Pennlive funny article about Franklin vs. Harbaugh
An interesting article on how they would not trade Franklin for Harbaugh. I guess I don't know what else they would say at this point but I still found it funny.
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2016/09/would_you_rather_have_penn_sta.html
September 22nd, 2016 at 4:56 PM ^
they don't have enough assets to trade for Harbaugh
September 22nd, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^
Yeah, "paying off victims to buy their silence" can get god damned pricey. Maybe they could trade Franklin and a third round draft pick for whoever coaches Kansas?
September 22nd, 2016 at 10:04 PM ^
Depends how badly Kansas wants that draft pick.
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^
I wouldn't mind if MLive traded PennLive David Mayo for Lauren Shipper.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:01 PM ^
Penn St. football is by far the most hateable institution in the history of sports, right?
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:06 PM ^
Update: Yep.
"Even if I could be promised multiple national championships with (Harbaugh) at the helm, I'm not sure I'd sell my soul to do it."
A Penn St. fan wrote that.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:23 PM ^
What soul?
Already traded it in for the 409 wins.
September 22nd, 2016 at 10:06 PM ^
Hopefully that soul is burning.
September 22nd, 2016 at 11:40 PM ^
That is all I can say...
September 23rd, 2016 at 8:28 AM ^
These people are so damn delusional...
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:08 PM ^
September 22nd, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^
Excellent point. You could also make an argument for the owners of various animals raised for fighting. Not that I'm equating animals to humans; just saying those animal owner/trainers are hateful too.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:21 PM ^
From Maize and Brew's feature where they interview the opponent's blog:
Maize n Brew: Last weekend, Penn State commemorated the 50th anniversary of Joe Paterno's first game as head coach. The decision to do so was met with lots of criticism. What was the Penn State community's response to it? And what were your personal feelings towards it?
Aaron Yorke: I don’t think the Penn State community was as horrified by the Joe Paterno tribute as the rest of America seemed to be. Most people I talked to felt the celebration was tasteful and understated, with a focus on the late coach’s contributions to student-athletes and academics. For me, I don’t think Penn State was right or wrong in what it did because we still don’t know how wrong Paterno was in his reaction to hearing about Jerry Sandusky’s abusive actions. If the rest of the nation doesn’t like that, well, they don’t have to show up to the game, watch it on television, or be bothered by it at all. I completely understand why people have a problem with what Penn State is doing, but Penn State isn’t the first organization to honor someone who has been peripherally involved in a major crime, and it probably won’t be the last.
Yeah, fuck these guys.
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:03 PM ^
honor someone who has been peripherally involved in a major crime
Sure. OK. Everybody does that. It's no biggie.
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:20 PM ^
Yeah, that's messed up.
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:44 PM ^
It's not like informing the boss, and then occaisionally seeing the guy across the building either, It's knowing what you know, and continuing to work with him Every. Damn. Day.
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:25 PM ^
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:28 PM ^
everybody steals, everybody murders
September 23rd, 2016 at 8:30 AM ^
Except Everybody Murders who is still in Bolivia for challenging Brian who promised to ban anyone who wrote "The Hell with Notre Dame". Lesson here: Never poke the bear!
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:32 PM ^
Peripherally my ass. He didn't hold those kids ankles apart but he stood lookout while Sandusky did.
September 22nd, 2016 at 8:37 PM ^
Shoudl have stuck with: Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever.
September 22nd, 2016 at 10:07 PM ^
I don’t think the Penn State community was as horrified by the Joe Paterno tribute as the rest of America seemed to beUnderstatement of the year.
September 22nd, 2016 at 7:00 PM ^
Did the Nazis have a sports institution?
September 22nd, 2016 at 4:59 PM ^
I cannot imagine Harbaugh would fit in well with their pedophile cult of personality.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:00 PM ^
September 23rd, 2016 at 8:32 AM ^
Franklin has had to build the team from scratch. Did they forget the success that BOB had and the team he was building before he got out of Dodge?
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:02 PM ^
Lots of Koolaid over there. One comment: we almost had Urbz (come coach at PSU) until the Sandusky scandal broke.
To think, Meyer could be coaching at PSU if those kids had just kept their damn mouths shut. The program would have been so much better-challenging for conference championships even!
/facepalm
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:00 PM ^
And the delusion continues!
"King James"
&
"For me, wins and losses take a backseat to the happiness and character of our players.
95.7% of all PSU fans need to be on meds - margin of error, +- 4.3%
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:24 PM ^
September 23rd, 2016 at 3:11 PM ^
Is crystal meth a med?
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:04 PM ^
Those guys are really grasping at straws
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:05 PM ^
those people are so strange. no mention of how bad franklin lied to everybody at vanderbilt and what he did with the recruits. but they cant stop talking about harbaugh. they dont like him, they dont know why they dont like him but they dont.
i forgot though, everybody and every thing at penn state are just the best. they are by far the worst and most desperate fan base out there.
September 22nd, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^
"worst and most desperate"? Really?
I think there are many far worse, in the SEC, in the ACC. In the B1G. Maybe even in this state.
September 22nd, 2016 at 8:45 PM ^
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:05 PM ^
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:08 PM ^
In the ads at the bottom the first one was, "convicted child abuse offender gets time reduced from sentance"
Good ad placement.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:10 PM ^
When did The Onion change their name to Pennlive?
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^
I honestly thought it was an Onion-esque joke piece until about 4 or 5 paragraphs in. Then I realized they were actually serious.
Nobody can LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU like Penn State.
Which explains a lot.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:12 PM ^
I'm cool with them not wanting Harbaugh.
I tell my Penn State friends that I want them to replace Franklin so that PSU can be competitive again (I'm from PA), but that fanbase is so delusional and corrupted right now that I think Franklin is exactly what they deserve.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:16 PM ^
They are the epitome of mediocrity; which is actually *better* than they deserve.
September 23rd, 2016 at 6:00 PM ^
Where?
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:13 PM ^
They are Ped State after all there is not much they can say.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:16 PM ^
At a time when Penn State football is still working in the shadow of the scandal that almost cost the university its football program, it can ill afford any public relations missteps.
Yet it can continue to be astonishingly tone deaf and delude itself into thinking that they are the arbiters of Joe Paterno's legacy and that program's perception to the public at large. Who needs a public relations department when last week one of your public relations professors tweeted that everyone should just forget the haters who merely believe that Paterno did something wrong?
What a disaster.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:29 PM ^
That is some good irony, there.
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:35 PM ^
How did I possibly miss that tweet. Anybody have a link?
September 22nd, 2016 at 5:18 PM ^
had to post this
"But even if I could be promised multiple national championships with him at the helm, I'm not sure I'd sell my soul to do it."
Im just going to leave this here. Quick question though, who is your favorite coach of all time?
September 22nd, 2016 at 7:24 PM ^
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September 22nd, 2016 at 5:23 PM ^
Isn't Harbaugh friends with the Hokes? I remember reading (in JUB's book) that part of the process for getting him here involved making sure that Hoke was treated well.