Rick Reilly: I participated in Paterno hagiography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_asymmetric_insight

 

Who gives a shit about their martyr complex? If they get sanctions they can eat their martyr complex on Saturdays while everyone else is playing football. And they can feel like victims all they want. They'll never feel as bad as Sandusky's victims.

 

I thought Tim Dahlberg made a good point about how the penalties should be distributed.

Like him, I'm against them receiving the death penalty, but there NEEDS to be some penalties thrown at them. To do nothing would be like saying nothing happened. And we all know that's a load of shit.

 

I found this story interesting, especially in light of the recent news. About 5 years old, I guess, but looking back, rather interesting. Just the mindset of what "Penn State" was and what "Miami" was. So different now.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=fiesta87

 

I am surprised there is no publish date on that.

 

I can't believe I'm saying this: I agree with Hondo.

Sandusky's victims will live with their pain for the rest of their lives. Penn State fans can live with some pain for 12 Saturdays this fall.

 

Mizzou! I've never known you to post something so naive. I have no doubt there's a small treasure trove there. You don't get to where she is without it.

I'm still waiting for somebody to write Pat and Geno, the unauthorized story of bigtime women's college basketball. (Because let's face it, beyond those two, "bigtime" and "women's college basketball" don't go together.) However, the story of the ups, downs and yes, folks, the dirt, would be a fascinating and probably salacious one.

A whole-truth biography on just Pat would be good, as would one on just Geno. But the intense dynamic between the two of them-- this two-headed lord of an entire sport-- that would be great reading.

 

As many have alluded to on the multiple threads on this topic this story is bigger than Paterno, bigger than Penn State and bigger than even college football. The Paterno and Penn State failures amount to a cost-benefit they performed it deeming that raped children don't outweigh(out cost) the benefit of winning college football.
If you really want penalties, ban Penn State from football for a year or two. AND don't let the teams on their schedule make up those missing games. Penalize the entire conference with the income loss of missed games and penalize the media partners with the loss of televising games. The Big10 and the NCAA enabled Penn State University to become a professional football organization with an ancillary educational component.

Let the journalists with morality start driving this bus to clean up college athletics.

Everyone associated with collegiate athletics needs to feel this pain. If dozens of children can be raped to protect the sport then sports needs to feel what its like to be forcibly sodomized.

Go forth and write the truth and make it bleed

 

I wish that the Catholic Church has done a Louis Freeh type investigation. Penn State still has a long tough road but the Freeh report puts everything out on the table and allows Penn St to start to move forward. The Catholic church is still in denial .

 

All Catholics must burn, right?
Enablers, every single one of them.

 

I would read that, and I have no interest in women's college basketball.