By Shane from Centerpoint
Well, it didn’t take him long. He hasn’t coached a down of football yet in the SEC, but Auburn’s new offensive coordinator, Tony Franklin, has already has a problem with following the rules. He is apparently upset because the commissioner’s office is making him remove his name from the title of his football instructional package, “The Tony Franklin Systemâ€. Franklin said, “ I’m not happy about it, but I joined the club, so I’ll play by the club’s rulesâ€. In my opinion this joker has an attitude problem. Since when does a “rookie†SEC coach criticize his league’s management and in such a large public venue like The Birmingham News – the state’s largest newspaper.
Apparently Franklin assumed that since the league’s A.D.’s had discussed changing the rule that things would go his way. When the A.D.’s decided to leave the current rules intact, Tony started running his mouth. “The SEC said no. It doesn’t make sense to me,†said Franklin. I guess Tony thinks that Mike Slive and every athletic director in the Southeastern conference is stupid, or a least not as intelligent as he is.
This newly named “The System Seminars†is the original program Franklin started when he resigned from Kentucky after the NCAA started investigating the program. Tell me this guy isn’t a character. He rolls on his fellow coaches, and then writes a book about the entire thing. That was the first sign that Tony is all about Tony. The fact that he tried to profit from the incident says it all.
In my opinion, Tony sat around and made notes while Hal Mumme and Mike Leach created a multiple wide receiver “spread†offense and designed hundreds of plays that originated from this strategy. Did Tony Franklin invent the system that formerly carried his name? I doubt it. However, he is the first person to market the offense nationwide. I’ll give him credit for that.
Franklin seemed defiant when he said, “I’ll continue to speak at clinics where there are not student athletesâ€. I guess he has to be available for high school coaches to consult with him each week. I think he feels obligated since that is part of the package he sells. By the way, when does he have time to coach the Auburn offense?
I’m going to be the first one to fire the shot across the bow and say that Tony Franklin is a loose cannon. His mouth is going to get him (or Auburn) in trouble some where down the line. Tommy Tuberville has kept the reigns tight on most of the men who have coached under him. Tony is fast becoming the “mouth of the Southâ€, with his arrogant attitude out-shining even Tuberville. Talking smack about SEC rules and openly disrespecting the league’s Athletic Directors shows Franklin doesn’t care what anybody else thinks.
Did Tony really think that he and Tuberville could use his camps as a recruiting tool? I bet the SEC did too. Maybe that’s why they shut him down.
Is this a real story? If so this is absolutely the worse crap even written on this site. Ridiculous. Where do you find the time?
sorry it should have said worse crap EVER
yeah I can tell that Franklin is going to be a problem with his mouth.. gee. can’t believe how “defiant” the man is. You would think from this article that Franklin pissed on the leagues shoes or something. AS said before ridiculous…
the problem with franklin is that he thinks he is more important than he is. there are hundreds, yes hundreds of high school teams running this very offense. fraklin is front and center at every oppurtunity and tubby is relegated to the shadows. we will soon see who will survive the BATTLE OF EGOS. will pat dye and bobby loulder continue to quitely support franklin or will they come out of the closet so to speak and openly declare franklin their man? this time JET GATE will succeed and the puppet masters will again rule auburn football. rtr
shane for brains recognizes attitude problems in others?
could it be he has one himself?
Cant yall see that this article is for only one reason? To piss off Auburn fans. If you think its bad now…Wait until the Iron bowl butt kicking fiesta that Franklin puts on Bama. I hope he uses his mouth of the south to fire away at Tuscaloosa when we win. That will the Bama crapstorm of the century. Ol Tony might have to start wearing a kevlar and a flak jacket.
Why shouldn’t he be able to have his name on an instructional video, especially if its his. Shane your are reaching for something that’s just not there. But I’m glad our new OC is already getting under you skin.Get used to it.
They write articles like this because they are scared………….
Who’s scared there Red ? Took 4 posts from that rattled and confused brain to respond to an “opinion “.
Open a Beer and settle down before you pee in your knickers.
Does the word delusional mean anything to you Pluto? It should because it decribes you.
Shane’s inside knowlede of the SEC absolutely amazzzzes me! Read between the lines. Franklin is cocky, just Like Spurrier and Saban. He has a “system” similar to a “process” like Saban. He is defiant to the powers that be (AD’s)like Saban was to the NFL leadership and Dolphins ownership.
He believes Franklin is every bit as great as he believes Saban to be and it SCARES HIM TO DEATH. As much as he would love to have another “jetgate”, he’s now fearful that Franklin would become Bama’s worst nightmare just as Tubby has been the past 9 years.
Poor, poor Shane, he IS just like Bama football… he can’t win for losing!
IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER!
Bammas wonder each and every day from the likes off
TMCzero
troy
pluto the all wonder and here it is every thursday we find out something about AUburn we didnt know…
GOD SHANE U SUCK who are you to call a coach any coach a rookie??? and your opinion of his attitude is gonna change a whole lot when Auburn walks that mudhole dry buddy!!
WAR POLYTECH BABY!!!
shane,
WTF? your articles get worse by the day. It’s blatantly obvious how bad you want something to be wrong at auburn. First the obsession non-existent Chette Williams stuff. Now this garbage? This non-story is old. Franklin had to sell the system months ago. Let’s not forget your last two backwards articles. Auburn can’t win an NC with a first year QB, but bama can? Bama can win with a new OC, but because auburn has new coordinators they have no shot? I’m confused. Wasn’t Paul Rhoads defense ranked ahead of Muschamp’s last year? Bama has talent and depth? Really? Who’s your back up QB? Who even starts at LB, much less is a back up? How bout at WR? And Auburn has questions? MO-ron.
Sorry, Shane. Just more wishful thinking. Your Aubsession is noted, but you seem to extrapolate an awful lot of scandal from a two sentence reaction from Franklin. Your desperation has clouded your judgment. Once again. Is Chette Williams involved in this? Maybe Phillip Marshall? The only time a self-parody is really funny is when its creator doesn’t even realize it. This one’s funny.
A typical column for Shaneorama. Lots of hyperbole. Lots of bad grammar. Absolutely no sense.
What a Dumb PHuck you are Shane.
I bet Auburn hangs 50 on the Tide this season!
Maybe, just maybe Tony can change the name to “The Pat White System” after he and his West Virgina Spread shows Franklin and the Alabama Tech Tiggers how to properly execute the spread when they hang 90 on the newcomer’s weakling defense.
Keep dreaming 6*down and now it’s gone.
The closest you’ll ever see to a team hanging 50 against the other in the Iron Bowl is when you finally play an Alabama team at full strength for the first time since 2001. I take it you’ve blocked those nightmarish memories from your empty head full of cobwebs. I’m talking all the humiliating losses you sustained before our program fell apart. Forget it all you want, but you’ll relive those tormenting moments soon enough. We’ll show Tubs how to properly kick a team’s ass and not only by one touchdown especially when they’re at their worst.
don’t take the fact that you can’t deal with the facts out on shane. barnies should be more concerned with franklin’s devised plan to bring alabama tech to a bloody pulp. his past history with former coaches isn’t pretty, and when alabama beats his brains out, i’m sure he’ll point fingers at tuberville just before turning him and alabama tech in for violations.
once again shane finds another successful way of getting under the skin of the dysfunctional barnie family. nice job!
Count this as my signature:
Nice Job Shane.
The “Tony Franklin system” was in service at the University of Kentucky before Franklin walked in the door.
Mumme was head coach and Mike Leach was the athletic director. Franklin went to work as the backs coach and took over as Offensive coordinator (for roughly a year) AFTER Leach went to the big 12. Unofficially the reason that Franklin went to the NCAA (and threw Kentucky under the bus) is because He wanted to take credit for the offense and Mumme said “Hell no”
By the way it is also called “HAL MUMME’S AIR RAID” and he has been marketing it for a while. And Mike Leach could arguably suit Franklin and win.
Also, being the class act he is, Franklin wrote another book called “Victor’s Victory” about a young man who mysteriously died because there wasnt a defibrilator around to save him. (Franklin neglects to mention anything about the “No Huddle, Spread offense” that literally ran poor Victor Hill until his heart stopped beating.) Nope it was that damn defibulator’s fault for not being handy.
Luckily, Franklin (being the great guy he is) Was there to right a book about it. So that everyone would know the dangers of running a teenager to death and not have a defib to save your ass…
Tony Franklin is a world class douchebag. A financially, and morally bankrupt crumb of a man. Yes that is right… Bankrupt.
Karma is lurking closely behind Coach Tony Franklin and The Alabama PolyTECHnic Institute football program.
If you guy’s thought Tator Tot’s last year was sheerly humiliating, just wait for the debacle between Tubby, Coach Tony Franklin, Professor Pette, and The Alabama PolyTECHnic Institute to unfold.
That being said, I doubt Franklin will take Tubby’s place, but maybe the third wheel, Paul Rhoads will after his new defensive system gets shown up by these explosive SEC offenses.
Bamafan in NYC
that is exactly right.
You know like I do. Tony Franklin’s little dog and pony show is strictly county fair material for the rubes to be suckered in by.
I agree with you … the only entertaining aspect to The Tony Franklin Saga is the meltdown that will be occuring in LEE County. I ‘ve go the popcorn, for this one.
Youve still got issues tmc1…If you dont know something as a fact, (especially when talking about being responsible for someones death) Shut Up!!!
Its just football. Get a grip.
If you dont know Tony personally, just like you dont know Chette personally, then you know nothing about thier morals, or lack thereof.
AGAIN, i’ve never seen so many fans of one team so nuerotic. sigmund freud would have a field day couch sitting these ninnys. the difference between shane and i-man is that shane has something of substance to write or talk about rather the endless babble by a resident for the mentally impaired. i-man blames the bamers for world war II, the great depression, and death and taxes, etc. an original thought is what shane puts forth, instead of recycled garbage that was said years ago but rehatched by i-man because he can’t think or verbalize a thought of his own. the aubies are holding their balls because after 5 years of undeserved probation the TIDE is rising a little bit higher every day. BEWARE the fist.
The tide isnt rising…We aint skeered. And yall need to fear whatever D2 school your scheduled to play. (Remember LAMO ? )
Geez, he’s a freakin coordinator. This is amazing how intimidated you bammers have gotten over an assistant coach. Are you bammers seriously so worried about the guy that you feel compelled to initiate a smear campaign against they guy? I was a little skeptical about the spread when I first heard he was getting hired, but the terror exhibited by all you bammers has convinced me that he’s the greatest thing since Knute Rockne.
tmc, I love your earth shattering assertion that the “unofficial” reason that Franklin wrote the book was was that Mumme wouldn’t let him take credit for the offense. You got a source you’re willing to name on that? I guess it must be that same “anonymous source” that intheknow relied upon for telling us that Fran missed all those practices and meeting before the 02 IB. Once again, a nameless poster on this blog scoops all those ridiculous sportswriters who foolishly place their name and reputation on everything they write.
Christopherson, Bama Fan in NYC,tmc1, troy,
All you losers think that running mouths win ballgames and ward off demons. FYI, Auburn will kick Bama’s ass royally.
The way you guys worship Shane makes me think you all choke on cock. Keep thoughs excuses coming. They make for real comedy.
Hey NYC, how’s the Garbage Truck? They let you ride in the Cab now or do you still hang on for dear life to the back. Speaking of Karma, its all bad for the Tide.
PLOI, Seven and No Bowl is what the criminal tide has coming!
6 now 7…You forgot to add probama, and to mention that they are all one and the same.. Just different screen names.
This guy is such an idiot! He refers to Franklin as a rookie coach in the SEC in then proceeds to talk about the guy coaching at Kentucky. Last time I checked they were an SEC school. Note to the idiot!!!! You cannot be a rookie SEC coach if you’ve already coached in the SEC.
True on Shane calling him a rookie coach in the same article as he mentions his coaching stint at Kentucky. It shows how much credibility he has as a “journalist.” I think what Bama fans have to fear is another 7-5 season that is staring them right in the face. What Auburn fans have to fear is all the excuses that this 7-5 season will generate from the Shane’s of this world.
Yep, exactly as I thought, Aubbos in denial.
Julio/ballplay/AKA…SHANEHATES6downnow7 ETC.ETC.
You are so uneducated it is just plain morose.
You cry like someone just insulted Mother Theresa over poor Tony Franklin and yet you have no comments about his baggage. Except cop outs like saying “oh yeah? well prove it… Why dont you guys investigate a little instead of making up rainbow brite fairy tales that let your conscience off the hook. lol….
So tell us, what is it like to know that Your Offensive coordinateor is Bankrupt…? (Sorry if the collective laugh you are hearing is at you guys.)
And what about Kentucky, How many more people does Franklin have to turn into the NCAA, Suit and write a expose book on, before you guys will figurre out he is a blatant narcissistic self promoter?
And like I said. In my previous post, The “no huddle” offense and the demanding toll it took on Victor Hill had nothing to do with his sad, unfortunate loss. Nope,not according to Ol’ Tony.
Instead of accepting any personal responsibility for it, he just skated around the event and blamed those damn defibs for not being around to do their job… And then in the true Tony Franklin fashion he wrote a book trying to profit from the tragedy.
Boy howdy,,,, do you guys have a pie headed straight for your face……
Blatant narcissistic self promoter? Did you mean to insert Saban’s name after that sentence? I think Tony Franklin will not have to look far (in the state where he currently is employed by the way) to turn someone into the NCAA. Do you really think all the other SEC coaches are going to let Saban and Alabama cheat in recruiting much longer? You are not the sacred cow you were back when the Bear was there and the NCAA will come down on you hard especially if your boosters keep up the shenanigans. Serving a subpoena to a visiting coach in town for media day is embarrassing even for Alabama. I know with all the arrests there lately the legal system is something you know well.
It will be #7 for Auburn and #6 for LSU and probably #3 for Mississippi State.
Big suprise, another blog about Auburn. Wait a minute, I thought you guys were arguing that AU is obsessed with UAT… what a joke.
Also, leave it to a bammer to criticize Franklin for having the guts to do what is right and turn in a cheater. Unless you are in the mob, I think most people would agree that it is honorable to follow the rules and report someone when they aren’t. Really, it is baffling to me that someone would think that is insulting. Unfortunately, it really speaks to how far our society has fallen, but definitely illustrates the logic and mindset of the typical UAT fan.
Troy, 5 years of UNDESERVED probation. Really?
Not worried about Shane. The funny thing is that Auburn now has a ‘Whistle Blower’ on staff at the ‘most penalized institution in Division 1 history.’ Running the spread with Auburn’s current complement of players is like placing a battery powered propeller on a turd in a speed-boat race. Good luck getting to .500. And by the way, that means T-Chump will continue his effort to run, run, run, run away from hayseed country, carpet bombed, raggedy and nasty pine-cone dirt farm goofville.
tmc1,
Who in the hell do you think you are referring to anyone as uneducated. You’re the most paranoid Bama fan alive. Tony Franklin has you Bama fan idiots so wrapped up in getting your ass kicked that you have to dream up stories how he is going to bring Auburn down.
Just keep on with yor BS, because Bama is on the threshold! The threshold of total “Hasbeenism”!
Once little dick Saban falls and the NCAA come crashing down on Bama’s corrupt group of dirty REC members, Bama will be finished!
It will a crying shame too. Bama has so much going for them but they have embosuls for fans. Fans who (not all but 10 times more than all the SEC combined) who are so self centered only because they they pull for Alabama. The most self righteous group of nobodies that ever walked the planet.
I would ignor you guys, but it is too much fun rubbing the irogance in your face like a dog who poot on the carpet.
Only difference a dog can be made to behave itself. This unlike a great portion of Bama Rednecks!
AuTiger sez…..
I think most people would agree that it is honorable to follow the rules and report someone when they aren’t.”
Do you mean like say….. Eric Ramsey or Terry Bowden did? Or maybe James Gundlach?
Jimbo…
YOU DIR DESERVE THE PULITZER PRIZE! Be careful and dont hurt anybody with that vicious wit. (and be prepared for the guy with 187 names to weigh in with at least 10 of them.
6 down now 7,
Saban has never, never, been in on half the shenanigans the CTF has.
But thankfully he has slack jawed yokels who are willing to beileve he is nothing but the finest man alive (as long as he is at Auburn)
Proving once again. Auburn would mug someones Grandma and then try to pin the blame on Bama.
Seriously, Aubbos…
What is the excuse for Franklin.
Why did the “sucessful football consultant” who has marketed his program to so many schools have to go bankrupt?
Better question is how does it feel to know that your OC’s credit is so bad he probably has to pay for his furniture on a weekly basis?
Right now their primary focus should be on Nikki Borges. Alabama Polytechnic Institute fans should know by now she’s like a shark, waiting to attack when the moment is right. After she stabs Tuberville and API in the back for firing her one hit wonder of a husband, I suspect Tony Franklin’s conniving tactics to come into play.
Talk about mass destruction on an already decaying Alabama Polytechnic Institute football program!
007
Lets go ahead and write the book before Franklin does…..
Maybe Auburn should have hired TMC1 and 007 to help find a new OC. They would have not recommended CTF based on two criteria. He hates CHEATERS and has his eye on the TIDE and his credit is bad.
Well thanks TMC/007, I guess UA, I mean we should be worried! What a bunch of goofs you two are!
Now that Bama has little Nicky,the REC working recruit’s parents and Mike Slive ignoring reports of rampant recruitng violations committed by Alabama, total moronic nuts can dream of AU’s pending decay.
Sounds like BammerNecks are very concerned that number seven is coming to hang a 50 spot on the scoreboard.
Who in the hell is Bama’s OC? I never read about him on the Crapstain. He must be a real winner.
To be fair, us Auburn fans have sought every opportunity to scrutinize the personality traits of Saban, so I have no problem with Shane and the Bama league of extraorinary fanatics taking on Franklin.
Also, as we are constantly reminded that this is a “BAMA” blog, why does Shane continue to write about Auburn. Half of his “Bama-blogs” are about Auburn. Smells a lot like “obscession”.
Shane, only you would attack a coach over the interpretation of publishing rules of a training video that might sell 48 copies, while more than 10% of your team is being arrested.
I don’t mean to “rag” Bama about its discipline problems, but rather to “rag” Shane about his undisciplined problem of trying to make something out of nothing.
Shane, you’re looking kinda scared.
Troy
You must be joking. “After 5 years of undeserved probation…”. Do you realize how very close Alabama came to receiving the death penalty?
Shane being shane, full of shane… Takes one comment about not disagreeing and blows it way out of proportion.. Spins it… Franklin said he did not agree with it, what is the big deal… You went crazy over the Sa%an rule…
I think that sixdownnow7 said it perfectly. Your argument is that AU, or any college program for that matter, shouldn’t hire coaches unless they are (a) ok with cheating and (b) don’t mind others cheating.
TMC1, it certainly hurt when AU got busted for cheating in the 90′s, but you will NEVER read anything that I write that defends them for cheating, or tries to argue that their probation was unjustified. The apparant difference between your point of view and mine is that I disdain cheating, whereas you seem to think UAT is entitled to do whatever they want without consequences… and it’s clear that when consequences do occur, which the program brought on themself, they are somehow not responsible and get a free pass on eveything that goes wrong with the program.
I think the argument Shane and most people have made is that Tony Franklin isn’t as Innocent as he claims. You don’t lie down with dogs and not get fleas.
If the UK program was systemically corrupt, some doubt anyone who worked there could be all that innocent. Especially someone working as OC. And some have said his turning NCAA evidence was a bid to keep himself out of trouble. Others have suggested it was retaliation. Whatever the reason, many people attribute the most sinister motives to Franklin’s actions.
When you combine those notions with Franklin’s obvious arrogance, it is only a matter of time until he is stabbing Tommy in the back, or stabbing Auburn—at least from some people’s perspectives.
Pleeeeeeeeeease Crapstoner. Now we know it all. CERTAINLY, Mal Moore, and EVERYONE knew that Ivey and Cotrell knew about the likes of Logan Young, Keller and probably all the corruption. Including the ones the NCAA missed or got to too late.
That’s Lack of Institutional Control.
Bama should have gotten the Chair!
Perhaps I am missing something, would someone please clarify the “obvious arrogance” of Tony Franklin? It’s not so obvious to me.
It is possible Franklin wasn’t involved or complicit in recruiting violations. I don’t think Charlie Stubbs was involved in the violations at UA.
However, I’m just telling you what many people believe.
As for Franklin’s arrogance. LOL. OK. Whatever. In listening to him, I think he makes Rush Propst look humble….but we must be reading and listening to different people.