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I 100% agree with you TG. Anything and everything related to any adminstrator involved should be removed from the school and burned in a public bon fire.
If you're not talking about Paterno then sorry for the rant. Ha.
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The court is punishing the piece of shit that committed the rapes.
The school and it's administration and coaches are not being punished by the courts for setting up the environment that allowed this to go on.
The NCAA should punish the school for that.
I agree that the players are going to lose out and that is too bad but this needs to be done.
What those boys went through goes way beyond unfortunate,
Players and non playing students should understand that and graciouslly pull the plug on the program for a while.
And the program deserves the "death penalty".
SMU got the death penalty for improper benefits. I want to know in what world does anyone live, that "improper benefits" is somehow worse than "improper sexual conduct with children".
Their is a cultural problem in the world of college football on the East coast and in the South. Football actually means more to these people than real life. That is what allowed this to go on. A strong message needs to be sent to wake everyone the fuck up.
Sandusky is a mess. A flawed human being. I believe the things he did werent so much a "choice" but rather compulsive behavior. A person with an incurable disease so to speak. A person not fit for society that is for sure. As grotesque as the things he did were, his "addiction" was for the most part out of his control. Whereas all the people who let it slide, and tried to cover it up, they cannot claim an addiction or being born defective. They made cognoscente choices that had massively horrible results. In some weird way, I almost find what the enablers did worse than Sandusky. I know that aint right, they didnt sexually abuse children, but they did allow it to go on. Willingly.
That football program and all the people that benefit financially from it has no place existing anymore. Especially considering that is a State school, not a private one.
If, by "suffer", you mean transfer to another D1 school where your tuition, room and board and meals are paid for, yeah, I guess they may have to deal with that.
I am not advocating they get a pass. I think the whole program needs stripped of anyone who has been involved. Those people need black balled from ever being involved in organized sports again. And the program should start over. This will severely hamper it's performance for those that think they should suffer.
There's way more at stake here than just the football program. The injustice done to those innocent youths and their families is inexusable. As would be the penalty that would be paid by the thousands of innocent employees, students, businessess and related individuals that would be hurt by a misplaced and over-reaching punishment.
Have unforgiveable transgressions taken place? Yes. Should persons responsible be held accountable? Yes. But punishing a whole community for the sins of a few is not productive.
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Press criminal charges to the ones who deserve it. Clean house from anyone who was involved. Go after school policy and the administration who polices it...clean it up.
It's stupid to remove the program. It was dumb at SMU. There's way too much money that sport brings in, which the college uses in many, many ways. Leverage that money to do some good.
Tough shit. the whole program needs to be gutted. And a 10 year, minimum bowl ban for the school.
Pit Row
Jaberoni's post earlier made more sense than the rest of the posts here, combined....
I also like the idea that they should also contribute a large percentage of the revenue from the program to programs that help those that have suffered from the kind of abuse that was allowed to happen.
I don't see how the players should be held accountable, but everybody from the head coach down to the equipment manager and the waterboy should be given the boot out the door and blacklisted from the NCAA.
And since shit trickles uphill, they should turf the dean while they're at it.
If giving SMU the death penalty was a mistake back then, then this is a prime example of when "past precedence" is not enough of excuse to hand out a equal punishment. Im also not in favor of knee-jerk reactions. Im aware of my flaws from my earlier logic.
But to say that Penn State football isnt part of the problem is misleading. It's the football culture that is almost as guilty as Sandusky. I can agree with you in saying that everyone who was involved be removed and blackballed. But I believe that all that will accomplish is that the next time around, the enablers will do a better job of not getting caught enabling.
The culture of football in that region is the root issue here. That culture needs to have its cage rattled. Firings wont do that IMO. By putting the economics of football more important than the severity of this issue, we are once again re-enforcing the insane notion that football is more important than real life.
And lets not forget, PSU committed much worse "sins" than SMU did. Far worse. "Past precedence" or not. The penalty to the University needs to be stiff.
Im not set in my ways on this debate. I dont know what the proper direction to go is. Im just here for some healthy discussion on the matter. JT, make a convincing enough argument and I'll easily see things your way.
Maybe I'm a lil bent over the fact that at one time in this process, I stuck up for the University and Paterno because at the time and based on the evidence, it seemed to me like they were being punished even though they never actually hurt anyone. Well, as this story unfolded it later became crystal-clear that they were all accomplices in these acts of horror so I had to change my opinion on them.
The more this story gets uncovered, the worse it gets that is for sure. And now that the enablers are being looked into by authorities, expect even more shitty news to be uncovered.
Who would have thought it would end so ugly for JoePa? 10 years ago you would have been crazy to think it come to this. Wild.
Taking down the statue (for starters) would likely rattle that cage...
Everyone says Joe Pa was a good man and around here he was a legend, but I guess he let football get the best of him instead of doing what most good hearted people would do. Dont get me wrong, Im not saying Joe Pa is a bad guy, but he definitely handled this situation about as bad as you can.
Personally, if I had seen Sandusky banging some kid in the shower I would beat the piss out of him and taken the kid to safety.
BTW, there will be more to this story, anyone from PA remember the DA that was killed a few years ago around State College, I heard they were looking into this Sandusky situation, apparently the powers that be didnt like that.
Nowhere did I say we should feel sorry for him. I dont feel sorry for him just like I dont feel sorry for kids born with birth defects.
I said Sandusky was not fit for society. I dont know what more worse I could say about a person than that. Ive been to jail, I know how bad it can be. He's going to suffer more than you could imagine for what he's done.
This thread is NOT about Sandusky. Neither was my post.
But since you want to talk about him...he knew he was doing something wrong, he just couldnt stop himself. He's a defective human being. Maybe even sexually abused as a child himself. I dont know his history but maybe you should take a class or two on psyche before casting judgements.
Typically, child molesters know what they are doing is "wrong" and they are not proud of what they are doing, even if they are "enjoying" it. That may be hard for some of you to understand, but if you've ever dealt with serious drug addiction or watched a friend who has, its a very similar situation. They dont want to do the drugs anymore, but they do them anyways, and regret it immediately. I once had my little brother call me crying and apologizing immediately after falling off the wagon.
To a lessor degree, you see the same behavior with people who are obese/have eating disorders.
And by the way, before you condemn dog fighting, do a lil research into the industrial food complex and how we treat pigs in particular. Way more cruel and inhumane than anything Mike Vick did. So unless you dont eat pork, you are a major hypocrite and/or simply ignorant.
Say what?
I'm agreeing w/ Rooster, here...so...be careful...you might wanna take a jacket with you if you're going to Hell (or Ft. McMurray: same address).
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