possibly can, and I just
don't know right now if we're actually doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Or even if a team that isn't isn't a conference
champion gets bumped, like you know, people talked about Miami,
you know, getting bumped or anything like that. Like it
just seems as though there possibly could be a better approach.
That is, if the rankings and ratings systems, you know,
truly matter. I mean people want us to to think
(11:07):
they matter. What does rankings matter if it doesn't matter
when you get to this point in the year. But
that's just me talking. Let's let's shift real quick, because
I know we're running short on time. You got two
new All Americans to the wall and and and to
to my my pleasure, it's it's the third it's the
(11:27):
third sticks that that's gonna hit. Uh hit that hollow grounds.
I call it the Hall of Valhalla, which is the
the home of the Brave. You know, that's where the
brave live forever. Uh. You got Warren. Tyler Warren goes
on in Abdul Carter, just talk a little bit about
that coach. You get two more All Americans. It means
(11:48):
that you're doing something right. You got two in one year.
You're doing something right with with these kids and their development.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well what what was cool is I bring those guys
into my off And you'll know this because you know
the guys and the fans that listen to the show,
that they know their personalities right.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So I bring them into my office and.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Tell them, Hey, I just want to let you guys know,
couldn't be happier for you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It could be more proud.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
You two guys are gonna, you know, go on to
the All American Hallway. So when you come back twenty
years from now with your families there, you are on
a very short list one hundred and four guys all
time in our history.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And as you can imagine, Tyler Warren goes thank you,
and that was it, like another like thank.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And one of the things that was cool about abduls
he shows me his phone and I don't really know
what he's showing me, but on his phone, on his
screen saver, on his wallpaper, he's got a picture of
the All American Hallway. So every day he looks at
his phone, he's got a picture in All Americans. So
that was one of his goals that he wanted to
do before here, which is awesome, right.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
It's a motive, it's a motivator.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So yeah, I'm really proud of those guys and happy
for those guys. And you know, it's a it's an
impressive list, which which obviously you are on. It's an
impressive list to be a part of it. I'm just
I'm very, very proud of those guys and also cool
you got one on offense and one on defense, both
sides of the ball, which I think that's all a
big reason why we are where we are in the playoffs,
(13:24):
because we got guys on both sides of the ball
making an impact.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The weather before I let you go, are y'all practicing
outside now? I ain't gonna make no comparisons. But when
it started to get cold outside, Frank, we was outside.
We was outside. Now, I'm gonna say I did not
like it. It was upsetting, it was disheartening, all.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
The same reasons why you're living in California right now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You know, I didn't know that I would. I practiced
in cold and school, all right, I went. I went
fifteen to oh my freshman year, so I knew what
it was like to be in bone chilling cold weather.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But practice practicing.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We got an indoor facility right behind us.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know, it just hit me differently. It just
made me feel different. But I get it. I got it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Like we got out there on game day and it
really you know, you breathe that air and State College
when it gets that cold out, I don't care if
you come from a cold weather town. It's still different air.
Because you're you're in the mountains, like you're in the valley.
In the mountains, that air hits. It just hits differently
(14:46):
on your lungs, and you gotta get used to it
because it drives you up.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Y'all been outside, Yeah, So what we do.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I try to kind of blend a little bit of
old school and new school mentality. We won't be outside
for like the stretching and the warm ups and the
jog through periods.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I don't want them standing around.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Especially smart. Yeah that's smart.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You're sweating and then and then you're standing around and
the cold. But all of our full speed periods will
be outside with the office. I was actually pissed yesterday
because you're not gonna you're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
But it actually the temperature spiked back. It warmed up,
and I was mad because I wanted to be out
there in the cold.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
But it warmed up and we were able to have
it was actually a beautiful night to practice. But I
was I was hoping it was a little bit cold.
This this head was I don't have any insulation up there.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But uh, you're gonna have something on that head this weekend.
You're gonna have something on that head.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Not too you got.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I mean, that's that's that's a must. I need you focus.
I don't need you sitting there like is my head?
Is my head still on my neck?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is my coat? Coaches? My head still there? All right?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Okay, now when are you coming into the town.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I get in Thursday night, I get in Thursday night.
I will be there.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I will.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I was going to come see y'all like I always do.
After last game it was too cold. I went straight.
I was walking to the gate and I was almost there.
I was almost there, and the cold it pushed me
and I was like ah and over I went up
to the sweets.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hey, hey, listening to this too. Stop talking about how
cold it is. It ain't that cold. Stop it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Hold on now, hold on what I mean?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You said?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
There's two things that's been said.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
One, all right, the hall of Valhalla where the braves
shall live forever. All right, it's a right of passage.
The two is it's a right of passage, like you
come there for a reason. Now, I did my time.
I could talk about being cold now because I'm old. Hey,
(16:56):
I've been dealing with Hey, coach.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I tell I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
At times, I fight like a gout like symptom in
my joints, and I just don't like cold touching me
because it feels like cold activates that bad arthritis. You know,
we were just talking about the Grandmams and the moth
balls and the heys.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You you in that category when you start talking about
I got the gout I got, I got the gout,
I got the sugar.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I gotta go, man, I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hey, appreciate you, coach. Good luck to you.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Good luck to you Anyboddy?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
All right, all right, that was coach Franklin. You guys
got an opportunity to hear yourself. History has been made,
is going to be made. They were named to the playoff,
the twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
For a home game.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Now question becomes, will we do our part?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Will we show up?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Will this be the energy and the atmosphere that every
team has feared when they have to come and travel
to Happy Valley? I hope so I'm gonna be there.
I'm excited. I'm pumped up. I hope you guys are
pumped up. This was quite Franklin. That was coach James Franklin.
I'm LeVar Harrington. Good luck nickny Lyons. I'm looking forward
(18:17):
to it. Make sure you check out this repew PSU
wherever it is that you check out your podcast. Just
type it in search it It'll pop up and you
can check out this repew PSU on your social media is.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Just look it up.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
All right, until next time, we'll catch up with you.
Oh yeah, we are
Okay, guys, everybody lock in and load it up. We
got the playoffs coming on. It's coming up this weekend.
I'm going to talk to Coach Franklin. We're going to
preview the SMU game on this day. Right later on
in the week, we're gonna preview it. So let's talk
about what SMU represents. Let's talk about a little bit
(00:20):
of a history lesson. I don't know if y'all know
about the whole we Are thing, but me and Coach
Franklin will discuss parts of where we are came from.
The name Wally Triplett may trigger your your memories and
may trigger some thoughts, but you might not have known
the story that there were actually two games, two teams
(00:41):
that were connected to it. So we're gonna get into
all of those things. We got to all Americans. If
you hadn't heard, you'll hear us talk about that as well.
So get locked in. As I mentioned, here we go.
It's quite Franklin. Coach Franklin LeVar Arrington three two one.
Let's go, coach. It's a big week. It's historical week.
(01:12):
I wasn't really and I didn't I take pride and
known about my school, and I didn't even realize that
it was the Sugar Bowl and it was uh SMU
that Penn State was playing. That led to the it
was the second iteration of it. Obviously, my I knew Miami,
but I didn't know that there was a second part
(01:34):
to it that they you know, they said the same
exact thing to the Sugar Bowl when talking about Wally
Triplett and his teammate not being able to play. Does
does that create any significant value to how you're you're
looking at the game?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean, it wasn't. I don't It wasn't SMU's fault.
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was kind of like was it the Bowl game
that that that didn't want, you know, at that time,
to have minority players contributing and participating. They told them
basically to stay home and the other players And now
we are, we are a team and we're gonna play
together or we're gonna not play together. It's just y'all's choice.
(02:17):
But how cool is that?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You make history by being in the playoff. But there's
like there's a connection to the past, the way way
back past.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
To the present and time right now.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, I think most importantly it's an opportunity to tell
our story and talk about where we are came from.
So I think whenever you have an opportunity to educate people,
it's amazing how many people don't realize that's really where
it comes from. That's where I think the value this team,
this coaching staff, obviously they have nothing to do with
(02:58):
any of those types of things, but it is an
opportunity for us to talk about our history and and
where we are comes from, which which is always a
tremendous opportunity to educate people in the history at Penn State,
this institution, this part of the country, and something we
should take a ton of pride.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In s m U.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
They're there, They're stick city in the rankings, they're eleventh.
They they look to have a scoring of a high
scoring offense, and they they they look like their speed
and their quickness just by by a glance on film
is what gives teams problems when they play against them.
(03:36):
What is it that you know you've been looking at,
hitting into What is it that you're preparing for for
this SMU team?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's a combination of Texas speed in Miami speed. The
head coach was the offensive coordinate at Miami. When he
came to s m U, he brought a bunch of
transfers with them, and that combination has really done some
good things for him. They made a change the quarterback position,
got a very Lamar esque type quarterback, very athletic and
(04:06):
make plays with his feet, you know. I think obviously
they're leading the conference and one of the better scoring
offenses in the country at like thirty nine points a game.
But defensively they're number one in the ACC and rush defense,
they're number one in the ACC, I think in total defense,
(04:28):
and then I think they're like fourth, you know, in.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The ACC and third down percentage.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So they do a really nice job on the defensive
side of the ball. They're usually because of their style
of offense, they're usually playing with elite. They were not
in the championship game against Clemson, but came back. I
think they were down twenty four to seven and came
back and had a chance to win that game.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Is I think it was thirty one all So they've
done a nice job. They know how to win.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They got a ton of transfer portal guy I think
they have forty eight transfer portal guys on their team.
So you know, they've done a good job building. And
I think the other thing that I don't think people
realize is SMUs one of these programs, private school, ton
of money, ton of very very successful graduates. But what
(05:19):
make them different than maybe a Vanderbilt or some other
schools like that is they have a tremendous football history.
And now when you talk about the changes in college
football with the NIL and all these other things, they're
able to capitalize on that alumni base and that history
and that passion, and they've made it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
They've made a significant.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Push from a facility standpoint, from a player retention standpoint,
and a player attraction standpoint.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Coach the portal.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We talked about it on the show on Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe, and how the portal has
made it difficult for for athletes and teams to be
able to almost in a way part amicably, you know,
or or part in a way where it doesn't interfere
(06:11):
or intrude on the current season. Can you expand on
that just a little bit, because obviously, you know, it's
sad to see you know, Bo enter into the portal,
Purbula go into the portal, but super happy to see
and hear that Drew obviously is coming back, but in
(06:33):
years past, I still think that bo is best served
by staying put right where he's at. But I get it,
and I do understand it. He is a talent and
could be starting probably at ninety percent of the other
schools out there. So but just talk to me a
little bit more about, you know, the idea of how
(06:55):
to address if anyway is this because obviously there's quarters
and then there's semester schools, and there's the whole conversation
of trying to make it work because of how the
academic calendar works. How you know, what's your take on
do you think you have like would there be an
ideal way of approaching the portal?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I think a couple things, and I mentioned this earlier
in the week.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I think we need a football.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Commissioner that's going to make decisions that is in the
best interest to the student athletes and the best interest
of the sport. But when you're a commissioner and you
got to do what's best for your conference, and a
lot of it is based on revenue decisions, you need
somebody that's away from all of that that can sit
(07:43):
there and say that this is what we need to
do that's going to serve both the student athletes and
the game.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I think that's important.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
A couple suggestions that I would make is that we
need to start the season a week earlier. I think
that would create some flexibility late in the season. If
we started a week earlier in the season. I think,
get rid of the conference championship game. It's too many
games already at this point, so get rid of the
(08:12):
conference championship. Last week it was weird, like you have
people playing a conference championship game that if they lose,
there was fear that they would be pushed out of
the playoff. So you're being penalized for playing the game.
Other teams are sitting still.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
There's a lot of conversation about Notre Dame not being
able to have a buye.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Well they do have a buye, they don't play a
conference championship game.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
That would also, I think help us if we could
have a consistent model where everybody's playing eight or nine
conference games that's consistent across the board. So I think
those things would be a really good starting point. I
think there's been some pretty good discussions that people have
talked about about moving spring ball to the summer, almost
(08:55):
like OTAs that now all of your guys on your
your high school summer en rollies could be a part
of your transfers could be a part of I think
those things make sense as well, But I think the
most important thing is move the season up a week.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And get rid of the conference championship games.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That would help as much as anything, take the pressure
off the end of the season right now with the playoffs,
the transfer portal, and everything else is going on, obviously
the academic calendar.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You mentioned the playoffs. Do you think that there should
be a reseeding after each round, like going into it
or whatever. Do you think that they're you know, looking
at the way things were ranked and seed it, do
you feel like they got it right or do you
feel like there should be an alternative to how the
seeding is done?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Again, when you have the conference championship game.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And then when you have this whole system where certain
teams are guaranteed their conference championship teams.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Are in and how that all lays out, it just
there's too many constraints on it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So at the end of the season, rank it one
through twelve, one plays twelve, two plays eleven, you know,
like most people do, or like most conferences and sports
do that. That's what I would suggest. There's just too
many there's too many moving.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Parts right now. Like no disrespect, but for.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Some schools to get a bye in week one when
nobody has them ranked in the top four teams.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In college football, I don't know if that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just I think we want to make it as
consistent and fair as we possibly can, and I just
don't know right now if we're actually doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Or even if a team that isn't isn't a conference
champion gets bumped, like you know, people talked about Miami,
you know, getting bumped or anything like that. Like it
just seems as though there possibly could be a better approach.
That is, if the rankings and ratings systems, you know,
truly matter. I mean people want us to to think
(11:07):
they matter. What does rankings matter if it doesn't matter
when you get to this point in the year. But
that's just me talking. Let's let's shift real quick, because
I know we're running short on time. You got two
new All Americans to the wall and and and to
to my my pleasure, it's it's the third it's the
(11:27):
third sticks that that's gonna hit. Uh hit that hollow grounds.
I call it the Hall of Valhalla, which is the
the home of the Brave. You know, that's where the
brave live forever. Uh. You got Warren. Tyler Warren goes
on in Abdul Carter, just talk a little bit about
that coach. You get two more All Americans. It means
(11:48):
that you're doing something right. You got two in one year.
You're doing something right with with these kids and their development.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well what what was cool is I bring those guys
into my off And you'll know this because you know
the guys and the fans that listen to the show,
that they know their personalities right.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So I bring them into my office and.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Tell them, Hey, I just want to let you guys know,
couldn't be happier for you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It could be more proud.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
You two guys are gonna, you know, go on to
the All American Hallway. So when you come back twenty
years from now with your families there, you are on
a very short list one hundred and four guys all
time in our history.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And as you can imagine, Tyler Warren goes thank you,
and that was it, like another like thank.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And one of the things that was cool about abduls
he shows me his phone and I don't really know
what he's showing me, but on his phone, on his
screen saver, on his wallpaper, he's got a picture of
the All American Hallway. So every day he looks at
his phone, he's got a picture in All Americans. So
that was one of his goals that he wanted to
do before here, which is awesome, right.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
It's a motive, it's a motivator.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So yeah, I'm really proud of those guys and happy
for those guys. And you know, it's a it's an
impressive list, which which obviously you are on. It's an
impressive list to be a part of it. I'm just
I'm very, very proud of those guys and also cool
you got one on offense and one on defense, both
sides of the ball, which I think that's all a
big reason why we are where we are in the playoffs,
(13:24):
because we got guys on both sides of the ball
making an impact.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The weather before I let you go, are y'all practicing
outside now? I ain't gonna make no comparisons. But when
it started to get cold outside, Frank, we was outside.
We was outside. Now, I'm gonna say I did not
like it. It was upsetting, it was disheartening, all.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
The same reasons why you're living in California right now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You know, I didn't know that I would. I practiced
in cold and school, all right, I went. I went
fifteen to oh my freshman year, so I knew what
it was like to be in bone chilling cold weather.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But practice practicing.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We got an indoor facility right behind us.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know, it just hit me differently. It just
made me feel different. But I get it. I got it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Like we got out there on game day and it
really you know, you breathe that air and State College
when it gets that cold out, I don't care if
you come from a cold weather town. It's still different air.
Because you're you're in the mountains, like you're in the valley.
In the mountains, that air hits. It just hits differently
(14:46):
on your lungs, and you gotta get used to it
because it drives you up.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Y'all been outside, Yeah, So what we do.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I try to kind of blend a little bit of
old school and new school mentality. We won't be outside
for like the stretching and the warm ups and the
jog through periods.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I don't want them standing around.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Especially smart. Yeah that's smart.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You're sweating and then and then you're standing around and
the cold. But all of our full speed periods will
be outside with the office. I was actually pissed yesterday
because you're not gonna you're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
But it actually the temperature spiked back. It warmed up,
and I was mad because I wanted to be out
there in the cold.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
But it warmed up and we were able to have
it was actually a beautiful night to practice. But I
was I was hoping it was a little bit cold.
This this head was I don't have any insulation up there.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But uh, you're gonna have something on that head this weekend.
You're gonna have something on that head.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Not too you got.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I mean, that's that's that's a must. I need you focus.
I don't need you sitting there like is my head?
Is my head still on my neck?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is my coat? Coaches? My head still there? All right?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Okay, now when are you coming into the town.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I get in Thursday night, I get in Thursday night.
I will be there.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I will.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I was going to come see y'all like I always do.
After last game it was too cold. I went straight.
I was walking to the gate and I was almost there.
I was almost there, and the cold it pushed me
and I was like ah and over I went up
to the sweets.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hey, hey, listening to this too. Stop talking about how
cold it is. It ain't that cold. Stop it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Hold on now, hold on what I mean?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You said?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
There's two things that's been said.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
One, all right, the hall of Valhalla where the braves
shall live forever. All right, it's a right of passage.
The two is it's a right of passage, like you
come there for a reason. Now, I did my time.
I could talk about being cold now because I'm old. Hey,
(16:56):
I've been dealing with Hey, coach.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I tell I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
At times, I fight like a gout like symptom in
my joints, and I just don't like cold touching me
because it feels like cold activates that bad arthritis. You know,
we were just talking about the Grandmams and the moth
balls and the heys.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You you in that category when you start talking about
I got the gout I got, I got the gout,
I got the sugar.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I gotta go, man, I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hey, appreciate you, coach. Good luck to you.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Good luck to you Anyboddy?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
All right, all right, that was coach Franklin. You guys
got an opportunity to hear yourself. History has been made,
is going to be made. They were named to the playoff,
the twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
For a home game.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Now question becomes, will we do our part?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Will we show up?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Will this be the energy and the atmosphere that every
team has feared when they have to come and travel
to Happy Valley? I hope so I'm gonna be there.
I'm excited. I'm pumped up. I hope you guys are
pumped up. This was quite Franklin. That was coach James Franklin.
I'm LeVar Harrington. Good luck nickny Lyons. I'm looking forward
(18:17):
to it. Make sure you check out this repew PSU
wherever it is that you check out your podcast. Just
type it in search it It'll pop up and you
can check out this repew PSU on your social media is.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Just look it up.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
All right, until next time, we'll catch up with you.
Oh yeah, we are
Hosts And Creators
LaVar Arrington
TJ Houshmandzadeh
Plaxico Burress
Popular Podcasts
40s and Free Agents: NFL Draft Season
Daniel Jeremiah of Move the Sticks and Gregg Rosenthal of NFL Daily join forces to break down every team's needs this offseason.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.