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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Buckeye86;2183969; said:
If people think that not getting to watch Penn State play in a bowl game or that watching Penn State not be as good at football as they could have been is a punishment than they need to get their priorities straight, particularly with Sandusky's victims and the coverup in mind.

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Your favorite football team not being as good as you had hoped they would be and not getting to play in one game at the end of a twelve game season is not a punishment (even if you include the players).
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Good point. With 35+ bowl games at the end of the season, I think many teams and fans feel that it's almost a sure thing that they will be in the post-season. Once upon a time, it was a very special thing to make it to ANY bowl. Until the early '70's, the Big Ten didn't even allow a second team to go to a bowl game (if I understand that correctly). The bowl games should be considered a privilege to the teams that do things right - on and off the field, players and coaches alike. This "penalty" is like the NCAA telling Penn State, "you didn't do things right, and you've lost out on this privilege for the next 4 years."
 
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I still think they should have gotten the death penalty. They had a bunch of losing seasons at the beginning of the new millennium, and it didn't stop the culture from still permeating that place. They never got rid of Joe Pa - the same attitude and culture still existed.

While the sanctions may be 'crippling' to the football team, it still doesn't solve the problem.

Unfortunately, the main problem solved its self on January 22nd, 2012. :biggrin:
 
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Has anybody called Silas Redd Benedict Arnold yet on BWI?

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And talk about eating your own kind: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories...es-knowledge-of-sex-abuse-allegations-645893/
 
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OMG - this guy needs to GO SOMEWHERE!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i...ild-article-1.1120537?localLinksEnabled=false

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier rips the Freeh report ? and acknowledges that he ?personally experienced massive and persistent abuse as a child? ? in a letter he sent to the university?s Board of Trustees on Sunday.
Spanier says in the letter, first obtained by ESPN, that the Freeh report is ?full of factual errors and jumps to conclusions that are untrue and unwarranted.? He said he hoped to meet with representatives of the board ?to set the record straight.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i...abuse-a-child-article-1.1120537#ixzz21YDrOrWw
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HilmerJ;2183940; said:
ohh right right right...my bad..

those players individual actions only effect themselves and their eligibility....gotcha
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No, but the university's failure to monitor the actions of its head football coach negatively effected the program and ALL associated with it.

Just like the ped aggy situation (through the lens of the ncaa) was not about the actual rapes but rather about the massive lack of institutional control that had a football coach practically running the entire institution. The institution and all associated with it are penalized.
 
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A lot falls on allowing Paterno so much power. The BOT lost control. Paterno became a cult figure/leader.
Lessons to be learned here for everyone.

"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. "
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A number of people pointed out yesterday that with the sanctions blowing away everything past 1998, Paterno's last win was in 1997 with McQueary as his QB.

I was going back through the box score archives at USA Today and found that '97 game recap:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores97/97326/97326472.htm

Oh, McQueary ...

"You'd be surprised what I dream [...] Looking back, I'll cherish my memories here."
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Taosman;2184040; said:
The BOT lost control.
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I disagree, unless you can tell me when the BOT was in control. Paterno was there for so long, when was the last time anyone at that university was more powerful than him? Consider that in issuing sanctions yesterday the NCAA had to make a point of PSU creating a compliance dept. How is that possible? How did the NCAA and even the BIG not notice a missing compliance dept?
 
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