"They all saw the stats," Franklin said. "I went through it with both of them before I told them the decision. I think they should be disappointed. They should feel like they're the guy. But I said: 'When we leave this room, with our teammates, with the media, with our parents and with everybody else, we're a united front. We're going to support Jordan Steffy.' "
It was Turner's game performances that made Friedgen's decision so hard.
"Chris played well in games," Friedgen said. "That's his M.O. But we didn't win every game he played in. We need consistency. Based on not only fall practice, but I even went back to spring practices, and [Steffy] was by far and away ahead in all the statistics."
