James Franklin didn’t want to go “rah ... That was coupled with Michigan’s win over Alabama and Illinois beating South Carolina in their respective bowl games. Overall, it was a good day ...

Carolyn Peck and her Purdue women did it in 1999, and Dawn Staley of South Carolina joined her ... the Orange Bowl — either Penn State’s James Franklin or Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman ...

James Franklin is the longest-tenured of the ... coaching career with a stop at Howard from 1984-88 and a return to South Carolina State in 1989. He retired from coaching in 2001 and was elected ...