The statue HAS to come down.

Why? It's a perpetual reminder of their shame.

Add a crying child in the distance with Paterno's upturned face patently ignoring it.

They could move the Paterno statue to the library, to remind people to keep quiet.

Don't like to laugh when it's a serious matter, but dang, that was funny.

Judge on.

I came upon a car in Las Vegas today. It had a big blue S sticker on it. On close inspection, it was a Penn State sticker - proudly displayed. It coordinated nicely with the blue Nevada plates and the Penn State license plate frame.

Was I supposed to kill him / her - or honk and flip the bird - or follow the car and deface the sticker and rip off the license plate frame - beat them up -

Or just allow them to peacefully enjoy whatever remnant of pride they have in their alma mater.

Here is. Metaphor. I wasn't exactly sure what to do with this very real but unexpected situation - hope I used good judgment. Glass houses and all.

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[Insert quote from Billy Madison about "rambling, incoherent responses" here]

Let me make it simpler.

Those who live in glass houses ... Should have sex in the basement -oops wrong metaphor for Sandusky. Maybe it was - should not cast stones - forget that one.

This.

The innocent will suffer immeasurably at PSUvincluding whomever it was driving that car. No need to pile on. Maybe more need to lighten their burden and help them heal.

Oh, I got the point that you were ATTEMPTING to make, but it was such a ridiculous reaching hyperbole strawman fallacy of exaggeration that I gave it the response it deserved.

Judge on.

I came upon a car in Las Vegas today. It had a big blue S sticker on it. On close inspection, it was a Penn State sticker - proudly displayed. It coordinated nicely with the blue Nevada plates and the Penn State license plate frame.

Was I supposed to kill him / her - or honk and flip the bird - or follow the car and deface the sticker and rip off the license plate frame - beat them up -

Or just allow them to peacefully enjoy whatever remnant of pride they have in their alma mater.

Here is. Metaphor. I wasn't exactly sure what to do with this very real but unexpected situation - hope I used good judgment. Glass houses and all.

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[Insert quote from Billy Madison about "rambling, incoherent responses" here]

Let me make it simpler.

Those who live in glass houses ... Should have sex in the basement -oops wrong metaphor for Sandusky. Maybe it was - should not cast stones - forget that one.

This.

The innocent will suffer immeasurably at PSUvincluding whomever it was driving that car. No need to pile on. Maybe more need to lighten their burden and help them heal.

Lack of institutional control is a catch all phrase that can be used to cover almost anything. Not to mention that I'm sure there is a way that this could be construed into a recruiting violation.

If there is no NCAA by-law that states covering up a felony is a violation of NCAA policy, I think one should be demanded. Call it the Sandusky law.

Lack of institutional control is very broad, but it is limited to the NCAA bylaws and policies--it doesn't apply to extra-NCAA regulations. The lack of control here relates to criminal activity, not NCAA violations, so in the NCAA-sense there is no institutional control implicated.

I don't think the NCAA will, nor should it, touch this. Essentially the argument is "they did something really bad and criminal, so they should get the death penalty." Unfortunately, if the NCAA steps in here by stretching their jurisdiction far beyond anything ever contemplated, the NCAA then will have carte blanche to get involved with any criminal activity touching the athletic programs it oversees---like rape gate, and balloon gate.

I understand people are pissed and want to punish someone, but (a) you are punishing the wrong people, and (b) the NCAA has no authority to do this, and you don't want them to take on that authority. Bad precedent makes for bad law.

Judge on.

I came upon a car in Las Vegas today. It had a big blue S sticker on it. On close inspection, it was a Penn State sticker - proudly displayed. It coordinated nicely with the blue Nevada plates and the Penn State license plate frame.

Was I supposed to kill him / her - or honk and flip the bird - or follow the car and deface the sticker and rip off the license plate frame - beat them up -

Or just allow them to peacefully enjoy whatever remnant of pride they have in their alma mater.

Here is. Metaphor. I wasn't exactly sure what to do with this very real but unexpected situation - hope I used good judgment. Glass houses and all.

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[Insert quote from Billy Madison about "rambling, incoherent responses" here]

Judge on.

I came upon a car in Las Vegas today. It had a big blue S sticker on it. On close inspection, it was a Penn State sticker - proudly displayed. It coordinated nicely with the blue Nevada plates and the Penn State license plate frame.

Was I supposed to kill him / her - or honk and flip the bird - or follow the car and deface the sticker and rip off the license plate frame - beat them up -

Or just allow them to peacefully enjoy whatever remnant of pride they have in their alma mater.

Here is. Metaphor. I wasn't exactly sure what to do with this very real but unexpected situation - hope I used good judgment. Glass houses and all.

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