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Tyseer Denmark snags TD as time expires, Penn Narrate wins 44-7 (0: 37)
Tyseer Denmark snags TD as time expires, Penn Narrate wins 44-7 (0: 37)
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior AuthorNov 30, 2024, 08: 03 PM ET
- College soccer reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.
Maryland coach Mike Locksley took reveal with Penn Narrate throwing a touchdown skedaddle on the supreme play of Saturday’s 44-7 Nittany Lions employ and let his counterpart James Franklin know about it.
Locksley and Franklin had a demanding exchange after the game, which ended with Franklin walking away and yelling, “If that’s what you watched, that is horny!” Nittany Lions backup quarterback Beau Pribula threw a 15-yard touchdown skedaddle to Tyseer Denmark because the clock expired.
Penn Narrate’s employ clinched a dilemma in the Mountainous Ten championship sport, the keep apart it will face No. 1 Oregon on Dec. 7 in Indianapolis. The Nittany Lions have now now not appeared in the game since 2016, after they won their lone Mountainous Ten title below Franklin.
“It was as soon as bull—, is what it was as soon as,” Locksley said about the supreme play. “I admire the game. I’ve bought a quantity of admire for James, his program. I recount it was as soon as bull—.”
Franklin said he understands the criticism but that he needs Penn Narrate’s reserves to “play soccer” after they enter games.
“Your 1s [starters] are in the game, you were making an attempt to rating, we’re making an attempt to rating,” Franklin added. “On top of that, you’re enjoying Hide 0. Play Hide 2. And on top of that, there’s also a trade in college soccer. We’re making an attempt to play so long as we are able to, create the playoffs and be seeded as excessive as that you shall be succesful to deem, and scoring as many components and a degree differential matters. All that matters. If you occur to acquire now now not acquire that, or now now not it’s in fact now now not my mission.”
Franklin twice served as a Maryland assistant and worked alongside Locksley from 2000 to 2002. Maryland in 2009 named Franklin head coach-in-waiting, though an athletic director trade advanced matters and he sooner or later left to lead Vanderbilt‘s program.
Since taking on at Penn Narrate in 2014, Franklin is 9-2 in opposition to Maryland with six wins by 30 components or more.
