In a poll of college football head coaches released on Sunday afternoon, Penn State head coach James Franklin was named the "most overrated coach in college football", as both he and Willie Taggart of Florida State garnered 20-percent of the anonymous votes. The top-four was rounded out by Iowa's Kirk Ferentz (13-percent) and Florida Atlantic's Lane Kiffin (13-percent).

On the surface, this is a pretty ridiculous result, for both Franklin and Taggart. The quotes backing up the decision to vote for Franklin are...interesting.

"James Franklin. His coaching peers know he is full of it."

"When [Franklin] got the Penn State job, I thought, 'Man, he's a good marketer.' He did a nice job with that. It'll be interesting without Saquon [Barkley]. He's underrated. He turns a lot of no[-gain] plays into 60-yard touchdowns."

First of all, I'd bet $500,000 that I don't have that one of those quotes is courtesy of our good friend Pat Purduzzi, sorry, NARduzzi.

Secondly, "It'll be interesting without Saquon [Barkley]. He's underrated."

"He's underrated."

"He's underrated."

"He's underrated."

Listen, we here at Roar Lions Roar collectively love Saquon more than maybe everyone, save his own family. But even we would never remotely consider referring to him as "underrated". Much less, use his underratedness as an argument against James Franklin's coaching ability.

No matter how many games he wins, great coaches he hires, or amazing recruiting classes he puts together, it seems that Franklin just can't shake the "all he can do is recruit" reputation. This never ceases to amaze, especially when a certain man whose name rhymes with Yabbo down in South Carolina plays essentially the exact same role as Franklin.

Is Franklin a genius when it comes to X's and O's? Who knows! The general opinion is that his strengths lie elsewhere, not that any of us would truly know anyway. But still, even if that is true, X's and O's are only part of the job. Head coaches are CEO's, whether they like to be seen in that light or not. Their job is to oversee the program from the top and put people in the best positions to succeed. Apart from John Donovan and maybe Herb Hand, can you name a single coach who hasn't proven successful under Franklin?

And how about recruiting? Chastize him for putting so much focus on recruiting if you want to, but recruiting is the lifeblood of a college football program. He's taken Penn State recruiting from its dormant state under the last few years of Joe Paterno to one of the very best in the entire country. He's infused more talent into the program than anyone else before him ever had.

And we haven't even mentioned his Vanderbilt exploits! The #haters will point to his Vandy record against ranked teams. The normal, sane human beings will see that, and also recognize that he led the Commodores to 18 wins in two years with back-to-back top-25 finishes. You know the only other time Vanderbilt finished a season in the top-25? 1948. He also led them to three bowl games in three seasons. In the 108 season before that, they attended a total of four bowl games.

So, yeah. Needless to say, the coaches who anonymously participated in this poll are either just crazy jealous or don't get outside much. Oh, and you don't want to take my word for it? Fine. How about Bruce Feldman's instead?