It’s a real problem today that students, and far too many alumni, and others, have their self esteem tied to how many games and championships their chosen team wins.
I understand the mindset, because I once shared it. I’d be depressed if a season, or an athletic event did not turn out as I had hoped. I’ve been cured for a number of years.
Having an athletic department that enabled the anal rape of little boys will do that to you.
We have people on FR who have defended the indefensible, blaming the media and yelling ‘WE ARE PENN STATE’.
I read yesterday that the boy (now 17) who made the complaint about Sandusky’s more recent behavior, which was the thing that kicked off the investigation into the earlier charges, just had to leave his high school because of the abuse, much of it involving sexual name calling related to the acts to which he was submitted, insults and threats he was getting from the other students because he had “snitched” and this had gotten “JoePa” removed. Unbelievable.
What was even worse was the interview with the administrator or principal of the school, who said “we - uh - failed - uh - uh - to - uh prepare - uh -uh - uh - to facilitate - uh - the boy’s - uh presence - uh uh uh - in the - uh - school...” She never said that the behavior of the other students was wrong and disgusting, that anybody participating in these attacks should be off any team they might have been on because they clearly did not understand right and wrong, and that they were doing exactly what the victim feared they would do, attack him for daring to reveal the abusive acts of a powerful person in their society.
When you normalize homosexual perversion then how are you going to condemn homosexuals doing what they naturally do?
In order to protest against the child molestation you HAVE to admit that it’s a homosexual problem and the mindless idiots have been taught that the homosexuals are just like us.
This sets up a cognitive dissonance for most of them. Safer to protest for the football program than to risk offending the perverts
[ What the students ought to have felt — and perhaps did feel, though they hardly have names for this antique sensation anymore — was shame. Though personally innocent, until the riot, they should have felt ashamed to be associated with an institution that allegedly enabled a serial child rapist to prey upon victims. ]
Same goes for the PSU fans who were out in hoardes to cheer for their team that following Sat. A team that should have never taken the field.
When Penn State fires Michael Mann, I may consider not throwing PSU resumes in the trash can....