James “not elite” Franklin (HC Penn St. Nittany Lions)

[Dryden]

"You though I was a psychopath in the past? You have no idea."

The solution is for James Franklin to coach like Keegan-Michael Key's impersonation of James Franklin.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[shetuck]

Wow

A coach in happy valley imparting a dysfunctional culture

Can you imagine?

Yeah, but that's exactly the problem. If they imported, at least there'd be some pedigree behind it. They don't import it. They think they're the first and the best, so they just breed from among themselves. That's where the idea comes from that if you replace JoePa with Jay Paterno, you can keep the magic going.

Just a bunch of inbred fucks with IQs to match. Best thing with these guys is just to take a wide berth and not let any bodily fluids mix. There's entertainment value. They're like the Jersey Shore / Archie Bunker of college football.

 

[buckeyesin07]

I have seen more rebel flags on porches in rural PA than in the 13 years I lived in Florida.

Pretty sure it ain't heritage in Pennsylvania.

 

[Buckeye86]

Gotta be honest, I was impressed with his press conference. His general message in what it takes to go from great to elite (in life, as well as in football), his accepting responsibility, his passion, his basically admitting that OSU is on another level rather than giving excuses. His Jersey Shore-eque antics have always bothered me but I think Shetuck made a good point that it might just be the NE culture coming through. Doesn't make the antics less annoying, maybe just a little more forgiving.

Five years definitely isn’t enough time for Franklin to address the lingering issues preventing them from being elite.

 

[Ryan36_1]

This. And anyone who has spent any time in Western PA can attest that the circle around Pittsburgh is very small before you are back in Bama.

 

[shetuck]

Can I imagine in Afrikaans, leaning toward the original Dutch? He acted like a doos.

Yarpie...

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Gotta be honest, I was impressed with his press conference. His general message in what it takes to go from great to elite (in life, as well as in football), his accepting responsibility, his passion, his basically admitting that OSU is on another level rather than giving excuses. His Jersey Shore-eque antics have always bothered me but I think Shetuck made a good point that it might just be the NE culture coming through. Doesn't make the antics less annoying, maybe just a little more forgiving.

I was equally impressed for the reasons you mentioned.

I also liked the lulz.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

I have seen more rebel flags on porches in rural PA than in the 13 years I lived in Florida.

Pretty sure it ain't heritage in Pennsylvania.

In PA it’s a signaling device. In FL it’s assumed.

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Note: 2011, 2014, & 2015 were obviously rebuilding years, etc.

Just sayin': His record does say he is a pretty good coach.

Ah yes...but clearly not ELITE.

 

[shetuck]

I have seen more rebel flags on porches in rural PA than in the 13 years I lived in Florida.

Pretty sure it ain't heritage in Pennsylvania.

I've gotten the "you don't belong here" twinge in a lot of different circumstances: the West Bank in Israel, in townships in South Africa after curfew, going for breakfast in downtown Detroit after finishing night shift work still wearing my white button-down production supervisor shirt, rooftops and alleyways in the old sections of Delhi, boarding a commercial tanker on a family vacation in Mexico, drinking way too much baijiu with Chinese ex-military, racing light-to-light with packs of Hmong gangstas on Robson Street in Vancouver, walking around in Northeast Philly with my friend who was wearing his Central High school jersey or in South Chicago wearing a Detroit pistons t-shirt, and so on. Things and places I frankly had no right to be or do, other than just to "see what happens"...

Point is that none of these scenes made me as uncomfortable and nervous as walking into a very "local" establishment (somewhere in Altoona) to get some food on the way to drive my Sikh friend back to Duquesne.

Not even close... straight up. There's something in the water in that state. I'm sure of it.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

I've gotten the "you don't belong here" twinge in a lot of different circumstances: the West Bank in Israel, in townships in South Africa after curfew, going for breakfast in downtown Detroit after finishing night shift work still wearing my white button-down production supervisor shirt, rooftops and alleyways in the old sections of Delhi, boarding a commercial tanker on a family vacation in Mexico, drinking way too much baijiu with Chinese ex-military, racing light-to-light with packs of Hmong gangstas on Robson Street in Vancouver, walking around in Northeast Philly with my friend who was wearing his Central High school jersey or in South Chicago wearing a Detroit pistons t-shirt, and so on. Things and places I frankly had no right to be or do, other than just to "see what happens"...

Point is that none of these scenes made me as uncomfortable and nervous as walking into a very "local" establishment (somewhere in Altoona) to get some food on the way to drive my Sikh friend back to Duquesne.

Not even close... straight up. There's something in the water in that state. I'm sure of it.

 

[cincibuck]

Five years definitely isn’t enough time for Franklin to address the lingering issues preventing them from being elite.

Who else in the Big Ten has played better against the Bucks? They’re the only program with similar depth, if not similar talent.

 

[cincibuck]

I agree, but take a drive from Cincinnati to Columbus to Cleveland and then look at the 2016 election results - same story.

 

[shetuck]

I agree, but take a drive from Cincinnati to Columbus to Cleveland and then look at the 2016 election results - same story.

Nowhere near as many Shoney's iirc...

EDIT: Or "FIREWORKS!!!" billboards, for that matter.