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To: Eyes Unclouded
They should just call it a wrap on this season IMO.

I agree - I don't know if the PSU Board of Trustees gets it yet, naming some interim head coach as if the rest of the season is going to be business as usual. Do they have any idea what the rest of the nation is thinking and saying about Penn State's program right now, and do they really want to send their team out to play on the road after this weekend? Is Mike McQueary, the 28 year old former player who witnessed a child being raped and ran away instead of stopping it, still going to be on the sidelines as a coach?

I know the football program has made Penn State, but IMHO it's time to give it the SMU treatment and rebuild clean from the ashes after a couple of years hiatus. Start by firing McQueary.
33 posted on 11/10/2011 12:11:22 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

This is really a lot like when the NFL suspended Michael Vick. Had to be done, first, because it was morally right, but also because the reaction to him was so fierce, there was no way the season could go on as usual.

One of the lessons here SHOULD be “IT’S ONLY A GAME.”

I know that may be hard for the Penn State cult to take in, but it should be one of the greatest life’s lessons they’ll ever have.

I don’t know why these people protected Sandusky, but you can bet at least part of it was to protect the football program, the university because it had the football program, and “the game.”

NONE of that has any worth whatsoever compared to protecting a human being.


46 posted on 11/10/2011 12:34:19 AM PST by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Penn State doesn’t operate in a vacuum. As a member of the Big Ten, whatever happens there impacts every other football team in the Big Ten and really every team in the NCAA. College football is all about money - HUGE money. Not only money garnered on Saturdays in the fall, but licensed merchandise sold every day of the year. Also corporate sponsorship and broadcast rights.

There’s absolutely no way PSU will suspend this football season, or the next, or ever.

Also suspending the season hurts the current players, who had nothing to do with this sordid matter. It would affect their scholarships and also future pro prospects.


103 posted on 11/10/2011 5:37:50 AM PST by randita (I'm not a percentage. I'm a free person.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Sadly I agree and I am a BIG fan of Penn State football. I just don’t see how you can do anything else but cancel the season.


152 posted on 11/10/2011 8:56:20 AM PST by jpsb
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