Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan want their lives back, too.
Rumor has it they are considering rebranding as State Penn!
I have completely disavowed Penn State and it will stay that way until the weak cowards put back the statue of Joe Paterno right where it was, and finally get the spine to fight the scumbag NCAA. I don’t even take calls from Penn State anymore. (spit)
Go, Owls.
Fire the imam of the Church of the Burning Planet housed there, Mikey Mann.
But I thought C*ntFest was a resounding success!
Having gay anal sex with a young boy in the showers and getting caught is kinda hard to erase. Penn must be full of homos.
Disheartening that anyone would still be defending that enabler of pedophiles, Joe Paterno.
He reported that his assistant saw Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in the shower. Paterno did the bare legal minimum and no more. And Paterno continued to allow Sandusky access to Penn State facilities for *years* after that report.
Character shows in difficult situations. Paterno revealed himself to be a total scumbag. He either didn’t believe the assistant (yet kept him on the staff) or was okay that Sandusky continued to walk around a free man to abuse more boys.
Which one is it, apologists?
Fine, stop buggering children.
To Late for this generation of football and Joe.
“...wants poor image of Penn State to go away.”
They should just change their name to something with a better image ..... East of Ohio Community College.
I do find it highly amusing that the professor is upset that the narrative that has taken hold is at variance with his preferred narrative. Not much mention of the actual facts, although to be sure some of the facts will never be known such as just what did Coach Paterno know? (Maybe he was in denial, because the description of Sandusky’s activities vis’a’vis young boys would have pegged my creep-o-meter off scale-high.)
But for the professor to say that he’s hoping for the ultimate revealing of the truth, for a rectification ala the Duke Lacrosse case is just psychotic. Let us recall that it was a baying lynch mob of faculty members who drove that case even in the face of all evidence precisely because they wanted to create a narrative of white privilege, black victimhood and gender oppression that ascended far above the actual facts and supported and validated their leftist orientation. I’d like to see the series of op eds and amicus briefs that the professor emeritus, former faculty senate president of an eminent institution like Penn State penned in support of the Duke students.
I’ll bet there aren’t any. The Duke faculty enthusiastically threw their lacrosse team to the wolves, the facts be damned, because the narrative was right. Our Happy Valley prof was content to sit back and watch as those students were crucified by the campus crazies in the (whatever) Studies departments. Now he is upset by a narrative that doesn’t go his way.
(Although the Duke players did appear to have been involved in some pretty low behavior and serious lack of class and judgement)
And he, and a lot of folks here are upset that an entire institution is blackened by the actions of one man, Jerry Sandusky. But really, was it just one man? So far, there is prima facie evidence that the head of the university, the athletic director and others knew damn well of Sandusky’s predations and covered them up. If they are convicted at trial, what will our professor say then?
And how did Sandusky access his victims? Through an infrastructure created by Penn State and its institutional fetish for football. Why did he get cover? Because Paterno was God and all his works Divine and so no scandal or scrutiny must be allowed to intrude. Everything must be hushed up and buried lest the football program money diminish.
It was all about the almighty buck.
Yeah. I want a million dollars and a Rolls Royce but I think we're all going to be disappointed.
Yeah. I want a million dollars and a Rolls Royce but I think we're all going to be disappointed.
JoePa had his chance to speak up when he first learned of Sandusky’s behavior. He instead chose to be quiet, do the bare minimum, and play CYA. He was an average coach and a less than average man. Give it up because you are making a fool of yourself.
People that live in, around and spend their entire lives around college/academia, are completely and totally detached from reality...
They have no clue.
A lot of my fellow UCF alums were at State College last wknd....and all had praise for the fans and folks at PSU
Not once in any of our discussion of the game amongst our UCF brethren did we criticize Penn St ....not once
I am amazed how many folks who claim to be conservative continue to regurgitate everything the Liberal Media tells them....esp in regard to PSU
Don’t forget Mark Emmert and the NCAA. They should have received the death penalty. As such, I’m not sure what you have to do in order to get the death penalty from the NCAA. Were I TCU, I might sue for lost revenue.
Pedophile State - fresh hot boys delivered in 30 minutes or less to regents, or its free.
I live in Pennsylvania and so do my grandkids. Many of them are looking at colleges. Penn State (main campus) is an extremely competitive college. Its academic reputation hasn’t suffered at all with this horrible episode. I’ve never followed college football much but that’s all I can assume has been harmed. A Penn State degree is worth more today than ever. The upper middle class has decided they’re not going to go into massive debt to pay for college and so they’re maybe borrowing a little and paying a reasonable amount to send their kids to one of the best, most competitive colleges in the country - Penn State.
“The former university president Graham B. Spanier, the former athletic director Tim Curley and the former university vice president Gary Schultz are set to stand trial for their suspected roles in a cover-up of Sandusky’s actions.”
Spanier was hired by Penn State. Spanier was/is the epitimy of encouragement for the likes of Sandusky. Curley and Schultz, along with Paterno, did indeed provide cover for Sandusky. Penn State, though maybe not the individual profs and students, diserve the image that Penn State allowed to be created. Facts are facts. It is time for the ‘elitists’ at Penn State to recognize and own the consequences. As far as the football program, a 5 year death penalty would have been in order. The NCAA blew it there.