{"id":101216,"date":"2022-10-19T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-franklin-wants-big-ten-to-act-after-halftime-incident-at-michigan\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:35:59","slug":"james-franklin-wants-big-ten-to-act-after-halftime-incident-at-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-franklin-wants-big-ten-to-act-after-halftime-incident-at-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"James Franklin wants Big Ten to act after halftime incident at Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Franklin wants the Big Ten to make sure a halftime incident like Saturday never happens again, and he’s blaming the one tunnel at Michigan Stadium for facilitating it.<\/p>\n

Speaking Tuesday to reporters in State College, the Penn State head coach called on the conference to create new policy that would separate teams returning up the tunnel during halftime and post-game procedures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer to talk about these things in the offseason,\u201d Franklin said, \u201cbut the one tunnel is a problem. It’s a problem and has been.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video from halftime of Saturday’s Michigan-Penn State game showed players from both teams shouting at one another while staffers, coaches and stadium security (along with police) having to separate both sides. One video circulating on social media shows an irate Franklin, now in his ninth season at Penn State, yelling to someone inside the tunnel, \u201cJust stop talking to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan held a narrow, 16-14, halftime lead at the time of the incident. There has been no public reprimand from the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey started talking,\u201d Michigan defensive end Mike Morris said after Saturday’s a game, a 41-17 victory for the Wolverines. \u201cThe whole week, they’ve been Twitter fingers, talking to us on social media.<\/p>\n

More:<\/b> ‘Twitter fingers’ sparked halftime jawing between Michigan-Penn State<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted to talk at halftime because they got lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video of the incident, published by Isaiah Hole of WolverineWire, was widely distributed on social media in the moments after. On Monday, Michigan’s team nutritionist, Abigail O’Connor, claimed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were \u201cthrown at our players\u201d during the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere really should be a policy that the first team that goes in, there is a buffer,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cIf not, this team starts talking to this team, they start jawing back and forth, and something bad is going to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll there has to be (is) a two minute or minute buffer in between the two teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Franklin claims that Penn State is \u201cnot the first team that’s had issues like that,\u201d and suggested that problems could pop up again in the future. Michigan Stadium has just one tunnel, renamed after former coach Lloyd Carr last weekend, that spills onto the visitor’s sideline on the east side of the stadium. Typically, the visiting team exits the field first, followed by Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, there is a really easy solution,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cWe’ve got to do it. I (wanted) to get our team in the locker room. That’s my concern.\u201d<\/p>\n