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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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colobuck79 said:
This. When one of these shitstorms hits a team, I think it’s fair to expect the fans to go through the five stages of grieving, which finally leads to acceptance. We saw that here both individually and collectively. The Pedsters are still stuck in denial these many years later, with little or no hope of moving on. So yeah, cult.
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www.verywellmind.com

What Actually Constitutes a Cult?

A cult is a social group that is committed to an ideology or leader. Learn more about what a cult is and how to recognize that a group is a cult.
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1. JoePa was an "absolute authoritarian without accountability." Check.
2. Ha. Go over to one of their boards and post something that opposes their general opinions. Check.
3. I'll let someone else answer this. As a state institution, they may have to disclose their budget.
4. Conspiracy theories? Persecutions of the football team? Ha. Check.
5. Does anyone leave?
6. I don't know about abuse of members, but there was a bunch of abuse of kids.
7. Abuse of the leader or group by people outside the cult? Yeah - I'd say there's a lot of records documenting the abuse of JoePa. Check.
8. I don't think this is a check for them. I think the followers feel they're better than everyone else.
9. Absolutely a check. They may think he should have retired sooner, but he could do no wrong.
10. I don't think this is a check for them.

I count a score of 5 for them, with 3 "I don't know" answers, and 2 they don't get the check.
 
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Zurp said:
www.verywellmind.com

What Actually Constitutes a Cult?

A cult is a social group that is committed to an ideology or leader. Learn more about what a cult is and how to recognize that a group is a cult.
www.verywellmind.com www.verywellmind.com

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1. JoePa was an "absolute authoritarian without accountability." Check.
2. Ha. Go over to one of their boards and post something that opposes their general opinions. Check.
3. I'll let someone else answer this. As a state institution, they may have to disclose their budget.
4. Conspiracy theories? Persecutions of the football team? Ha. Check.
5. Does anyone leave?
6. I don't know about abuse of members, but there was a bunch of abuse of kids.
7. Abuse of the leader or group by people outside the cult? Yeah - I'd say there's a lot of records documenting the abuse of JoePa. Check.
8. I don't think this is a check for them. I think the followers feel they're better than everyone else.
9. Absolutely a check. They may think he should have retired sooner, but he could do no wrong.
10. I don't think this is a check for them.

I count a score of 5 for them, with 3 "I don't know" answers, and 2 they don't get the check.
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I live in PA, and never saw any budgets. I believe they have to disclose upon request.

I’d say yes to people leaving. I know people who stopped donating because of the Sandusky scandal.

It’s 7 yes, 1 I don’t know, 2 no
 
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Zurp said:
www.verywellmind.com

What Actually Constitutes a Cult?

A cult is a social group that is committed to an ideology or leader. Learn more about what a cult is and how to recognize that a group is a cult.
www.verywellmind.com www.verywellmind.com

View attachment 41930

1. JoePa was an "absolute authoritarian without accountability." Check.
2. Ha. Go over to one of their boards and post something that opposes their general opinions. Check.
3. I'll let someone else answer this. As a state institution, they may have to disclose their budget.
4. Conspiracy theories? Persecutions of the football team? Ha. Check.
5. Does anyone leave?
6. I don't know about abuse of members, but there was a bunch of abuse of kids.
7. Abuse of the leader or group by people outside the cult? Yeah - I'd say there's a lot of records documenting the abuse of JoePa. Check.
8. I don't think this is a check for them. I think the followers feel they're better than everyone else.
9. Absolutely a check. They may think he should have retired sooner, but he could do no wrong.
10. I don't think this is a check for them.

I count a score of 5 for them, with 3 "I don't know" answers, and 2 they don't get the check.
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I don't know about overall budgets, but I do recall the legislature actually passed a law insulating them from having to report JoePed's salary because he was all about spinning the myth that he only made the same as a professor.
 
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Anyone else who attended the game find the WVU fans to be rude, nasty, inhospitable and low class?

If I ever hear a Penn State fan treat visiting fans the way we were treated, I’ll personally let them taste the back of my hand. Thank goodness WVU is not in the Big Ten. Too trashy.
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Original poster had a bad experience at an away game.

If I ever hear a Penn State fan treat visiting fans the way we were treated, I’ll personally let them taste the back of my hand.
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I'm guessing this guy wasn't there against Ohio State in 2005 with the piss balloons and throwing stuff into the marching band, and pouring beers on Ohio State fans. Or in 2007 when they punched an Ohio State fan just walking by some fraternity houses. It's too bad, too, because he would have let them taste the back of his hand. That would fix it, right?

And I've seen more shoving matches in Ohio Stadium when Penn State is in town than at games for all other opponents, combined. And that's including games against *ichigan. You can't say that the Ohio State fans are the reason - the Ohio State fans are at all Ohio State games. The only variable is the opposing fans.

Penn State, you cannot complain about anyone until you clean up your own.

Edit - I give them credit. Read down further in that thread and you see Penn State fans start calling themselves out.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
It's my dream to get one of those fuckwits to wear Ohio State gear and walk around their stadium for an entire day before a night game against us. They're not allowed to say anything about not really being an Ohio State fan.
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I like that idea.
And it'd have to be obvious that it's Ohio State gear. Can't wear a white Buckeye jersey amidst a white out crowd. I mean, it'd be obvious to most people that it's a Buckeye jersey, but from afar he'd be wearing white in a sea of white.
 
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Put this in the LSU thread, if you want. I was just wondering why LSU wears white at home, so I used Google to answer my question. One of the top hits was this:
www.saturdaydownsouth.com

The tradition of LSU’s famed home white jerseys

LSU has gone against the college football curve since 1958, when coach Paul Dietzel decided to wear white jerseys at home. The Tigers won the national title that year, and the rest is well-appreciated history in Baton Rouge.
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If you care about that answer, feel free to read that site. (Spoiler alert: They just really wanted to wear white at home. That's it.)
But I guess they weren't allowed to wear white against Vanderbilt in 1995. So they wore gold.
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What the hell??? They told their crowd to wear white in order to "white out" Vanderbilt. Well, it was obviously Penn State who started that tradition, right?

According to Wikipedia, Penn State started it in 2004.
 
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