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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
On the latter part, I'm not so sure. The alumni have done nothing but elect cultists to the BoT in two straight elections now. BWI might be a crazy cesspool of stupid, but on some innate level, I do believe that they are reflective of the overall Penn State culture.
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Good point.

I was having a moment .... I was hoping against hope that normal people who happen to be PSU grads find the BWI types to be as problematic as we do. But, then, I was assuming there is such thing as a normal PSU grad.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
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Dear ORD_Buckeye,

I beg of you to never release your stranglehold on the PSU fanbase.

Thanks,
HF
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=168380532&mid=168380532&sid=890&style=2

only took 4 posts to go from talking about Baylor to everybody's favorite dead saint.
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That fourth post brings up how Paterno was the one who created instant replay use in NCAA football. From later posts in that thread, and other posts I've read on BWI, I've come to understand that Penn State fans want us all to say a prayer to St. JoePa for giving us the gift of instant replay use when it corrects an incorrect call on the field. But what exactly does St. JoePa have to do with instant replay?

This time, I did my own investigative work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_replay_in_American_and_Canadian_football (I know wikipedia is lousy research. But my goofing off time is valuable.)
History[edit]
College football instant replay was started by the Big Ten Conference in the 2004 season because of what happened in the 2001 Michigan vs. Michigan State football game, when reviews were used experimentally in the Big Ten Conference only. In the 2005 season, all conferences were allowed to use instant replay.
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(For those of you who don't remember, it is speculated that Michigan State benefitted from a home-team time-keeper ("Spartan Bob") stopping the clock with :01 remaining before he should have, giving Michigan State one more play. They used that play to score the winning touchdown.) (Is that even a reviewable play?)

No mention of Joe Paterno, St. JoePa, Penn State, or anything. But if you look up Joe Paterno's wikipedia entry, you get stuff about 2002 how he chased down a referee for getting a call wrong against Iowa, and how he whined about another bad call against Michigan.

So... let's get this straight: a conference, which wants to keep JoePa and Penn State down will stop at nothing, no matter how bad the officiating calls are, to screw him over, will listen to his complaints and give him his instant replay requests? Was he really THAT saintly?

Nevermind. I think I know the cultists' answer.
 
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Zurp said:
No mention of Joe Paterno, St. JoePa, Penn State, or anything. But if you look up Joe Paterno's wikipedia entry, you get stuff about 2002 how he chased down a referee for getting a call wrong against Iowa, and how he whined about another bad call against Michigan.

So... let's get this straight: a conference, which wants to keep JoePa and Penn State down will stop at nothing, no matter how bad the officiating calls are, to screw him over, will listen to his complaints and give him his instant replay requests? Was he really THAT saintly?

Nevermind. I think I know the cultists' answer.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Joe was one of the more vocal coaches AGAINST instant replay, and only started supporting it after his team got screwed on a call, or instant replay correctly reversed a call or something....
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
They've been claiming that he invented instant replay since he chased that ref down and assaulted him. Fits right in with their mentality that they always get hosed by refs.
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Because it couldn't have had anything to do with the reception by a Penn State receiver who was a yard out of bounds when he caught the ball against Nebraska in 1982 sustaining the game winning driving and denying Nebraska a national championship.

Or the catch by an Alabama receiver again in Rhythmic Slap Happy Valley when not only was offsides not called on Penn State on the play but the clear catch in the end zone was ruled incomplete.

Yes, replay is here because of Joe Paterno and it's because of the screw jobs by his hand chosen refs back in the day.
 
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My favorite part is that the cult spins the "JoePa invented replay" story like he did it out of his saintly and altruistic desire for fairness.

Then you look at their story, their story for why he supported instant replay- which as Dryden points out isn't based in reality anyway, and it becomes extremely clear that he was just being a whining little bitch throwing a hissy fit because he couldn't hand pick refs anymore like during their glory days as an independent.
 
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http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=168399373&mid=168399373&sid=890&style=2

I guess today is the anniversary of the Marshall plane crash, in 1970 (according to BWI posters). And I don't want to poke fun of that situation - that would be a tough time for all fans of all teams. But I found some humor in this post:

Re: ot 11/14/1970 never forget Marshall U plane crash all 75 on board died Reply
My parents were both students at Marshall when the plane crashed. My dad still gets emotional when talking about it. He and others helped search for bodies and evidence after plane went down
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11/14 10:42 AM | IP: Logged
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EVIDENTS!!!
I wonder if they thought Freeh should have been looking there, too?
 
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Ha... Ok.. reading this thread now..
http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=168378384&mid=168378384&sid=890&style=2
Penn State fans getting grumpy at some writer who uses the line "...the entirety of Penn State football enabling decades of child-rape." His article is about some player on some other team dying after complaining about headaches. (It looks to me that he had concussion-like symptoms, and the coaches made him play through them. I didn't read the article, so I won't comment on that.)

Anyway, the Penn State fans, of course, go back to yelling about FACTS and EVIDENTS!! And I realized, are we supposed to go and do our own investigation into Jerry Sandusky, State College, Joe Paterno, etc.? I mean, if we take the NCAA and Freeh Report at their word, we get yelled at for not knowing the facts (and evidents). But who else has done an impartial investigation?
 
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