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re: Franklin with some more lovely quotes about Vandy ....

Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:40 pm to
Posted by InfantryDawg
Valhalla
Member since Oct 2013
1777 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:40 pm to
Penn State has better morals than Vandy . Does he think before he speaks because it seems there is no filter.
Posted by finestfirst79
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Member since Nov 2012
11646 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:42 pm to
quote:

At Penn State, Franklin says there's an emphasis on education and an athlete receiving a well-rounded experience.


He forgot covering up pedophilia, didn't he? I like Frankin, but he should STFU. Damn Yankees.

For me it is painful watching Vandy's recruiting class go kerplunk. I liked them being competitive. Oh well!
Posted by TigerattheU
Member since Aug 2006
3483 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:56 pm to
Here is the video of his appearance. (Check around 11:25)

I don't blame you for trusting your link, but she totally botched his comment. He was saying that Vanderbilt had high academic standards and that was a challenge in football culture of the SEC. Feel free to disagree with that, but he definitely wasn't saying that Vandy was a football factory and it's great to be at a place like Penn State where there's an emphasis on academics.
Posted by SwayzeBalla
Member since Dec 2011
19456 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:00 pm to
Penn State football screams morals
Posted by TeLeFaWx
Dallas, TX
Member since Aug 2011
29197 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:01 pm to
I liked Vanderbilt being good. There is no reason a private school can't be good at football, especially in what I hear is an awesome city.

It sucks they are going back to suckness for a while.
Posted by stat19
Member since Feb 2011
29350 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:08 pm to
Wow, someone forgot to tell him to exit gracefully. Vandy was never a threat to PSU.

He became a douche really fast.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
120012 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:19 pm to
No way he really said that. No way...
Posted by randomways
North Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
12988 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 6:02 pm to
S...se...seriously, Shirley?

And the only reason Penn State's priority isn't "always football" the way it used to be is because they got kicked hard in the nads for covering up child rape in the name of protecting their football program. If it had never come to light, they'd still be all about football.
Posted by Dawgnational
Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
690 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 6:20 pm to
nvm someone already posted the link
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 6:21 pm
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
38011 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 7:59 pm to
Always knew Franklin was a douche - now he has proven that he's a douche.
Posted by Old Hellen Yeller
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2014
9423 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:20 pm to
What a dirtbag. He'll fit in at PSU. Those pompous asses wore "winning the right way" shirts when we played up there. Few months later the pedo-rape story broke.
Posted by escatawpabuckeye
Member since Jan 2013
960 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:42 pm to
you guys have to understand....penn state fans are among the most self righteous, sanctimonious assholes you will ever meet. up until the day that sandusky was convicted, penn state fans swore up and down about "success with honor" and joe paterno's "grand experiment" to produce special young men. nevermind the fact that paterno and penn state lead the big ten in arrests and criminal behavior during the last several years of paterno's tenure, to say nothing of the sandusky affair.

franklin is just playing to his base. nothing warms the hearts of PSU fans more than to blow smoke up their asses about how much different and better they are.
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 8:44 pm
Posted by rtr1985
Member since Jul 2011
728 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 9:03 pm to
Love it or hate it, it's politics. You don't get a new girlfriend and talk to her about how great your old one was.
Posted by RoyalAir
Detroit
Member since Dec 2012
5929 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 8:54 am to
Doesn't Penn State have the largest alumni base in the country? I believe that makes it the very definition of a diploma mill.

I knew a guy who went to undergrad at USC, and grad school at PSU. He didn't have a single decent thing to say about the place, and laughed about its "rigorous academic standards."
Posted by Rig
BHM
Member since Aug 2011
41856 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 8:57 am to
I defended Franklin at first but this is ridiculous.
Posted by TabledTiger
Venice
Member since Apr 2013
2266 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 11:50 am to
Posted by plazadweller
South Georgia
Member since Jul 2011
11461 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 11:59 am to
terrible reporting by whoever wrote that article
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