Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE 2* Sandusky Arrested Again

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

If you think that I believe the state as a whole is being wrapped up in too large a net, I'll cop to it. You're looking at it from the outside; I'm looking at it from the inside. Perhaps you can understand THAT end of it.

And ... there's the troll.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

The state as a whole? Your persecution complex knows no bounds.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Not in this, it doesn't.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired



To come at this from a different angle: in what way is today's game "healing?"

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

There's a direct correlation between the "rally round the family" defensiveness that says that the state is being unfairly persecuted, and the same defensiveness that caused the football program to cover-up for a child rapist.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Maybe it's not. I don't have the energy to defend that particular part of it.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

I'm truly sorry you've been so victimized in this ordeal. For your sake, I hope Penn State wins today. You deserve it.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

As angry as this situation makes me, I don't have a dog in this fight, and I could argue either side of the cancel the game vs. don't cancel the game argument.

But, I guess I'll just say this, in agreement with Rick:

The problem here was institutional. It wasn't just Paterno, it was the entire football program that failed.

So, while I understand the need to have a few hours of distraction to get way from all of this, I'm not sure that distraction should be a Penn State football game.

106,000 fans cheering on the very institution at the heart of the problem doesn't really strike me as a few hours to forget about everything. In many ways, it reinforces everything that went wrong.

If the problems had been in the History Department, then maybe the football game would serve this role.

But, in this circumstance, not really.

The football program is still being celebrated. And there are still a multitude of problems to solve in that program.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Fuck, YGBFKM, I just want this game to be over, and this day, so we can regain some sense of normalcy.

That's the true extent of "me" in this.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

What do we think of the acting President's "We are Penn State" ads?

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Frankly, I was just going to mention that myself.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Exactly. You, and many other PSU fans, want badly to restore the status quo. No changes that might prevent the exact "keep it in the family" culture that created the problem. Because feeling normal is more important than getting it right.