I mean, it's never a good look to criticize those who believed in you and gave you a chance.
With that being said,
@Tad Footeball can you unpack what happened?
I'm obviously biased against Franklin and Pedo State but from 30,000 feet it looks like this:
- They recruited and enrolled a kid that may have had some previous mental health issues.
- Kid underperformed and Franklin has a Golden-esque infatuation with weight and made that the bane of this kid's existence.
- Kid's preexisting issues are exacerbated by this and Franklin completely sours on the kid and essentially pushes him out of the program. Program appears to even ice out any attempted contact from the kid's mother
- Kid is in a bad spot but just wants to continue there as a student and even starts to pay out of pocket to do so
- Franklin and Pedo State at best appear to keep putting up roadblocks to allow this kid do that and at worst are making a concerted proactive effort to get him out State College
Again, there are usually two sides to these type or stories but I also have no reason to not believe that at this point this kid is just seeking to continue his education.
Franklin fraudulently sells himself as this dude that LOVES all of his players like sons and is a master of all that shtick. So he absolutely shouid have to address this.
We're certainly not perfect and I believe there have been credible issues with our training/medical staff in the past but this absolutely would've been a national story by now if it happened at Miami. Mario would even have to answer how the previous staff did or didn't address mental health issues.