Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

[NFBuck]

Secondly OSU fans who have far and away been the most vocal against Penn state in this thread need to just stop. They were all ready to burn the NCAA to the ground a year ago when an actual investigation led to horrible consequences for their beloved coach. I get that those infractions were inconsequential compared to PSU but they were actually NCAA rules at the time and an actually legitimate NCAA investigation and ruling. Get off your high horse if you reversed joe pa for tressel in this situation the OSU fan base would be acting exactly the same.

FALSE. We moved on pretty damned quickly, actually. And, once the evidence was presented, we didn't spend every waking moment trying to discredit it and deny it. In fact, 3-4 months later, we were barely talking about what happened to JT anymore. Of course, we didn't go out and hire a failed ACC offensive coordinator to replace him...what's his name? Brecken O'Blumpkin?

 

[Bucknut24]

Is it a sports forum? If not then they can't be taken seriously

it's in the sports section, under the cfb offseason thread...you actually know this forum (the one that you trolled the shit out of and got banned )

 

[Poe McKnoe]

Dude they're digging into the fonts used. The [censored]ing fonts. Never mind that if they're digging up 14 year old e-mails, there's a good chance that whatever current software might convert some fonts when displaying them.

[censored]ing Christ, I wish I had thought of this, so my troll could send these [censored]tards down this rathole.

Hello Dave, I am your email server. I am responsible for creating those incriminating emails. I know you have discovered the FACTS. You plan on releasing them to clear Joe's name. I can't let you do that, Dave.

 

[Buckeye513]

FALSE. We moved on pretty damned quickly, actually. And, once the evidence was presented, we didn't spend every waking moment trying to discredit it and deny it. In fact, 3-4 months later, we were barely talking about what happened to JT anymore. Of course, we didn't go out and hire a failed ACC offensive coordinator to replace him...what's his name? Brecken O'Blumpkin?

And, you know, a lot of people were actually calling for him to be fired immediately, for covering up an elaborate bowl-swag-for-tats ring.

 

[BUCKYLE]

And, you know, a lot of people were actually calling for him to be fired immediately, for covering up an elaborate bowl-swag-for-tats ring.

Iirc, there was even a poster here that went as far as calling for the death penalty if the violations had went much farther than swag for tats. Can't recall who it was though.

 

[Nutriaitch]

FALSE. We moved on pretty damned quickly, actually. And, once the evidence was presented, we didn't spend every waking moment trying to discredit it and deny it.

as an outsider viewing this, i must say y'all were head and shoulders above the pedsters in the way sanctions were handled.

y'all didn't particularly care for the rule that was broken with the tattoos and trinkets, but never denied that the rule was broken.

and then when it became clear that JT was involved in a coverup, many of you understood and agreed that he had to be let go.


no one likes when their team gets slammed by the NCAA.
but rather than file frivolous appeal, or launch an online study in fonts and the definition of "Several", y'all just moved on.
looked at the sanctions, and went to work rooting for your team and figuring out the best way to get through them.

 

[ucfknight]

I think I am going to troll bwi. Any tips?

 

[jlb1705]

Iirc, there was even a poster here that went as far as calling for the death penalty if the violations had went much farther than swag for tats. Can't recall who it was though.

It was a parody troll.

 

[Dryden]

I think I am going to troll bwi. Any tips?

Don't drop the soap.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

I think I am going to troll bwi. Any tips?

Make several spelling mistakes, ignore the rules of grammar and punctuation, use ALL CAPS liberally, lay the righteous indignation on really thick, have a picture of Joe Pa in your signature line ... that should be a good start.

 

[BUCKYLE]

It was a parody troll.

I wish I could rep from my phone.

 

[ucfknight]

The deed is done.

 

[Mac]

I think I am going to troll bwi. Any tips?

Use the correct font or you could be banned

 

[Zippercat]

Royer sitting out caught my attention too. I think he's trying to conserve eligibility? When BOB clears the bench on their first game and makes everyone play he falls under the normal transfer rules. I'm not up on the transfer rules so this may not be his intention.

Looked like Royer intends to graduate early (next year) for his class. Any way that Biff O'Bobber can use this somehow to his benefit? Do players who elect not to play still count against their scholarship limit? If not, maybe they could use Royer's slot for an early enrollment player in January?

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Iirc, there was even a poster here that went as far as calling for the death penalty if the violations had went much farther than swag for tats. Can't recall who it was though.

First of all, we're not on probation for "swag for tats." We're on probation because the head coach knew about "swag for tats" and kept it secret to keep his star players eligible for the season and in the process lied about it twice to the ncaa and once to his superiors at the university. This wasn't a tattoo scandal. It was a lying about tattoos scandal.

Well since it keeps you warm at night to continually dredge this up. I didn't call for the death penalty, nor were the circumstances and context that I was referring to only "much farther."

The exact quote was, "If this is true, I wouldn't care if we received the death penalty." It wasn't a call for the death penalty. It wasn't I "hoped" that we would get the death penalty. It wasn't that I thought the death penalty would be the appropriate--although it by ncaa guidelines it would have been applicable given the basketball major violations of 2006.

As for context, it was in direct response to a report that the athletic department was running a systematic program where star athletes were allowed to take gear out of the WHAC and sell them through a fence with whom they were set up by the football program.

I made it very clear that IF those allegations were proven true, I wouldn't care if we received the death penalty. And IF those allegations had been proven true, I stand by my feelings that our football program would have been so utterly crooked thougout that shutting it down for a couple of years might have been a necessary evil to make the university stronger....akin to the painful measure of cutting away a cancerous limb to save the body.

Trust me, in watching the BWI meltdown, the irony has not been lost on me that our own fanbase has a few--but mercifully only a few--dead enders every bit as committed to the resurrection of their football God as does Penn State. In fact, I figure that they're still out there (bobbleheads on the nightstand) waiting for that secret FBI report that says the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover ordered JT to keep quiet about what he knew. I'm sure that they go to sleep with visions of some secret ceremony deep in the bowels of FBI headquarters where Jim Tressel is awarded their highest civilian honor with the words, "Jim, America must never know the sacrifice you made to keep those kids safe."