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Cyrrex
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Because a lot of human beings absolutely suck?
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Abagadro
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I suspect other shoes are going to drop. There is so much weirdness surrounding this whole sordid affair.
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I suspect other shoes are going to drop. There is so much weirdness surrounding this whole sordid affair.
There certainly is an air of impending doom about the situation. I suspect that there has to be something else lurking underneath all this for them to outright fire Paterno.
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Chimpy
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A large portion (if not all) of the trustees are going to be ousted as well I bet.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Mosesandstick
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Back to basketball! Forbes doesn't believe the owners tooWhen you tally the aggregate projected operating incomes of all 30 NBA teams, this yields a surplus of $182.6 million.
Granted, Forbes may not be privy to all the financial data that ultimately determine a team’s financial position…and their estimates have come under scrutiny before for this reason.
But $482.6 million off? That seems a stretch.
Even if Forbes’ operating income estimates are inflated by 25% (which I seriously doubt), you’re still looking at $137 million in aggregate profits.
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ghost
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I'm so disinterested in the rich versus the rich. They can all rot, for all I care. The only pro sport that has any merit at all to me any more is the NFL.
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HaemishM
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This place is facing MASSIVE civil liability right now. The Trustees are shitting their collective britches and heads are going to roll for anyone who even tangentially touched this thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire athletic department and coaching staff is purged. How this all happened in basically the middle of the entire Catholic Church scandal is beyond me.
Yeah, there's the part that blows my mind. This was all going on when the whole Catholic priests raping boys scandal was constant front page news. As school admins, you HAD to know this would blow the fuck up on them. My only thought is that at the time, they didn't want to be equated with kiddy-diddling rapriests. But see, that would have been the PERFECT time to jump out in front of it, admit this guy was diddling kids on campus and show how proactive you are the community and the world at large. The PR heat on Penn State would have lasted maybe a fucking week and then forgotten as a blip in the larger scheme of things. Did they really think this was not going to eventually come out? Did they think this was like some isolated incident? It would have been one thing to cover up an affair with a male or female college student. At least then you could fall back on the consenting adult thing. But kids? Ass-raping kids? There's just not one excuse good enough to explain why anyone involved didn't report this to at the very least the University police. You just cannot justify it at all. It's kids, for fuck's sake. There's no wiggle room there.
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01101010
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Paelos
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Won't last. Expect him to be fired by the end of the day.
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slog
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I will be shocked if he lives through the holidays. Either he will sack up and kill himself or someone will take him out.
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Death penalty is too good for this fuckstick.
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Threash
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Mike McQueary wasn't just any old grad assistant...he was a former record-setting quarterback at Penn State. He'd worked with JoePa on a regular basis for years on and off the field. This was not some kid who was scared to come in and talk to Joe. He cannot possibly on the field their next game, that would be a god damn circus.
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Paelos
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That sounds far fetched. Were it true, the Penn State football program ends.
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Outlawedprod
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That sounds far fetched. Were it true, the Penn State football program ends.
Not the first time this rumor has been brought up online. https://twitter.com/#!/dan_bernstein/status/134103234724896768
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Hawkbit
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HaemishM
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Yeah, I read the Grand Jury presentment. Before I had read it, I wasn't sure how bad the whole thing was. After... it's fucking bad. It's goddamn monstrous. There's a pattern of predatory behavior on this guy dated back close to 20 years, and that's just from the 8 kids they've put to the grand jury. There's no telling how many others there are that haven't come forward. And if the rumor about rich donors thing is true... Paelos may be right, that shit is OVER. Who is going to donate money to the program now if all it'll get you is a reputation as a kiddy diddler?
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Paelos
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Yeah, I read the Grand Jury presentment. Before I had read it, I wasn't sure how bad the whole thing was. After... it's fucking bad. It's goddamn monstrous. There's a pattern of predatory behavior on this guy dated back close to 20 years, and that's just from the 8 kids they've put to the grand jury. There's no telling how many others there are that haven't come forward. And if the rumor about rich donors thing is true... Paelos may be right, that shit is OVER. Who is going to donate money to the program now if all it'll get you is a reputation as a kiddy diddler?
It's not only that, it's the civil suits, the criminal suits, the conspiracy charges, it would just be too much to bear. The NCAA wouldn't have any say in it. The Penn Legislature would feel too much political pressure to shut it down.
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Ingmar
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To be clear the donors in question in the rumor, at least as far as I've heard, were not Penn State donors but rather donors to Second Mile.
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That's pretty fucking huge if it turns out the coverup goes well outside of just PSU and maybe the charity.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Merusk
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If you don't understand just how deep into the community this went, you haven't been paying attention to the Cult Of JoPa bent to all the discussions or you think that's normal shit.
As one guy I know put it. "Football is big at Penn, but JoPa eclipsed Football."
When you have people rioting and leaving classes in tears and saying "he was like a grandfather to me" about a man they've never met. Something's fucking weird and that weirdness is going to go too deep for sanity.
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Paelos
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What are the odds that Sandusky ends up dead this weekend?
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What are the odds that Sandusky ends up dead this weekend?
I would have to say 50:50.
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koro
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That's pretty fucking huge if it turns out the coverup goes well outside of just PSU and maybe the charity.
This rabbit hole is going to go a long way down before this is all said and done, especially if the "sex ring" allegations turn out to be true. For instance, the current governor of PA, Tom Corbett, gave a speech earlier today condemning everyone at Penn State who was a part of this fiasco and called the rioters "knuckleheads". Corbett (who as governor, is a member of the board of trustees at Penn State), also served two terms as state Attorney General, the most recent from 2005 to January of this year. This also covers the time during the grand jury investigation, whose details and severity he was undoubtedly aware of. At no point during his current tenure as a trustee did he make any moves to keep Sandusky off of campus, despite Sandusky being on campus just days before his indictments and flouting the restrictions on his bringing children on campus as late as 2008.
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Hmm. Nebraska has asked their fans to not wear red to the game in Happy Valley. Penn State fans are pushing the limits here.
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Paelos
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Hmm. Nebraska has asked their fans to not wear red to the game in Happy Valley. Penn State fans are pushing the limits here.
Why would they not want their fans wearing red?
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koro
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Cornhuskers colors are red and white. There is fear that angry Penn State fans will lash out and attack Nebraska fans.
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Hawkbit
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Cornhuskers colors are red and white. There is fear that angry Penn State fans will lash out and attack Nebraska fans.
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Paelos
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Cornhuskers colors are red and white. There is fear that angry Penn State fans will lash out and attack Nebraska fans.
Please. If drunken rednecks can keep it together, I expect those educated Yankees can stop from throwing their wine glasses at each other during a game.
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koro
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After the way the Penn State population rioted after Paterno was fired I am not sure that isn't such a bad precaution.
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Paelos
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After the way the Penn State population rioted after Paterno was fired I am not sure that isn't such a bad precaution.
Or what, they release actual nittany lions on the populace? Or spray them with firehoses? They are so incensed by the firing of JoePa that they take out their rage on unsuspecting midwesterners that didn't even show up in the conference until this year? Again, this is stupid, reactionary shit. Wear your colors Nebraska fans. Wear them proudly. Just don't make inappropriate signage. Go in there, lay the smackdown on a team that will be reeling, and exit with a classy win.
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