James Franklin's Excuses Before SMU Game at Penn State

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00:00Penn State and SMU in Happy Valley at Beaver Stadium.

00:03Now, we know James Franklin, these are the type of games that he usually wins, but he

00:09wants to make sure that if he loses it, he's already got his excuses lined up.

00:14You've heard all this stuff about the tickets, how they're giving away the tickets at Penn

00:19State, like they're the cheapest they've ever been online, and there's no students there

00:24because school's over.

00:26All the excuses have been rolled out by James Franklin.

00:29Yeah, I think obviously it's in Beaver Stadium, but one of the things I think is really important

00:36is the students.

00:39Our students make a huge difference for us, and obviously being after finals and things

00:45like that makes it a little bit challenging, so that's a little bit of a concern.

00:52And then obviously, it's a home game for us, but to your point, the college football playoff

00:56pretty much runs everything else.

00:58So it will not feel like it normally feels to us, playing a home game in Beaver Stadium.

01:05How does he know?

01:06But overall, in general, obviously we're glad and fortunate to be home, so we'll take it.

01:13This is the structure that exists.

01:14We'll take it.

01:15You're the guy.

01:16We'll take it.

01:17What a wussy.

01:18Is he serious?

01:21What does he think?

01:22I cannot believe we just listened to that from that guy, that before they even play

01:26the game, he's already got it in his mind that it's not going to have the same atmosphere

01:32as a regular Penn State game.

01:33Is there a chance it's not going to be—let me listen.

01:36All the kids are gone.

01:37I get it.

01:38There's not going to be Penn State fans all over to play?

01:42Everybody coming up from Dallas for SMU, they've got alumni all over the Northeast that are

01:49going to be traveling into Happy Valley?

01:52Get serious.

01:53Get serious.

01:54Get serious.

01:55Man, come on.

01:56Everyone and their brother that lives anywhere near Penn State is going to the game.

02:01The students are home for Christmas, so what?

02:04Cry me a river.

02:06This guy is unbelievable.

02:07Now look, I think he's got a really good football team.

02:10They gave Oregon Fitz, but we all know what happens to him against top five and highly

02:16ranked teams.

02:17He doesn't win.

02:18I don't think that they're losing to SMU.

02:21I really don't.

02:22I'll be surprised.

02:23I want to see what Prawns has to say.

02:25Let me guess.

02:26He's taking SMU.

02:27Me and him haven't gotten into that game much, so you're going to have—I'm going to do

02:33that with him tonight.

02:34You'll get him first here in 20 minutes.

02:36He'll tell you what he thinks of the game.

02:38It's 8-1⁄2 right now, and 53-1⁄2 is the total.

02:43I don't consider SMU—and they've had an unbelievable year.

02:48I don't consider SMU a big-time team.

02:52I just don't.

02:53And usually James Franklin and Penn State take care of teams like this on their home

02:59field.

03:00I think they win the game by 10-plus points.

03:02I think Penn State wins.

03:03Yeah, I'm with you.

03:04I'm not going to argue with that.

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