ALTOONA, Pa. -- OK, James Franklin, if we're gonna do this, I have one rule: You have to tell the truth. Otherwise, the whole exercise would be pointless.
Franklin said this week that "I'd love to sit down with you guys over a beer and talk through all of this." He was referring to all the coaching rumors, his status at Penn State and the "challenging situations" coaches sometimes get put in when discussing the future.
But here's the thing: Franklin is in this situation because of his own doing. He's a potential candidate for jobs at USC and LSU because he wants to be, and nothing he can say will change that simple fact.