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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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MililaniBuckeye said:
Per the article:

So "success with honor" includes allowing a player to shirk his classroom responsibilities to go on an "all-star game circuit". Of course, Bryant made the player promise to get his degree, as if the player was going to say he wouldn't. That it took him 36 years (and 32 years year after Bryant's death) to get the degree when he only had a couple classes to take shows just how much the promise truly meant to him.
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I don't know shit about Bama during the Bryant era besides the 37 championships but the fact that the player remembered and followed through with a promise to a dead guy 36 years later doesn't really deserve to be ridiculed. Now if you want to question the PSU player who obviously failed to keep his promise that's a different story.
 
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Mariotwins said:
I don't know [Mark May] about Bama during the Bryant era besides the 37 championships but the fact that the player remembered and followed through with a promise to a dead guy 36 years later doesn't really deserve to be ridiculed. Now if you want to question the PSU player who obviously failed to keep his promise that's a different story.
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Show me where I "ridiculed" the Bama guy. I'm just saying it's not near as big a deal that the article made it to be.
 
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Mariotwins said:
You straight up devalued something that obviously mattered a lot to a guy, think about how you'd react if it was an OSU player's promise to woody.
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Whatever. It wouldn't matter if it was a promise to Woody Hayes or Mahatma fucking Ghandi. Taking nearly four decades to complete a couple classes is no big deal, just to honor some hollow-assed promise he was made to make so he could go on an all-star tour. If it really were so damn important to the guy, he should've taken the classes as soon as his pro football career was over.

You can go ahead and choose to think he did so as some great tribute to his former coach...I choose not to.
 
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kujirakira said:
I'm with Milli on this one... if it mattered so much to him, why did it take 3 decades?
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30 Years is a long ass time. Most marriages don't last that long, who keeps a promise after that much time, especially to a dead person? It means something. I don't know why it took him 30 years maybe he still had a career that took up an assload of time like coaching and was spending what time he had with his family. IDK I just think doing something after that long deserves some props.
 
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Mariotwins said:
30 Years is a long ass time. Most marriages don't last that long, who keeps a promise after that much time, especially to a dead person? It means something. I don't know why it took him 30 years maybe he still had a career that took up an assload of time like coaching and was spending what time he had with his family. IDK I just think doing something after that long deserves some props.
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No doubt it deserves some props...go on him for finally getting the degree, and probably keeping the promise Bryant had him make in mind. I just don't think it's worthy of the on-the-ground-groveling-worship that the Pedsters think it does...
 
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Mariotwins said:
30 Years is a long ass time. Most marriages don't last that long, who keeps a promise after that much time, especially to a dead person? It means something. I don't know why it took him 30 years maybe he still had a career that took up an assload of time like coaching and was spending what time he had with his family. IDK I just think doing something after that long deserves some props.
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I applaud him for finishing his degree.
I'm just not buying this "he did it for Bear Bryant" nonsense. He did it when it was finally advantageous to him / he had the time.
Not really getting the comparison to marriage either... that's a day in/day out thing. Finishing a degree is temporary. That's more like getting engaged to a girl, and then running off to travel the world and sleep around and coming back 30 years later to "fulfill your promise".
 
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I think in the article it said something about doing it for his kids..... that promise was probably made much more recently and probably had a heck of lot more to do with following thru.... coach was just a throw in to make the story sound better to the Alabama fan base.
 
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Roundabout said:
I think in the article it said something about doing it for his kids..... that promise was probably made much more recently and probably had a heck of lot more to do with following thru.... coach was just a throw in to make the story sound better to the Alabama fan base.
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My thoughts, exactly. Good for him to get his degree. People do that every day. I don't want to sound as though I'm marginalizing that accomplishment, but the only reason this is a story is because the guy is a former player and he claims he made a promise to a well-loved coach. If the promise was so important, he would've followed through with it years ago. I don't know why it took him so long, and again, good for him to get his degree, and who really cares about this promise, now?
 
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