Can’t lose to Pitt and get smashed by Michigan and expect to make the playoff.
FC/OT: Best Franklin era tradition?
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Can’t lose to Pitt and get smashed by Michigan and expect to make the playoff.
That address is believable. The guy living there has been suspected of having some cognitive issues.
There is an ignore button. Try it. no skin off my back.
^^^This^^^
For all the won/loss stats, records against top 10 teams... it comes down to that, doesn't it?
My "FrankLLin" post earlier in this thread was only half joking: CJFs flaw is just not being able to get over that 2 loss hump. In the years he has a playoff caliber team and manages to knock off UM or OSU, he seems to find a way to stumble. You just can't lose to the Pitts and Minnesotas in those years.
"No skin off my back" is a figure of speech that means, "it is of no consequence to me." It does not have a literal meaning, but is derived from the punishment of whipping wich can remove skin if conduted viciously enough.
You should probably read more to get some culture in your life.
I suppose if I ever did care if I was ignored it would be of consequence to me. But I have never cared, and doubt I will.
If excuses are made for Joe, I'm making them for Franklin. In short, it took Paterno 17 yrs to win a natty. He won 2 in 50 yrs. Meh
Oh, so you're saying things can be true, even if they aren't literally true? You don't say. If only you had known that before your initial "contribution" to this thread, you could have saved yourself from ever "contributing" to this thread.
Oh man, rough…. (I am cringing, even if I am J Franklin
I hate the fascination with explosive plays and using that term. It’s like DEI for footballEXPLOSIVE. PLAYS.
ANALYTICS.
The students heckling Coach Franklin does not help anything: recruiting, the team… nothing. The guy is working his *** off and we can’t undercut him. Good things will happen just hang tough.
“The students heckling Coach Franklin does not help anything: recruiting, the team… nothing. The guy is working his *** off and we can’t undercut him. Good things will happen just hang tough”
I suppose you may be right. It’s all been a part of his brilliant 17 year plan.
I suppose you may be right. It’s all been a part of his brilliant 17 year plan.
Or you could have said that instead of saying "You're picking out exceptions here..." Like you said, I would not have had to contribute. Glad you learned something today.
Sparkles, the "exceptions" were the students/players ... my initial comments re "no one" referenced fans and other interested parties. Oy. We covered this. You're still stuck at the middle part of the episode where they accuse the wrong person of being the baddie, and you just keep looping back to that. C'mon, Scrappy Doo. Figure. It. Out.
You are going in circles. Your first comment had nothing to do with fans. The next post had the player examples and said fans cars too. When given the opportunity to clarify it you said "exceptions".
The retort to your first "fans" reference is below and it still stands.
I figured it out Farmer Moogy. Zoinks!
Wut? My first comment had everything to do with fans. My second comment had everything to do with fans. When someone responded by talking about specific examples of players, I said those were the exceptions to the rule.
You following, Scrappy? I know often times you have your fists in the air challenging the wrong person for the wrong thing ... and this is no different. As it has been since the beginning, my point is that football players (as a whole) have never been bastions of the pursuit of higher education, and the fans never really cared about that, anyway. They paid it lip service, as an angle. Just something to yell at an opposing fan base ("not only did we whoop you, but we're smarter! we might be similar on the field, but our kids graduate! you may have beaten us, but we lost with honor!"). There was the occasional smart kid/serious student on the football team at every college, so that's not instructive. For the most part it was a bunch of dudes getting led by the arms toward a throwaway degree with middling performance ... and if we, or some other school, were slightly more successful at finishing that ... whoopdido. And the fans just wanted to see us win. They were concerned with Player X's 40 time and ability to get the ball in the end zone ... how many TDs does he have was a question of importance, not how he did on his Bio exam.
But look at you go!
So, when you said "no one" you meant "no fans"?
When you were questioned why no just say "I was talking about fans"... not "those are exceptions"?
When some one says you do not know what "no one" means why not just say "it was hyperbole" or it was a figure of speech?
Was it because you are trying to defend a position that is substantially incorrect? The position that "no fans cared about graduation rates or GPAs." That is tour position, right?
I know people that did care. They mostly follow D-II, D-III, or the Iveys now.
Good grief, do you know anything about Penn State Football? Paterno had more big wins in 1 year than Frankin has had his entire tenure.
And those big wins started early in his career, on the road, and on the games’ biggest stages.
Frankin is a nice, slightly better than average coach. Paterno was one of the best to ever coach football.
No one knows what you're trying to say, Scrappy Doonot. My commentary was easily understood, entirely correct, and your subsequent attempts to attack it have been ridiculous and already easily dismissed. And it seems like you're trying to repeat said misdirected punches. Go fight with the mirror. Or go have a nice chat with the alleged people that did care about the latest DIII news.
First, it's "doing well," not "doing good."
Second, PSU is one of the most successful programs in the nation during Franklin's tenure ... a tenure which started whilst digging the institution out of a colossal mess that occurred under the auspices of "The Holy One," who, if the legend is to be believed, used to ride in on his dragon, and slay all the trolls to save the princess whilst shitting his pants as his team went 3-9.
2 nat'l championships in 47 years. That is not anything special. Name the big wins that mattered. 17 years to get his first and after his second 26 years went by with nothing!
And Trump won in 2020. I see who you are now. And by the way, yes, I'm quite sure about it.