Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

[colobuck79]

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This dude is still whining about Ohio State's national championship run.
The other people in the thread are saying that he's a tool and should stop it. I hope he doesn't stop.

I like the deep dive about how they would have had Nattys in the past if the current playoff structure had been in place.

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If you think they aren't a cult, check this out. It'll convince you otherwise.

Kill me now.

 

[Zurp]

Why Didn't It Happen?

Why was no class action suit filed regarding the collision between the BoT and NCAA and the set up of Joe? Trolls need not respond.

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This Joeauble21 sure seems like that Bushwood guy.

Why was no class action suit filed regarding the collision between the BoT and NCAA and the set up of Joe?
Trolls need not respond.

As someone points out in that thread, when he makes posts like this, he is just asking for trolls to respond.

The thread is mostly that first dude, with few responses to him. Why would you respond? I mean, respond with some sane argument and the internet tough guy is going to flex his muscles. There's no responding to that kind of thing. So, in defense of that board, they're starting to make sense.

But here's some of the reasons he wants to see a class action suit:

Penn State degrees were devalued, employees were openly ridiçuled and told they wouldn't be hired elsewhere. Employers were openly stating they would not hire anyone from Penn State. Businesses suffered loss of sales. There was more.

Penn State merch was yanked from shelves. Stores quit accepting Penn State merch.

Lies and fairytales were the order of the day. Every lawyer I spoke to was terrified about their practice.

Fear isn't indifference, it's cowardice.

 

[Mike80]

From the same mutant inbred back in January

Training?

No, BoT conditioning. Penn State alumni, students and fans are being conditioned to accept defeat from cheats and yearly humiliation. Along with near accomplishment, shame, and of course, sissification. This shit was not tolerated in 1973, '74. The BoT wants sissies. This is the 3rd time...

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joeaubie21​

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If the odious BoT would stop farting around and properly honor Paterno watch how donations would jump.

But they're too busy being assholes trying to piss off every one with their childish stuff.

 

[colobuck79]

There was a collision between the BOT and the NCAA??? That must have been bad.

 

[Zurp]

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Boo fucking hoo. "Nobody loves us the way we love us. Why are we so disrespected."
Get over yourself.

The video is 30 minutes long, and I doubt I'll watch it.

The worst part of this whole fiasco was when the "voters"somehow jumped Nebraska over psu for the #1 spot immediately after we had just annihilated OSU. Still shaking my head over that one.

I can't say I can explain that one either. But I don't care what anyone's explanation is.

I remember listening to the Indiana game and thinking that the scoreboard watchers would penalize us, and of course they did.

And people cry when Ohio State scores 2 touchdowns in the second half to beat Penn State 63-14, or a touchdown against Indiana in the last minute to win 38-15. You may not like the fact that "scoreboard watchers" make decisions, but they do. Cry about it or do something about it.

Not only was it never in doubt but Indiana got a lot of BS officiating.

He's talking about their game against Indiana. I guess the score was close-ish. I don't care. But I find this comment funny because it's not really a Penn State thread until they whine about officiating.

there was a lot of controversy about PSU joining the B1G and beat writers in B1G university towns/cities voted for Nebraska.

And there's another good Penn State comment - the Big Ten didn't vote for us!!!
I think we proved here that the voters in "Big Ten States" did a better job of voting Penn State #1 than voters in Pennsylvania did.

They hated us for winning the B2G in only our second season. All ghe experts said it take 5-10 years to upgrade our program to where it would be good enough to challenge for a title.

Embarrassed the hell outta them.

Good point... and that's why Oregon was unable to win the Big Ten in their first year. <Checks notes> Oops - wait... how are both of those "facts" true?
Answer: they aren't. Penn State fans are crybabies.

One more very important item to add -- how many Nebraska players were adjudicated (verified) as criminals during the season? Phillips was rescued from jail by Osbourne on a number of occasions (verified) as the judges were all Nebraska fans(?).

Penn State as clearly #1.

So... I'd like off-field issues to be a factor, too. But it isn't. You might as well compare colors of fire hydrants in the city when determining rankings. It doesn't mean anything.

And a direct reply to that comment...

Nebraska in general had extremely low academic standards. Their ability to get borderline illiterate players was a significant competitive advantage back in the day.

And there's the Notre Dame / *ichigan argument - academic standards. What's next? Claiming that all of the history of college football is corrupt?

The real criminals in this whole sad saga of the '94 team are all the dumb as a$$ do nothing, paper pushing, money grubbing, self serving cheats in charge of college football in that era. They couldn't even get it together to form a NC game until 1998. Thank God a broken clock is right twice a day and they miraculously got it right in 1982 and 1986.

Yep.

One ironic thing is I find it hard to root for Big 10 teams primarily because of how the vote came out in 1994 when they didn't have our backs, but I remember vividly being so mad at the Miracle at Michigan, rooting for Michigan, thinking it could cost us and maybe ultimately did. If Michigan was ranked ahead of Colorado the week that Nebraska jumped us, we may not have ever relinquished the #1 spot. Who knows? The 1994 team was just a force and I find it hard to believe Nebraska could have beaten us on the field.

I saw someone on that site once claimed that *ichigan purposely lost to Colorado that year to screw over Penn State. Like, they KNEW that would happen, or something.

The idea of split national champions was brought up, and then this comment:

The sole reason there was no split championship was to screw Paterno and Penn State once again.

Some turd voter even stated "Osborne has never won one, so let's give it to Nebraska".

The fart received a championship he knew he didn't deserve. To hell with him and Colonel Mooseturd and his hat.

Yeah, I'm not going to buy that anyone was trying to "screw" Penn State.
You're going to have to back up the claims about either of those "turd voters".

One dude makes a comparison between Penn State and Nebraska, and his comparison favors Nebraska. The response:

the 94 Lions had one of the greatest offenses in college football up to that point. Studs everywhere on offense.

That sounds a lot like "eye test" to me. Remember how much they loved that term in 2016?

It was Osbornes last year. And the B2G hated us for winning the league only our second season. We ‘didn’t pay our dues’ by getting whooped for five years first,

Yeah, neither did Oregon in 2024. You get 0 points for this point.

However, I have to say it's pretty rich that Ohio State fans want to opine about this when AP voters from Ohio voted FOR Nebraska and against Penn State in 94 but FOR Michigan and against Nebraska in 97. Yeah, you Ohioans can piss off when it comes to this subject, frankly.

Did we, Ohioans, get together and vote for how our AP voters should vote? I can't control who they voted for. But *ichigan can fuck the fuck off.

Somehow, from there, it goes into statements about how Paterno was cooler than Woody or Bo. Way to stay on topic there, nerds.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Until the boy raping became public, Paterno was given every benefit of the doubt. The ncaa fucking loved to hold up his success with honor charade every time an SMU, Oklahoma or Miami got busted.

And yeah, those championship teams at Corn were full of some pretty disgusting characters, but I'm pretty sure that an assistant coach there didn't turn their football showers into a boy fucking chamber.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

They also weren't shuffling problem players or low GPA dumb dumbs off to branch campuses to make the numbers look pristine at Nebraska. Or maybe they were, fuck if I know. But Paterno did that, too.

 

[Jaxbuck]

I’ve lived in PA for 14 years or so now. You guys want to know what just sets them completely off?

They see Buckeye gear or come to the house and see the basement, whatever it’s on the table that I’m a Buckeye. They always, and I mean every single swinging dick time, put on this act where they pull back a little physically and say “I’m a Penn State fan, we can’t get along” in a kidding but not kidding kind of way.

I don’t skip a beat, keep smiling and say “oh it’s no big deal, we can get along. We only hate one team. Now if you said you were a tsun fan, I’d have to walk away “

You should see their faces drop. All their bullshit is gone and I just hit the main artery with a big smile on my face. Some mutter something about Franklin but all sit there smoldering. It’s fucking eviisceratring for them. You aren’t our rival turned up to 11 in person while I smile at them.

One of my guilty pleasures.

 

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Boo fucking hoo. "Nobody loves us the way we love us. Why are we so disrespected."
Get over yourself.

The video is 30 minutes long, and I doubt I'll watch it.


I can't say I can explain that one either. But I don't care what anyone's explanation is.


And people cry when Ohio State scores 2 touchdowns in the second half to beat Penn State 63-14, or a touchdown against Indiana in the last minute to win 38-15. You may not like the fact that "scoreboard watchers" make decisions, but they do. Cry about it or do something about it.


He's talking about their game against Indiana. I guess the score was close-ish. I don't care. But I find this comment funny because it's not really a Penn State thread until they whine about officiating.


And there's another good Penn State comment - the Big Ten didn't vote for us!!!
I think we proved here that the voters in "Big Ten States" did a better job of voting Penn State #1 than voters in Pennsylvania did.


Good point... and that's why Oregon was unable to win the Big Ten in their first year. <Checks notes> Oops - wait... how are both of those "facts" true?
Answer: they aren't. Penn State fans are crybabies.


So... I'd like off-field issues to be a factor, too. But it isn't. You might as well compare colors of fire hydrants in the city when determining rankings. It doesn't mean anything.

And a direct reply to that comment...

And there's the Notre Dame / *ichigan argument - academic standards. What's next? Claiming that all of the history of college football is corrupt?


Yep.


I saw someone on that site once claimed that *ichigan purposely lost to Colorado that year to screw over Penn State. Like, they KNEW that would happen, or something.

The idea of split national champions was brought up, and then this comment:

Yeah, I'm not going to buy that anyone was trying to "screw" Penn State.
You're going to have to back up the claims about either of those "turd voters".

One dude makes a comparison between Penn State and Nebraska, and his comparison favors Nebraska. The response:

That sounds a lot like "eye test" to me. Remember how much they loved that term in 2016?


Yeah, neither did Oregon in 2024. You get 0 points for this point.


Did we, Ohioans, get together and vote for how our AP voters should vote? I can't control who they voted for. But *ichigan can fuck the fuck off.

Somehow, from there, it goes into statements about how Paterno was cooler than Woody or Bo. Way to stay on topic there, nerds.

TLDR version: Cults, man.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I’ve lived in PA for 14 years or so now. You guys want to know what just sets them completely off?

They see Buckeye gear or come to the house and see the basement, whatever it’s on the table that I’m a Buckeye. They always, and I mean every single swinging dick time, put on this act where they pull back a little physically and say “I’m a Penn State fan, we can’t get along” in a kidding but not kidding kind of way.

I don’t skip a beat, keep smiling and say “oh it’s no big deal, we can get along. We only hate one team. Now if you said you were a tsun fan, I’d have to walk away “

You should see their faces drop. All their bullshit is gone and I just hit the main artery with a big smile on my face. Some mutter something about Franklin but all sit there smoldering. It’s fucking eviisceratring for them. You aren’t our rival turned up to 11 in person while I smile at them.

One of my guilty pleasures.

Christ. You have more fun with it than I do. "Oh I dunno if I'm allowed to serve you with that shirt on". huh huh huh huh that wasn't funny the first fucking time, let alone the 50 billionth. Get fucked.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Christ. You have more fun with it than I do. "Oh I dunno if I'm allowed to serve you with that shirt on". huh huh huh huh that wasn't funny the first fucking time, let alone the 50 billionth. Get fucked.

Just try it. They don’t know if they are going to shit or go blind.

Thank me later.

 

[Jaxbuck]

"Oh I dunno if I'm allowed to serve you with that shirt on".

And of course the only alternative answer to this is “well it didn’t seem to bother your mom last night”

Whichever way you want to play it.

 

[Zurp]

I’ve lived in PA for 14 years or so now. You guys want to know what just sets them completely off?

They see Buckeye gear or come to the house and see the basement, whatever it’s on the table that I’m a Buckeye. They always, and I mean every single swinging dick time, put on this act where they pull back a little physically and say “I’m a Penn State fan, we can’t get along” in a kidding but not kidding kind of way.

I don’t skip a beat, keep smiling and say “oh it’s no big deal, we can get along. We only hate one team. Now if you said you were a tsun fan, I’d have to walk away “

You should see their faces drop. All their bullshit is gone and I just hit the main artery with a big smile on my face. Some mutter something about Franklin but all sit there smoldering. It’s fucking eviisceratring for them. You aren’t our rival turned up to 11 in person while I smile at them.

One of my guilty pleasures.

I don't live in PA, but my boss does and his boss went to Penn State. When he started here he tried to start some shit with a few people, and it worked with some - they call each other when the other guy's team loses. But when he told me he's a Penn State fan, it was pretty much the same experience you are mentioning - he had this huge grin - "I'm a Penn State fan." I was wearing some big Ohio State thing - shirt, hat, something... I don't remember. I just said, "Okay. Just as long as you aren't a fan of those turds up north." His grin faded and he mumbled something like, "Nah - we don't like (he said their name), either."

Later, he tried to start shit with me when he learned I didn't go to Ohio State. "Why are you a fan, then?" "Well, I grew up in Columbus. My grandfather taught there for 28 years and got us season tickets. I probably went to 50 games before I graduated high school." Again, his smirk went away. "Okay. I'll go tease this other guy, then."

He doesn't call me when Penn State beats Ohio State because... well, Penn State hasn't beaten Ohio State in his time here.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I don't live in PA, but my boss does and his boss went to Penn State. When he started here he tried to start some shit with a few people, and it worked with some - they call each other when the other guy's team loses. But when he told me he's a Penn State fan, it was pretty much the same experience you are mentioning - he had this huge grin - "I'm a Penn State fan." I was wearing some big Ohio State thing - shirt, hat, something... I don't remember. I just said, "Okay. Just as long as you aren't a fan of those turds up north." His grin faded and he mumbled something like, "Nah - we don't like (he said their name), either."

Later, he tried to start shit with me when he learned I didn't go to Ohio State. "Why are you a fan, then?" "Well, I grew up in Columbus. My grandfather taught there for 28 years and got us season tickets. I probably went to 50 games before I graduated high school." Again, his smirk went away. "Okay. I'll go tease this other guy, then."

He doesn't call me when Penn State beats Ohio State because... well, Penn State hasn't beaten Ohio State in his time here.

If they ever do, he'll sure as shit call or text you. They always fuckin do. I have contacts in my phone whose last conversation was from 2016. The next time they text will be if Penn State ever wins. It never dawns on them that they didn't get return texts in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. They pick right up again as soon as the unthinkable happens. "WE ARE huh huh huh huh. What happened to your boys?".