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General Lee
This weekend the team voted on their captains in a squad meeting. But Joe Paterno tapped one guy personally.
Lee, of Upper St. Clair, had been expected to be named a captain before the injury. He was tabbed by coach Joe Paterno at a squad meeting Monday. The players voted on the other team captains, but results were not available.
I think this is a great move. Keep Lee involved with the team in a quasi-coaching capacity. He can still fire everyone up and verbally kick their ass if he sees them dogging it. His experience in the film room is invaluable, and it's somewhat of a blessing that he will be around another year to coach all of these great young linebackers into shape.
As for the other captains, if I had to make a guess I think it's going to be Shipley, Williams, and Tyrell Sales. But I'm really pulling for Deon Butler to somehow get selected.
Eeeew that smell. Can't you smell that smell?
Remember last year there was a major concern about the number of port-a-johns at the Notre Dame game? It seems the university got the message and they are losing their patience with public urination.
I must say I after going to Michigan and Temple last year I think Penn State does an ok job of providing facilities. Public urination happens in Happy Valley, but I don't think it's out of control like I saw in Ann Arbor and Philadelphia. But the last part of the article did catch my eye.
Bodenschatz said that "a lot of the tailgating lots were left in pretty horrible disrepair."
"Blue/White is becoming more and more like a regular football game," he said.
"Our expectation is that people actually utilize the bags we have and they put their garbage and leave it for us to pick up. Some folks do that and some don't. It's obviously disappointing."
This is beginning to get seriously out of control. More and more I see tailgate parties that just throw their empty cups and cans on the ground and make no effort to pick them up. Is it so hard to bring a trash bag with you? For goodness sakes, the students go around handing out the blue trash bags to throw your recyclables into. All you have to do is leave the bag on the ground when you leave. I hate to make broad generalizations, but it's pretty much exclusively the younger generation of fans I see doing this. Frankly, it disgusts me. Can we do something about that?
Scott-Free
I'm late to the party here, but all of the charges against Austin Scott have been dropped.
Scott's defense attorney, John Karoly Jr. of Allentown, said that while the withdrawal of the charges was great news, he has mixed feelings and is "saddened at how unnecessary this really was."
Gee, it's with "deep regret" we have to turn an innocent man free. That's just the kind of attitude I love to hear from a district attorney. How do I know Scott was an innocent man? Maybe because the victim accuser has a history of raising bogus rape charges.
In both cases, the woman said the attacks happened after she spent the night drinking. And in both cases, she said she woke up to find the men forcing themselves on her, court records show.
Scott's attorney, John P. Karoly Jr. of South Whitehall Township, said the Moravian case shows the woman is ''pathological'' and has a history of falsely accusing men of rape.
''This girl has made similar allegations before that were not believed by a jury,'' he said. ''… If they insist on going forward with this case, we are going to petition the court to have her examined by a psychiatrist.''
The really sad thing here is that the DA knew about the bogus charges and tried to take this to trial anyway.
''I was prepared for this to come out sooner or later,'' he said.
Karoly said he will use the Moravian case to discredit the accuser. Marshall said he would fight any reference to it if Scott goes to trial.
''We don't think it's important at all, and we don't think the defense should even be talking about it at all at this stage,'' he said.
Marshall said he doesn't think the earlier rape accusation is relevant ''because it has nothing to do with what happened Oct. 5.''
So the credibility of the accuser has no importance in a case of he-said-she-said? Really? Nobody can convince me that the State College district attorney isn't out to score a big win in court and throw a Penn State football player in jail. If you still don't believe me, read the transcript of the phone conversation between Scott and the accuser the police recorded the morning after.
Scott: Oh, you're mad at me?
Accuser: A little, yeah.
Scott: Why?
Accuser: Because I told (laugher) you at the beginning of the night. Why do you think I left?
Scott: I don't know why you said you couldn't sleep there. I didn't realize that you were -- that's why I hit you up last night -- I was like, why are you walking home mad late?
Accuser: Because I didn't want to stay there because you upset me.
Scott: Damn, I wouldn't -- yo, I wouldn't have done that if you didn't want to.
Accuser: I told you no at the beginning of the night.
Scott: You said -- you said you just want to make -- respect you, that's it. I didn't realize that you -- I mean, damn, you try to flip it on me like -- you know what I mean? It sounds like you are mad at me or something.
Accuser: I am mad at you. (laughter)
Scott: Why?
Accuser: Because I said no (laughter) at the beginning of the night, and then with what happened...
Scott: What? I didn't -- (yawn) force you on top of me. I don't understand why you are mad at me now.
...
Accuser: Because, like -- I don't know. I don't even know what really happened. What --
Scott: What?
Accuser: Like, what happened last night? I have, like, bruises and stuff on me.
Scott: What did you say?
Accuser: I'm asking you, (laughter) like, what happened last night?
Scott: What do you mean? You came over. We were laying there, like, just cuddling and then we started doing whatever. Then we -- like, you got on top of me.
...
Scott: I thought everything was cool when you came over and I didn't -- like, I didn't force you on top of me. You were just laying there, and then like -- I don't know why you're so upset. Like, yeah, you said that at the beginning of the night but then obviously your feelings changed because you were on top of me. You know what I mean? I don't understand why you're so, like, upset now.
Accuser: I'm sad, because, like, I don't even -- when was I on top of you? You started it. You -- I woke up and you were on top of me.
Scott: What are you talking -- no, that's not what happened. You just said you didn't remember what happened.
Accuser: I don't remember, like -- I'll talk to you later.
This, was all the DA had to go on. Her word against his, and the DA knew she had a history of bringing false rape charges against people. Yet he pushed on with the trial. That, is "deeply regretful".
You know what else is "regretful" too? I remember after the charges were announced people were posting pages of the Daily Collegian all over campus with the story of Scott being dismissed from the team and they wrote in big letters "What about the victim?" on it. I think all of those people owe Mr. Scott a huge apology right about now. But I doubt one is coming.
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General Lee
Another notable USC grad who showed leadership when playing at Penn State--punter John Bruno, who gave the infamous "But didn't the Japanese lose the war" line at the steak fry for the '87 Fiesta Bowl
by spakajewia on Apr 22, 2008 4:10 PM EDT 0 recs
don't blame the trash on all the youngins
We threw all of our cans into one of those blue bags some dude gave us and all the other crap in a giant black bag we brought along. One of those hefty bags...just hung it off the hitch of the truck.
There are old people that are just as lazy as the young people.....
by FireJayPa on Apr 22, 2008 4:20 PM EDT 0 recs
Do I really have to explain this?
Are there some lazy old people who don't clean up after themselves? Sure, but the vast VAST majority of low-life trash I have observed are all under the age of 25.
by Mike on
Apr 22, 2008 4:59 PM EDT
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i know
I just ugh, I dunno, get a bit defensive when myself and my friends always get lumped into that group of "young people that trash the place"
And honestly, I don't know how anyone can be making a mess period. They give you bags, ton of them laying around. They don't ask you to take it with you; just throw it in the bag & tie it off.
Heck, I enjoy throwing the cans in there to see how many we've drank...almost like a game for the kids
by FireJayPa on
Apr 22, 2008 5:26 PM EDT
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It's a problem with visiting tailgaters too
by PSU Nick on
Apr 22, 2008 5:34 PM EDT
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Some Advice
At the risk of getting political, I would think a heavily liberal school like Penn State would be all pro-environment. But I guess they are just more pro-government because they figure other people get paid to clean up after them. The risk they run is that the university police are going to start issuing litter citations if you throw your empty cans on the ground without bagging them up. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if they did.
by Mike on
Apr 22, 2008 5:41 PM EDT
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Well struck
by fugimaster24 on
Apr 23, 2008 12:17 AM EDT
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Trash tailgators
by psuboy on
Apr 24, 2008 12:10 PM EDT
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people leaving trash....
Oh and as for public urination...how are you fools getting caught?
If you can't wait to use the portable johns...open the front door and the back door of your car and piss between them.
If you have a two door car, then you're SOL. Have fun standing in line.
by Stately NOVA Lion on Apr 22, 2008 4:27 PM EDT 0 recs
Another way to avoid the long lines at the porta
by Ab4PSU on
Apr 24, 2008 3:57 PM EDT
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Phone conversation transcription
by BSM PSU 93 on Apr 22, 2008 4:29 PM EDT 0 recs
Agree
Because what jury is going to send a man away for life after hearing that? Unless of course, you can get the faculty from the Woman's Studies Dept. to encompass the entire jury, no reasonable person is going to send anyone away after hearing that, especially coupled with the defendant's past record of making bogus charges.
Scott should sue these clowns.
And there is something seriously wrong with the state of education when a woman in college thinks it's OK to make a rape charge, after engaging in something consensual.
by CDRS on
Apr 23, 2008 4:17 PM EDT
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Fo Shizzle
by fugimaster24 on
Apr 23, 2008 12:16 AM EDT
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um..
sorry, i couldn't resist. im glad to see that Lee was made a captain, our team definitely needs his leadership, even if its from the sideline
as for being trashy, i blame it on the cheap girls that walk around in short skirts and whore-tops....oh wait, not that trashy? its just laziness, all around. people feel too often that they're owed something and don't have to take care of this mother earth because "someone gets paid to do it" its crap and its giving a lot of people that do their part a bad name.
as for public urinations? the four door is the trick, plus you DO have to look to see if there are 2.5s around first, and if they show up, don't be afraid of getting a little piss on yer britches
by lionalum05 on Apr 22, 2008 5:16 PM EDT 0 recs
Something just doesn't seem right about
by Mike on
Apr 22, 2008 5:34 PM EDT
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well...
by lionalum05 on
Apr 22, 2008 8:59 PM EDT
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Public urination
And 9 women were cited? Seriously?
by PSUWifey on Apr 22, 2008 8:47 PM EDT 0 recs
Breakdown of Charges/Eventual Innocence?
by loyal and true on Apr 23, 2008 1:16 PM EDT 0 recs
Lasch Out
by PSUgirl on
Apr 23, 2008 3:45 PM EDT
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Yeah
by Mike on
Apr 23, 2008 5:46 PM EDT
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DUI is typical?
by kijana32 on
Apr 24, 2008 1:26 PM EDT
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DUI
by Mike on
Apr 24, 2008 3:50 PM EDT
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Typical College Stuff?
*This announcement brought to you courtesy of M1EK
by Cpiritual27 on Apr 23, 2008 8:11 PM EDT 0 recs
Phone Transcript
by Rockin on Apr 27, 2008 5:23 PM EDT 0 recs














