Penn State and "the healing process"

Submitted by Erik_in_Dayton on
It's worth responding to Gus Johnson's absurd statement that PSU's win tonight would in any way facilitate a healing process with regard to the Sandusky child rape scandal. It's in part worth responding to because James Franklin said something similar after Penn State beat OSU...I've worked with survivors of sexual assault, including survivors whose abuse was covered up by an institution. A victory on a football field by such an institution cannot in a million years promote healing for the survivors of abuse that was facilitated by that institution. Apologies if this is obvious, but I think it's worth erring on the side of overreacting to such a wildly mistaken assertion. Winning and the hard work of being decent are not the same thing regardless of how many people conflate the two.
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Goggles Paisano

December 4th, 2016 at 7:35 AM ^

This might be the weirdest B1G East season we will ever see - I still cannot get my head around how that team won the B1G this season.  I was at that game in Sept when we straight trucked them.  I still don't think they are a great team.  A good team but not elite and no way in hell one of the best 4 in the country.  

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pz

December 4th, 2016 at 9:50 AM ^

Can't remember ever cheering for the Trojans before, and I typically support all B1G teams in bowl games.... but I'm hoping that PSU gets absolutely stomped.

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Blau

December 4th, 2016 at 1:06 AM ^

James Franklin and PSU shouldn't get to decide when the "healing process" takes place, whether they're referring to the football program or not.

The only healing process anyone should care about is that of the victims.

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Ronnie Kaye

December 4th, 2016 at 1:05 AM ^

They are not indicating it is a healing process for the victims. They are saying it is for THEM as fans. That's gross in its own way but I have no idea how you take from it that Sandusky's victims are the ones being healed.

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Hard-Baughlls

December 4th, 2016 at 1:08 AM ^

We ass raped the ass rape enablers.  Fuck em.  Should have been kicked out of the B1G.  Total fluke to win it this year. 

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Blau

December 4th, 2016 at 1:40 AM ^

I wouldn't metaphorically use the words "ass rape" in regards to the score of a football game is PSU. A little decency goes a long way. But it's easy to tell you've left that train station years ago.

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VAWolverine

December 4th, 2016 at 1:10 AM ^

Stating that the PSU B1G championship win or victory over OSU contributes to any sort of healing from the Sandusky scandal only drives the clueless deeper into denial.

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lhglrkwg

December 4th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^

The absurdity of it all is that Penn State football and football fans are not the ones who need healing. The way they've responded to what happened there is precisely what enabled JoePa & his lackeys to sweep that stuff under the rug in the first place

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Rabbit21

December 4th, 2016 at 1:11 AM ^

Those motherfuckers have NOTHING to heal from. The only ones who do that matter are Sandusky's victims saying the delusional fans or delusional members of the program need to heal is fucking disrespectful of the victims.



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Ahriman

December 4th, 2016 at 1:30 AM ^

The sad part is it's not even just them. Like the poster said, the media (at least in the pregame) spouts the same garbage Ped State fans do. The victims don't matter, just this bs narrative about a school overcoming so many hardships to get back on top. No mention of a piece of garbage coach sitting on this information for about 4 decades, and the cronies at the school who tried to keep a lid on it, and the garbage fans who only care about winning.

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rob f

December 4th, 2016 at 1:18 AM ^

Clueless leadership, coaches, and fans really cared about the healing process of the victims, they would immediately STOP defending the perpetrators and everyone who knew (I'm looking at you, JoePa). Instead, they'd devote 1000x that energy to doing everything humanly possible to right the wrongs that went on for 2 decades. They would STFU about the price their institution must pay for their terrible behavior and instead acknowledge the pain they continue to inflict by their denials.

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Mattheus

December 4th, 2016 at 1:16 AM ^

I think the win will help the football programs "healing process", which is essentially to move on and put the scandal behind it. The victims on the other hand probably won't find any healing in this or anywhere else. Honestly I believe that kind of healing can only come from within through forgivness. 

Also I have no love for PSU, but with that win i think they have a huge argument to get into the playoff over OSU. A head to head win and a conference title.

 

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Unicycle Firefly

December 4th, 2016 at 1:19 AM ^

PSU is modern America in a nutshell. You can do the most heinous things imaginable, show zero remorse for it, suffer almost no real consequences, and in the end come out even better off than the people who always did things the right way from the beginning.

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MonkeyMan

December 4th, 2016 at 11:26 AM ^

LOL- our fans are holy- there fans are demons!

If the "incident" happened at UM, many fans would be doing the same "zero remorse" on this very blog. Your kidding yourself if you really think PSU fans are fundamentally different than UM fans. All fans have a wacky core base that is totally immoral.

I cannot see any reason today's PSU players should be called "Ped State" or other stuff. If UM's current players were trashed for what a coach did in the past there would be lots of anger on these boards. Why should players be tarnished for this?

There is so much HATE on MgoBlog it is unreal. Just look at this thread- how is it much different than what you scorn in PSU fandom? People here want to call all future PSU players names forever. Sensible PSU fans are just reacting to this unfairness. Its amazing that wer have page after page of complaints about unfair officials and then start unfairly calling players "Ped State" who had nothing to do with the past.

Those who are talking about a healing just want the present to be free of the past- thats all. They are simply asking that people not responsible be allowed to move on. Its incredible the OP is twisting this into something it is not and making it seem like the coaches are denying the past- they never denied the past. The coaches and players just want to move on- will you let them?

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jdon

December 4th, 2016 at 12:27 PM ^

Those players know what they were walking into.  Let me go a step further and say that as I think the whole football program there should have been shut down, I think it is immoral to play for that filth of a team.

Fuck Penn State now and forever.

And anyone over there who wants to put Paterno's statue back up needs to think long and hard about what they value in this world.

Fuck Penn State now and forever.  (the football program)

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Maynard

December 4th, 2016 at 1:27 AM ^

Yep. Completely offensive on so many levels. I was even annoyed with Gus Johnson's Camelot line during the game. They looked past heinous crimes for decades. They should pay for decades or at least more severely.

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slimj091

December 4th, 2016 at 1:57 AM ^

They can win every football game from here until the end of time. We will still look at their fans, and the Institution as being a okay with celebrating a pedophile enabler.

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ATC

December 4th, 2016 at 4:39 AM ^

The answer is, to a significant part, many if not most programs simply no longer look at Penn State as elite. The thing is, any team will only get emotionally peaked 2 maybe 3 games a season.....at best. Emotionally peaked being every single player 100% jacked from start to finish. Simply put, not all teams gave their 100% BEST against penn state. (this ain't bias or fanboy talk....simply the truth). More could be written, but that's the short n skinny.

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