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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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tsteele316;2341939; said:
what these assclowns fail to realize, is that if this lawsuit does proceed, all it's going to do is highlight what an abject failure paterno was in this whole situation. every statement paterno made will be sifted over meticulously, from the "not wanting to ruin anyone's weekend", to the "victims, or whatever you call them", to every contradictory statement he made to the grand jury and thereafter. every story of his iron clad grip on the administration in slappy valley, to forcing out people in positions of authority. All of it, on full display, for everyone to see.

how any of these circus chimps can think this lawsuit is a good idea, or will actually serve to vindicate paterno, is absolutely baffling.
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Shhhhhhhh!!! Don't tip them off that this is a bad idea per the things you say. It will be way too much fun to watch them burn Joe down while they think that they are helping. Let them prattle on about the "Joe they know" and watch the paint start peeling as the info gets out about just how maniacal that old fart was in making sure his legacy remained as he wanted it to be seen.

Joe's Grand Experiment is nothing more than a Grand Failure.
 
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Calling it a Grand Failure implies that he actually tried doing what he said he was doing, and it just didn't work. No....it was a Grand Fraud. He might have intended to run a program 100% clean while making sure as many kids as possible could get through college, but once it became clear that the cost of running things that way is losing football games all that shit went out the window. Not crowing about it, mind you. They still lauded it. They just never followed it.
 
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The NCAA is counting on its exempt status with regards to taxation and anti-trust regulation. The US Congress leaders from Pennsylvania could exert enough influence to pose enough of a threat to this status that the NCAA cuts a deal. This tactic has been threatened before but usually with conference realignment and the possibility of so many state universities being left out of the lucrative bowl alliances and tv contracts.

But I agree that with this lawsuit, the Paterno family opens itself and Joe's legacy to the possibility of even darker stuff coming out.....and those associated may be getting very nervous too.

The NCAA could retaliate by calling to testify every former player who has since been named in various academic and behavioral improprieties....as well as the university official who was fired or forced to resign because she dared to cross JoePa.

in short, the Paternos will probably win something in this, but will also risk losing something too


MililaniBuckeye;2341933; said:
The NCAA can tell them to [censored] off. What is anyone in the Pennsylvania government going to do?
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PennLive article said:
The NCAA then hammered the Penn State football program with sanctions, including a $60 million fine, scholarship reductions and a four-year bowl ban. Penn State opted to not appeal those penalties.
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Wrong. Penn State consented to those penalties. Big difference.

If the Paterno clowns want to sue anybody, it should be Penn State for entering into the consent judgment.
 
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LordJeffBuck;2342151; said:
Wrong. Penn State consented to those penalties. Big difference.

If the Paterno clowns want to sue anybody, it should be Penn State for entering into the consent judgment.
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Which was the only possible way for them to avoid the death penalty, if I understand the situation correctly.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;2342163; said:
Was that ever officially stated?
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One of many articles that addressed the death penalty possibility:

If Penn State had not accepted the package of NCAA sanctions announced Monday, the Nittany Lions faced a historic death penalty of four years, university president Rodney Erickson told "Outside the Lines" on Wednesday afternoon.
In a separate interview, NCAA president Mark Emmert confirmed that a core group of NCAA school presidents had agreed early last week that an appropriate punishment was no Penn State football for four years.
Emmert told Erickson in a phone conversation on July 17 that a majority of the NCAA's leadership wanted to levy the four-year penalty because of Penn State's leaders' roles in covering up the child sexual abuse of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
"Well, that's a pretty tough number to swallow," Erickson said he recalled thinking when told of the four-year possibility by Emmert. "It's unprecedented. It's a blow to the gut; there's no doubt about that ... I couldn't agree to that at all."
Almost immediately after that conversation, intensive discussions between Penn State and the NCAA began in earnest, Erickson said. Penn State lobbied for the NCAA to take the death penalty off the table, and the NCAA described a series of other sanctions, both "punitive and corrective" in nature.
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I have long maintained the last thing any cult member wants is a case surrounding the Sandusky/Paterno situation to see the inside of a courtroom.

Subpoenas are a bitch if you don't like what the FACTS! and EVIDENCE! are telling you.
 
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