By now you’ve heard that Joe Paterno has decided on a punishment for his football team after some inexcusable behavior: have the entire team clean the stadium after a game day and give all of the money earned to the club teams which use such income to fund their sports. Sounds pretty good, right?
No doubt Paterno is a smart man, at least in some sense. Not smart enough for a few people to see right through his punishment though.
If you peel back the warm and fuzzy blanket, it’s as much a preemptive strike at the University’s Office of Judicial Affairs as it is corporal punishment for the players.
Consider the timing of the announcement. It comes before the Judicial Affairs folks begin their hearings into the incident.
In the pecking order of justice, the legal system is first, then Judicial Affairs and finally, Paterno’s court.
It is also a calculated move to undercut the Judicial Affairs office by taking matters into his own hands and meting out his own punishment. That will make anything Judicial Affairs decides to do look like overkill and further advance the perception that Judicial Affairs has some vendetta against the football team.
Yes, Joe Paterno is smart, but Ron Bracken is just a step ahead.
The female students will continue to be expected to bare their naked anuses to the players for wanton penetration whenever they demand it. Their fathers will be honored.
Assistant District Attorney Steve Sloane said prosecutors had no evidence that King’s entry into the West College Avenue apartment was malicious and no evidence that he hurt anyone or damaged anything. “As a matter of fact, we have evidence to the contrary,” Sloane said. He said King was seen trying to pull people out of the apartment. After the melee ended, Sloane said, King stayed at the scene and tried to apologize to the apartment residents.
He seems like a good kid who ended up in the wrong place, and is unfortunate that his name got dragged into this in the first place.
I figure its a two for one for pitt.
we keep paterno alive, which ultimately slows down psu football… We also get to beat the hell out of the rednecks again
Ask yourself this, though, Mr. Utah… if Justin was trying to break up the fight, why was he there in the first place? Every football player who was in that apartment was automatically guilty of breaking and entering by definition, and should be punished in Centre County Court. But Bellefonte let all but two of them go.
Even the most jaded Penn State fan has to smell a little “Nittany Lion Justice” there.
And yes, blahblahblah, I follow Penn State and root against them. What’s wrong with that? Most Penn Staters in town root against Pitt, or doesn’t that bother you so much? It’s just a game, my friend. Lighten up.
Unless, of course, there’s Penn State football players knocking on your door.
I have to tell you, I read BSD frequently, but I have to check out this site daily because the comments are so damn hilarious!
I’m truly disappointed when I come out here and don’t see Stuart or Geeman2001 spouting some kind of gibberish.
You guys are really like a scorned girlfriend! Unbelievable! Keep up the good work!
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But I have a family member associated with a social agency that does women’s advocacy work for rape and domestic abuse issues (and I have a wife and daughter). In that perspective, Paterno’s repeated denigration of rape victims is all too real and unforgivable. Maybe the most glaring was two years back when Bobby Freakin’ Bowden of all people punished one of his players and PATERNO came out and said he was crazy. Basically he has echoed Bobby Knight’s reprehensible comments (they should relax and enjoy it = pretty girl knocks on your door, whaddaya gonna do, etc.). It’s reprehensible that both of those guys still have their jobs. I’m sure that attitude permeates with everyone associated with the progam and school, since he has such influence. Anyone with a daughter should tremble if she expresses interest in going to Penn State.
Ironically enough, I’ve been up there a few times, even considered going there when I was in high school. It’s a nice campus and nobody can really argue that it is a good school in many ways. And nobody can argue that Paterno has had an amazing coaching career, W/L’s considered. But what an abhorrent attitude, and how shameful that an entire institution and its alumni and the media look past this because of their blind hero worship. Pitt is far from innocent either … I’m not thrilled about the retention of Keith Benjamin on the hoops team, for example. Hit a woman, maybe unless she has a gun pointed at you, is intolerable to me.
I await JoPa’s apology …
Oh my God how over the top is that? I think women do quite well at Penn State. Our women’s sports programs are some of the best in the nation, and they have Joe Paterno to thank for that since he was the athletic director and shaped them into what they are today. Double Wanny’s annual salary, and that’s about how much money Joe Paterno and his wife have donated to the university. His name is on the freakin’ library. How many women have benefited through the various scholarship funds he and his wife have created?
You rudeness is only surpassed by your ignorance.
Wanny can’t help that the bulk of his salary is dorected towards Mustache Wax. He has to find something to bide his time during the post season, while wathcing Magnum PI reruns.
Pretty much the same rationalization the people of Germany had for accepting Hitler and the Nazi’s. And that’s not “over the top.”
I’ll say it forever: Society will be better when Paterno mericifully dies.
How are you going to hate on wannstedt’s ‘stache when JoeyShittyPants looks more like a troll than a human???? Paterno is one of the most alarmingly ugly people on the planet – that’s what will make your daughters tremble. We have a saying down south, and Paterno fits it, UGLY AS SIN!
