[NU Sports] one angle I wonder about

[Mark Ament]

PSU is going to need all that money and a hundred times more to fairly compensate the victims.  Let them play the games, the players deserve it.  I could o either way on a bowl now that Paternoster has been rightly fired.
Mark

 Mark S. Ament
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On Nov 9, 2011, at 3:09 PM, "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com> wrote:

> OR
> 
> Play the games.  
> 
>  Games, Give the seniors who want to play in the NFL a chance to make their case.
> 
> Give the PSU profits from the games to some fund for abused kids in general or the victims of Sandusky in particular.  Gives the football team an opportunity to help in the healing.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jim Leonard
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:06 PM
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] one angle I wonder about
> 
> I know that greed and money will trump this, but I think it is in the best interest of the university to end this football season as soon as possible. 
>  
> A) Remove Paterno and McQueary today
> B) Publicly announce that the rest of the staff is done at the end of the season
> C) Skip the Big Ten Championship and a bowl (it sucks for the players, but life is unfair)
> D) Release any and all recruits and current players who want out
>  
> The school has a lot of soul searching and house cleaning to do. It will take months and months so they might as well start today. 
>  
> Jim
> 
> 
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> From: Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com>
> To: bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "nwu-sports at tssi.com" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] one angle I wonder about
> 
>> I think we are in uncharted waters ... the first BT championship game and 
>> now this? I don't know. And if PSU does decline a bowl bid and doesn't 
>> play in the BT title game ... strange.  At that point OSU's win over 
>> Wisconsin becomes huge.
> 
> Not that it matters in the big picture (except to the bean counters at
> all the Big Ten schools), but there are conference revenue implications 
> here.  Penn State was in the hunt for a BCS at-large slot even if 
> they lost the Big Ten Championship game.  
> 
>> You could make a case that PSU should play in the title game but not a 
>> bowl (obligation vs. reward) but ... I don't know.
> 
> Yeah, but if they win, who goes to the Rose Bowl?
> 
> USCF is ineligible for the Pac 12 championship game as well as a 
> bowl game, if Penn State takes itself out of the bowl season, then they
> should opt out of the Big Ten Championship game as well.
> 
>> I do know this: if Joe coaches Sat -- which I believe firmly he should 
>> not -- he better stay in the press box. The sight of him leading the 
>> team on the field would be grotesquely inappropriate.
> 
> I don't recall, did he do that for the past few games where he was up
> in the pressbox?
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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