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01-21-2018 , 02:56 PM

#17326

Bdidd

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The douchey gift that keeps on giving

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01-21-2018 , 02:58 PM

#17327

kidcolin

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Originally Posted by vaya

Other than spending decades knowingly covering for a guy who ****ed little kids in the ass, sure

vaya spits that fiya

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01-26-2018 , 07:45 PM

#17328

flabucki09

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Hey joepa. How is H3LL treating you? Looks like you will have some old friends from the BIG TEN joining you soon. Make some room.

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01-29-2018 , 09:47 PM

#17329

golfnutt

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Yes, the MSU situation seems quite similar. Mass resignations and finger pointing.

PSU rebounded very effectively. It wasn’t the death penalty as many predicted.

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01-29-2018 , 11:19 PM

#17330

kerowo

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Only because the NCAA ranks right up there with FIFA as legitimate sporting organizations...

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01-29-2018 , 11:40 PM

#17331

golfnutt

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Originally Posted by kerowo

Only because the NCAA ranks right up there with FIFA as legitimate sporting organizations...

I can understand close-door corruption but this out in the open and nobody can do anything about it.

Pure brilliance how the execs get paid millions and the players get $0. For decades now.

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01-30-2018 , 12:11 AM

#17332

SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by golfnutt

I can understand close-door corruption but this out in the open and nobody can do anything about it.

So how does this differ from FIFA again?

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01-30-2018 , 05:38 PM

#17333

flabucki09

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Originally Posted by kerowo

Only because the NCAA ranks right up there with FIFA as legitimate sporting organizations...

Totally agree. The NCAA/BIG TEN office is a bunch of puzzies. That is exactly why they can virtually do nothing to baylor and MSU. They had a chance to send a message about not accepting child endangerment, sexual abuse and RAPE - and they chose not to do it. So when you do nothing to child rapists at penn state you send a message that all other sex crimes will go unpunished. A$$nuggets

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02-02-2018 , 11:52 AM

#17334

flabucki09

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I wonder why they didn't let the victims speak at these pedo st trials like they are doing in the nassar case. Maybe the Judges in Penn had more to lose by allowing negative recollections come to light.

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02-02-2018 , 06:57 PM

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Oski

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Originally Posted by flabucki09

Many of the victims already testified at trial. No others came forward requesting to be heard for sentencing.

Nassar plead guilty to his counts, but there was a sentencing hearing. Victims applied to the judge to present impact statements, and that was allowed.

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02-03-2018 , 06:50 PM

#17336

ligastar

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Originally Posted by flabucki09

I wonder why they didn't let the victims speak at these pedo st trials like they are doing in the nassar case. [...]

really? you can't figure this one out on your own?

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02-06-2018 , 01:30 PM

#17337

flabucki09

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Originally Posted by ligastar

really? you can't figure this one out on your own?

Ummm sarcastic maybe a little....

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02-06-2018 , 01:32 PM

#17338

flabucki09

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Originally Posted by Oski

Many of the victims already testified at trial. No others came forward requesting to be heard for sentencing.

Good point - many probably still live in the happy valley area.

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02-06-2018 , 07:00 PM

#17339

golfnutt

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It also may be more embarrassing for a boy to be molested by a man than a girl.

Nasser agreed to this as part of his plea agreement. Which he later tried to void that part because he said it was onerous and torturous. Overruled obviously with little sympathy for him.

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04-09-2018 , 03:01 AM

#17340

younguns87

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Paterno is out.

It's whatever, not really compelling or anything. Kinda bland. 3/10

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04-09-2018 , 11:59 AM

#17341

SenorKeeed

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I liked it more than that. It kind of dragged a bit and had some structural problems. The lady who played the journalist wasn't very good (she's the dead eyed hooker from the show The Girlfriend Experience. I thought she was great in that, but maybe she's just flat and dead eyed in everything but it worked in the GFE). The actor who played Sandusky was incredible, and the way they just showed him in short flashes was amazing. The Paterno kids were great/hilarious in it, Pacino got the befuddled old man act right, but it got the most important detail right

Spoiler:

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04-09-2018 , 01:12 PM

#17342

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My wife and I watched it. She's not a sports fan, so she had a bit of trouble following/understanding some of the story (it assumes a pretty fair amount of preknowledge going in). I agree that Pacino nailed the role pretty well - didn't make Paterno look totally senile, but the subtext was there. The guy who played Sandusky was pretty much perfect. (Creepy but perfect)

On the whole, pretty good. And they did get the most important detail right.

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04-09-2018 , 01:19 PM

#17343

SenorKeeed

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I think what Pacino was going for was acting befuddled/confused ("hey I'm an old man, I can't remember what I had for breakfast") when it served his interests. And as the PR guy said, "I can't remember what I had for breakfast" is what old men say when they're feigning ignorance. I think Pacino nailed that aspect.

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04-09-2018 , 01:27 PM

#17344

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I think it's entirely possible that he was slipping into senility the last couple years of his life. He didn't look great. Of course, none of that matters because he wasn't senile when the Sandusky stuff was going on.....

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04-09-2018 , 01:29 PM

#17345

SenorKeeed

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Sure, that's entirely possible. I just don't think that's what Pacino or the movie was going for.

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04-10-2018 , 02:41 PM

#17346

flabucki09

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Originally Posted by hobbes9324

Didn't watch it and probably won't look for the rerun. Hopefully the show covered the JoePa complicity and the corrupt Admin side of the coverup.

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04-10-2018 , 05:26 PM

#17347

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Originally Posted by flabucki09

Didn't watch it and probably won't look for the rerun. Hopefully the show covered the JoePa complicity and the corrupt Admin side of the coverup.

They hit the admins pretty hard. They mostly portrayed Joe as borderline senile, but you have to understand that the movie is written to portray only the two weeks leading up to his firing (and at that stage in his life he may well have been somwhat senile, and he was sick with the cancer that killed him), with intermittent flashbacks about the stuff that happened. At the end, they pretty much implied he was guilty as ****, though.

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04-11-2018 , 06:57 AM

#17348

Victor

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ya he sure looked senile irl. him walking amongst all the students in his yard was just a totally bizarre scene.

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04-11-2018 , 09:25 AM

#17349

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(it assumes a pretty fair amount of preknowledge going in)

I saw it last night and came away with this impression as well. I can imagine many non-CFB fans who tuned in because it features Pacino going, "WTF is this even about?"