11W MAILBAG: TAKING QUESTIONS ON PENN STATE'S WHITE OUTS, OHIO STATE'S PASSING GAME AND HOW TO CONTAIN SAQUON BARKLE
In a NCAA type bracket of most annoying fanbases, who should get the No. 1 overall seed? Penn State's, Notre Dame's, or TTUN's? —
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Penn State's going away. I shouldn't have to tell you why. If you're clueless, read article (i.e. This Again) below.
Today's 11W article:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...ohio-states-wide-receivers-and-how-to-contain
The old article that begs to be reposted.....
THIS AGAIN
This again?
It's the prevailing reception to any new Jerry Sandusky/Penn State revelations dated after 2012
when the scandal ended, as was the case recently when court documents revealed Joe Paterno might have known his then-position coach was molesting young boys as early as 1976.
If you would like to see how predictably the human condition for
losing the plot plays out in real time, watch what happens whenever the next sad update to this tragedy finds itself splashed across a chyron or breaking news alert. It will unfold like this:
1. Story breaks
2. Penn State is vehemently attacked
3. Veracity of the report is vehemently counter-attacked
4.
This Again?
It will then quietly fade away into the noise of daily life only to return later like resistant bacteria, when two sides will again be hellbent on winning an unwinnable debate - and making it all about Penn State, Paterno and football.
There are no heroes in this recurring cycle. Rebuking the university's systemic failures that enabled Sandusky to operate the way he did won't unrape any of his victims. Curators of tasteless shower jokes and clever
Ped State comments aren't winning anything outside of their own imaginations either.
Opposing the angry mob is the loyal resistance, a loud subset of Nittany Lion fatalists who categorically refuse to believe Paterno and/or Penn State even
had a culture of silence - and they would run away with national championship in Mental Gymnastics if the NCAA sanctioned it as a sport:
"He (former WR coach and recruiting coordinator Mike McQueary) had seen a person, an older person, fondling a young boy," Paterno testified. "I don't know what you would call it, but it was of a sexual nature."
"I didn't want to interfere with their weekends, (so) either Saturday or Monday, I talked to my boss, Tim Curley, by phone, saying, 'Hey we got a problem' and I explained the problem to him," Paterno said.
Curley, in his deposition, said he did not think the incident constituted a crime worthy of calling the police, despite admitting to the grand jury that he knew Sandusky had been seen showering naked with a boy and inappropriately horsing around and wrestling with him.
Ten short years later Sandusky was arrested. There's no sane reason to continue debating what happened or who didn't know. There's only insanity, which happens every time humans keep doing the same futile thing.
This Again.
Since the loyal resistance refuses to take the L here this debate to nowhere continues as its opposition will always take the bait - and a deceased football coach and his former bosses' culpability will continue to dominate a conversation that has no chance of ever influencing or changing anyone's opinion around what happened in State College for all of those years. All of the evidence is still hotly debated.
Entire article:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/college-football/2016/05/70687/this-again
