[NU Sports] LA Times column worth reading

[Jim Leonard]

Harry,
 
I think your NU analogy misses the main point. Butz can publish whatever he wants and NU can stand behind that as a first amendment issue (which it is). In your scenario there is no cover up by university to protect football revenue.
 
From where I sit, Penn State officials did not take appropriate action to protect children because football came first. PSU has lost credibility as a university because they put football above human decency and the greater university ideals. I think declining a bowl game would be a gesture to say "we need to get our house in order, football can wait". They won't do it because money and SjT say they won't do it, but I think it's an option.
 
Declining a bowl game would unfairly punish the players (I still say ALL of the coaches knew). That happens in life. I am forever punished at the airport by having to remove my shoes because one a-hole failed in a bomb plot. Completely unfair to me, but it makes sense to everyone but me. 
 
Jim
 
 


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From: "hakirsch at aol.com" <hakirsch at aol.com>
To: Alan Abrahamson <alan.abrahamson at gmail.com>; nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com; Northwestern Wildcats <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] LA Times column worth reading

I disagree with the LA Times article suggesting PSU just pull out of any bowl game they may have earned on the field due to sideshow it would create

While not completely analagous, suppose Arthur Butz' (an Electrical Engineering Professor at NU) book denying the Holocaust had come out this week with all of the subsequent protests on campus.  We would likely expect   protests and pickets in and around our bowl game site.  We would probably expect questions at press conferences about it. It would be a distraction.  Yes this example wasnt started by a former coach nor involve Pat Fitzgerald,but none of the people who apparently are morally guilty are part of the PSU team right now. They have been let go.(The Grad Assistant is on leave) Yet the article implies  it is the sideshow created by others that should derail PSU's participation not PSU's actions per se  

Harry
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http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1117-dufresne-penn-state-20111117,0,1933841.column

CHRIS DUFRESNE / ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL
For everyone's sake, Penn State needs to say no to a bowl game The school
needs to concentrate on recovering from the child sex abuse scandal and not
burden bowl officials with an unwanted sideshow.
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