OT: New Happy Valley/Sandusky Documentary on Netflix

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Wait.. let me see if I get this recent line of reasoning...

JoePA & Co. looked the other way while Sandusky abused children because of the possible economic impact on the residents of Happy Valley?

Is that it?

This marks a new low in the realm of rationalizations.

No, you clearly stopped following the thread. The economic impact discussion was to show another reason why PSU would not voluntarily shut down the program.

If your summation is accurate, then I clearly did follow the thread because that was exactly my point. You are using the "economic impact" argument to avoid taking severe punishment and thus showing how JoePA & Co. would choose to hide these crimes.

You are saying that "economic impact" trumps everything.

That may be realpolitik, but it is also morally bankrupt.

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

More excuses, like the $28.8mil profit from football would collapse athletics entirely because there's some $95million hole without football-no wait $90mil, hold on make that $80mill, maybe a little less, or the faculty and state officials would be too mad if student fees were raised a few hundred bucks to pay for non-football sports, and no donors or alumni would pitch in to support non-football programs, or we can't sell stadium naming rights even though we were ready to rename the stadium for JokePA. It never ends...

A lot less than $80mil when you account for jive's double-counting of BIG payouts.

 

[RUsmrtrthna5thgrdr]

wooooooooo! 282 replys about sandusky, 30 when we pick up a commit! no we aren't obsessed!

 

[jason21psu]

If your summation is accurate, then I clearly did follow the thread because that was exactly my point. You are using the "economic impact" argument to avoid taking severe punishment and thus showing how JoePA & Co. would choose to hide these crimes.

You are saying that "economic impact" trumps everything.

That may be realpolitik, but it is also morally bankrupt.

This is a false equivalency because economic impact to community from reporting Sandusky to DPW* would have been negligible while the economic impact to community from shutting down the football for even 1 year would have been massive, thus the financially prudent option would have been to report Sandusky to DPW. This is another reason why the "protect football" narrative doesn't make sense.

* - It's pretty clear that Sandusky was reported outside the walls of PSU to the 2nd Mile, which again doesn't make sense if they are trying to protect football as the 2nd Mile should have turned around and reported Sandusky to DPW. If it comes out the Curley reported to 2nd Mile on the caveat that they have to handle it internally then, then I will concede that protecting the football program had some bearing on their decisions.

 

[RC85]

wooooooooo! 282 replys about sandusky, 30 when we pick up a commit! no we aren't obsessed!

To what recruit are you referring over on rivals BWI?

 

[BoogieKnight]

I have zero problems with people at Penn State...I was nearly a student there myself. Three very close friends (from NJ) went there and made good friends while there...all of them good dudes. The students from PA who go there are fine for the most part.

The only ones I take some exception too are the FEMALE students from NJ/NY who go to PSU because they think that Rutgers is just so beneath them. Case in point...about 10 years ago the place I was working at hired a female graduate of Penn State who was from NJ. She was out of school no more than a month. We were at lunch her first week and I asked where she went to school and she then asked me. I said Rutgers and she replied and I quote "ewwww...I'm sorry." Another case and this only goes back about 3 years. My best friend who went to PSU's roommate who was kicked out his frosh year for partying and then wound up graduating from RU. Well this dude's wife was from Cherry Hill area and graduated from PSU. We were at a party at my buddy's house watching the RU at Arkansas game...keep in mind this is before the RU to the B1G announcement even came, and this guys wife goes "I hate Rutgers. I don't know why, I just do.". And I have heard stories from RU buddies who work in finance and insurance in NYC that female Penn State grads have given them similar uppity attitudes, especially when the Sandusky thing was going down. To those kind of people I politely say "kill yourselves".