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James Franklin gets into odd Twitter spat with Penn State beat reporter
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Don’t question James Franklin’s motivational tweets. Or do, and expect to get blocked.
ESPN Big Ten beat reporter Josh Moyer learned that the odd way on Thursday.
Moyer, who lives in State College and is a regular at Penn State practices and games, copied one of Franklin’s tweets and attached a question to it. Moyer questioned why Franklin would tweet out the words “NO TALENT REQUIRED” above a bunch of other positive attributes.
Here was Moyer’s initial tweet:
I mean, I get what PSU's going for here … but I feel like it could've been worded better than "NO TALENT REQUIRED" https://t.co/f90spXlfqw
— Josh Moyer (@ByJoshMoyer) March 31, 2016
Franklin apparently didn’t like that very much. He blocked Moyer for it and even deleted the initial tweet.
Well, JF deleted the tweet in question – and apparently blocked me for pointing it out.
Here's the pic he tweeted: pic.twitter.com/0fDTCy9ytr
— Josh Moyer (@ByJoshMoyer) March 31, 2016
In Franklin’s defense, Moyer might not have realized that there was a colon after “NO TALENT REQUIRED,” meaning all of those positive attributes like “attitude,” “work ethic” and “coachable” don’t require talent.
Either way, it’s still a questionable move for a Power Five coach to make, especially one as socially conscious as Franklin. It’s certainly been an odd offseason for Franklin, and this only added to that.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.