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re: Penn State..Is this the biggest college scandal in history?.....
Posted on 7/12/12 at 9:46 pm to Traveler
Posted on 7/12/12 at 9:46 pm to Traveler
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I'm astounded about the number of emails and some of the content that has been shown. Why in the world would anyone be so stupid to put such damning evidence in an email?
Hubris. They were treated like that campus was a world unto itself - they were at least somewhat convinced they made their own laws.
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Posted on 7/12/12 at 9:48 pm to FourThinInches
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Penn state isnt really a sports scandal... its criminal and civil case....
It's both. The football facilities were used to by a football coach to sexually assault children repeatedly, and then the football head coach covered that up. You can't describe the crime without using the word "football" a lot.
Posted on 7/12/12 at 9:53 pm to Lincoln1
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I'm astounded about the number of emails and some of the content that has been shown. Why in the world would anyone be so stupid to put such damning evidence in an email?
Hubris. They were treated like that campus was a world unto itself - they were at least somewhat convinced they made their own laws.
happy valley was a happy little kingdom with no outside accountability...and joepa was cardinal richeleu to the university president's louis xiii.....
Posted on 7/12/12 at 10:18 pm to the LSUSaint
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Penn State..Is this the biggest college scandal in history?.....
Easily and it should absolutely be an NCAA matter. It has everything to do with football. The President, VP, AD, and HC all knowingly hid and aided an active child molester for 14 years in order to win more football games. The entire motive for hiding the scandal and allowing the abuse to continue was to protect the football program.
Posted on 7/12/12 at 11:32 pm to tylercsbn9
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baylor killing people and the cover up is greater
Na Bruh. Being a pedophile is worse than murder IMO.
Posted on 7/12/12 at 11:34 pm to Rickdaddy4188
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Na Bruh. Being a pedophile is worse than murder IMO.
I honestly don't know how people can find the two scandals comparable. The PSU scandal lasted OVER A DECADE!
Posted on 7/12/12 at 11:36 pm to SabiDojo
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I honestly don't know how people can find the two scandals comparable. The PSU scandal lasted OVER A DECADE!
It's not close. As sad as the Baylor stuff was Atleast it was between two adults.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 12:02 am to SabiDojo
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The PSU scandal lasted OVER A DECADE!
And God only knows how many boys Sandusky raped during his lifetime. Dozens and dozens, I'd bet. There's never been a high profile monster like this. The dude managed to do this all while in the public eye.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 3:47 am to mattz1122
Raping kids, and the knowledge of said rape, where the locker room and extended access to facilities including the PSU football program i.e.: Sandusky bringing and raping a kid at the Orange bowl, provided the imputes and backdrop to these acts. This makes Dickerson's Pontiac look like what it is , a gold Firebird, honestly who cares now its just a car. If Ole Joe was alive he would be going to the slammer.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 6:34 am to the LSUSaint
Given that so many were involved, I think this takes the cake. Although, the Baylor murder one is right there too.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:03 am to SpartyGator
Not only is this the biggest, but also the saddest. PSU will NEVER be the same. This is so much more than football, so much more than boosters gone wild.
This is hurtful for the many people that looked up to JoePa. It is hurtful to every alumnus, player, and supporter of PSU.
The stigma and stench from this will NEVER go away.
My dislike for Alabama on this board is well known. I would send my kid to Alabama long before I would send them to PSU.
This is hurtful for the many people that looked up to JoePa. It is hurtful to every alumnus, player, and supporter of PSU.
The stigma and stench from this will NEVER go away.
My dislike for Alabama on this board is well known. I would send my kid to Alabama long before I would send them to PSU.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:23 am to the LSUSaint
Not only education, but sports as well. Nothing comes close.
This post was edited on 7/13/12 at 7:24 am
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:27 am to Pedro
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smu death penalty is up there with it
Holy shite, do you honestly think paying off a player to play glorified tag is even close to this. Let me tell you how close they are:
Penn State scandal
Smu
I probably should go lower than this, but you get the picture.
This post was edited on 7/13/12 at 7:28 am
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:32 am to Powerman
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Well college sports maybe
Name it? The only thing that is probably worse is the Munich Massacre. I'll admit that that was worse than the Penn State cover-up, but it's still a close second.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:46 am to the LSUSaint
To have a sexual predator at this level of coaching for so many years and the highest level of leadership cover it up for years is beyond my ability to understand how and why this happened for so many years. This tragedy cannot happen! It's impossible! But yet it did happen at the highest level of sports exposure. This is by far the biggest scandal in all of sports. Should never had happened but did.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 8:13 am to Monticello
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Easily and it should absolutely be an NCAA matter. It has everything to do with football. The President, VP, AD, and HC all knowingly hid and aided an active child molester for 14 years in order to win more football games. The entire motive for hiding the scandal and allowing the abuse to continue was to protect the football program.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 8:39 am to KosmoCramer
So rape is worse than murder? What the frick
Posted on 7/13/12 at 9:13 am to TenTex
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This is by far the biggest scandal in all of sports.
I agree. Seems like most people do. I heard there are rumors that the chancellors of the other universities want PSU out of the Big10.
If all this is true, why are the talking heads saying Penn State shouldn't get the Death Penalty? If this is not "Lack of Institutional Control", then I dont know what is. Or does that only count when it violates recruiting rules?
Posted on 7/13/12 at 9:20 am to SMD
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So rape is worse than murder? What the frick
LINK
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A fate worse than death
Meaning
Any misfortune that would make life unlivable, especially rape or loss of virginity. The phrase was formally a euphemism for rape.
Origin
This phrase originally attested to the belief that a dishonoured woman was better off dead. It is still used, but ironically of late. The earlier view was expressed in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1781:
"The matrons and virgins of Rome were exposed to injuries more dreadful, in the apprehension of chastity, than death itself."
The current version of the phrase was used in several works from 1810 onward but was probably brought into public use via Edgar Rice Burroughs' widely read Tarzan of the Apes, 1914:
"[The ape] threw her roughly across his broad, hairy shoulders, and leaped back into the trees, bearing Jane Porter away toward a fate a thousand times worse than death."
Posted on 7/13/12 at 9:30 am to Kafka
Believing that Sandusky only started his perversions in the 1990's is like saying EWE only stole the one time he got caught. The Second Mile was formed in the mid to late 1970's. He would have been in his mid 40's in the 80's as best I can figure & his sexual perversions had to be well established by that point in his life. If those victims from the 90's are reluctant to come forward after a decade or so, it's easy to see where any older ones would not want to bring up this crap again. There have already been comments made by attys that they have clients who did not want to come forward with any criminal allegations. This is a huge cesspool that well get uglier & uglier over time. So, yes, it should win the award as the biggest ever.
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