Posted on 11/12/2011 1:07:35 PM PST by KantianBurke
A last-ditch drive ends in disappointment for Penn State, which loses to Nebraska, 17-14. Not having any timeouts crippled the offense, which completed two passes short of a first down, including one with seconds left, but couldn't stop the clock.
This is a different Saturday in State College. Immediately after McGloin's final pass fell incomplete, the Penn State crowd cheered the team's effort: the cheering grew to a roar as the two teams again met a midfield, such as they did right before the game.
Again, as occurred several times during the game, there were chants of "We love JoePa." Interviewed after the game, interim coach Tom Bradley said that what Penn State has gone through over the last week is "unprecedented in the history of college sports."
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Hardly anyone is held in jail to wait for trial anymore. I see it here all the time. Anyway, time will tell, but that is a problem also. By the time there is a trial and all these other lawsuits, it will be long past the attention span of most people. When the time between crime and time was short it influenced what folks thought of right and wrong. No longer. I am still distraught with the GJ report of the janitor crying later by what he saw. You know that man was ashamed of the sin and wrong wrought upon the campus at that time. Whether it is alums or freshman, that should be the response, not what we saw this past week or today. So, now I say burn it to the ground as an example to others!
It is a very small minority doing that.
Come to downtown State College and start yelling stuff in support of Sandusky. You’ll be lucky if you don’t wake up in the hospital.
[I quit being a fan of college football years ago, when a kicker from the U of MI kiled himself after missing a field goal with Ohio State. Even if he’d had psychological issues, that was more than I wanted to stomach over it.]
That is awful. I never knew about his. What year was this?
Were the Nebraska fans in communist red then?
Somebody thought enough of him to promote him to WR Coach....
The gay sex school clubs are now on the Penn State campus:
Same here. Living in a loony bin of obnoxious Ohio State fans, owned media and fawning businesses for 20 years made me realize how out of whack college football really is.
Why do you seem to excuse Paterno? From what I read he did not go to the police, he went to the Athletic Director.
WFAN and ESPN had reporters on the ground reporting the lack of protesters. Aside from the Westboro wackos, did you see any?
I had expected some people to be protesting the playing of the game. I guess that line of thought is absent at Penn State. Wearing blue must be good enough.
The game should not have been played.
That about says it all.
I respect that. Lot’s of successful Americans do that.
Woody Hayes was a no nonsense guy, and a codger. But he’d show up in Nam unannounced with frozen steaks for his former players. Never took press with him on those runs.
Cranky and cantakerous, he turned himself and OSU around in the late sixties. Too bad about his crankiness getting the best of him with UGa on national TV, cuz the kicking of dirt at referees and the nose to nose yelling at calls he disagreed with were a whale of a thing to see. I was at some of those games. I even got to see Woody speak a few times, up close and personal. Gees, he could tell great stories, and he had a way about him like many men of that era. He was just irascible and kindly and gumpy and inspirational. All at the same time.
But he had that gleam in his eye of someone who knew things. I will always have a soft spot for the man.
Promoting him to receivers coach does not necessarily indicate support of his actions.
Paterno could have just thought it was dumb, not evil. Stupidity in one situation does not mean he will always be dumb and not be able to coach.
But, I’ll take this opportunity to mention another theory, one that implicates Joe:
McQueary was an abuse victim himself, and Paterno had known. It would explain why Paterno seems to have a special affection towards him, almost like he has his protective eye over him (I think you could say that about a lot of people in relation to Paterno, though.) It would also explain why McQueary was once willing to break up a knife-fight between players, but not intervene in a child rape (he could have been doing it with his prior cowardice in mind, though.) Unresolved in that theory is why McQueary’s father, a military man, would put up with his son being abused.
playing or NOT playing a football game does not equal JUSTICE, my friend...
NOT playing would have been a beautiful way of saying to the VICTIMS — We are with you.
No. Nebraska always has that sunrise red of fire engines.
Buckeye Nation is a petri dish of group think.
Thank you for your kind words! :-)
He went to the AD and the guy who oversees campus police, who would have jurisdiction for an on-campus incident.
As he admitted, in hindsight he did not do enough. The question is whether he looked the other way and was in on the cover-up or whether he was duped by those perpetuating the cover-up.
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