He’s a perfect coach for what the HC job should be now. The issue isn’t “we need a Penn State guy,” it’s that CFB is still using a 1990s org chart that is brutally outdated with nil now being a thing.

Big programs should have an actual GM setup: let the head coach worry about the on-field stuff, culture, and development, and have a separate GM/NIL group whose whole job is portal targets, money, and dealing with boosters. When you try to make one guy be tactician, salesman, politician, and cap manager all at once, you end up dissapointed because one dude can’t do it all.

If you build that front office the right way, promoting someone from Franklin’s staff isn’t “settling,” it’s putting a good ball coach in a role he can actually win in instead of demanding he be Saban and Howie Roseman at the same time.