BREAKING: Here is James Franklin’s full opening statement in his postgame press conference following Virginia Tech’s loss to Pitt.
Franklin was critical of the refs’ call on John Love’s missed field goal.
Alright, Virginia Tech students ... no way you all don't have 3,000 different angles on the John Love field goal attempt on your collective phones so we can piece this together.
(Yes, asking you to do the job that ESPN didn't.)
This is not a simultaneous catch. The receiver gets control first and as long as he maintains control long enough to perform an act common to the game or throughout contact with the ground, it’s a catch and the ball belongs to the offense.
He does. This should have been reversed to a catch.
Dave: “Hello, caller, you are on the air.”
Caller: “I don’t think billionaires create value.”
Dave: “Okay. What do you mean by that?”
Caller: “Nobody can earn a billion dollars ethically.”
Dave: “Alright. What do you do for a living?”
Caller: “Well, before this, I was a bartender.”
Dave: “Nothing wrong with bartending. Honest work.”
Caller: “Right.”
Dave: “And now?”
Caller: “I work in government.”
Dave: “Okay. So let me get this straight. You're saying Elon Musk, who helped build PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink, has made innovations like online payments, electric cars, rockets, and satellite internet possible, didn't earn his way to being a billionaire?"
Caller: “None of that justifies being a billionaire.”
Dave: “Well, sure sounds like value got created somewhere along the line.”
Caller: “I disagree.”
Dave: “What exactly did you build?”
Caller: “I advocate for economic justice.”
Dave: “No ma’am, I mean actual products.”
Caller: “…”
Dave: “You’re telling me the guy catching rockets mid-air created less value than a person who used to serve mojitos and now votes on spending his tax dollars?”
Caller: “That’s unfair.”
Dave: “What’s unfair is pretending markets are imaginary while cashing a government paycheck funded by the businesses you claim don’t create value.”
Caller: “I’m actually a congresswoman.”
Dave: “Oh Lord. Of course!"