[NU Sports] kill PSU football

[Alan Abrahamson]

Stephen,

Not being ridiculous.

If I were advising the governor, that's the advice I would give him. I
think my advice would be well-taken and well-received. You're free to
disagree. That's fine. But it's clear that something in State College was
seriously amiss, and it's going to take a long time to figure out why that
was, and how to fix it. They need decisive action there. If the governor
was to take such decisive action, he might find it to be a political
lightning strike. If I were advising the governor, I'd be looking for
political lightning strikes.

For those of you interested, the Penn State Board of Trustees' news
conference is live on ESPN News right now.

Alan



On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:23 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I can understand #1 (and it appears the board of trustees just did that)
> and am absolutely on board with #2 (along with the AD and university police
> head).
>
> But the rest are just ridiculous.
>
> Like I said, it's going overboard and punishing people who had absolutely
> NOTHING to do with this. And I know you mentioned Reggie Bush/USC, and that
> is the stupidity of the 5-years-late NCAA, but even there it has SOME
> connection in that these recruits came to SC because of the cheating going
> on and success it created. This has NOTHING to do with the PSU football
> players on or off the field.
>
> It would be like closing all the congregations and schools of an
> archdiocese where a priest was charged with abuse -- even if the priest
> never served directly at that parish.
>
> It would be like canceling classes at the university for the year if a
> professor raped a student. Even if none of the students in the class had
> the professor, but it happened in the department that their prof oversaw.
>
> I think we're getting out of hand here and the attention on the JoePa part
> is allowing the others who knew more and did less (and the actual
> perpetrator) to sit in the shadows unscathed.
>
> Let's calm down for a second and not get caught up in the feeding frenzy.
>
> Canceling the season is ridiculous. Canceling future seasons is absurd.
>
> - SjT
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
> Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
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> *From:* Alan Abrahamson <alan.abrahamson at gmail.com>
> *To:* MHRJGScott at aol.com
> *Cc:* nwu-sports at tssi.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 9, 2011 7:13 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [NU Sports] kill PSU football
>
> 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:
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> 1. Relieve Mr. Paterno of his duties immediately.
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> 2. Ditto the university president.
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> 3. Cancel the remainder of the 2011 Penn State football season.
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> 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?
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:59 PM, <MHRJGScott at aol.com> wrote:
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> > Like the Roman Catholic Church, Penn State is an arrogant institution
> > hiding behind its mystique, an insular world that protects its own, and
> > operates
> >  outside of societal norms as long as victories and cash continue to flow
> > bountifully.Penn State rakes in $70 million a year from its football
> >  program
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