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

Penn St., while an upper tier state school, has a huge alumni base that loves to tout how great of an academic institution it is. It's to the point that when a Penn St. grad tells you where he went to college, he or she expects you to react as if he said Harvard or Yale or Oxford.

It is quite a cultish alumni base. unfortunately it's also an enormous one. 1 in every 130 or so Americans with a college degree received it from Penn St.