Penn State head coach James Franklin on the addition of helmet communications and how it still isn’t going to take away sign-stealing:
Interesting answer from James Franklin on why the new helmet radios might not fully solve the issue of sign stealing. pic.twitter.com/JStPwkRE9G
— Tom Orr (@TomOrr4) July 24, 2024
Here’s what Franklin had to say about Michigan’s sign stealing allegations ahead of their matchup (UM won 24-15) last season:
“I think in general, we’re always aware of how we signal, are we disguising it,” Franklin said. “What happens is, you get to after games, and you feel like you called a very unpredictable call in a certain situation, and they’re in the perfect defense for it. You are sitting there saying, well, how is that? What would ever make you play cover two on 4th-and-1, and we’re in the heavy personnel group? But they’re in it, and you have a shot called there.
“Those things kind of make you second-guess, and you kind of go back and look at those things and what you need to do to disguise it. If it happens once, that’s one thing, but if it happens over and over, then you’re aware of it. For us that’s something that we always are looking at, but obviously with some of the things that are going on right now, it magnifies it.”
