Another graduate of the Pitt Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too. People who think like me? Everyone has a phone, computer, tablet, and TV; you get 24/7 instant updates on anything and everything now. This message board isn't the media yet it spreads information via a "pay to know first" business model. You planning on stopping that how exactly? We going Spanish Inquisition and burning people at the stake? Concentration camps? You can't stop the flow of information, all you can control is what you put out there into the universe. I'm just saying do it smartly because people have a large distrust for these faceless entities, be they governmental or corporate in nature.
As long as he states that he's never even heard of sex, he'll obtain the support of the old guard.
The way they handled it was better. Saying nothing is better than saying something to say you were saying nothing. Keep it at the University level and don't engage it at the football program level.
I'm out now with another written statement that contains an apology for how this was handled. People appreciate when you own up to a mistake. Make Franklin available at a later date for questions, but throw it back on the media to appreciate the fact that the criminal process needs to play out for both the accused and the victims in the court room and not in the public arena, so Franklin will be very limited in what he actually can talk about. That PSU and the football program are here to support the community during these difficult times and that we want to see justice for those involved in this matter after the process has played out in its entirety. Good grief, it's not that hard, just act like a normal human being.
I had the opposite take. He seemed like he was waiting for it to come up and knew that he was going to immediately yield to the PSU spokesman (not sure who that is). He started walking away before the first question was finished.
You want to see a BS/CYA take from Audrey?
I actually was thinking it reminded me of my days teaching sixth grade students. Read the directions, work an example, and immediately get a question on what they were suppose to do.
Audrey shut off all comments after she posted it. She knew exactly what she was doing. She's a hack that tries to hot take her way to 5 minutes of fame. She hit this time, now let's see where it gets her in the next PC.
You listen to Audrey Snider’s podcast, ro? We gotta talk mano a mano, friend.Oddly enough, Audrey Snyder and John Sauber's podcast, Nittany Dispatch has not been uploaded this week - they usually do that early in the week. Not sure if this issue had anythng to do with it.
I don't have a problem with CJF's response. This is a legal matter of two former players/students. What kind of response is he supposed to provide? Any kind of response would have just invited more questions that he is not in a position to answer.
But, I guess at PSU, it is the head football coach's responsibility to deal with, and address questions about, criminal activities of former players.
No. i don't listen to it. She does the Nittany Dispatch with Jon Sauber. I know a relative of Sauber. That is the only reason i watch it.
Even if CJF came out from the beginning and said what you suggested, our idiotic beat writers would still ask those questions for their own personal agenda and waste everyone’s time…
and most importantly, it wouldn't suddenly become a national story that's making the school/football program look bad. This was so easily avoidable.
Depends on how you’re looking at it from an accounting standpoint…but no, not really.
It's their job to ask. The whole point of having a press conference is to let them ask questions. If you don't want them to ask questions, don't hold a press conference.
and all goes away!