<p>Whew!
This would have been embarrassing.
TopPot doughnuts are nothing special & to send them to New Orleans?
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<p>Seriously. Enough about your dislike of Pete Carroll and the Hawks. So boring. They are no worse than any other team, and certainly better than the Saints, whose defense surely seemed to be targeting Percy Harvin. Still trying to figure out who on the team is so classless. </p>
<p>I’ll take excited fans in Seattle, thankyouverymuch. </p>
<p>Family Donut by Northgate is heads above Top Pot.</p>
<p>“Family Donut by Northgate is heads above Top Pot.”</p>
<p>Really? I’ve never heard of them. I’ll have to cheat on my diet (yeah, what diet) and try them. I LOVE Top Pot doughnuts.</p>
<p>Nobody is easier to dislike than Jim Harbaugh. Not enough bad things can happen to him and the 49ers as far as I’m concerned.</p>
<p>Better learn to deal with the boring barbs because they’ll keep coming as long as your team employs a bunch of thugs and a coach that condones cheating everywhere he lands. Care to know which team leads the league in PED suspensions? Probably not. Or which team is the most penalized team in 2013? </p>
<p>If you got to cheat, you already lost! Sounds a right assessment to me.</p>
<p>What’s YOUR deal, Xiggi? Can’t you at least give Carroll credit for mastering how to coach under a salary cap? </p>
<p>And, more pointedly, have you ever been wrong about anything? Lighten up, Francis.</p>
<p>Who is cheating?
Meh. It’s a game. They play to win. When you watch games and see what <em>isn’t</em> called by the refs (like a couple of shots by the Saints yesterday and some poor calls in today’s games), then you realize that the “most penalized” is meaningless. </p>
<p>Was I thrilled when Pete Carroll became coach? No, not really. He got away with everything but murder at USC (and I truly loathe USC) but I’ve turned around. He’s a far better pro coach than college. </p>
<p>He’ll never cure cancer, but he does know how to coach.</p>
<p>Bus driver - family donut is in the same strip mall as the 7-11, east of the big Polyclinic building. Classic donuts. The buttermilk bars are my favorites.</p>
<p>Up to a point, I’m convinced there’s a positive correlation between penalty yardage (aggression) and defensive efficacy. Beyond that point lie the Detroit Lions, aka the dumbest team in football.</p>
<p>Speaking of donuts, has anyone have Krispy Kreme glazed donuts right after they come off of the donut machine? I cannot imagine cocaine being any better than those donuts.</p>
<p>It looks like the Seahawks are trying to limit the number of 49 fans.</p>
<p>[Seattle</a> Seahawks will make it tough for 49ers fans to get tickets to NFC Championship Game | FOX Sports on MSN](<a href=“FOX Sports News, Scores, Schedules, Odds, Shows, Streams & Videos | FOX Sports”>FOX Sports News, Scores, Schedules, Odds, Shows, Streams & Videos | FOX Sports)</p>
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<p>Note I recognized Seattle did play great football. Easy to see the results of Pete at USC and in this part of his NFL career. I addressed how he gets there and his obvious lack of concern for character and integrity. </p>
<p>Never said he worked in leagues of saints and angels. He just happens to be one of the worst and unrepentant devils and demon. Where he lands, problems never seems to be reduced and more surface. Parts of winning at all cost. </p>
<p>Annoying to the fans as it may be, the comments are neither untrue or uncalled for.</p>
<p>Since season ticket holders get first shot at playoff tickets, there should be very few to almost no tickets available to the general public at face price.</p>
<p>Assuming Seattle fans are as good as they claim to be, of course.</p>
<p>So in practice, while it is fun to tweak the collective nose of 49’ers fans, the reality is that it won’t really matter very much.</p>
<p>Read an article today that James Franklin is getting $4.5 mil/year for 6 years. That puts him at #7 on the list of highest paid college football coaches, according to this list:</p>
<p>[USA</a> Today | Sports | COLLEGE](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/salaries/]USA”>Highest Paid College Football Coaches & Salaries - USA TODAY)</p>
<p>(That list is not be completely accurate any more, it doesn’t have Saban’s new $7 mil/yr deal for example)</p>
<p>That’s 2.5x his pay at Vanderbilt… yeah, I’d probably switch jobs if someone else offered me 2.5x my current pay.</p>
<p>He won’t be there more than three years IMO - either he is successful and jumps to the NFL, or he isn’t successful and gets fired long before his contract is up.</p>
<p>Speaking of donuts, has anyone have Krispy Kreme glazed donuts right after they come off of the donut machine? I cannot imagine cocaine being any better than those donuts.</p>
<p>They just melt away in your mouth and leaving you craving for more. 
I remember standing in a long line when they opened their shop in Issaquah. Too bad the one in Burlington got closed. We used to stop there for a bite whenever we visited Vancouver.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a classier person than Russel Wilson in NFL. I love the way he ends his interviews with a “Go Hawks”.</p>
<p>Notrichenough- Vanderbilt matched the offer-plus. However, what has come out about him in the last week has made us all glad he’s gone. He’s a lying piece of****. We have a great AD (The Goldfather) and we’ll have a better coach. Good luck to Penn State! Good riddance, Jimmy!</p>
<p>What came out? I haven’t seen anything worse than ordinary weaselly coach stuff, i.e. “No I haven’t talked to them, where do you get this stuff” “I would never leave to go there, stop making stuff up” “Oh yeah I am going there.”</p>
<p>Quite a turnaround for you, considering a week ago he was “beloved”.</p>
<p>Nothing these coaches do surprises me any more. They are only in it for themselves, except for very rare exceptions.</p>
<p>He and his coaches were contacting recruits from both schools well before he admitted that he was leaving. One recruit flipped to Penn State within hours of the press conference. There’s a lot more. He literally slipped out the back and avoided the fans and press when he left. He barely talked to the team. He lied to the AD. He gave almost the identical speech at Penn State that he gave when he came to Vandy. There’s some really funny stuff out on Twitter and on the forums. He did a lot for the a Vandy program- in fact, recreated it! But “snake oil salesman” is the term being used now.<br>
It may or may not go well at Penn State. If it goes well, he’ll bolt for the pros at the first opportunity.</p>
<p>MomofWildChild - I’m curious - did he actually say Vanderbilt was his “dream job” when he came there (the way he did this weekend at Penn State)? I’m a PSU alum, and am trying to figure out how much of what he has said is typical coach bs and how much is real. He grew up in PA, and might actually have wanted to come here. I don’t expect him to stay forever, but I don’t think it’s good for a program to have a revolving door. First O’Brien, now Franklin - I hope he stays at least 5 years. </p>
<p>I’m not happy about poaching the Vanderbilt verbal commits, but I know that’s how it goes these days. I can imagine how upset PSU fans would be if OBrien had gone to another college and had done that. And considering who was available, I think PSU got the best possible coach. I hope Vanderbilt continues to do well - I like it when an excellent academic school also excels in sports!</p>
<p>As Franklin hinted Saturday, he’s bringing several Vanderbilt assistants with him to Penn State. Reported additions or possible additions include defensive coordinator Bob Shoop, wide receivers coach/offensive recruiting coordinator Josh Gattis, tight ends coach/special teams coordinator Charles Bankins, strength coach Dwight Galt and football chief of staff Jemal Griffin. Penn State has yet to make any official staff announcements. Shoop is a native of Oakmont, Pa., and has extensive coaching experience in the northeast as well as in Virginia (University of Virginia and William & Mary).</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.tennessean.com/article/20140113/PROMO/301130020/Analyst-James-Franklin-trying-destroy-Vanderbilt-recruiting-class?nclick_check=1[/url]”>http://www.tennessean.com/article/20140113/PROMO/301130020/Analyst-James-Franklin-trying-destroy-Vanderbilt-recruiting-class?nclick_check=1</a></p>
<p>On Saturday morning, Vanderbilt had 20 commitments and a 2014 football recruiting class that was ranked in the top 25 in the country.</p>
<p>By Sunday night, a day after coach James Franklin left for Penn State, the Commodores had what one recruiting site called three solid commitments.</p>
<p>Its not uncommon for schools to lose recruits when a coach leaves, but whats happening to Vanderbilt 23 days before signing day is not normal.</p>
<p>It was less than two years ago that Franklin stood before a signing-day crowd supporters at Vanderbilts Student Life Center and said players who decommitted from his program were not men of honor and men of integrity.</p>
<p>Of course, Franklin had signed a quarterback who had decommitted from North Carolina current starter Patton Robinette.</p>
<p>Coaches don’t always display the best behavior. Supposedly Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville was at dinner with a group of recruits when he got the call that Cincinnati had agreed to his terms. He allegedly excused himself to the restroom and promptly left the restaurant.</p>
<p>[Y</a>! SPORTS](<a href=“Tommy Tuberville reportedly ditches recruits in the middle of dinner to take Cincinnati job”>Tommy Tuberville reportedly ditches recruits in the middle of dinner to take Cincinnati job)</p>
<p>At lease Lane Kiffin stood up and addressed the press before he bolted from UT.
The gripe with Jimmy Frank is that he was poaching recruits before he even said he had accepted the job. It’s pretty clear since some of them flipped within hours of the announcement.<br>
It looks like we will keep the one assistant that is the most important to us. </p>
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Yes- and one kid who took an official visit after we offered had his offer rescinded!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if he used the words “dream job” 3 years ago, but all the stuff about putting down roots in the community, his “85 sons” etc and a lot of the rest is pretty much the same speech. He’s quite the salesman and part of what stings on our end is that he was SO rah-rah. He would go to the dorms and dining halls and get the students fired up to come to the games. He was “All In” and was always saying how committed he was. It’s hard to explain unless you saw him do it all. That’s what makes everyone feel duped. It was a different level from what other coaches do, because he took a football program that was in the cellar and made it respectable, competitive and exciting. He had a future here to the level of all the greats, we felt. Until he WASN’T “All In”. I think he knew his stock was pretty high right now and the getting was good.</p>
<p>That said, he is a better salesman than coach. He IS a good coach, but not the greatest. He had really good assistants. Mistakes were made in terms of the Xs and Os, but aren’t they always? We are hoping to upgrade- and that’s not just sour grapes. The Vanderbilt job is a much more attractive one now, thanks in large part to Franklin. We DO appreciate that.</p>
<p>We would have appreciated a “thank you, Vanderbilt” or something like that when he left HERE instead of when he got to PSU. It was all just very tacky and this is the opinion of just about everyone- not just me. I am not even a Vandy alum, but have developed a passion for the school and the teams in my 7 years in this area. I have one kid who got a Master’s at Vandy and one who did a summer session ($$$), so I do have some connection. Oh- and son in law who is a doctor/faculty there.</p>