Tony Franklin on Bryan Harsin

[AlaskanFAN 1,666]

2 minutes ago, AU9377 said:

I have heard several people say this.  However, remind me of the time Gus actually lost to a team like 1-2 Georgia State.  It never happened.  In 2019, we beat a similar team, Kent State.

I understand your point but I was just saying Harsin has stones for pulling BN when the offense was stagnant.  There are plenty of games where CGM should have pulled a QB due to injury or bad play and never did  and we lost.  Remember Sean White against Georgia and that embarrassment.

[toddc 13,194]

This just needs to go in file 13 because it’s just garbage. Stuff like this isn’t worthy to be read or put on this forum. Posting articles is great, even when they’re negative, but this is the ravings of a lunatic.

[MaitlandTiger 325]

There are a lot of really great podcasts out there. Who on Gods Green Earth takes a look at a Tony Franklin podcast and says, “this is how I want to spend several hours” Did he ever have success as an OC? Who on Earth would listen to a Tony Franklin football podcast?  

[slyinsocal 831]

And WHEN was the last time TF was quoted by ANY reputable media? Ever? And implying that al.com is reputable is stretching it. A LOT.

[jAUSon 2,836]

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Edited September 29, 2021 by jAUSon

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2 hours ago, BJCrawford said:

Why does anyone care what Tony Franklin thinks….especially since he included a statement that the receivers were the best coached position on the field? 

Nailed it.  Who cares?

[jptiger 481]

Just off putting that a grown man would whine like this. Good grief. Hell maybe he’s trying to provide bulletin board material. Who knows. Strange times they are. 

[PowerOfDixieland 3,226]

2 minutes ago, slyinsocal said:

And WHEN was the last time TF was quoted by ANY reputable media? Ever? And implying that al.com is reputable is stretching it. A LOT.

Washington Post (okay not so reputable) after he left MTSU for the last time.....  This is the guy who was blackballed from coaching when he got completely sideways with Hal Mumme in Lexington.  Nearly got his ass destroyed by Hugh Nall when Tuberville brought him to Auburn.  Left Murfreesboro after last season before Stockstill fired him for insubordination.  Best of all, Rush Propst believes him to be a wonderful guy.  Which is bizarre, since Franklin's charlatan crusade has been for integrity in football.

Franklin says he has about a year of living expenses saved. He’ll consult again, but he’s uncertain whether coaches in a sport that prizes discretion would have any interest in hearing from him.

During the drive to Raleigh, Franklin pulled onto the shoulder and thought about the previous months, the latest fight he had picked and the things he had lost.

“I didn’t want to live through this again,” Franklin said. “I did not want to finish like this.”

[Elephant Tipper 430]

"you were always on my mind"......

[AU9377 5,043]

46 minutes ago, AlaskanFAN said:

I understand your point but I was just saying Harsin has stones for pulling BN when the offense was stagnant.  There are plenty of games where CGM should have pulled a QB due to injury or bad play and never did  and we lost.  Remember Sean White against Georgia and that embarrassment.

That is a great point.  LOL  I was disgusted after that game. If we don't get a lot better really fast, what Ga State did will be forgotten after what uga does to us.

[AU9377 5,043]

2 hours ago, JDUBB4AU said:

 Tell us how you really feel Tony

I’m going to get hate for this . We all said the same s*** he just said last Saturday for four hours while GA state whipped our asses. Don’t wear Tony out when everyone of us said a lot of the same things . I agree with him on a few points .

 

His discussion of the fade at PSU was actually detailed and correct.  It was a s*** call.  He is also right about Harsin feeling the heat of a bad performance.  That aside, he is taking his shot at Harsin and is upfront that he is doing so because his former player, friend and assistant coach got canned.

[CCTAU 3,350]

He lost me at this:

“The best coached group on the field for offense was your receivers.” 

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,762]

Some nuggets of potential truth but some statements seem as hyperbolic as the firing. We’ll just have to see how wild this was in a few months 

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,762]

3 hours ago, JDUBB4AU said:

 Tell us how you really feel Tony

I’m going to get hate for this . We all said the same s*** he just said last Saturday for four hours while GA state whipped our asses. Don’t wear Tony out when everyone of us said a lot of the same things . I agree with him on a few points .

 

I’d say 75-85% of his statements/predictions are things I’ve seen an Auburn fan say in the past 3 days. Kinda how the fanbase works towards media members who are perceived to have an edge vs Auburn, they can’t have a good point 

[aucanucktiger 1,798]

"(Auburn's) best coached group on the field for offense was receivers"?!? 🤣 Tony Franklin, meet Auburn's running backs.

[AUght2win 6,873]

7 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

Tony Franklin eviscerates Auburn, Bryan Harsin: ‘You hired a weak man with no backbone’

By Mark Heim | mheim@al.com

5-6 minutes

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The beginning of the end for Bryan Harsin has already begun.

That’s quite a statement, considering the man has coached a grand total of four games at Auburn.

However, the signs have already reared their ugly heads, if you subscribe to Tony Franklin’s line of reasoning.

Yes, that Franklin. The former Auburn coach offensive coordinator fired mid-season by Tommy Tuberville in 2008 held nothing back when talking about the Tigers on “The Coach Tony Franklin” podcast.

“You hired a weak man with no backbone who is gonna get run over by all these boosters,” he said.

It’s already happened, he explained.

The wheels were set in motion on Saturday, Sept. 18 in Happy Valley. Facing fourth-and-2 inside the 5, the Tigers called a questionable and unsuccessful pass play. The result: Penn State 28, Auburn 20.

“You called a press fade for the inside slot receiver for your go-to play to beat Penn State?” he asked. “That’s your go to? That’s what you got? That’s what you go to?”

As a result, the boo birds were out, questioning the play, from Internet trolls to big-money men, Franklin contends. So, Harsin had to give the masses something to quiet the negativity. He gave them a scapegoat, according to the former coach.

On Sunday, Harsin parted ways with first-year wide receivers coach Cornelius Williams less than 24 hours after Auburn completed a come-from-behind 34-24 win against Georgia State in the team’s nonconference finale.

“Four games in and you crack, and you fire your receivers coach?” he asked. “The best coached group on the field for offense was your receivers. You’re basically firing your receivers coach because your offensive line sucks. Your offensive line is bad.”

The proof, he explains, was in the game against Georgia State when TJ Finley hit Shedrick Jackson for the game-winning touchdown with just under a minute to play.

“The ‘great’ Georgia State team that came in and deserved to beat you,” he started. “... You had an offensive lineman who missed a block. He whiffs. Your quarterback makes a play. Then, the play of the day, your receiver, who was coached on what to do on a scramble play, makes the catch for the touchdown.

“Did you fire the offensive line coach? He’s an Alabama guy (Will Friend). That would make all the Auburn people happy. Fire the Alabama offensive line coach. He started four years at Alabama, and you hired him as your offensive line coach?”

Friend, for the record, had coaching stints at Tennessee, Colorado State and Georgia before landing the job at Auburn.

Now, Franklin knows what you are thinking. He is bitter toward Auburn because he was fired in the middle of the 2008 season. In addition, he coached Williams at Troy, so he has a personal allegiance to the former Hoover High star.

You’re right. He loves Williams, but he also loves Auburn, he said. He went on to say he “deserved” to be fired in 2008 and “is good with it.”

“You showed the powers that be they run the show,” Franklin said of Harsin. “They make the calls.

“If you want to blame somebody for sucking right now, the way your football team sucks, I got a great idea. Instead of firing Cornelius, or whoever the next guy is you’re going to fire, just quit. Just resign.”

Franklin continued to hammer away at the Tigers, who he said are nothing more than a reflection of their coach.

“The characteristics of this football team are the same as the coach: soft, soft, soft,” he said.

“They aren’t a physical team. I’ve seen physical Auburn football many times in my life as a fan, as a coach.”

Franklin’s zingers continued throughout his 22-minute podcast.

Here are some of the more sensational comments below.

On the OL

“The offensive line is worse than bad. They don’t look like they know what they are doing. ... They can’t pass pro(tect). The quarterback already has the yips. I don’t think the quarterbacks are well coached either. The running backs don’t make plays in space against a good team.”

On playing hard

“The offense and defense are soft. They don’t play hard, and they’re not very good or talented. If they played the hardest they could play, you could be a middle-of-the-pack SEC West team. If you don’t get it fixed, I don’t know if you can win a game in the SEC.”

On Georgia State

“You almost lost to Georgia State? You should have lost to Georgia State. Georgia State has a better team than you do.”

“The problem, no offense to everybody that was there before you, you don’t have many good players.”

On Harsin being the next Tuberville

“We turn into Tommy Tuberville No. 2. The thing about Tommy Tuberville is he’s gonna get some good players. Whatever it took to get him, he’s gonna get them. Now, in the end, he didn’t have good enough players. He knew (Alabama coach) Nick Saban was gonna beat his brains out, so he quit. They paid him $5 million to quit.”

On competing with Alabama

“You’re not in the same hemisphere with Alabama talent wise, but you are also really poorly coached. That’s a reflection of you, sir, Bryan Harsin.”

Check out the Franklin podcast here.

Always thought Franklin seemed like the epitome of a loser but this confirmed it. Good grief have some dignity, man.

[Gowebb11 9,386]

7 hours ago, AU9377 said:

I have heard several people say this.  However, remind me of the time Gus actually lost to a team like 1-2 Georgia State.  It never happened.  In 2019, we beat a similar team, Kent State.

1. We didn't actually lose to Ga State.

2. Go to YouTube and watch FCS Jax State take us to overtime in 2015, or the narrow win over Mercer in 2017.

 

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Edited September 29, 2021 by Auctoritas

[AUGunsmith 666]

10 hours ago, AUDevil said:

When Tubs found him at Troy, he’d been washed up for a number of years.  I think he was part of Hal Mummy’s air raid O at Kentucky way before that and left the sport for a number of years bc of personal issues.  He began selling DVD’s of his no huddle meerkat offensive system, and often when you see his name on here, people will add a “TM” to the end of it.

His O was sold by Tubs as being innovative, but it sucked as he didn’t get along with the BBQ boys and couldn’t get their buy-in. He eventually got fired for freaking out at a practice..and something to do with Kodi Burns…rumor was a racial slur or a tussle happened…maybe someone can confirm.

Washed up? After being black balled from the sport for a few years he came out to Troy and out up numbers. After leaving auburn went out and out up big numbers. 

Even had the s***ty cab beard go from a 1-11 team to being a top 10 passing yard team and top 25 or 30 total yard team. 

 

Dude knew how to move the ball. 

[Hay Field 101 632]

Tony Franklin,  that one little nugget that will not go down after several flushing's. It will just sit there and spin and spin and swap ends several times, then just when you think its going to make the turn it pops up again until it finally falls apart.

 

Hey spread and sputter offensive guru, Have a drink on me.

[McLoofus 35,182]

11 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

do you want the news or not? it will be all over the media tomorrow with folks trying to make us look bad. folks have a right to know. it does not mean you have to like it.

This isn't news, dude. You're just amplifying a troll. 

And, as easily as this fanbase is trolled, Franklin doesn't need your help.

Hope this thread is bounced over to media related where it belongs.

Edited September 29, 2021 by McLoofus

[auburnphan 6,050]

This is the classic example of Auburn fans can eat their own, but if an outsider attacks, it is on.

[McLoofus 35,182]

2 minutes ago, auburnphan said:

This is the classic example of Auburn fans can eat their own, but if an outsider attacks, it is on.

Literally doesn't matter who it is. Could've been an outsourced blogger in India. Or someone even less relevant, like Tony Franklin.

 

[aubiefifty 16,924]

30 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

This isn't news, dude. You're just amplifying a troll. 

And, as easily as this fanbase is trolled, Franklin doesn't need your help.

Hope this thread is bounced over to media related where it belongs.

it is front page news on other sports sites loof. and i can guarantee you a half a dozen or more folks would post it if i had not beat them to it. you know this.

[McLoofus 35,182]

1 minute ago, aubiefifty said:

it is front page news on other sports sites loof. and i can guarantee you a half a dozen or more folks would post it if i had not beat them to it. you know this.

And I would tell them the exact same thing.

Nobody here has thought about Tony Franklin in forever. (Except to make fun of that 2008 disaster and maybe examine the dynamics of introducing an "outsider" into an otherwise close knit and possibly tribal staff.) I'd be surprised if 1% of the people on this forum even knew he had a podcast or anything else about his current whereabouts.

Now a complete nobody spewing nonsense targeted specifically at easily spun up Auburn fans is front page on *this* website. But by all means, keep helping him along his new career path.