VolsAgainstTheWorld15
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Where’s the story on this? Honest question, haven’t heard anything about this and feel like it would’ve come up in the penn state background checks if there was anything substantial to it.
He was accused of encouraging a player to delete a video of another player raping a girl. He denied the accusation, and it was never proven. Another thing is he told his team he saw the video of the rape but testified that he didn't. Here's a quote from him:
"I had just gotten done meeting with the administration and I didn't want to go in and water my message down to the team," Franklin testified. "I didn't want to say 'I was told (or) I saw a video from somebody else.' That's what I did. I addressed the team and spoke as if I had seen the video because I was angry and upset and I didn't want to water down the message to them.
"I did talk about the video as if I had seen it, based on what was described to me from the administration. I didn't think that was the right way to deliver my message to the team at the time."
He was obviously never convicted of committing a major crime (otherwise he wouldn't still be coaching), but it's fair to question his character.