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...