The idea of moving on from James Franklin made plenty of sense from Penn State's perspective. 

The harsh reality is that Franklin wasn't doing the job any longer, and for a Penn State program that's typically one of the best in the nation, it had to figure something out. 

The days of losing to all the best teams in America were frankly done with, so Penn State decided to cut ties when it had to. 

However, while I completely agree with the move and I believe that most fans do, there's also some risk in doing so. 

It isn't a guarantee that Penn State will find a head coach as good as James Franklin, despite what many like to think about him as a head coach. 

Franklin still won a lot of games nearly every year for Penn State, and one down campaign shouldn't really change that. 

When discussing the situation, I thought Rece Davis, who hosts College Football Game Day, had some really intriguing thoughts about it. 

He said that things could get worse for Penn State before they get better in the future, especially if it doesn't hit the hiring process out of the park.

“If you don’t think it could get worse than losing all these highly-ranked games, how about a steady diet of regularly losing to UCLA and Northwestern when they’ve been struggling. That could happen, too,” Davis said on the “College GameDay podcast”, per PennLive.

“You can get yourself down to the B or C tier really, really fast when you make a coaching change,” Rece Davis said.

It's almost impossible to disagree with what Davis had to say, mainly due to the simple fact that under Franklin, Penn State was typically a top 10 team in the nation. 

If there was one concern about firing Franklin before Penn State did, many thought it was the possibility of not hiring the perfect head coach. 

While things obviously changed and Penn State had to do what it had to do, that worry should still be there, and I feel like most aren't really speaking about that.

It'll be interesting to see what Penn State looks like moving forward, but I have confidence that Pat Kraft will hit this hire out of the park.