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If someone can't vote, drive legally, or own property, or associates with people who don't think child rape is a big deal, do you think that person is going to read up on Sandusky?

 

i say leave the unis just as they are except add two big letters to the side of the helmets: RU.

 

A good part of the reason this has gotten so much press and continues to live on is the fine folks associated with Ped State refuse to let it die...

 

And there's a fraction that won't. Fuck it and keep going.

 

I suspect a lot of Penn State faculty, students, staff, alums, fans have a bunker mentality about now. I can understand that. I've had plenty of mements when it seemed the whole world was against me.

I understand the Sandusky part. Not sure I buy that anything Sandusky did gave PSU an unfair competitive advantage. What was the recruiting pitch? "Come to PSU and maybe you and your future kids will get sexually assaulted?" Hell of an advantage there.

It's like the drug argument: some drugs can give one a competitive advantage by making them bigger, faster, stronger. Other drugs don't help you get an advantage. Why should those be banned?

 

Penn State's whole program was built on the mystique of Paterno: Come play for the legendary winning coach who is also an unmatched spotless role model in matters of honesty, integrity and building character.

Once he made the decision to enable Sandusky, it was all a lie.

 

See, who bought that nonsense?

Did Paterno win a lot of games? Sure, he was there 40+ years. Was he somehow morally superior to other coaches? I never believed that. I don't see why people thought that about him.

I said as early as 2002 I thought Paterno should resign because of the age issue.

If the same thing happened with Nick Saban, or Urban Meyer or Mack Brown or Lane Kiffin or plenty of others, I suspect we'd see the same reaction. Maybe this will just be an eye-opener that none of these guys are saints. Just coaches trying to win games.

 

Not sure anyone over the age of say 10 would think any college coach was anywhere near sainthood; probably quite the opposite would be the prevailing opinion.

JoePa was probably the last in that line to be viewed as a saint. Turns out he was much more like a diocesan cardinal in the Catholic Church.

 

Courtesy phone Nick Saban.

 

Player number 10, scholarship 9, has left. Sophomore tight end Dakota Royer is out but will stay at school. That leaves them with 72 scholarships for this season, 58 returning for 2013.

 

He said he plans to graduate in May, so probably a good move on his part to concentrate on life after football.

 

A decision made, I suspect, at NCAA gunpoint:



http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/08/09/penn-state-ncaa-penalties-trustees.ap/index.html

My bet is the passage of a BOT resolution with any other wording would result in expulsion from the NCAA.