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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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kujirakira said:
Seppuku is for people who have followed their vision through with conviction to the very end, yet found themselves on the wrong side of history. You can disagree with them (and more than a few were bat[Mark May] crazy with terrible ideas), but all of them believed in their world view and fought to the bitter end for their "ideals".

People like Oda Nobunaga and his servant Ranmaru, assassin Tanaka Shinbei and his leader Hanpeita, 47 Ronin, 19 White Tigers, tea-master Sen no Rikyu, Genpei War general Imai Kanehira jumping off a horse with sword in mouth, general Yo[Mark May]sune & his family, general and reformer Saigo Takamori, novelist Mishima Yukio, and most spectacularly general Shimizu Muneharu on a boat in his flooded castle in order to end the siege (and spare the survivors lives).

TLDR:
Seppuku is too good for a folding coward like Emmert, especially since history has been on his side.
For whatever reason people think it's about shame -- but it's much more about martyrdom and Japan's lionization of idealists who refuse to compromise and thus destroyed by (implied corrupt) worldly interests like politics and power.
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gee thanks professor....the idea is Emmert is a failure and needs to fall on his own sword.
 
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NFBuck said:
Let them have their wins. Let them play in a bowl game. Who gives a [Mark May]. In the end, like Olbermann said; "409" is not that evil old man's legacy. The most wins in ncaa history? Not his/their legacy. The 2 (lol, two...get your fucking shinebox) national championships? Not his/their legacy. Joe Paterno and Penn State football's legacy is Jerry Sandusky. Take a poll. Mention those two things to anybody on the street, and I guarantee 90% of people relate him/psu to kid rape and Jerry Sandusky. That's their legacy. And them celebrating this meaningless gesture just shines a big, bright light on how morally bankrupt that school/those people are again.
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Dennis Erickson has two national championships. Dennis Freaking Erickson.

Paterno got his two in 46 years. It took Erickson only half that amount of time.
 
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Bernstein's column is spot on.

The NCAA is also trying to incentivize the remaining sane population of the Penn State Board of Trustees, rewarding them for adopting the recommended reforms to their toxic, football-first culture. The board is being overrun by alumni-elected Paterno cultists, bent on creating an alternate reality in which their fallen saint acted differently.

But the NCAA can’t magically change sworn testimony to a grand jury, or in exploratory depositions.

In characteristic form, the Paterno zombies are reacting with sickening, misplaced glee, somehow reading the restoration of wins as an un-raping of boys. The Paterno family’s press release was unhinged, citing the “unjust vilification of the culture of a great institution.”
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Bernstein's column is spot on.
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"The board is being overrun by alumni-elected Paterno cultists, bent on creating an alternate reality in which their fallen saint acted differently"

I don't buy that at all.
The Board is being over-run by NAMBLA piranhas and their solution is to throw fresh meat into the water starting a frenzy and validating the psychos?
I think they got scared of where the court ruling may go and instead of sticking to their guns or even trying to appeal out of the District level and remove it from PA, they folded like chicken shits before a ruling even came down.

In a situation in which it's near-impossible to fuckup as an oversight body, the NCAA manages to make everyone despise them.


Anyway, this is my favorite part (the article really is otherwise dead on imo)
I’m all for the true representation of the games Paterno won, and I’m never comfortable with attempts by any governing body to obscure history by trying to re-write it. It happened, and the record should reflect that.

What’s more, it’s that number – the one emblazoned on navy-blue T-shirts and bumper stickers on central Pennsylvania trucks – that should rightfully resonate as a representation of the diseased priorities that resulted in the Sandusky facilitation in the first place. Wins were all that mattered.

Those very wins.

A violent criminal was allowed to run free for their sake.
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I don't want anyone to miss out on this great opportunity. Act now to get in on a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA. Supposedly, eight State College, Pa., businesses are going to be filing a lawsuit against the NCAA for loss of revenue and other damages. Naturally, BWI quickly goes down the rabbit hole and suggests the Big 10 be sued as well and that any PSU football player from 2012-13 should join the suit on the basis that playing under sanctions reduced their draft status. :smash:

I guess Mauti (RIP) would have been drafted number one overall if he wasn't playing under crippling sanctions.

https://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=178288912&mid=178288912&sid=890&style=2

jjsocrates: "Any football player from the 2012-2013 teams should also join that lawsuit. It could be argued that playing under sanctions reduced their draft status at the very least."
 
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Joe Pa Thetic said:
I don't want anyone to miss out on this great opportunity. Act now to get in on a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA. Supposedly, eight State College, Pa., businesses are going to be filing a lawsuit against the NCAA for loss of revenue and other damages. Naturally, BWI quickly goes down the rabbit hole and suggests the Big 10 be sued as well and that any PSU football player from 2012-13 should join the suit on the basis that playing under sanctions reduced their draft status. :smash:

I guess Mauti (RIP) would have been drafted number one overall if he wasn't playing under crippling sanctions.

https://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=178288912&mid=178288912&sid=890&style=2

jjsocrates: "Any football player from the 2012-2013 teams should also join that lawsuit. It could be argued that playing under sanctions reduced their draft status at the very least."
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I'm half rooting for those assholes' lawsuit. It'll serve the NCAA right for caving in like this. If the NCAA thought this was going to slow down the cult, that it would allow them to move on, they haven't been paying fucking attention. And if the cult gets control of the Board of Trustees (new Governor, if not an out-and-out cultist, is certainly pandering to them), then the cult gains the institutional power and monetary and legal resources of Ped State. Fucking imagine that: A Big Ten university could literally be run by the Lubrano group.

The silver lining in this is that how dysfunctional the cult and the ped state alumni are is going to be laid out for all of America to see.
 
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MaxBuck said:
At one time I favored kicking Penn State out of the Big Ten.

Now I'm in favor of kicking them out of collegiate athletics altogether. What a moral morass that place is.
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I have never met someone for the first and immediately hated them for a team they rooted for. I cannot say this anymore. I have been in verbal altercations with strangers and "friends" over this shit. Every time I remain quiet and don't bring up sports, but they always chime in with, "the Suckeyes and 409 JoePa derpy derp!"

Fuck them. Kick them out of the NCAA and reinstate USC, FSU, tOSU, and everyone else who had wins vacated for not raping children. FUCK!1#!#1!1!1!!1
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'm half rooting for those assholes' lawsuit. It'll serve the NCAA right for caving in like this. If the NCAA thought this was going to slow down the cult, that it would allow them to move on, they haven't been paying fucking attention. And if the cult gets control of the Board of Trustees (new Governor, if not an out-and-out cultist, is certainly pandering to them), then the cult gains the institutional power and monetary and legal resources of Ped State. Fucking imagine that: A Big Ten university could literally be run by the Lubrano group.

The silver lining in this is that how dysfunctional the cult and the ped state alumni are is going to be laid out for all of America to see.
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