{"id":495930,"date":"2025-10-12T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495930"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:29:57","slug":"penn-state-dismisses-manager-james-franklin-after-12-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/penn-state-dismisses-manager-james-franklin-after-12-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State dismisses manager James Franklin after 12 campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State has dismissed boss James Franklin after 12 years, the university revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>James is owned almost 50 million dollars per his deal. Associate manager Terry Smith will replace him for the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The news didn\u2019t shock anyone as the school suffered a very unexpected defeat 2 weeks ago vs. UCLA in LA, a team that had not won any match before that and didn\u2019t even hold a lead during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the Nittany Lions lost their consecutive match at home and 3rd overall when Northwestern beat them 22-21, and the fans at the stadium of Penn State demanded the head coach to be sacked. James Franklin\u2019s team was more than 3 TDs favorite in that match, but still found a way to lose it.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the campaign, when Penn State&#8217;s losing streak started vs. Oregon at Happy Valley, James fell to 4-21 at home vs. AP top-10 opponents, including 1-18 vs. top-10 Big Ten teams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Penn State has fired HC James Franklin, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PeteThamel<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He has been in Happy Valley since 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Du0qBVYFIx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Du0qBVYFIx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1977434616127472022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The school announced that it thinks that it is time for a change at the helm of their football program after they fired Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State has dismissed boss James Franklin after 12 years, the university revealed today. James is owned almost 50 million dollars per his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495931,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26884,26883],"news_category":[16705,16715],"gn_keywords":[26885,18382],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The university sacked the head coach after 12 seasons.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495934,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495930\/revisions\/495934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495930"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495930"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}