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Posted on 11/10/2011 1:12:59 PM PST by Colofornian
Maybe they’re just rioting because it’s become the “in thing to do”.
If I was that coach, I would release a statement demanding that the game be canceled. I love college football, but I hate riots more.
Now, that being said: You want to see a riot that will make an OWS noob salivate — cancel that game on Friday afternoon.
There is speculation that if the game goes on, Paterno supporters in the stands will organize a mass exodus from the stadium in protest during the game.
Absolutely not.
The Board of Trustees did what they had to do.
The reaction of the students reflects extremely poorly on the students, their parents, and the school's admission policies.
Are you sure that applies to universities? Sometimes those laws only cover K-12.
Imagine the riots you’ll get when you deify a President!
I must have missed the memo but I’ve never heard of any if these people.
But that’s just me. If the newspaper showed up in the morning missing sports section I’d never notice it was not there....
It’s appropriate that Rational Thought would make the most rational post on this thread. That’s exactly what’s going on. They feel JoePa has been thrown under the proverbial bus and they have a point. From what I understand, the assistant who reported the incident to him didn’t get that specific. The thing I find troubling is that the assistant who witnessed the rape and did nothing more than report it to Paterno still on the staff.
And college towns tend to be VERY insular. I once lived in a small college town in a rather remote place. The entire town depended on the college for their financial livelihood. So a complete symbiotic relationship developed between the college administration and the city fathers, along with the police dept., etc.
They had a student there who was the daughter of a very famous, prominent American. She got busted as part of a major drug ring. It was all handled very quietly, with no charges pressed, and was kept out of the press. You only heard about it word-of-mouth from local contacts. The police and prosecutor were totally in the bag to protect the college.
That was, of course, in the pre-internet days.
Deification????............come to Bama. You ain’t seen nuthin...and the man’s been gone for 30 years....
I don't believe Paterno approved of the protest.
Had the Board thought this through, they could have notified the coach of their decision and allowed him to issue a brief live statement explaining that the decision was for the good of the school. Hearing such a statement from the coach himself would have had a calming effect on the student body.
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PSU Board of Trustees asks that assistant coach Mike McQueary NOT be allowed on the field Saturday.
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Happily, our grandson chose not to attend Perv State, even though the scholarship offered was very generous. It would be a shame to have one’s education disrupted by this mindless chaos.
A bit of a protest years ago against Sandusky by those who knew, could have ballooned up into something else. Bye bye Sandusky. Now that would have took guts. Sandusky, no matter how protected he was, could have run, but he coulld not hide.
What it shows is that as a nation we need to grow up and set aside games in favor of fixing our problems.
Paterno was only there as a figurehead. He did no coaching and hasn’t done so for a while.
The guy is 89 years old. I’m not even sure he even knows he is a coach.
Paterno reported the underage rape to the college higher ups, and they did nothing. If anything, the students should go after the college administration for letting this all be swept under the carpet for years, not Paterno.
As far as his retirement, at least they retired him before he died. If not for this incident, I’m pretty sure they would have continued to consider him as their ‘coach’, even though he was six feet under.
OH MY. You mean that college students are easily swayed into mindless pursuit of lost or covert causes? That they can be easily fooled and take action based on emotion, and not logic?
oh my.
It was no different 500 or 2000 years ago.
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