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FireJayPa said...
So you're saying people should just spend their hard-earned money on an inferior product to support a local economy?
I'm sorry but one of the inherit risks you take in opening up a small business is the potential fickleness of the clientele. In this scenario that we face, PSU has an inferior product therefore people are less likely to spend their money on the games.
I'll still go up for the Festival Of the Arts (assuming it's still held there) and spend a few dollars at The Tavern. I might go up for the occasional homecoming as well, for sentimental purposes. However, I am not going to drive 3+ hours to watch a team that's playing for nothing but pride get shelled and sit at the bottom of the conference just so Zeno's or Bar Bleu can make their money.
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PSUfaninOnt said...
Gents, it has been a pleasure chatting with you over the last year or so, a lot of great people on here but I am done with college sports. Will not watch a game or support anything related to the NCAA again. What Emmert did today was beyond comprehension to me.
Does he think that a victim of this type of crime will ever come forward again knowing that if he does his entire community is going to be punnished when he does so? Will this punnishment scare univeristy administrators? It should (for any number of reasons), but I believe that it will also scare vicitms of similar crimes from coming forward in the future. Maybe I am wrong, but from dealing with many abuse survivors through my job, this would be their worst nightmare for many of them.
The NCAA had an opportunity here to really try and make a difference - hell turn PSU football into a non-pofit - put the bulk of the money from the football program into develping programs to support abuse victims, to educating the public that it is not only ok, but imperative that adults not look the other way, take the stigma away from asking the tough questions when something doesn't seem right, create a program that will develop counsellors for abuse victims and fund it through football. Do something that actually helps victims and helps prevent child abuse. Instead Emmert made a political power play for his own benefit in the name of these victims.
This could have been something that punnished the university and the football program as both would suffer without the funding, but that could actually do some good for victims of abuse and would not punish thousands of innocents in central PA or the student athletes at PSU.
While I think that the NCAA is misguided in punishing the football program, that pales in comparison to what I think they have done to the vicitms in this case and imo probably future cases that we will never hear about.
Cement your power Emmert, just don't look down at the people your stood on to get there, you might not like what you see.
Good luck to all of the PSU athletes, students and alumni that may read this, you deserve so much better than the leadership (or more specifically the lack thereof) that you have at PSU.
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thefonz said...
We all hope there aren't random nutters PSU nutters that take this out on any of the victims. The 60 million will help victims around the country but the bowl ban/scholarships are going to kill athletic revenue and that does NOT help Sandusky's victims. Penn State would love to be able to settle these cases ASAP which means for a ton of money. The less money they have...well.
Some of the victims were PSU fans (no idea if they still are) and come from Central PA, and you better believe State College buisness will take a hit.
It is not a invalid or "offensive" position to take that the victims of this crime are hurt by the football bowl and scholarship sanctions.Sparty is our mascot, we are Spartans.
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BoulderFish said...
No, Fitz et. al. will be hit hard because of what ERICKSON did.
Subscriptions had only gone up since the Sandusky news hit. Now that Erickson has acted, subscriptions will drop significantly.
Sandusky shot Penn State in the knee. Erickson gave it a death blow.
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We all hope there aren't random nutters PSU nutters that take this out on any of the victims. The 60 million will help victims around the country but the bowl ban/scholarships are going to kill athletic revenue and that does NOT help Sandusky's victims. Penn State would love to be able to settle these cases ASAP which means for a ton of money. The less money they have...well. Some of the victims were PSU fans (no idea if they still are) and come from Central PA, and you better believe State College buisness will take a hit. It is not a invalid or "offensive" position to take that the victims of this crime are hurt by the football bowl and scholarship sanctions.
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thefonz said...
One thing you won't get if you haven't been on this board is that we all have expressed our opinions to no end about what we think about Sandusky, Spanier, Shultz, Curley, and Paterno. We are past that. Now we are decided how we feel about the NCAA. And don't come back and say we haven't discussed/helped the victims. We did that first and had a RAIN donation link for weeks which MANY of us clicked on and donated.
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