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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Her back is turned, she's focused on the wrong things and totally oblivious to what's going on around her. I think Franco Harris just fell in love. Today 1:52pm
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PSU football culture that SHOULD change.Reply

Just to get this out of the way, Penn State football culture didn't make Sandusky abuse boys, and even if there was a cover up, football culture was not part of it.

However, maybe we can agree about some things about football culture that should change.

1) Booing the opposing team when they come on the field. I'm fine booing Michigan or Ohio State, but yesterday the opponent was Kent State, a ragtag bunch of second-tier recruits who had about a 1 percent chance of winning the game. They are there to make a little money for their school but mostly they are making money for Penn State. They spent 8 hours on a bus to play a game in really nasty whether and had virtually no fans to cheer them on that I could see. The least the Beaver Stadium crowd could have done was show them some common courtesy. I hate when PSU fans have no class. (and btw the boos came from alumni, not the student sections)

2) Eliminate the video scoreboard instead of spending $10 million for a bigger one. The single thing I dislike the most about attending a football game is those awful cloying cliche-laden propaganda videos blaring at you at about 130 decibels. All of them have a voice like John Facenda and they have horrible lines like "LEGENDS ARE MADE HERE" as they show 2 seconds of footage from the 60s. If legends really are made at Beaver Stadium you don't need propaganda videos to tell you that at 130 decibels. If Penn State really does represent something decent and good in college sports, then that reputation should be built through deeds, not through propaganda and advertising. Those videos are tacky and slick and dishonest and the fact that Penn State has to use its scoreboard that way smells of insecurity.

2A) The video messages that say "get loud" or whatever they say. That is like admitting to the world, the fans at Penn State are so stupid they don't know when to make noise. If they need to instruct fans on when to make noise, maybe they could set up some seminars or something, but having the scoreboard say "now's the time to make noise" -- that is as tacky as a bad likeness of your head coach cast in bronze BEFORE HE EVEN RETIRES.

3) Fans losing their heads every time a flag is thrown against the home team. Yeah when we play Michigan and Ohio State there is good reason to be skeptical of the officiating. But there's no reason to whine about every single penalty in every single game. Most of them are valid calls.

4) Fans getting emotional and yelling when there are plays that don't work or bad tackling or whatever -- even if you are so far away the players can't hear you. It is just TACKY -- kind of like those tacky videos. This was Kent State; the outcome was never in doubt. People were acting like it was the 1986 Fiesta Bowl. Get a grip please.

5) Anything resembling religion, and just generally taking things too seriously. This is not religion, it is a GAME played by COLLEGE STUDENTS. (at least that is what it is supposed to be). It is supposed to be fun. If you want it to be religion, move to SEC country. I'm not saying PSU is like the SEC but anything that can be done to eliminate comparisons would be a positive step.

That's just my starting list. I reserve the right to add more items as I think of them. Thank you very much.

This post was edited on 9/22 10:14 AM by tboyer
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http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=166926162&mid=166926162&sid=890&style=2

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Don't boo the other team because it's tacky......except against Ohio State and Michigan.

Don't cry about flags just because it's against PSU......except against Ohio State and Michigan.



Even when they're on the verge of making sense they're fucking retarded.
 
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2. Our score boards are the equivalent of the original Intendo techno bowl. The upgrade is a must.
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This is the kind of shit that makes me think almost every poster over there is some 18 year foreign exchange student trolling the shit out of each other with maybe 5 actual cultist retards.
 
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Oh this is good:

In 1998, Sandusky wasn't investigated by just any flatfoot (see link)Reply

Here is the statement put out by PSU - see the following link to psu.edu:

http://news.psu.edu/story/203771/2006/04/27/longtime-police-officer-retires-after-35-years

Seems unreal that Spanier and the Executive Committee of the BOT could approve Sandusky's sweetheart retirement package in 1999 given the INTERNAL INVESTIGATION that Schreffler filed in 1998 including the fact that Schreffler clearly thought he was guilty of crimes and did everything within his power to see him prosecuted including calling the Centre County DA and referring the case to them. Schreffler was unsuccessful in his efforts to have Sandusky criminally prosecuted, but it is impossible to fathom how PSU's Executive Committee ignored Schreffler's report and file in regards to approving Sandusky's sweetheart retirement package less then a year later.

Both Spanier and Schultz claim they didn't know anything about Schreffler's "internal investigation" due to Harmon's actions - is this possibly true. Harmon did make sure that 1998 was filed permanently as "administrative" and consistently under-reported incidents on annual Clery Reports (including 1998). There is something that simply does not makes sense about 1998 - how could all these Senior Executives and the Executive Committee be totally unaware of Schreffler's investigation and findings in 1998 when he clearly was a very well-known and respected party throughout the campus and State College area (he clearly coordinated extensively with law enforcement, including State Police, throughout Centre County being the head of security measures at the stadium in regards to haz-mats and bombs).
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Not one word about how Glorious Leader could have NOT known either.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Let me save people some nausea and paraphrase;

6ft tall wookies can't fuck 4ft tall ewoks..... etc etc etc....this doesn't make sense and if it doesn't make sense, ladies and gentlemen of the internet you must acquit (and give Joe back his wins).
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We have to first of all assume that Jerry wàs hung like a donkey and not like a gerbil. Next there is no record of Jerry driving to Kentucky to obtain jelly for lubrication. So obviously there's no proof of anything going wrong except a bit of fellatio, touchy feely, if-you-let-me-lick-your-parts-I'll-let-you-lick-my-ice cream-cone...

I have a mental picture of Jerry and the kid standing in the shower and making slapping sounds by pounding their open hands on their legs so they could trick MM into believing that they were having sex.

You have to believe enough to form a new religion.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Let me save people some nausea and paraphrase;

6ft tall wookies can't fuck 4ft tall ewoks..... etc etc etc....this doesn't make sense and if it doesn't make sense, ladies and gentlemen of the internet you must acquit (and give Joe back his wins).
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Since I did not see it (Thank God), here is the fall out from that thread actually getting yanked.

http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=166958859&mid=166958859&sid=890&style=2

The internet never forgets, I wonder if there's a Google cache of the thread itself....
 
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