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re: One has to have empathy for the Penn State Football Community for their past 15 Years
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:47 pm to UncleLester
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:47 pm to UncleLester
My family (save for one cousin) are Penn State fans.
I have no sympathy. Especially after the way they treated Paterno like an infallible deity.
I have no sympathy. Especially after the way they treated Paterno like an infallible deity.
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Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:50 pm to Lexis Dad
That football program should've been destroyed until they can't compete with LA Tech for the Sandusky stuff. Should've been the worst punishment ever handed down that had a 25 year impact.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:50 pm to UncleRuckus
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That program should’ve have been punished so severely that they would have no chance at football success for 50 years.
I’ve changed my tune. I gotta disagree. frick anybody who was part of the problem, and frick the people that defended the culture.
I don’t think that the guys that laid the foundation for the program and were innocent should have their Alma mater essentially destroyed.
Think if you killed the LSU program. All money that went to the stadium, training facilities, etc is essentially a waste. You force current players to continue their education somewhere else. Tailgating dies, and so does anybody who makes a living in that department. Stands begin to empty, money doesn’t come in, and it begins to impact non-revenue sports. Donors that funded the program, and other projects associated with the school will take their dollars elsewhere. HS athletes will leave the state in droves, continuing a trend seen in other walks of life.
As terrible as the Penn State scandal was, tar and feather those involved. What sense does it make to punish innocent people in 2012 and onward for something that happened years, even decades, prior?
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:52 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Given your stance on Penn St shouldn’t the Catholic Church be banished from existence?
I was gonna say that you’ll have people argue this point, but I’m late…looks like someone already did
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:52 pm to goldennugget
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I will never feel bad for that program after Sandusky
Seconded.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:00 pm to tigerinthebueche
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You’re really comparing a football program to the Catholic Church?
You’re right it’s a terribly unfair comparison. The football program in question had 1 guy that molested children that was covered up by a few people
The Catholic Church had literally thousands of priests molesting kids covered up by the church for decades. the initial investigation by the Boston Globe found 250 in just Boston. It was known by officials in the Church for decades. Sandusky is nothing compared to that.
This post was edited on 10/4/25 at 7:04 pm
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:02 pm to UncleLester
They shouldn't even have a football program
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:13 pm to TexasTiger08
quote:if LSU had the same head coach for 50 years, and he along with almost everyone associated with the program covered up what Sandusky did, I'd throw away every bit of LSU gear I have and never watch them, support them, or provide a penny to the school in any way ever again.
Think if you killed the LSU program. All money that went to the stadium, training facilities, etc is essentially a waste. You force current players to continue their education somewhere else. Tailgating dies, and so does anybody who makes a living in that department. Stands begin to empty, money doesn’t come in, and it begins to impact non-revenue sports. Donors that funded the program, and other projects associated with the school will take their dollars elsewhere. HS athletes will leave the state in droves, continuing a trend seen in other walks of life.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:13 pm to UncleLester
Nah. frick Pedo State and their douchebag fans
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:47 pm to UncleLester
Feel sorry for a fan base that defended horrible coaches that ruined kids lives??? WTF is wrong with you?
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:53 pm to UncleLester
You are sick and woefully uninformed.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:59 pm to UncleLester
Read court transcripts. Read depositions. Then let’s talk.
Remember the Amiraults. Gerald Amirault was arrested in September 1984 on charges of sexually abusing a child at his family's day care facility, which promptly had its license to operate suspended by the state of Massachusetts. His mother and sister, Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, respectively, were also later arrested.
Time in jail. Exonerated years later. Thank you Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ when that rag used to do investigative reporting.
Total miscarriage of justice.
See any judicial injustices and abuse of government power lately?
Remember the Amiraults. Gerald Amirault was arrested in September 1984 on charges of sexually abusing a child at his family's day care facility, which promptly had its license to operate suspended by the state of Massachusetts. His mother and sister, Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, respectively, were also later arrested.
Time in jail. Exonerated years later. Thank you Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ when that rag used to do investigative reporting.
Total miscarriage of justice.
See any judicial injustices and abuse of government power lately?
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:03 pm to hashtag
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if LSU had the same head coach for 50 years, and he along with almost everyone associated with the program covered up what Sandusky did, I'd throw away every bit of LSU gear I have and never watch them, support them, or provide a penny to the school in any way ever again.
I certainly hope you are not a Catholic or support the political party of This Guy For starters you are grossly over exaggerating how many people knew. We know a couple for sure and those guys were charged and sent to jail. Paterno probably knew or maybe was willfully ignorant but should have. I’m not aware of any actual evidence he actively covered it up, but he was in charge and should bear responsibility. To say that everyone associated with just the FB program let alone the Athletic Department or the entire university is just stupid. If you'd stop giving to a university that does after all educate Thousands of people and does all Kinds of research over something done by 1 FB coach you have warped priorities
This post was edited on 10/4/25 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:07 pm to UnclePat76
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a fan base that defended horrible coaches that ruined kids lives
No one has defended Sandusky
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:08 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:I stopped giving to LSU for far less than that. Those assholes don't need my money for academics, nor football. They don't value the things I do, and likely never did. It's funny that you think someone NOT giving money to a schools athletic department is the one that is warped.
If you'd stop giving to a university that does after all educate Thousands of people and does all Kinds of research over something done by 1 FB coach you have warped priorities
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:08 pm to UncleLester
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Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:10 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:Sandusky wasn't the only one that ruined lives. Every person that knew and stayed silent is guilty of that as well.
No one has defended Sandusky
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:34 pm to UncleLester
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One has to have empathy for the Penn State Football Community for their past 15 Yearsby UncleLesterFirst, it has to be absolutely exhausting to constantly keep defending that "Joe Paterno had no idea what Sandusky was up to." And then each Fall for this last 11 years, you have to believe that James Franklin is going to finally lead you to big wins. Real shame for those fans and friends of the Program.
No frick them and anytime who supports the athletic department there. The entire football program should have gotten the death penalty, both the program and the actual death penalty for JoePa, Sandusky, the AD, and everyone else involved in the cover up.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 9:06 pm to UncleLester
Don't drop the soap.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 9:10 pm to UncleLester
Even without JoePa covering up for the child rapist, he was one of the biggest hypocrites in college football. Penn State was losing some of its luster in the late 80s/early 90s so what did he do? Bring in some of the thug and criminal element he turned his nose up about other schools. That 94 team was not a bunch of studious straight arrows.
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