Perhaps the greatest college coaching performance of all time

Sheriff Coffee said:
There is a poster on X that said he's got the inside info after getting an exclusive interview with a player. Says he's going to drop it Wednesday night. We'll see.

But from what I've heard, CJF got crazy pedantic. Like three walk throughs on game day. Players scared to make a mistake. Players thinking instead of doing. But I'd like to hear more about the interplay between position coaches and coordinators. Coordinators and CJF. It will come out sooner or later.
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I also think that he may have taken the wrong approach with his veteran players. Holding them out of spring ball and taking it easy on them in fall camp. But I wasn’t there so who knows.
 
sr108 said:
In awe of the brand.
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When I played HS ball, I was afraid to fail. Afraid to make a mistake. As I made it through college and my early career years, I learned from that and became the opposite. I'd rather fail from lack of vision then to fail from lack of effort or spine. I'd tell my friends I'd rather be the hunter than a rabbit quivering in his hole waiting to get shot. I love Pink Floyd's Animals, which came out when I was in college.

It is one of the great lessons I learned from playing HS ball. We were fearless until it came to that one championship game when we were afraid to lose. We consequently, played our worst game.
 
sr108 said:
I also think that he may have taken the wrong approach with his veteran players. Holding them out of spring ball and taking it easy on them in fall camp. But I wasn’t there so who knows.
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I've grown to love Cig. I loved his comment last week that it was time to "sharpen the saw". His meaning was it was time to knock off the PR and dinners and get to work. I happened upon a video from Cig's first B1G media days before he coached a single game for Indy. A reporter asked him if he was concerned getting players from HS or to transfer to Indy due to their awful record over the years. He said something like "No. I don't loose. Google me."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013467780306055668
 
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NittanyLion99 said:
It started and ended with a Pennsylvania boy from Neshaminy that came home, but wasn't very good at actual football coaching or holding players accountable.
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Too much complexity. The game situations, the lack of congruence between coordinator schemes and the players' who execute them, pay inequities and perceived pay inequities, the new age of the portal.
Franklin should have had trusted mentors who could guide him.
 
We admire IU for doing what they did and have spent some time congratulating them over the past week. However, enough is enough. It's now time to get refocused and prepare for 2026.
 
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