At a jovial signing day news conference,
James Franklin joked that he had been
lugging the Big Ten championship tro-
phy around with him through airports
and hotels and high schools as he fin-
ished up work on Penn State's Class of
2017.
It sounded like a joke, at any rate. Had
Franklin really been dragging a gleam-
ing silver football all over the country
for the past two months, stuffing it into
overhead bins and plopping it down on
rental car counters, somebody some-
where would surely have snapped a pic-
ture and turned him into an even bigger
social media sensation than he already
is. But given the excitement that sur-
rounded the program in 2016, one can't
help but wonder.
"This is the first time since the [cham-
pionship] game that I have not had the
ball in my possession," Franklin said on
Wednesday aBernoon. "I've taken it into
every high school. I sleep with it. My wife
rolled over the other night and almost
broke her elbow on it."
Franklin had every reason to be in high
spirits after the fax machine had un-
spooled the last of this year's letters of
intent. Indeed, if the success he and his
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ANOTHER BIG WIN
On the heels of a strong season, James Franklin reels in his best class yet
Franklin
used
a
video
confer-
ence
link
to
talk
with
recruits
and
their
families
through-
out
the
morning.
Photo
by
Nate
Bauer
