tigerslionspistonshabs Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 *comes into thread thinking this was about the final season at Joe Louis Arena* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyk33 Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 DeAndre Levy wrote an article about his thoughts on Paterno. This caused some Penn State alumni to become extremely salty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 What a bunch of Paternos. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCap Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Should have burnt the program to the ground. PotD 26/2/12 1/7/15 2020 BASS Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal Regular Season Champion 2021 BASS NFL Pick'em Regular Season Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFB Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Quote To joyfully and proudly take credit for hurting a defenseless human being is sad, in and of itself. But, to couple this gleeful statement with a willful ignorance of the facts and circumstances surrounding our coach speaks to a complete lack of character and moral integrity on the part of Mr. Levy. Scorch the earth. Salt the ground. Pee on the salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DnBronc Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 6 hours ago, Nyk33 said: DeAndre Levy wrote an article about his thoughts on Paterno. This caused some Penn State alumni to become extremely salty. Well, again, facts don't matter to the JoeBots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viola73 Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 14 hours ago, DnBronc said: Well, again, facts don't matter. So true. In this day and age facts only get in the way of what you want to see and don't want to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 This seems about right: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Judge realizes McQuery is a person who cannot be hired and as a result, increases his judgment by $5M on Friday. http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2016/12/02/433839.htm Quote Judge Thomas Gavin ruled in favor of Mike McQueary’s whistleblower claim, adding more than $5 million to the $7.3 million jury verdict for defamation and misrepresentation. “Only when the `Sandusky Matter’ became public was Mr. McQueary subjected to disparate treatment and adverse employment consequences,” Gavin wrote. He said the decision to order McQueary to keep out of athletic facilities after placing him on administrative leave with pay in November 2011 “was the equivalent of banishment.” The judge said McQueary was humiliated in several respects, including “being told to clean out his office in the presence of Penn State personnel, an action that suggests he had done something wrong and was not to be trusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Wow!!!!! That's crazy! Didn't realize they made him actually do a walk of shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 What a bunch of Paternos. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 I've been wondering whether this run by Penn State would fuel any JoePa talk. And I don't think it really has. I scrolled through their Football Facebook stories and found only one comment about Paterno being happy about this...and nothing about "now let's get that statue up." The harsh punishment that most of us wanted did not come to fruition and now we've moved back to the point where Penn State is a national powerhouse...wow, that did not take long did it? So I think the lessons and improved practice going forward are minimal. For the most part we did not learn anything except for confirmation of the depressing notion that football trumps decency and that we can talk ourselves into just about anything when hero-worship is in play. What happened at Penn State (dozens of people willfully ignoring on-going disgusting acts) can happen elsewhere. But the aftermath was in some ways even more disturbing. Not just the sheer volume of the Penn State faithful continuing to lionize this man (which is frightening) but the "neutral masses" who basically said "let's not punish the players," as if that's the important victim group, and "well, they got rid of all the bad guys" as if that actually can clean up a poisonous culture. For this little corner of the world (college athletics) a huge opportunity was missed in hitting them with a good decade off of football. And not to be punitive, either. First, I am a believer that getting rid of the bad guys is no way to eradicate the culture that caused the issue in the first place. They got rid of everyone and then said "OK, let's get back to the Rose Bowl as soon as possible." Are the "innocents" that remain connected to the athletic department and the University really going to stop cutting corners and bending rules for that team? Maybe a Sandusky situation won't happen again, but some other messed-up stuff could (and by keeping the culture intact, it's some degree more likely), which brings me to... Second, this was the opportunity to set up a deterrent. "If a player in your program is accused of sexual assault, we're not going to punish you at all, provided you cooperate and there's no evidence that you've tried to cover it up." But any cover-up of such things could and should end in a year or two off. And if that threat was there, there'd probably be no cover-ups because coaches and administrators would be thinking about their own jobs. Sure, we don't think a Sandusky situation will happen, but your run of the mill college date rape? By someone with 11 sacks and 13.5 tackles for loss? Any chance the school / athletic department will cover that up so the program can be hidden from embarrassment and the team can win its rivalry game next week? Why not? The NCAA is absolutely impotent on all such things...just make sure your star RB did not get a free taco from his position coach. And Gus Johnson's statement about the win helping "heal" is interesting. It kinda shows where so many people are in relation to this...it's become something that's happened too Penn State. The NCAA picked on them (as proven by their pulling back of the punishments and essentially apologizing). They lost scholarships. They are expected to wrestle with the conflict of what to think of their great coach (they are failing miserably). They did not contend in the Big Ten East for a couple of years. And now, Penn State football is right back where they were when ignorance was true bliss. And all's right with the world. Well, unless you think it's Sandusky's victims that are the ones with healing to do; and you don't think going to the Rose Bowl is key in said healing. But really, how many people think that. Meanwhile, I have no idea what to do; so I talk football...how awesome the QB was picking apart the Wisconsin defense yesterday. I take the high road. Especially since it was my team that was on the wrong end of the greatest day in Happy Valley since before the scandal broke (i.e., I'd be accused of deflecting). Because virtually nobody wants to hear about this (which I get). And I'm not going to change the world. And the opportunities; they're all missed. Everyone failed. EDIT: This board and Deadspin are the only places where I run across people who "get it." I'm glad there are some people that do... Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 7 hours ago, OnWis97 said: And Gus Johnson's statement about the win helping "heal" is interesting. It kinda shows where so many people are in relation to this...it's become something that's happened too Penn State. The NCAA picked on them (as proven by their pulling back of the punishments and essentially apologizing). They lost scholarships. They are expected to wrestle with the conflict of what to think of their great coach (they are failing miserably). They did not contend in the Big Ten East for a couple of years. And now, Penn State football is right back where they were when ignorance was true bliss. And all's right with the world. Well, unless you think it's Sandusky's victims that are the ones with healing to do; and you don't think going to the Rose Bowl is key in said healing. But really, how many people think that. Meanwhile, I have no idea what to do; so I talk football...how awesome the QB was picking apart the Wisconsin defense yesterday. I take the high road. Especially since it was my team that was on the wrong end of the greatest day in Happy Valley since before the scandal broke (i.e., I'd be accused of deflecting). Because virtually nobody wants to hear about this (which I get). And I'm not going to change the world. And the opportunities; they're all missed. Everyone failed. EDIT: This board and Deadspin are the only places where I run across people who "get it." I'm glad there are some people that do... The Paterno/Sandusky stuff is odd right now. Happy Valley cretins are happy to gaslight themselves into this weird "football program & sports history over HERE, and child rape over HERE" thing where they want to completely exorcise this unspeakable evil out of people's memories via WINNING, YEAHHHHH!!! But to just summarize the issue, nothing says it better than this now-deleted tweet by some PSU chump: Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 ^ I started to feel for Penn State fans and then had to remind myself that those people deserve neither football success nor happiness. If it was any other program, though.... That guy went on to berate "morons" because "obviously I meant in a sports tragedy sense. Grow up!" One, it's not a great sports tragedy. You lost 2 games and nobody ever said you had to win the conference to be in the playoff. It's not even the greatest sports tragedy in Penn State football history (the undefeated 94 team that didn't win a national title instantly comes to mind). Two, can you at least try to have a little perspective? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyk33 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 38 minutes ago, McCarthy said: Two, can you at least try to have a little perspective? To have perspective people need to have a working brain. JoeBots clearly don't have that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2fcc70b19b6a484bb122bb9d4724e844/jerry-sanduskys-son-jeffrey-charged-child-sexual-abuse?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Top25 BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — One of Jerry Sandusky's adult sons faces multiple charges of sexual offenses involving children, more than five years after the former Penn State assistant coach was himself first arrested. Court records filed Monday say 41-year-old Jeffrey S. Sandusky was charged with 14 counts, including criminal solicitation and corruption of minors. The online court docket says Jeffrey Sandusky was arraigned Monday and bail was set at $200,000. He's currently in the Centre County Correctional Facility. Jeffrey Sandusky's lawyer didn't immediately return a phone message. The district attorney's office says it is about to release a statement. WTAJ-TV says state police accuse him of sending inappropriate texts to a victim and asking for naked photos. Jerry Sandusky is serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual abuse of 10 boys. Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalieboy82 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, CS85 said: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2fcc70b19b6a484bb122bb9d4724e844/jerry-sanduskys-son-jeffrey-charged-child-sexual-abuse?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Top25 BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — One of Jerry Sandusky's adult sons faces multiple charges of sexual offenses involving children, more than five years after the former Penn State assistant coach was himself first arrested. Court records filed Monday say 41-year-old Jeffrey S. Sandusky was charged with 14 counts, including criminal solicitation and corruption of minors. The online court docket says Jeffrey Sandusky was arraigned Monday and bail was set at $200,000. He's currently in the Centre County Correctional Facility. Jeffrey Sandusky's lawyer didn't immediately return a phone message. The district attorney's office says it is about to release a statement. WTAJ-TV says state police accuse him of sending inappropriate texts to a victim and asking for naked photos. Jerry Sandusky is serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual abuse of 10 boys. this comes to mind when i read this: so long and thanks for all the fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerGuyJordan Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Sadly, I'm not all that surprised. From a purely objective standpoint, you have to at least consider the strong possibility that a man who engaged in sexual practices with underage boys would have done so with his own children. Statistically, most pedophiles were, themselves, the victims of sexual abuse. This is why it is so crucial for juvenile victims of sexual abuse to undergo rigorous therapy. It's a sick cycle that happens all the time, we are just watching this one play out on a national stage. Thunder Bay Lynx - International Hockey Association (2 seasons, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2018 Xtreme Cup Champions) | Houston Armadillos - Major League Hockey (2 seasons, 2016-18) | Minnesota Muskies - North American Basketball Association (1 season, 2017-2018) | Louisville Thoroughbreds - United League of Baseball (1 season, 2017, 2017 United Cup Champions) | Las Vegas Thunderbirds - International Basketball League (1 season, 2016-17, 2017 Champions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 edit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Glad somebody's taking responsibility. It's been like 5 years. Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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