That's not why we were punished, and you know it.
It makes no sense and you know it
You both know the real reason he got fired: he had uncovered the secret that Joe Paterno was covering for a child molester. When he approached JoePa, saying that he would leak the entire thing through his puppet, Mike McQueary, JoePa karate-chopped Tressell's wife and threatened to parade her through the streets wearing nothing but an Easter Bunny outfit. Tressell wasn't about to let JoePa win, and used his druidic powers to call upon the ancient spirits of the land. They slapped him in the face for trying to blackmail JoePa in the first place. With the last of his strength, Tressell started the reactor, releasing all the oxygen trapped in the Martian polar ice caps.
It wasn't the worst movie ever, but I wouldn't take a date to that movie, if you want to score afterwards. 6.5/10.