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Video: Penn State Alum Equates NCAA Sanctions to 9/11

Really? Crushing, sure. Demoralizing, perhaps. But 9/11? Uh, didn’t people DIE during that?

Now we know where the problem at Penn State is. Watch the video below.

From WNEP:

The NCAA dropped the hammer on Penn State and former head football coach Joe Paterno this week. Fans were absolutely devastated by the unprecedented sanctions.  But Penn State alumnus Tom Price of Factoryville, Penn., took it to the extreme. He told WNEP-TV in Scranton that he and his wife Sally equated the NCAA’s punishment to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died in those attacks.

“I just can’t put my arms around it,” said Price. “It was our 9/11 today. I just saw planes crashing into towers.”

 

BuzzFeed: Some People Still Don’t Understand What Joe Paterno Did Wrong

What do you get when you combine the Tweet of anfy Penn State fans following the NCAA’s announcement of sanctions against the university with sections from the Freeh Report on what actually happened? A great article by our friends at BuzzFeed.com that shows just how out-of-touch the Paterno apologists are.

WARNING: Some of the Tweets contain Not Safe For Work language and stupidity.  Here’s one of my favorite Tweets:

“Seriously f*ck whoever punished penn state. #joepa”

Whoever punished Penn State? You’re following this story so closely you don’t know who the NCAA is or their role in this?

Here’s a taste of this piece:

Twitter, meet the Freeh report. Freeh report, meet Twitter. The next time you hear someone defend Joe Paterno, you might want to send them this.  The Freeh Report was the end result of an investigation of the Penn State sex abuse scandal led by former Director of the FBI and District Court Judge, Louis Freeh. The investigation was commissioned by the University.

 

May 3, 1998

Penn State Pounding

For Penn State students, alum, and fans who were holding their breaths this weekend awaiting word on what the NCAA will do to the football program there is good news: the Nittany Lions will not face the death penalty. The bad news? They may wish they had.

According to sources, the NCAA will likely announce today some blistering punishments including the loss of scholarships, bowl appearances, and a hefty fine.  So, likely it will cripple the once proud program for years to come and fans will have to sit and watch in disgust as every game, every down will be a reminder of the flawed oversight of the program for the past dozen years or so. The Death Penalty would have been bad, no doubt, but at least it would have been done, over. Not staring you in the face every fall Saturday afternoon for years to come. Better to have no season or an 0-10 season?

And if that weren’t enough, the University itself decided early Sunday morning to remove the statue of Joe Paterno that sat outside Beaver Stadium.  Roads to the stadium were blocked, a blue-covered barricade put up around it and then workman started the removal process.  We can certainly understand not wanting to wait until thousands had lined up to protest to the removal or block workers, but to some fans it will certainly seem like PSU pulled another fast one in the middle of the night, like firing JoePa last November.

We’re not closer to what’s going on in Happy Valley than the rest of you, but from where we sit, it certainly looks like the relationship between administration and well, everyone else there, is broken and will remain so for quite some time.