OT-PSU 7/17 Plane Demands....
Its getting hotter at Penn State.
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/17/3263795/plane-flying-over-campus-take.html
You weren't aware of Michigan's long standing rivalry with the Radio Control Modelers of Baltimore? I was in Baltimore last weekend to see the Tigers play the Orioles, and I came close to getting in a number of fights with RCMB members over the Michigan shirt I was wearing.
For real though, it stands for Red Cedar Message Board, which I am told is the message board for some Sparty blog. I don't venture over there, but from what I can imagine they display typical Sparty behavior which is why Mgoblog users do not want to be seen as acting like them.
It's the cellar of Sparty blogs.
or at least what their horses produce, anyways
On a side note, that is one ugly stadium:
That's what I've always thought. The erector set look was never a good look.
Can we ban all PSU related threads not dealing with football yet?
Alien beings from Centauri 5 are sending a message. They used the brain wiper ray on the pilot.
Goofy antics aside, what the hell is Penn State doing?
It's like one school's sick experiment to show the world just how completely incompetent they can be in the face of a major scandal.
I try to imagine a scenario wherein Michigan is faced with a similar problem, and how our administration would handle things. I have to believe it would be the exact opposite of this.
Did Joe Pa have so much control over there that they have totally forgotten how to do anything without him?
Couldn't somebody have, you know, told Sandusky to take off that fucking Penn State jacket he kept wearing everywhere, during and after his arrest?
Why haven't they taken down that statue of Paterno yet?
Better yet, why did they build that atrocious thing in the first place? The guy was not only still alive, but still coaching at the school.
Why haven't they scrubbed most, or all of their seasons from 1998 to the present? Wouldn't volunteering to revoke Joe Pa's precious record for most wins all time go a little ways toward showing some semblance of contrition?
Do they want to get the death penalty? Because they don't seem to be doing anything which could even be remotely construed as helping their image.
They are facing what amounts to maybe the greatest scandal in NCAA history, and their response has been to effectively sit on their hands.
Are they beholden to Joe Pa, even now? He's dead. It's over. He's not running the show any more.
They appear to be wholly willing to defend Joe Paterno's legacy at the expense of their football program going down in flames.
This is what happens when you allow one man to seize power and become bigger than the entire institution.
And they apparently tried to censor the Freeh report when it was broadcast on campus.
They could not be more tone deaf if they tried. It's like they're challenging the NCAA to a game of chicken.
dumb idea with this plane.... threatening those people will only make them dig in harder and keep that statue standing. As it is now... public opinion vs. Paterno may be enough to take it down... to start demanding it like this plane company did is foolish and a total waste of plane fuel as well.
For those who say this has nothing to do with football and that the NCAA should stay out of it, the NCAA president Mark Emmert disagrees.
"This is completely different than an impermissible benefits scandal like [what] happened at SMU, or anything else we've dealt with," Emmert told Smiley. "This is as systemic a cultural problem as it is a football problem."
There have been people that said this wasn't a football scandal.
"Well, it was more than a football scandal, much more than a football scandal. It was that but much more. And we'll have to figure out exactly what the right penalties are. I don't know that past precedent makes particularly good sense in this case, because it's really an unprecedented problem."
. Take it, and all the other the Paterno statues, trophies, awards, scholarships, practice facilities and libraries, and turn them into a theme park cautioning against the danger of personality cults.