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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]^^ yuck. When I see the Penn State football uniform on TV , it gives me a sick feeling. It always will. It represents a nasty side of human nature. I think it was the reaction of the students / alumni and the whole delusional Paterno cult stuff was more of a institutional sickness exposed than the decades long atrocity in the team house.[/quote]
It's very strange talking to people from pa. They are 100% for the football program and are so happy that wins have been restored. PSU football is an after thought or at most a model of what can go wrong national, but not in Pa. [/quote]

I'm a PA person who likes PSU football - as in if i turn on ABC and a game is on, I'll watch though I have no idea who they're playing next week or what their win loss % is at any time or what the new coaching philosophy is. Nationally you say "Penn State" and people think of child sex abuse and what can go wrong when a program becomes untouchable with no university oversight. But to my Pa friends -- even the ones who were disgusted early on -- it's like it never happened bc it's been a few yrs, the guy is behind bars, JVP died, and the new coaching staff is very rah-rah and preaches being good family men. If someone pushes the topic then you invariably hear about what a good school it is academically and how they raised $13 million for THON. Both of those things are great, but I'm not sure how they allow you to revise history though.

That said if my kid wanted to go to PSU I'd have no issues with it -- provided they had the right majors, right fit etc bc such a huge school and an isolated town aren't for every kid. Nor would I have any problem with going to psu games on campus -- enjoy the unique environment while you're there.[/quote]

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