I fucking dare you to take all the shit youve said in this thread in a print out and read it to your grandma.
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ardent Penn State supporters who credit Paterno for giving the university an identity to be proud of.
On July 23, 2012, the NCAA imposed a $60 million fine, four-year postseason ban, scholarship reductions, and vacated all victories from 1998 to 2011.
THREE HEAD COACHES in four years, unprecedented scholarships lost and a postseason ban are not the typical building blocks to success. But with NCAA sanctions suddenly lifted, Penn State is off to a 4-1 start and can make a surprise push for the Big Ten crown. We asked the team's seniors how they've adapted to the constant changing of the guards.PRACTICEUnder Joe Paterno, practice might as well have been a game: "Hitting every day," says fifth-year senior linebacker Mike Hull. Then Bill O'Brien's NFL-like approach (lower impact equals fresher legs) became a necessity with the loss of scholarships. As for new head man James Franklin, he's only added more levity -- like the water bottle. The 42-year-old squirts senior kicker Sam Ficken while he's taking reps, then makes the team run laps based on the number of Ficken's misses. Sometimes he simply cancels practice in favor of bowling. "People respect that a lot," Hull says.PREGAMENo names on the jerseys. No long hair. No beards. Up until his firing, Paterno made a clean-cut image as much a PSU staple as winning. (He averaged nine wins over his final five seasons.) O'Brien loosened the grooming reins, and he added jersey names to recognize those who stuck with the program when the sanctions hit. Franklin has kept it casual. "With Joe, everything was 'Be focused. Know what you have to do.' It was very schedule-based," Hull says. "O'Brien and Franklin are looser. They let you have a little fun on Friday nights before the game, more free time."RECRUITING"Because Paterno's staff had been together so long, they were set in their ways," says ESPN's national recruiting director Tom Luginbill. "With this new staff, you get fresh ideas." Exhibit A: For his first signing day in February, Franklin replicated an NFL draft war room, and as each recruit's letter of intent came in, staff members took to the podium to announce the team's "selection," complete with nameplates and highlight reels. "The 'cool factor' is huge," Luginbill says. It's a big reason PSU's 2015 class ranks sixth in the country (as of Sept. 24).
Franklin...is looser. They let you have a little fun on Friday nights before the game, more free time
"The notion that there can be only one point of view with respect to all this stuff, and trustees at Penn State should toe a line that reflects the politically correct point of view, is symptomatic of what ails us," he said.
Quote"The notion that there can be only one point of view with respect to all this stuff, and trustees at Penn State should toe a line that reflects the politically correct point of view, is symptomatic of what ails us," he said.
reality is so politically correctwhy doesn't my money fix that
A police report obtained by CNN bolsters evidence that legendary football coach Joe Paterno knew years before Jerry Sandusky's arrest that his longtime assistant might be sexually abusing children.The one-page Pennsylvania state police report, obtained from a source and described here for the first time, lays out an account from whistleblower Mike McQueary, who reported to Paterno an incident he had just witnessed in a locker room between Sandusky and a young boy. Paterno allegedly told McQueary in 2001 that the claim against Sandusky "was the second complaint of this nature he had received," according to the police report
