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NCAA: College Football 2024: Conference Re-Malign-ment, News & Notes Talk
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Cush
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Kennesaw State with the upset over Liberty for its first FBS win
Deport Ogie
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Full disclosure I am a PSU fan and alumnus. I like to think I'm pretty even keeled despite this, I do not worship the Paterno altar, Sanduskey should rot in hell.
That being said, these players were immediately dismissed from the team and expelled. No longer part of the program. The reporter who tweeted was one of two reporters who asked these questions immediately after a statement saying there would be no comments on an ongoing legal matter, the other reporter works at the same site and runs a podcast with the first one who asked. This was intentional sensationalism, not journalism.
The response I keep seeing is "all Franklin has to do is say 'no comment' and it would be fine!" Yeah, I highly doubt that. There was literally a statement made 2 seconds beforehand, do we really think it would have been different if the person who read the statement was changed?
GKJ
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He likely can’t say anything because of lawyers. But Penn State will still be beholden to a higher level of scrutiny for obvious reasons.
Deport Ogie
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100 percent, and that's earned. In thise case though I'd say it's journo's creating a situation where there is none. Franklin can't prosecute criminals, the extent of his power in this occasion is to dismiss from the program which was done months ago when the information first came out.
I'm sure, to your point, he was advised and ordered to not say anything. The BEST we could hope for is "Those individuals are no longer part of our program and I prefer to focus on internal"
hope someone has a cannon and hits Sark and Ewers tbh
PanthersPens62
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Romang67
BitterSwede
They really did what 100,000 youtube and twitch streamers couldn't. They won a game as Kennesaw State.
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Big McLargehuge
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As of now the application costs $5 million. Kennesaw State initiated their transition before that went into place last year, though, so they paid all of $5,000. Delaware and Missouri State are the first schools paying the increased fee to move up next season.
Kennesaw State got lucky with the timing. They got to pay the significantly smaller fee and they don't need to worry about the attendance minimums being nearly double their stadium's capacity. The attendance minimum was done away with at the same time as the fee was jacked up.
I think being FBS is just about the only way for them to have any athletic relevance in the crowded Atlanta market as it tries to transition away from being primarily a commuter school. Being FBS definitely raises their profile and their hope seems to be to keep recruits that don't go to the big schools to stay in state. Same basic play as Georgia State, but with a suburban campus instead of urban. Most (repeating most for emphasis) FCS schools in urban markets are smaller private schools. Robert Morris is never going to be a major player in the Pittsburgh market, but they don't need to be with 4k students. Kennesaw State has 40k students and is a relatively young school (1963), so I understand why they'd like to shake that commuter school reputation. At least that was the explanation I kept hearing when they were starting their program up a decade ago.
Now this is the way for a program to get on my good side!
Jovavic
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Secure that bag, good for him.
What has lead to Indiana's season? Do they have a few high skill players that are doing well and carrying them or is has the whole team just gelled together? Next week's game against OSU should be interesting.
What has lead to Indiana's season? Do they have a few high skill players that are doing well and carrying them or is has the whole team just gelled together? Next week's game against OSU should be interesting.
