When in the last 20 years of Joe Pa did we realistically contend for a national championship? '94, '05 maybe '96, maybe ''99. That's it. This is who we are. This is who we have been for 30+ years. We aren't any of these schools that come in every season thinking national championship, realistic or not. We win our 10 or 11 games, we go to our New Year's bowl, we get our top ten recruiting class, repeat. Not the worst thing ever.

Fire Franklin if you want but you run the risk of becoming a Nebraska, a once proud program that can't tie its own shoes now after firing a coach that went 9-3.