no matter what's happened, the day the
season starts, everybody remembers
1982 and 1986, and that's their expecta-
tion?" he asked.
It's a fair question, one to which
Franklin has evidently given some
thought. "I look around the country and
I see a lot of places going through similar
things, and I study those people and how
they do it, and there is a cult rebuilding
projects that any major college football
power has ever undertaken. Unless you
count SMU, no elite program was ever hit
harder than Penn State, and the fact that
the Lions have put together three consec-
utive winning seasons since the NCAA
imposed its sanctions and are now vying
for a fourth should not be viewed as a sign
that the penalties were less severe than
originally thought; it's a sign that Penn
State has enough cache to go out and hire
high-pro
