Posted on 07/24/2012 9:46:02 AM PDT by bassmaner
Calling all Philly area Freepers: we need to convince management of WNTP 990 AM to drop Penn State sports programming. After the Sandusky scandal, they won't be able to justify their continuing pre-emptions of regularly scheduled talk radio programs, as ratings for games and sports talk will no doubt collapse.
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AMEN!!! A kindred soul, I see!
Nothing like preparing dinner for the fam, looking forward to a little "Morning Glory and Evening Grace", only to hear that awful mountain lion roar, and knowing I've got an hour (or more) of uber-dull Penn State sports talk. Put that garbage on some radio station no one listens to.
So you think they are owed a job, how progressive of you. Taking away their jobs isn’t a punishment, it’s sanitation. Ped State deserves the reputation it just earned. The athletic staff has soiled everyone associated with the school forever or at least until no one remembers paterno’s name
Levin maintains that what the NCAA has done is to impose economic sanctions on the entire campus and the community who had absolutely nothing to do with this and didn’t know anything about it..
...then Levin is a fool...what economic sanctions on the so called community is he talking about? That not as many paying customers will show up to watch a losing product on the field? If that’s the case then the fans themselves can remedy that, by showing up in the numbers that they are accustomed to seeing, willingly spending their money as they do so...the choice is up to them, the NCAA has not sanctioned their ability to dole out hard earned money for football pleasure in the least...if people don’t turn out like they used to, and the ‘community’ feels the pinch, then blame the fans who turn tail, not the NCAA...I thought all you were all for blaming the ones who were really guilty here...
How Liberal of you.
I believe that individual responsibility and not collective guilt is a conservative viewpoint.
What the NCAA is doing to Penn State is not very different from holding all of us responsible for slavery.
Read what you wrote. When you figure it out, get back to me.
I believe that individual responsibility and not collective guilt is a conservative viewpoint...
...uh, ok...not only is the NCAA not imposing economic sanction on Penn St Nation, but in no way shape or form are they instilling guilt...Mr Football Fan in State College has not been called out as guilty by the NCAA, what in the world are you talking about? You (not you specifically, but the generic PSU fan)stand accused of nothing, you are every bit as free as you always were to attend football games, spending $100 per ticket, consuming concessions all the while, and making sure that the cash cow that is PSU football continues unabated forever...
...it looks like your complaint is that the ‘community’ is included in the collective guilt because of being forced to watch inferior football (which remains to be seen, by the way), and thus being placed in the position of not wishing to spend so much money on the lesser product...you of course could remedy that situation yourself by continuing your PSU football custom, but it is so much easier to sit back and blamme the NCAA...
Anyone related to the Penn State community has been painted with the same broad brush as Sandusky and Paterno.
Listen to what the students have to say. I have a son who attended PSU. He didn’t follow football. He never even attended one game the entire time he was there. I don’t even recall him buying PSU apparel, although family members would give it to him at Christmas, etc. He thought it was silly that Paterno and the football program in general were so venerated. We agreed with him fully and thought Paterno should have stepped down decades ago and the longer he stayed, the least interest we had in PSU football to the point of hardly following it at all for a long time.
Oh, you can say he could have attended another school blah, blah, blah, but it was what we could afford and it provided him the major he wanted which other state schools did not.
He’s trying to get a job and he’s resigned to the fact that employers are going to look at his resume and immediately think of the crimes.
Many PSU students are voicing the same concerns as my son.
I’m not saying that there shouldn’t have been any sanctions, but the severity of them goes too far, IMO.
I’m content to be in the company of Mark Levin on this.
Anyone related to the Penn State community has been painted with the same broad brush as Sandusky and Paterno...
...ok, but again, whom do we, or more to the point, your son, have to blame for that? Certainly, not the NCAA...
...I doubt that employers are that narrow minded that crimes committed by a perverse lunatic at Penn State are going to carry much weight when the time comes to take on a new employee; if he or she is that myopic then the business is probably not long range anyhow...I’m sure your son will encounter none of those issues...
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