We are Penn(itentiary) State!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=3504915

Holy hell. I had no idea that Penn State's disciplinary issues were this staggering. Forty-six players facing a combined 163 charges since 2002?!?!?!?! JoePa's interview was a train wreck, too. Talk about a tainted image...

Even the SEC's bad boys can't top this.

 

Saw this on ESPN this morning. Ol' Joe Pa is definitely in denial.

 

My college roommate lives in the Philly area, and he's having a field day with this. He called me and said he wants to print "We are State Penn!" shirts.

 

Graham Spanier is the man who should be getting the tough questions and blame, not the barely alive Joe Paterno. It is Spanier and others on the board who refuse to make a tough decision and tell Joe to retire or face the news of being fired. Paterno and Bobby Bowden are holding programs hostage by making themselves higher than the institution. These men earned their shot to retire on their own without facing the firing squad but the last 5-10 years for each program has been one problem after another.

 

Then so are folks at Tennessee, Iowa, Wisconsin and other places.

The three I named had disproportionate runs in recent years, with Iowa in the midst of an ugly stretch.

Penn State is not an island in this discussion.

 

No, they didn't "win" the 2007 Fulmer Cup.

Illinausea did. And Penn State was runner-up.

http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Fulmer_Cup_2007

 

Sounds like Iowa.

 

An island? Not at all. But I can't imagine any current program topping those ridiculous numbers since 2002. Seventeen players just in 2007? Holy shit. That's not a coincidence. That's an epidemic.

And when you claim to build a program like Paterno claims he has, you're practically begging modern media to come punch a hole in it.

 

http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Fulmer_Cup_Dynasty

For giggles, here's the all-time Fulmer Cup standings. Roll Tide!

How can Fulmer be fourth in his own conference? The award is named after his 2005 Bad Boys.

 

So they are basically Florida State North?

 

Joe has raised millions towards non-athletic endeavors at Penn State and he and his wife funded the reconstruction of the library on campus.
He leaves when he wants to leave.

 

Sheeeit, he's at least twenty years late. You could get one of those in the mid-80s.

Course, it wasn't nearly as true back then. :-\