Ignoring the infantile behavior of the rioters, what about the football program? Some are thinking that this should be a capital offense (i.e., death penalty for the footbal program). But even if the NCAA doesn’t do anything about it, I wonder what the Big Ten is thinking?
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as a pa resident i say disband the football program for 10 years. sorry state college sucks to be you. and for the hockey stick guy who tried to destroy west civ.
Every person associated with Paterno has to be excised from the university.
The University of Chicago was a charter member of the Big Nine (later Big Ten), and committed football suicide in the 1930s when it became obvious, even back then, that successful big-time football interfered with academics.
Fortunately, with the coming higher education implosion, the NFL and NBA will be looking to start up their own farm/minor leagues, instead of relying on their continued corruption of the nation’s universities. Penn State could lead the way here, but they won’t.
The NBA would have to agree on terms to actually play professionally before they can even think about starting a farm league.
They’d also have a much easier go of it if not for the insistence on requiring at least one year of college basketball before being draft-eligible in the NBA.
As far as the Big Ten, it’s a perfect opportunity to excise about 300 miles from the eastern edge of the conference, especially after adding 300 miles to the western edge earlier this year. Let Nebraska bounce to a Mountain conference, and get back to having only 10 schools (what a concept for a conference named “Big Ten”), all within a reasonable driving distance of each other…
If you used an electron microscope you could not possibly find even the slightest crumb of the fucks I give.
What about the Large Hadron Collider? Are your crumbs more elusive than the Higgs Boson?
My crumbs make the Higgs Boson look like Lady Gaga at the MTV Awards.
Who is this Lady and what award did she receive?
Oh, just this appearance-challenged young person whose ancestors came from the wrong side of the Adriatic from my Croatian grandma. Poor thing can’t help it — she was born that way . . .
So you’re saying it was not a choice?
Apropos since the “Standard” Higgs is all but ruled out. Any Higgs must be non-standard: hence the bat wings and “genital” rings.
I think that what will become evident is that McCreary did not tell “the old man” Paterno what really happened and the Provost and the University president tried to cover it up. I have seen similar things happen at the University of Alabama Huntsville.
We had an office assistant in one of the science departments that was kidnapped, tortured and raped in an office on campus by a professor. The University cops moved so slow on the issue that the professor was able to split town and catch a plane back to Russia where he came from. The whole thing was hushed up, a payoff made, and not one blip about it ever made it to the newspapers in Huntsville. I found out about it only because the assistant was the wife of a guy that ran one of the shops on campus that I knew.
…and then McCreary told the grand jury something else entirely? He must really despise Paterno to hang him out to dry like that. Though I think PSU’ers will tell themselves this, just to reconcile this episode with their idea of Paterno. But the Paterno that built PSU football into a national power has gone, and what is left is the pathetic love child of J. Edgar Hoover and Norma Desmond, a guy who stayed at the party too long, completely divorced from reality…
…and then McCreary told the grand jury something else entirely? He must really despise Paterno to hang him out to dry like that.
It’s worse than that, he probably thought he was “protecting” the old man. I don’t know what happened, but in watching Joe Paterno coach football for almost my entire life and the class in which he did it and the way that he developed the character of his young men and the lack of scandal that many colleges have had over recruiting, it is not like Paterno to cover up something like this himself. I could be wrong, but think of this. This episode will probably kill him. I expect he won’t live much longer. What happens if we find that these people indeed kept this from him as they knew that he would take the utmost actions to stop the whole thing, and this is not found out until after he is dead.
A rush to judgement is a terrible thing. He might be the kingpin of the cover up for all I know, but it simply does not fit with the character that he has shown in coaching college football for the past 40 + years.