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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Delaware Buck said:
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...-pennsylvanians-want-paterno-statue-back.html

POLL: Pennsylvanians Want Paterno Statue Back
  • HARRISBURG, Pa. - A poll says Pennsylvanians overwhelmingly want Penn State to put back a statue of former football coach Joe Paterno that was removed after Jerry Sandusky's child molestation conviction.

    The Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday said the majority - 59 percent to 25 percent - favored restoring the statue to a prominent place on campus.

    Pennsylvanians also strongly support a recent deal between Penn State and the NCAA that restored 112 wins to the football team and Paterno's status as winningest coach in major college football.

    Paterno's statue outside Beaver Stadium was removed in July 2012, shortly before the university and the NCAA entered into a consent decree that invalidated the wins, fined the school $60 million and temporarily took away some football scholarships.

    Quinnipiac surveyed 1,023 residents between Jan. 22 and Feb. 1. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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I wonder where those residents are from...surveys like this mean jack shit.
 
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Woody1968 said:
I think Fredo is Miami, and Beavis is OU in this case? Maybe I am wrong.
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Usually lurk, but must respond to this one - though I've never heard the term before, surely, Fredo is Miami.

Did my undergrad at OSU, grad at OU, and worked several yrs for OU after grad school. Bobcats, like all others, extol the virtues of their University, but arrogant is not a word that applies. Bobcats are well aware that OU is in the poorest county in the state, in what is officially part of Appalachia.

Miami is the main rival for OU, and it always seemed like a mini-UM/OSU rivalry to me. Fair or not, Miami is known, in Athens, as being full of wealthy students, "preppy" types, arrogance about their academics and culture, and for characterizing Bobcats as inferior "hicks."

I was living in Athens when OU/OSU last played on the football field, and knew many people who went to the games. Everyone enjoyed it and came back talking about mutual joshing and laughs. I especially remember a friend of mine talking about how the Bobcat section would stand up and yell "U!!" after the Buckeye section did "O-H" - "I-O."

Most Bobcats enjoy rooting for both teams. I think they hated Hoke's "Ohio" references even more than Buckeyes did. Referring to the Buckeyes as "Ohio" really showed at least as much, if not more, disrespect to the Bobcats than it did to the Buckeyes.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
I wonder where those residents are from...surveys like this mean jack [Mark May].
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If you lived and worked anywhere near Pennsylvania those results would not surprise you at all. In fact based on the PSU mouth-breathers I have crossed paths with in the last 4 years, I would have said 75% approved of having the statue restored The entire state is that far off the national perspective of JoePed.
 
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Delaware Buck said:
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...-pennsylvanians-want-paterno-statue-back.html

POLL: Pennsylvanians Want Paterno Statue Back
  • HARRISBURG, Pa. - A poll says Pennsylvanians overwhelmingly want Penn State to put back a statue of former football coach Joe Paterno that was removed after Jerry Sandusky's child molestation conviction.

    The Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday said the majority - 59 percent to 25 percent - favored restoring the statue to a prominent place on campus.

    Pennsylvanians also strongly support a recent deal between Penn State and the NCAA that restored 112 wins to the football team and Paterno's status as winningest coach in major college football.

    Paterno's statue outside Beaver Stadium was removed in July 2012, shortly before the university and the NCAA entered into a consent decree that invalidated the wins, fined the school $60 million and temporarily took away some football scholarships.

    Quinnipiac surveyed 1,023 residents between Jan. 22 and Feb. 1. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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Time to start genetically engineering pterodactyl-sized pigeons . . .
 
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dragurd said:
No kidding....

I just saw this...

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...tinue-to-hurt-Penn-State/stories/201501250134

Why the hell would the Big10 revisit [Mark May] let alone pay you back numbskulls.
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Does 409 answer your question?

The jellyfish-spined NC2A gave them back their wins and their bowl games. Is it surprising they now expect everything to be restored?

What is stunning in its clarity, when you stand back and look at the design, is that they are stridently clamoring for the very same thing to be done that they were sanctioned for in the first place. They want to sweep it all under the rug and pretend it never happened so they can maintain the facade of being an honorable institution. NOTHING has changed there.

Watching situations like this are profoundly discouraging to any hope I once held for the development of humanity. How any species so capable of stubbornly and arrogantly clutching its own stupidity ever managed to prevail on this planet as long as we have...sigh...we must be retained here for comic relief. No other explanation comes to mind.
 
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LostLassie said:
The jellyfish-spined NC2A gave them back their wins and their bowl games. Is it surprising they now expect everything to be restored?
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I read some posts on BWI a while back that said that they thought that they should have been Big Ten champions in 2012. Afterall, they finished second in the division, after Ohio State, who also had a post-season ban that year. Since it was "proven" that they should be allowed to play in the post-season, Penn State, not Wisconsin, should have represented the Leaders Division. Wisconsin went on to beat Nebraska (see what I did there?) something like 73-20. Because the transitive property is in full effect, Penn State would have also beat Nebraska (or whatever you want to call them), even if Mauti died another 2 or 3 times.

Was that the year Notre Dame played Alabama in the national championship game? I don't think I saw that they thought Penn State should go to the national championship game, but it wouldn't surprise me to see that opinion over there.
 
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Did Penn State almost get kicked out of the Big Ten?

That nuclear option, which was rumored in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, might have been seriously discussed by Big Ten leadership. That's according to testimony by NCAA president Mark Emmert in a deposition, which was released in a huge document dump Wednesday as part the legal case against the NCAA brought by Pennsylvania state Sen. Jake Corman.

Emmert said there were talks about removing Penn State from the NCAA and added that "my understanding is the Big Ten talked about whether they would expel them from the Big Ten." Emmert also said that "the range of issues and penalties that were being considered covered the gamut, again because of the extraordinary nature of these circumstances."

Let's not forget the disgust and outrage directed toward the university after the scandal hit and after the Freeh Report was released. Whether the Big Ten ever came close to ousting Penn State might never be known. But that would have been the wrong move then, and given how the NCAA has had to backpedal and defend itself in court proceedings since, it's a good thing the league didn't follow that path.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten

I'd almost be in favor of this...but it'd give way too many fucktards over there what they want. I'd rather have them stay and rot in 3rd-4th place in the East.
 
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Originally posted by Class of 67:
This is being reported on Twitter, I suppose as a result of the Corman document release. Has anyone reading those documents found this? Nebraska was not allowed to vote.
This post was edited on 2/11 3:18 PM by Class of 67

Damn! Damn! Damn! If true, I want to know who the hell were the 5 schools who screwed us.
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https://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=178932088&mid=178932088&sid=890&style=2

As I said.
 
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