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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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OSU_Buckguy;2185416; said:
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New PSU Fight Song......

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJUSMYhf-JI"]We're Not Gonna Take It- Twisted Sister - YouTube[/ame]
 
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buxfan4life;2185759; said:
Yep, allowing then to actually have a team is only making that culture worse.
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Bingo. Emmert made a huge mistake in not giving them the death penalty. Allowing them to continue playing only creates, in their warped minds, the thought that it's them against the world and they're being unfairly punished. Should've put those idiots on the shelf for four years like originally planned.
 
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buckeyesin07;2185765; said:
Bingo. Emmert made a huge mistake in not giving them the death penalty. Allowing them to continue playing only creates, in their warped minds, the thought that it's them against the world and they're being unfairly punished. Should've put those idiots on the shelf for four years like originally planned.
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The Death Penalty would have been too clean a punishment.
Now they get the slow, lingering slide into oblivion. They aren't USC and will not get classes like USC. They will still have football but It won't resemble what they had. Temple will give them fits! More torture.

A lot of tough talk now. Wait till the losing starts.
 
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buckeyesin07;2185767; said:
Then take it up with your fraud of a former coach, who landed you in this colossal mess.
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I can only hope that this kind of "we were treated unjustly" response, from Erickson, BOB, the Soternos, their fan base, and now the players causes the NCAA to re-open the investigation and bring out the real hammer.

Emmart stated clearly in Monday's press conference that: 1. This was an unprecedented break down in the relationship between athletics and the academy. 2. That Paterno and the Penn State administration had failed to act in accordance with understood responsibilities regarding employee behavior. BUT then came 3. TV. The death penalty would interfere with contracts Penn State and other schools had already entered into and to void those contracts would be costly and unfair to Penn State and the other schools involved.

So in the end it came down to money and not the egregious behavior, or the victims, or the lack of institutional control, but the fact that Penn State, as a product, was too big to punish.
 
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Someone is going to say the wrong thing, to the wrong person, and be beat to death in that stadium. There will continue to be a flow of bad press, from the dumb fucking T Shirts to the BOT, they will continue to dig their hole deeper and deeper before the country pours the concrete in to fill that sumbitch.
 
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Taosman;2185775; said:
The Death Penalty would have been too clean a punishment.
Now they get the slow, lingering slide into oblivion. They aren't USC and will not get classes like USC. They will still have football but It won't resemble what they had. Temple will give them fits! More torture.

A lot of tough talk now. Wait till the losing starts.
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You still don't get it. They are PISSED! They are going to try really, really, REALLY hard.

They will be unbeatable.
 
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So in the end it came down to money and not the egregious behavior, or the victims, or the lack of institutional control, but the fact that Penn State, as a product, was too big to FAIL.
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Evidently not, seeing as the whole "Penn State product" was JoePa's record and they took that away without giving a shit.
 
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I mentioned in my previous post in this thread that there were two 'concepts' I see on PSU boards from some posters that I don't follow. The first was that the NCAA penalties were in response to Jerry's crimes and designed to appease the victims...coupled with then saying the NCAA failed on this front. This is a false arguement as the NCAA decision had nothing to do with Sandusky and were not constructed to ease the pain of the victims...those who support this logic don't understand why the NCAA felt compelled to act.

The second disconnect I see from some PSU fans is their ability to blame Curley, and Schultz but defend Paterno. I get separating Spanier....but in my head Paterno, Schultz and Curley all did the same thing...pass it on and wash their hands of it. If you blame one..you must blame them all as they each played the same role as best I can see. And if you defend one...they you defend them all. The fact that some are leaving Paterno out but throwing hate rants toward Curley and Schultz tells me they accept how wrong it was to take no action..but simply refuse to get their head around the apparent reality that Joe took the exact same tact as C&S.
 
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cincibuck;2185779; said:
So in the end it came down to money and not the egregious behavior, or the victims, or the lack of institutional control, but the fact that Penn State, as a product, was too big to punish.
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This is why I believe that no "big" team will ever again get a death penalty, or even a TV ban.

Of course, what a "big" team is - that's debatable.
 
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Zurp;2185796; said:
This is why I believe that no "big" team will ever again get a death penalty, or even a TV ban.

Of course, what a "big" team is - that's debatable.
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Not so much. Rank them by revenue stream and draw a line.

As I keep saying, the extra money that will be generated from a playoff will make the NCAA's job so much easier.
 
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