re: the Penn st. delusion is just scary

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Here's your problem: we just can't relate. We can't understand 1 man being a team much less the entire university. The fact that you had a single coach for 61 years and your entire self identity was wrapped around him is mind boggling to us and is completely outside our understanding. Our identity is tied to our state and the program not a coach or player.

This is why We consider PSU's cult is very different from ours and we can't see our culture allowing for something like this to continue for so long. We have idols here without a doubt. But we have no problem tearing down those idols if they don't meet our standards... To a fault.

I'm not bashing you. I'm just trying to help you understand that using an analogy comparing PSU's situation to something happening at LSU (or any SEC school, really) doesn't help your case. In fact, it makes us more firm in ours. It is precisely that culture that allowed 1 man the power and the identity of the university that we don't understand or trust. What has been your hallmark is what we blame.

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grrrl....this is an absolutely superb analysis and you've explained the cultural difference in a way that i knew in my gut but couldn't put it in words as clearly as you have.....