PSU still doesn't get it and never will!

Healing implies psu was the victim and not comlacent in the crimes.  Be proud of your team, don't pretend like winning a football game erases 5 years of trying to diefy a man who looked the other way on child rape so he could keep winning football games.

He really looks like one more coach that can only think of his team and winning football games. A healing process should involve admitting mistakes, making amends and working to avoid repeating those mistakes. Winning games is nice, important for the coach, but the only healing process they relate to is PSU's battle with the NCAA. From their perspective, it's the NCAA that wronged them.

would call in rape victims and try and hire them to coerce them into not pressing charges.  He is absolutely scum and Penn State was completely aware of all of the rape issues he and his team had while he was at Vandy and still elected to hire him.  This situation should not be swept away because of the impact it has on a football team or football players that are free to avoid that awful place.

You can't expect people to abandon their devotion to something because of the sins of one (or several) of its leaders. A Catholic's faith or beliefs are not defined by the actions of priests in the same way that a PSU fan's devotion to Penn state football should not be dependent on the actions of a certain few within the program. The reason they've handled it so poorly and so many have not been able to let go and admit that JoePa is a villain is because they have allowed the man to be bigger than the program for so long. To them JoePa is the religion, not Penn state football. They're basically like the DPRK. Their original "dear leader" Kim il-sung, who died over 20 years ago is still their president.

Almost certainly human nature.  It's why I don't participate in the apparent contest to see who can express the most outrage at the most people.  People always judge other people and organizations first by how they themselves were treated.  We rush to see the good in those we know and the bad in those we don't.  It's not much different, IMO, how we might cuss out somebody who cut us off in traffic for being a brainless fucking imbecile with no regard for others, yet instantly forgive our own friends and relatives if they did the same thing.

I don't jump on the fuck-PSU outrage bandwagon, not because what happened wasn't outrageous, but because it could've happened anywhere.  I don't think there's anything uniquely perverted about Penn State fans, or for that matter Paterno, I just think human nature in general is what caused Paterno to do something other than immediately take a flamethrower to Sandusky upon hearing the accusations.  When you've worked side by side with someone for 40 years, it's easy to brush aside whispers and an accusation in favor of your daily personal interactions.  Similar concept for their fans.  There are cults of personality at dozens of schools, because that's what college football has done for everyone, and I suspect a similar thing would happen if Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, Bobby Bowden, John Wooden, or various other personalities had been accused of the same thing.

Germans don't claim Hitler really didn't know what was going on and was just doing what every world leader would do and do best for his country and talk about healing as they succesfully conquer another country.  They acknowledged that nazis sucked, psu hasn't acknowledged joepa is a piece of shit human who put football above the welfare of kids.

I negged you for terrible writing, "don't jump on me and nag it just idea what going on right now"...

Several million Germans died in the war and its immediate aftermath, many were prosecuted thereafter for what happened. Germany was militarily occupied, divided and essentially deprived of its sovereignty for over 40 years. They denounced the old leadership, made supporting the old leadership a crime and struggled for decades with re-defining their identity and to this day are widely considered the villains of that time period and Germns mostly are ready to accept that fact.

Meanwhile PSU fans deny their leadership had anything to do with the crimes and are unwilling to accept even moderate consequences for their football program or university. They consider themselves the greatest victims because the rest of the world didn't just agree with them on that and they actually had to face a certain amount of embarrassment and negative consequences. "Some kids got raped? Big deal, we lost 6 games two years in a row!"

Consider that PSU didn't even crater or got hit with extreme penalties. They're above .500 since the scandal broke. Our last year with Hoke was worse than any of theirs since the scandal. Yet they're the victims who need our sympathy until they're finally back contending for NCs?

Many people in Germany took real steps to make amends -- on a national level paying reparations to Holocaust victims, on more local levels rebuilding synagogues for Jews who returned, sponsoring exhibits of art by Holocaust victims, forming German-Israeli friendship societies.  It doesn't take away from what happened of course, but that was true "healing."  

for the young boys who were raped is much more improtant than winning any football game.

Anything else is bullshit. It's not difficult to understand.

Wouldn't that have been something? I was so sad they let that W slip through their fingers.

I and many other people on this board don't think PSU football should exist any more.

I also think that the best way for them to heal would be for them to no longer have a football program and let time heal the wounds.

According to ESPN, Penn State surveyed alumni and 91% believed the school should publicly recognize Joe Paterno.

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Ummmm... yes they are!