05-10-2016, 02:56 PM
(05-10-2016, 02:36 PM)Harmening Wrote: Considering the school could have lost their accreditation over this, I thought the program got off very light. Punishing them again I think would be double jeopardy, but what's so frustrating in all of this is how the school has barely even shown remorse for what happened and that's what angers people including myself more than anything. Knowing that they had made settlements with people going as far back as 1971 and still seeing Penn State stick with this hard line approach of denying that Paterno and company did anything wrong keeps right in with that theme.
The one silver lining is that this cult of Paterno probably ended the day this story broke and if that is true Happy Valley will eventually get over it. Its just going to take a lot longer than they would like. For anyone old enough to remember it who's not a Penn State fan, this will always be the first thing that comes to mind when the words Penn State football are mentioned and there is nothing Penn State or anyone else can do to change that.
As someone who lives an hour from Happy Valley, I'll tell you not to count on it. People believe what they want to believe, and loyalty can create powerful delusions.
