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This weekend the team voted on their captains in a squad meeting. But Joe Paterno tapped one guy personally.

Sean Lee will be a captain this season for the Penn State football team despite a knee injury that will keep him out of games.

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.

Despite an increase in portable toilets at Beaver Stadium for Saturday's Blue/ White game, 31 people, including nine women, were cited by Penn State police for urinating in public.

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.

The number of public urination citations wasn't the only sign that tailgaters may have imbibed more than usual last weekend.

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.

The Centre County District Attorney's Office "with deep regret" withdrew rape and other charges Friday against former Penn State tailback Austin Scott after losing an appeal in state Superior Court.

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.

The woman accusing Penn State running back Austin Scott of sexual assault leveled similar charges in 2003 against a Moravian College student, who was later acquitted of rape.

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.

Assistant District Attorney Lance Marshall said he was aware of the earlier case when his office gave the go-ahead to file charges against Scott in Centre County last Friday. He declined to say how his office learned of the Moravian case.

''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.

Accuser: So I don't know. Well, I'm just kind of upset that that even happened to begin with when I told you no at the beginning of the night, but I don't know.

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
I was devasted when Lee got hurt for all the obvious reasons and because he graduated from my high school, and depsite USC's excellent reputation in PA football, he's the first St. Clair alum to have a chance to be drafted on the first day.

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
I'm 24 and the crew I rolled with to the game kept a real neat ship.

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?
I didn't say all young people leave trash laying around. I said all the people leaving trash lay around are young.

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.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

Hail to the Lion!

by Mike on Apr 22, 2008 4:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

i know
Mike I know what you're saying

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 to parent up   0 recs

It's a problem with visiting tailgaters too
I remember the Notre Dame game this past year that 3 of the Notre Dame tailgates I saw earlier in the day were the 3 biggest disaster areas when I walked back to my car. They ditched early and left a huge mess of trash. WTF?

by PSU Nick on Apr 22, 2008 5:34 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

They're Notre Dame
Their shit don't stink either.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

Hail to the Lion!

by Mike on Apr 22, 2008 5:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Some Advice
Grow some thicker skin, dude. If you pick up your trash and leave it in a neat pile you have nothing to be defensive about. Nobody is lumping you personally into anything. I'm just saying it's a trend that I've noticed with your generation over the past two or three years. I don't recall seeing people trash the place back to the extent they do today when I went to school there in the 90's.

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.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

Hail to the Lion!

by Mike on Apr 22, 2008 5:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Well struck
good line Mike.
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...

by fugimaster24 on Apr 23, 2008 12:17 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Trash tailgators
I live in SC and to drive by the tailgate areas on a Sunday is a disgrace.  It did not used to be that way.  While it is individual tailgaters who are doing this and they should not be excused for their behavior PSU is just as much to blame.  They removed all the trash cans and changed the way they clean up after the tailgates.  Also, they need to kick these people out of the lots and issue citations to the tailgaters who do this.  It is not hard to find.  Just walk through the parking lots.  A few pieces of trash is one thing but the colossal messes that are left behind by some of these pigs is unbelievable.  There is no regard for anyone around them.    
Peter

by psuboy on Apr 24, 2008 12:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

people leaving trash....
It's disgusting to walk back to the game to see cars gone but piles of cans, paper towels and solo cups spread out on the ground. I'm 24 and always remember to bag up my trash, but it does seem to be the younger twenty somethings who leave their litter piles. C'mon guys, clean it up...it doesn't take that much effort.

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
johns for the late games is to have a gallon milk or water jug and then just whiz in your vehicle, then get out and dump the jug in the shrubs.  Works every time, until your friends decide to start taking pictures of you while you're doing it.  Then again, if you've got nothing down there to be ashamed of, then go ahead and take pictures!

by Ab4PSU on Apr 24, 2008 3:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Phone conversation transcription
Every sports journalist in America should post that phone conversation on the front page of their sports section (incl. USA Today's, the New York Times', the Boston Globe's, etc., etc.).  Scott's good name would get cleared (publicly) and that sh!thead DA would be humiliated, as he rightfully should be.  Oh, and ESPN should do a half-hour special on Scott, focusing on how college athletes are always viewed as "guilty until proven innocent".  But, of course, they won't.

by BSM PSU 93 on Apr 22, 2008 4:29 PM EDT   0 recs

Agree
This is ridiculous, rape is a serious charge that pretty much puts a guy away for life.  The instant that phone conversation was heard, the prosecutors should have dropped the case.  

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 to parent up   0 recs

Bitches be crazy.
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Apr 22, 2008 5:00 PM EDT   0 recs

Fo sho
JoePa is my hero.

by psuphiman80 on Apr 22, 2008 5:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

word

by PSU86 on Apr 22, 2008 8:15 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Fo Shizzle
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...

by fugimaster24 on Apr 23, 2008 12:16 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

um..
like, i can't believe that the DA would like, let this phone conversation go like, unnoticed. its like, clear that the DA is like, trying to pad his reputation as like, a hardcore District attorney. like, how can you let something like, as obvious as like, her giggling, and like scott saying like, she put herself on top of him. it's like pathetic and now his like, career might be like, ruined.

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

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Apr 22, 2008 5:16 PM EDT   0 recs

Something just doesn't seem right about
following up "Don't be afraid of getting a little piss on yer britches" with your signature "For the Glory". LOL
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

Hail to the Lion!

by Mike on Apr 22, 2008 5:34 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

well...
i do what i can. hahahah i mean i try to do things the penn state way, but when you're 3 sheets to the wind and dont realize you've gotten pee until the last minute,meanwhile the lines are longer than jenna jamison's partner list,  you modify and adjust
For the glory

by lionalum05 on Apr 22, 2008 8:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Public urination
I have to say that I was totally disgusted by this on Saturday.  I was amazed at how many portapotties were around, yet while walking back to my car after the game I saw two guys peeing behind the front doors of the same truck...not ten steps away from a bank of johns with a very short line.  Come on!  

And 9 women were cited?  Seriously?  

by PSUWifey on Apr 22, 2008 8:47 PM EDT   0 recs

Breakdown of Charges/Eventual Innocence?
Can we get one from a knowledgeable PSUer (Mike)?  Over the past few years I've gotten so disgusted at seeing headlines on ESPN and in the PG about players getting in trouble that I just ignore them.  AND THEN I get even more disgusted when charges are dropped/ players are acquitted and it never gets the same attention.  Can we get a breakdown of charges against players in the last couple of years and what eventually came of them?
May No Act of Ours Bring Shame

by loyal and true on Apr 23, 2008 1:16 PM EDT   0 recs

Lasch Out
(along with some tosu blogs) had a listing a few weeks back - and it wasn't completely accurate regarding the outcomes.  anyone who wants to make such a list needs to be sure that the information is correct and that they understand what they are posting.  

by PSUgirl on Apr 23, 2008 3:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah
I've seen the list and it's pretty frightening. But you start looking closely and you realize they included Lavon Chisley who committed murder AFTER he was booted from the team. Then you realize nearly a third of all the incidents resulted in dismissals or acquitals. All that was left was a bunch of disorderly conduct, DUI, and underage drinking charges. Typical college student stuff.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

Hail to the Lion!

by Mike on Apr 23, 2008 5:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

DUI is typical?
News to me.  Maybe we can get Bob Huggins to come coach the basketball team then.

by kijana32 on Apr 24, 2008 1:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

DUI
I think college kids getting drunk and doing stupid things is typical. This also may be more of a function of the PA police system which I think is a little harsher on DUI than most states. Especially in the south.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

Hail to the Lion!

by Mike on Apr 24, 2008 3:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Typical College Stuff?
Yeah, for the MIAMI OF THE NORTH!!

*This announcement brought to you courtesy of M1EK

by Cpiritual27 on Apr 23, 2008 8:11 PM EDT   0 recs

Ha!
Nice pre-emptive move, C27!

by Pete the Streak on Apr 24, 2008 7:19 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Phone Transcript
I actually think the DA that did not instantly drop the charges when he first heard/saw this transcript should be fired.  What happened to the DA in the Duke lacrosse case? What is so different here?  Basically between this air-headed bimbo and the DA trying to make a name for himself they have ruined a persons life.

by Rockin on Apr 27, 2008 5:23 PM EDT   0 recs

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