He brought 100% of that on himself. Every single bit, which I why I have no sympathy.
Yeah, I don’t agree with that. Word, as early as February, was that Franks was bulking up to get himself ready to play a new styles of football—to which he didn’t sign on to play. He had to hear all offseason that virtually every QB both on the roster and within 1000 miles of UF campus was better suited and should be played over him. He was commended after week 1, with immediate qualifying statements about him having a ceiling and, again, just biding time for someone better. Even players on other teams’ rosters were pined over to come in and replace him every time a transfer was hinted. On and on. All of this for a Soph, and from fans who ironically consider his coach for the first two years to be arguably UF’s worst coach in history.
No one is denying he had bad moments. Some completely terrible. But even in his worst moments the guy seemed to care more and fight harder than any QB we’ve had since Tebow. And he was basically assigned the 3 losses, despite the fact that the entire team played like garbage for most of those contests.
It was only then that he started getting mouthy and adversarial with the fans. I don’t agree with his approach, but I don’t see it as some unilateral decision to be a prick.