The Lions' Pride

It's just noise. They are grasping and people are paying less and less attention.
It will continue to fade from the public's collective memory. You won't hear much more about it until the other trials start and conclude, and on the anniversary of the incident and vague mentions during game time by announcers.

The public will begin to gravitate to other things, and interest will continue to drop except for those hardcore haters who thought we were dead in the water and wanted to tear down our university. And they are not worth the air they breathe.

Couple points here.

1) I read the article. Now i feel like I need to take a shower.

2) With respect to the number of perpetrators and victims, Boy Scouts, RC Church, Nebraska Boys Town, and USA swimming are the biggest pedophile scandals that I can think of; all far outnumber Sandusky. 3 of these 4 involve homosexual behaviour. Draw your own conclusions.

3) Culture: Yes, like any BCS football and basketball teams, as well as many pro sports leagues, PSU football is given deferential treatment. That means that strangers might buy them a drink in a bar. Does that mean the law winks at their transgressions? NO--I'll bet more PSU football players have been cited for trivial stuff--public urination--than other large schools. Carmen Prestia (?sp), SC magistrate, wrote that no one at PSU, during his 20+ year tenure, ever asked him for leniency in judging an athlete. And consider this. There were 1200 sportswriters at SEC media days this fall. It was held over 3 days. Listen to Bama sportstalk radio, and people will say, "Waalll, the SEC conference is so good, cause football is a RELIGION down here". Hmmm.... Let that sink in. Culture and all.

4) NY Times is populated by elitist know-it-alls. Don't believe me? Here is a link to an email written by a NYT VP, to his "elite circle" customers.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R4bDOPhtzIVMFiiwJk7d3cRW6Pq4HPwAD2ffI2lG7n4/edit?pli=1

To save you from reading the entire letter, here is the final paragraph:

"In closing, it's been a wild and exhausting two weeks. Tips have led to breakthroughs and more tips. Just how insular a community like State College is -- full of strong emotions and multiple conflicts -- became astoundingly clear. One of our reporters was chased off by dogs; another was threatened by a tow truck driver. Many conversations took place both in trailer parks and in the hallways of academia. More than boys had been violated it seemed. A proud university's sense of superiority and privilege and arrogance had been blown up, too."

Cliff notes version: "I'm elite and important. PSU is populated by pond scum."

What a ridiculous email that was from a pompous monkey ass. I had forgotten all about it. You're spot on with the characterization of the NYT.

Doesn't matter what the NYT says or anybody else thinks. The problem is that the NCAA is an organization whose membership is voluntary. The NCAA is not a legal body such as the IRS. Additionally, PSU accepted the punishment handed down from the NCAA so it would appear to a court that this administrative body did have authority and that PSU acknowledged that authority. That is the mountain that your Governor must climb and it will be almost impossible to do that. I don't know Corbett but, since he is a politician, I suspect this whole thing is sound and fury that is designed to help him get re-elected.

The NY Times is mostly opinion now, very little actual unbiases news. At one point in their history they were all news.