[NU Sports] kill PSU football

[Alan Abrahamson]

Well, this is what makes for interesting debate and discussion.

I bet the governor does have the unilateral authority to act in the best
interests of the state in exigencies. I would bet he could find enough
wiggle room to define this as an exigency.

And, by the way, I think most people would side with me in this debate,
Dennis ...

But it's okay with me if you disagree. Really, it's fine. I always enjoy
your point of view. Bring it on.



On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:

>  So this is what Neil Kaplan and I were just talking about.
>>
>> If we were advising the governor of Pennsylvania, we would tell the
>> governor:
>>
>> 1. Relieve Mr. Paterno of his duties immediately.
>>
>> 2. Ditto the university president.
>>
>> 3. Cancel the remainder of the 2011 Penn State football season.
>>
>> 4. Cancel the 2012 Penn State football season.
>>
>> 5. The state will honor the scholarships of those young men on the
>> football
>> team who wish to stay at Penn State. Those who wish to leave and pursue
>> other opportunities will be released to do so.
>>
>> 6. Announce that you are taking these steps because the university's
>> leaders have clearly lost their moral compass.
>>
>> 7. It is going to take some time for everyone to appropriately again
>> understand how football fits into the scheme of the state's flagship
>> university. Thus: no football until 2013.
>>
>> 8. Understandably, this means complications and a raft of details to be
>> worked out. Today is not the day for details. Those details will be worked
>> out, with the Big Ten and with our other partners.
>>
>> Neil and I believe that if the governor was to take this sort of decisive
>> action it would be applauded around the United States. Thoughts? Comments?
>>
>
> I doubt the governor has the unilateral authority to do as you ask, and
> I'm damn sure he would not be reelected if he did.  State College would
> take a huge economic hit, and those residents are not responsible for
> anything that happened.  And why suspend just football games?  The alleged
> guilty parties are those who oversaw the entire Penn State sports program.
>
> This is going WAY overboard.  Punish those responsible, not millions of
> people who are not.  As I said before, we need think with the adrenal
> cortex, not the adrenal.
>