WTF are you talking about?

his guests are killing it...

Anderson has a blank stare and seems preoccupied.

I had the same sentiment. Other than the players themselves though, there aren't very many of the wrong people left.

I don't see how canceling the football program supports the university's mission going forward. I don't see how it says anything about accountability. Yes, they do have some accountability issues that they are in the process of addressing.

If the idea is to mourn the victims by not rallying around the team, then their is still a legal process in place and in all likelihood the university will need to play a role in the mourning, restoration, etc.

His 4th point in there is what is amazing to me about some of the people commenting on this. The president of the university is forced out, a VP and the AD are up on criminal charges, and of course that scumbag Sandusky. But yes, firing the ****ing head coach of the football team that was also involved to an undetermined extent is heaping all of the blame on him and making him the scapegoat. Boo hoo, poor Joe Paterno.

The main issue with this is that Penn State has a good team, the Big Ten is a close race, and to refuse to play them would look like you're ducking and holding up safety/morality etc. as an excuse.

Penn State should save them the trouble and forfeit their remaining games, imo. They really, really should not be playing football in State College this weekend after all this.

Next year, when there's been some time to heal, time for things to be fully evaluated, the house has been THOROUGHLY cleaned, then whatever. But as far as I'm concerned, this football season really should be over for Penn State.

lolwut

seems like TOO MUCH institutional control was the problem, not lack thereof.

To be fair, Posnanski is probably pissed he just spent a year in PA for nothing and now is going to have to stay another year to figure all this out.

In this case, I am pretty sure people would buy the excuse.

I don't understand why he would be, though, at least from a professional/$$ angle. Like Corbett said, this is a book waiting to be written. Who is in a better position right now to do it than him?

let me clarify.

Anderson is mediating the conversation between several guests that pop in and out of the broadcast.

As this progresses, Anderson has the wierd, uncomfortable pauses in his speech. His facial expressions have this look of bewilderment and being preoccupied, like he is thinking about something else.

So, yes. When he pauses, with this appearance that he is preoccupied with a thought outside of the topic of conversation, it gives me a creepy feeling about what else he might be thinking about.

That's true, but I still think he's frustrated about all this and being emotional while trying not be emotional.

the main issue with this is that the players are being unfairly punished, especially the seniors.

I mean, let's say Penn State pulls the upset on Nebraska Saturday.

Wouldn't that be...awkward? Are they gonna celebrate?

That's true, but we're dealing with bigger issues here. Life is unfair. Joe Posnanski is being unfairly punished because now he can't write his fluff book on Paterno he's been working on for so long. So what.

At the end of the day, it's just football. Amateur football, at that. No one's livelihood is even at stake here. The coaches are all gone next season anyway. The stakes of "omg the players are being punished" are really, really low.

I'm guessing you didn't play college sports.

You know what? **** happens. Sometimes life isn't fair.

Yeah, maybe so. And maybe it shouldn't piss me off to hear some of this stuff but it does anyway.

Similar to some of the comments about what McQueary told him exactly. Oh no, he didn't say anything about rape, he just mentioned fondling, touching, and horseplay. You know, the fun kind of sexual assault that's perfectly reasonable to ignore and let this guy stick around your program with young boys.

Wait, what? Who made those excuses? You weren't even alive when that happened.

Not to derail, but I've never heard anything about his "heavy drug use", and I don't give a **** about "fornicating all over the place" (lol "fornicating", there's a word purposely chosen to be loaded with moral judgment if ever there was one).

Agreed. "Punish" is a strong word. If some football players are inconvenienced by not playing a couple of football games so that the institution that covered up a decade plus of child rape can be adequately punished, so be it.

see above. there's no justification for the players' getting royally (insert perjorative that means wronged). assuming that you'd agree they have absolutely no culpability here.

tarheels has been awesome all thread.

oh great, so his Paterno should really suck.

BUY. BUST.

more evidence of the insane cult of Paterno there.

i don't know why so many people are going on about what GA should or shouldn't have done there. i mean the grand jury report doesn't say what happened either way, but i kinda doubt that when Sandusky saw GA he just winked and kept going at the kid. i would assume that he stopped, panicked, and tried to hide what was happening, in an attempt to pass it off as something else (like the ridiculous horseplay explanations wrt to some of the other charges). or course this could be wrong too, but it makes more sense to me.

haven't cared about Paterno one way or the other until very recently, but i'd be ok with this.

this.

idk, giving food or clothes to a poor, black student-athlete?

Not playing the game sounds like the worst idea possible.

Lets the players play and donate a lot of the proceeds to charity. gg.

there's no "unfair punishment" to anyone at Penn St. in terms of monetary damages at this time imo. The whole atmosphere was apparently pervasive in deifying the football team/ athletic department. Think of it in analgous terms with the Catholic church. Every person who contributed to the church/ Penn St. contributed to an institution that sanctioned and protected monsters. They should both be burnt to the ground. How can a mere 3 or 4 games cancelled to protect the participants and spectators, not to mention rebuild the integrity of the institution be considered too much "unfair punishment"?

I am very slowly catching up on this thread but my god it makes so much sense that Santorum is a PSU alumni. The worst people on Earth are from PSU it seems.