primitives discuss disgraced college football coach

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=215x190449

Oh my.

note: this thread was before the disgraced college football coach was fired

trotsky  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 10:51 AM
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Penn State's Joe Paterno to retire

AFTER the season ends.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7211281/...

IMO this is a joke. He gets to leave on his terms and try to look like he was but an innocent bystander who didn't know anything was wrong.

trumad  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 10:59 AM
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comment deleted as irrelevant, because the truemud primitive doesn't know excresence about anything even remotely connected with sports

El Supremo  (1000+ posts)      Wed Nov-09-11 12:23 PM
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7. So far not many people think he should quit or be fired now.

Of course Nebraska doesn't count.

ESPN poll: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState... 

TZ  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 11:05 AM
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2. Well, at least it makes them look like they are doing the right thing while making sure their football season isn't messed up. I mean, we have to keep our priorities straight,no?

Condem  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 11:11 AM
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3. I still don't think he'll make it to the end.

I don't understand, in the light of all that has happened, how he and McQueary can stand on the sidelines this weekend. It's going to be a ****ing circus.

RockaFowler  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 11:35 AM
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4. How about the people at his house last night??

Treating him like he was the victim. And people are going to wear "Blue" in honor of him on Saturday?? Come on now.

Condem  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 11:44 AM
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5. Saw that.

"You crazy kids. How bout those victims? Let's give them a cheer!! We are...PENN STATE...we are...PENN STATE. Now, go on, you nuts. Get out a here. Love ya!!"

This "we are Penn State" is about the stupidest cheer one can imagine; one might as well be chanting "we are bullies, thugs, sore losers, sore winners, sorry-assed punks."

It's just really stupid.

I attended a Penn State game there once in my life, sometime in the early 1980s; their opponent was some small eastern college, and was getting pounded something like 69-0.

I was eyewitness to one of the most-despicable sights I've ever seen in my life, the Penn State "fans" booing and cat-calling and jeering at their already-humbled opponent.

No class, Penn State "fans;" assholes, all of them.

frylock  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 06:31 PM
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14. ****ing idiots..

i've heard of ped state fans referred to as cultists.

Iggo  (1000+ posts)      Wed Nov-09-11 12:29 PM
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8. He shouldn't even make it to Saturday.

What the **** are they thinking?

MaineDem  (1000+ posts)      Wed Nov-09-11 07:44 PM
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16. I totally agree with you.

He shouldn't be allowed to play this out on his terms.

TZ  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 03:00 PM
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9. Here's an article about this FROM APRIL

http://www.timesonline.com/columnists/sports/mark_madde...

Condem  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 03:08 PM
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10. Great find, TZ.

How prophetic.

ScreamingMeemie  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 03:33 PM
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12. Theo Fleury was just on ESPN talking about what his coach (Graham James) took away from him as a child, when he was molested. The fact that people don't seem to figure the children whose lives are destroyed into consideration is sickening.

RockaFowler  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 03:34 PM
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13. I feel like crying

THese poor kids. Sandusky is an animal and Paterno was his enabler. I'm just sick about this whole situation

RagAss (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 06:34 PM
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15. Who Gives a **** ?!

**** him and his ego. His name is another word for shit from now on !

Yavin4  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 07:50 PM
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17. Paterno Should Have Been Fired

Allowing him to retire is ridiculous. Like all employees of a public school, his first duty is to protect children.

If he turned his back on this, what the hell else has he turned a blind eye to?

fishwax  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 09:28 PM
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18. The BOT has been meeting tonight -- now they're saying a press conference at 10 EST to address Paterno's future ...

Condem  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 09:30 PM
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19. Hopefully, in the words of the great Johnny Rotten....
 
....there is no future.

fishwax  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 09:38 PM
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20. seeing reports on twitter of extra police being called in 

They had cops in riot gear out for the Paterno support demonstrations last night.

[Revolution]

RockaFowler  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 03:34 PM
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13. I feel like crying

THese poor kids. Sandusky is an animal and Paterno was his enabler. I'm just sick about this whole situation

Um...JoPa did nothing wrong legally, Rockhead. Now morally? I'm not sure. He could have, and maybe should have done more, but to throw him under the bus? Really? If you're going to do that to Paterno, they should do that to EVERYONE INVOLVED! Really, McSicko is still not sans job, yet? What kind of justice is that?

[franksolich]

Um...JoPa did nothing wrong legally, Rockhead. Now morally? I'm not sure. He could have, and maybe should have done more, but to throw him under the bus? Really? If you're going to do that to Paterno, they should do that to EVERYONE INVOLVED! Really, McSicko is still not sans job, yet? What kind of justice is that?

It seems to me they did do it to everyone involved, with the exception of, apparently, some obscure assistant coach, and that story's not over yet.

They even fired the president of Penn State, which I wholeheartedly endorse.  The buck stops there.

It perhaps should be pointed out the president of Penn State was, before that, president at the University of Nebraska.  The University of Nebraska since its founding has sent on many people to distinguished roles in other colleges and universities, but this guy was a flop.

[jukin]

If Sandusky was a muslim would the DUchebags think it was all good?

I think they would.

[Revolution]

It seems to me they did do it to everyone involved, with the exception of, apparently, some obscure assistant coach, and that story's not over yet.

They even fired the president of Penn State, which I wholeheartedly endorse.  The buck stops there.

It perhaps should be pointed out the president of Penn State was, before that, president at the University of Nebraska.  The University of Nebraska since its founding has sent on many people to distinguished roles in other colleges and universities, but this guy was a flop.

Really, I never heard that McDouchebag was ever canned. I'm trying to look that up to confirm, but I think I'll just watch ESPN. They've got it going on for updates pretty much non-stop.

I can't see how PSU can even concentrate on football come this Saturday...

[Karin]

I skimmed some Paterno threads over there, just skimmed.  They ended up managing to blame the whole thing  on Republicans, riots and all.     Stupidest thing I've ever seen.  Why do they think that looks clever? 

[Revolution]

^ Bizzaro World, but you already knew that.

 

[USA4ME]

I attended a Penn State game there once in my life, ....No class, Penn State "fans"

I had a completely different experience.

I am not a Penn State fan; far from it really.  But in 2008 I went to a game there with a friend and tailgated in the parking area adjacent to the football field.  Being a Southerner, I expect the fans there to be cold and calloused "Nothererners," but instead found them to be very friendly and welcoming.  The stadium of 110,000 was really loud (game was against Illinois), and the crowd truly got into it.  When they say "We are Penn State," hearing it on TV is no comparison to how loud it is in person.  I'd go back to a game there.

Granted, I've never been to a college football atmosphere like the one at Texas A&M, which is incredible, but it wasn't anything like you described.

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[Gina]

frylock  (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-09-11 06:31 PM
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14. ****ing idiots..

i've heard of ped state fans referred to as cultists.

I see what frylock did there 

[FlaGator]

But I thought that DU loved pedaphiles... especially homosexual pedaphiles? Isn't raping a child considered a life style choice on DU? Isn't Scott Ritter some of symbol of the rightness of sex with children

[GOBUCKS]

Hmm, Sandusky, a pedophile, loses his job in 1999, after which a coverup allows him to escape the prison sentence he deserved.

Wonder why the DUmp's magic man, the Pittster, hasn't commented on this thread.

He has direct knowledge of how these things work.

[franksolich]

I had a completely different experience.

I am not a Penn State fan; far from it really.  But in 2008 I went to a game there with a friend and tailgated in the parking area adjacent to the football field.  Being a Southerner, I expect the fans there to be cold and calloused "Nothererners," but instead found them to be very friendly and welcoming.  The stadium of 110,000 was really loud (game was against Illinois), and the crowd truly got into it.  When they say "We are Penn State," hearing it on TV is no comparison to how loud it is in person.  I'd go back to a game there.

Granted, I've never been to a college football atmosphere like the one at Texas A&M, which is incredible, but it wasn't anything like you described.

I'm sure it depends upon who they're playing, how the game's going, the weather, whatnot.

If it's on television, and if you get a chance, watch at least a little bit of the Nebraska-Penn State game this weekend.  I can pretty much guarantee you'll see Penn State "fans" at their best--or rather, their worst.  Something about Nebraska has always gotten their goat.

It was no surprise to me earlier today to read that the University of Nebraska Board of Regents are asking law-enforcement to take special measures to protect the Nebraska team and fans this weekend.

I don't believe such a request was ever necessary in all the history of Nebraska football, although Colorado came close, circa the mid-1980s up until recently.  Even our most highly-charged games against Missouri never came to this.

And there's the personal experience, too.  I have 18 cousins near or at my own age, cousins I've known and hung around with since childhood, cousins I spent holidays with, all of them graduates of Penn State.  I'm the only one from a college not Penn State.  And I happen to be.....

They're my cousins, and I love them dearly, but they're always sore.  Win or lose, they're always sore.

[franksolich]

I just thought of something else.

It probably depends upon the demographics of the "fans" one hangs around with, at a Penn State game.

I get the impression you were with mature adults.

Myself being of college age, I hung with the college crowds.

And now we have this:

Police warn Penn State students ahead of home game

Penn State University students were warned by local police not to take to the streets on Saturday at the football team's final home game to protest the sacking of legendary coach Joe Paterno amid a sexual abuse scandal.

State College Police Department Captain John Gardner said he plans to have every officer working at the game against Nebraska, where some fear students may protest the ouster of Paterno after 46 years in charge of the team.

"It you truly support Coach Joe or Penn State, this is not the way," Gardner told a news conference. "Stay off the street. The behavior of last night will not be tolerated."

Chanting "Hell no, Joe won't go" and "We want Joe back," thousands of students took to the streets overnight to protest the decision, overturning a television van during a demonstration which some police dispersed using pepper spray.

Gardner said more than a dozen people were arrested when as many as 5,000 students protested on Wednesday evening in what he said degenerated into a "riotous mob."

Pennsylvania State Police and the university police force will assist the town's police on Saturday, Gardner said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/10/us-usa-crime-coach-police-idUSTRE7A978520111110

This is not going to end well.

The scandal currently rocking the campus, and that special detestation and loathing of Nebraska, that Penn State "fans" have.

I always thought that a team should have to forfeit a game if its fans indulge in such poor sportsmanship.

Fans of Wisconsin, Ohio State, Minnesota, Michigan State, and Northwestern, according to anecdotal reports in the newspapers, from Nebraska fans who were at the same games, have been nothing but class acts, stellar in good manners.  These are the sorts of teams with which Nebraska is familiar, as in the old Big 8 and Big 12 (Colorado excepted), fans who understand common courtesy.

Nobody's going to ever top Oklahoma when it comes to class fans, but the consensus here seems to be that Wisconsin comes closest.

[Chris_]

Let me know when they start busting heads.  I'll bring the

[GOBUCKS]

I just read that Tom Osborne issued a statement tonight asking that Nebraska fans not wear red to the game, due to safety concerns.

That must be a first. I've never heard of a case where an collegiate athletic department has asked its fans to avoid wearing their school colors.

Even in Ohio Stadium, Michigan fans can safely wear their repulsive mustard-colored clothing.

[USA4ME]

It probably depends upon the demographics of the "fans" one hangs around with, at a Penn State game.

I get the impression you were with mature adults.

It was a mix, but like I said I was surprised how friendly they were.  I certainly didn't expect it to be like it was.

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[Odin's Hand]

I just read that Tom Osborne issued a statement tonight asking that Nebraska fans not wear red to the game, due to safety concerns.

That must be a first. I've never heard of a case where an collegiate athletic department has asked its fans to avoid wearing their school colors.

Even in Ohio Stadium, Michigan fans can safely wear their repulsive mustard-colored clothing.

The Pedo State primitives are on the warpath. They are looking to graduate from rock-chucking into firebomb tossing.