notre dame fans love to claim "history and tradition" but they schedule like cowards. three service academies and a mac team every year. penn state plays ohio state, michigan, and usc. we take the hard road while they pad stats.
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Our QB competition is just two guys fighting for a clipoard. Neither one is it.
Stop pretending the 2026 playoff race is wide open. Penn State is steamrolling to the national title and the only people who disagree haven't watched a single snap of spring ball. Our portal class quietly addressed every weakness while Ohio State panicked replacing six defensive starters. Notre Dame is a paper tiger, Indiana loses their QB, and Oregon's five-star locker room is a chemistry experiment waiting to explode. The path is clear. Franklin finally has the depth and the schedule fr fr. 12-0 regular season, Big Ten championship, and then we expose whoever crawls out of the SEC. Book it.
ESPN dropping that under-the-radar player piece and I already know we have a couple guys on that list nobody is ready for. Our defensive backfield is going to surprise a lot of people this fall especially after losing some names to the draft. The depth we built through the portal combined with the young guys who have been in the system for two. People want to talk about what we lost but they never wa...
ESPN puts out their piece about replacing first-round NFL talent and I'm sitting here watching the draft coverage wondering when. The Big Ten officiating has been a consistent issue for us going on three seasons now and nobody wants to have that conversation. I watched the replay of our game against Ohio State last November again last week and I still can't get. Their offensive tackle had our edge rusher in a headlock on third and long and the flag stayed in the pocket. That's not sour grapes that's just wathing the tape with your own eyes. Spring practice is the time when everybody talks about development and next man up but what good is developing elite. We sent multiple defensive players to the league this draft year and every single one of them had to play. The Big Ten office sends out those weekly explainer videos and they never address the consistency issues. It's always about their process and how they review things internally. I'm not saying the fix is easy but when you watch SEC games and see how much more contact is. Our guys have to adjust to a different standard every time we play a non-conference opponent and then come back. The new NIL revenue sharing model is going to level the financial playing field but nobody is talking about the.
espn putting out that piece about replacing first-round nfl talent and everyone wants to talk about ohio state and georgia reloading. meanwhile we sent our guys to the league again and the narrative is always about who we lost not who. the development machine at our place is churning out pros year after year and the 2026 class stepping into those. the difference between us and the flashy programs is we don't have to hit the portal for five replacement starters. we recruit, we develop, we reload. that offensive identity that people finally started respecting last season? it didn't disappear because a few guys got drafted. the next wave has been in the system for two years learning the standaard. watch what happens when the national media realizes we didn't fall off just because we lost some faces.
Notre Dame is the most overrated program in the top 5. Four straight 10-win seasons with zero playoff wins to show for it. Soft schedule merchants.
white outs at beaver stadium are the gold standard and i don't want to hear any argument about it. espn can run their segments on lsu's night game at death valley or ohio state's horseshoe but nobbody brings the. that marshall monday night game is going to be electric and it's not even close to a full capacity white out environment yet. our atmosphere during the 2022 minnesota night game w...
fire franklin if we don't win the big ten in 2026. nine years is enough excuses.
Everybody wants to talk about Oregon buying their roster and Indiana's Cinderella title run. We consistently develop rotational guys that the draft community sleeps on until they show up on Sundays. The scheme fits our personnel perfectly and that's why we reload instead of rebuild. Watch the tape from spring ball. We're not flashy, we're efficient. That's coaching, not luck. The Big Ten beter be ready for a team that actually understands fundamentals instead of just chasing portal headliners.
Mel Kiper drops his final Big Board and I'm scrolling through looking for our guys and you know what I see? The same thing I've been saiyng all spring. Nobody respects our pipeline. We've got NFL talent in that building right now running through spring drills and the national media still sleeps on us every single year. Watch the tape from the spring game. Our guys are ready to jump.
Let me get this straight. We're sitting here in April with the NFL Draft happening and Mel Kiper drops his final Big Board and our. You know what I love most about rivalry week talk? Watching Buckeye fans scramlbe to explain why their five first round picks still couldn't get past Michigan last November. Our pipeline to the league has been consistent for a decade now and the numbers don't lie. We put defensive players into the NFL that actually produce on Sundays not just test well at the combine. The gap between our programs is closing faster than they want to admit and the spring game energy around here. Keep sleeping on us while you celebrate individual draft spots. We care about trophies.
Spring game week is finally here and I don't care what the national narrative says about us flying under the radar. That's exactly how we want it. Everyone is busy drooling over Oregon's QB battle between Dante Moore and Raiola or staring at Colorado's 43-man transfer circus. The ESPN spring preview mentioned us alongside some of the biggest programs in the country and that tells me the. We know what we have in the building. The position battles along the line and in the secondary are gonna sort themselves out under the lights at. Nobody talks about how our spring game atmosphere is different because our fans actually show up and treat it like a real Saturday. Let the media sleep on us all summer. They did the same thing last year and look what happened. We reloaded through the portal where it mattered and our development system is still the gold standard in the Big Ten. Everyone else can chase falshy headlines while we chase championships.
Every single spring preview talks about Oregon buying quarterbacks and Indiana trying to stay relevant after their title run. Meanwhile we just quietly reloaded, won the Big Ten last year, AND nobody wants to admit we're the most consistent progrma in this conference. No drama...
Makes me more confident than any spring game stat line or recruiting ranking? The tailgate scene at our place. I was there last Saturday walking through the lots before the spring game and it hit me again. We have ssomething special that no amount of NIL money or portal splash can manufacture. Three generations deep in some of those family setups, parents teaching their kids how to properly grill. Meanwhile these new Big Ten teams are trying to buy traditions with fancy facilities and brand deals. You cant buy the smell of grilling in the valley or the way the whole crowd hits the fight song together. That culture is why we reload instead of rebuild. Our spring game attendance was better than most programs get for regular season games. That matters. That foundation is why we will be in the conversation every single year while other programs year through coaches and identity crises every three seasons.
Indiana is the biggest fraud in college football history and the 2026 season will prove it. One title run with Fernando Mendoza carrying them and now they're trying to rebuild from scratch. everybody's buying the hype but their spring game will expose how much they lost.
The whole "SEC vs Big Ten" debate is exhausting but what nobody talks about is how our fan culture is. you watch places like LSU or Florida go through these boom and bust rebuilds every four years because their fanbases eat their own coaches alive. we show up. we pack Beaver Stadium for the White Out. we recruit against everybody and still land top ten classes without needing to promise kids a Lamborghini lease. that stability matters more than any splashy portal move or five star flip. Franklin has built something sustainable because the people in those stands understand that patience and development win in the long run. look at Indiana winnning it all last year. that was culture. we have had that culture for over a decade. it just has not broken through all the way yet. other programs panic after one bad loss and fire everybody. we reload. we trust the process. that is why we are consistently in the conversation while teams like Tennessee...
our schedule is a complete joke. we're going 12-0 and the haters will still call us frauds. tbh
Calling it now - this new secondary is going to be better than the 2024 unit that everyone loved. We're reloading with ball-hawking talent that fits our scheme perfectly.
Saw Louis Riddick's list and he's got a couple of our guys on there. That's the standard now. Everyone wants to talk about Oregon's flashy offense, but our defense is quietly building another unit full of future pros. That secondary is going to be a problem for the whole Big Ten.
