Penn State’s James Franklin bashes Big Ten for failure to communicate

Penn State football head coach James Franklin is upset his team won’t be playing football this fall and he takes aim at the Big Ten for their failure to communicate.

James Franklin should be getting his Penn State team ready to play a game this weekend. Instead, he and the rest of the Big Ten football coaches are in a perpetual holding pattern as they await the next step in the league’s return to play plan.

Franklin, like a lot of other league coaches, players, fans and parents of players are justifiably upset with the Big Ten for their failures in communicating why exactly the season isn’t being played and for their lack of communicating how they can return to play and when that’ll actually happen.

Speaking on ESPN Radio on Thursday morning, Franklin let out some pent-up frustration and disappointment, “We just haven’t gotten great communication from the beginning. We’ve never really been told or understood why the season was shut down in the first place. And there hasn’t been a whole lot of communication since.”

James Franklin to Big Ten: What we have here is a failure to communicate

When the Big Ten presidents voted 11-3 to postpone the season there were comments and reports questioning if there was even a real vote, so it’s easy to be upset about the communication from the 14 university presidents and Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren who has been at the bullseye of targeted criticism from fans on social media who have called for him to be fired.

A second vote could be coming soon, possibly as early as Monday or Tuesday, according to Teddy Greenstein of The Chicago Tribune, which could provide an updated timeline for the Big Ten’s return to play.

There have been conflicting reports of the league attempting to return to play in the winter, then attempting to play the week of Thanksgiving and the latest rumor suggests they could start in late October and spring through the season with the hopes of being included in the College Football Playoff discussion.

But like Franklin, no one really knows what’s going on in the Big Ten. Hopefully, the next vote early next week will provide some clarity otherwise expect more anger and frustration from Franklin and the other Big Ten coaches who want to play.

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