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Mike80 said:
And isn't there a student advocacy group built for issues like this at each university?
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No idea but this seems like one of those things that has a kernel of truth in what the social media story teller is pumping out but a lot of it reads like a triggered snowflake.

If a coach wants a kid gone, there are other ways. The behavior he's putting on Franklin just doesn't make a lot of sense (on the coaches part).

I mean, if people want to bash Franklin, have at it. I'm sure he's earned it in any number of other ways but this just seems a little off.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
No idea but this seems like one of those things that has a kernel of truth in what the social media story teller is pumping out but a lot of it reads like a triggered snowflake.
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That's the feeling I get. Two sides to every story, and the truth is in the middle.
Sure, the story he tells makes him seem like a victim caught in the path of an evil school's attempts to win at all costs.

I'm certainly not defending Franklin. The guy has shown himself to be a sleazy used car salesman who is happy waste 2 timeouts to call a play that takes the ball out of their best player's hands. And a crybaby to the media. Not elite.
 
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Ha. It warms my heart to read a thread that starts out on one topic and becomes, "The Big Ten is out to kill us!"

https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/tom-brady-retiring.314244/

"Tom Brady is retiring"
"GOAT!!!"
"My memory of Brady is when he beat Penn State in 1999"
"No, he did not - the refs did."
"The refs hate us"
"We never should have joined this conference"
 
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I've followed this thread from a distance for the past few days.
https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/iowa-fans-being-iowa-fans.314577/
Basically, Penn State went to Iowa for some wrestling matches, and now Penn State fans hear that Iowa fans threw beer bottles or cans, and said some racially-spicy language, maybe aimed at some Penn State wrestlers or fans.

I'm not saying that any of this behavior is acceptable or should be tolerated. I just enjoy the hypocrisy that Iowa fans are bad guys because of these accusations, but Ohio State's accusations about similar (or maybe worse) behavior from Penn State fans get dismissed as just "false".

I'm talking specifically about 2005 and the piss balloons and throwing stuff into Ohio State's marching band, but this can go on like in 2007 there's the video of the Ohio State fans walking through some Penn State parties, and I think there's a poster here who has stories of the 2003 game and getting beer poured on him from the guy behind him. Those stories are all false and we should quit even talking about them. But Iowa fans - they are obviously the worst. Oh, and the things the posters say about Iowa fans - maybe those don't count as "racism", because I don't know the races of the posters or the Iowa fans they're referring to. But they certainly are prejudiced.
 
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Zurp said:
"We never should have joined this conference"
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This sentiment is 100% correct that joining the B1G tanked their ability to manufacture “elite” seasons with their pathetically weak independent schedules and hand picked refs, resulting in their current “maybe competitive” once every 4-5 years status.

The B1G and especially Ohio State on the schedule every year absolutely destroyed the program’s elite status, and that will be funny forever.
 
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