Shameful Stuff At The State Penn

by jaredprebish on Sep 6, 2008 7:33 AM EDT Comment 11 comments

The following is an excerpt of something I posted from my blog. I love my Penn State, but what's happened lately is truly sad and disheartening. I hope someone will learn from this. I also hope they can somehow put this behind them and win today!

From www.jaredsportsriff.com:

And yes, I'd hate to devote more space to the debacle that is Penn State, but it's a slow news week! I'm very dissappointed the players cannot excercise better judgement. Yes-kids can be kids..we were all kids once and did stupid things (God knows I did!!!). But my goodness, you football players are different...as much as I hate to say it...you are in a position where you are representing the University! As unfair as it is, you are high profile and nowadays, everyone knows everything that you do! Grow up and be smart! As for the coaches, shame on you even more! No, you aren't babysitters. But for God's sake, it's time to treat these kids like babies until they show and prove they are responsible young adults!! Yes, this generation of college students are extremely difficult and don't take direction like they might have 30 years ago. But you have a program (and a coach) to protect. Goshdarnit...just do it!! It's ruining the leagacy of a man who has done so much for the University and the sport he represents!

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If you truly love Penn State

why would you refer to it as “the State Penn”? This isn’t Audibles.

Hate the players, hate the coaches, but don’t hate my alma mater.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Sep 6, 2008 8:46 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Alma Mater

It’s mine too, but it sure seems like it’s the State Penn with the recent troubles. It’s sad

by jaredprebish on Sep 6, 2008 9:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The actions of a few....

do not determine the legacy of an entire University. Especially one as large, and with as much heart as Penn State.

I understand your frustration. I am frustrated too, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

It is sad, but not paralyzing. We are resilient, Joe is resilient, and Penn State is most definitely resilient.

FOR THE GLORY!

"A setback is just a set up for a comeback." -Drew Brees

by kajpsu on Sep 6, 2008 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Har

They are young guys.. people get high in college. i know its bull donk.. but this shit happens everywhere.. I got high as shit in college and im doing great..

by smashmouthsteel on Sep 7, 2008 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll tell you...

I think I hate that “State Penn” bullshit more than any mindless barb that’s thrown around out there. Any time you get a group of a hundred adolescents together, there’s a pretty damn good chance some of them will find a way to get in trouble. Yet somehow, over many decades, our football program (read: JoePa and his staff) have done an almost remarkable job of keeping our guys in line… at least relatively. Now, more than forty years down the road, we finally gain some negative national recognition – the same recogniton that most other major football schools have experienced in truckloads – and somehow we’re “State Penn”???

Oh, and Jared… A lot of Pitt fans like to call us “State Penn”. They think it’s hysterical. So, if you’re not a Pitt fan, you should think long and hard about throwing it around like that.

by BSM PSU 93 on Sep 8, 2008 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

STRONGLY

agreed!

" We need MORE cowbell !"

by BlueWhiteLife on Sep 8, 2008 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I honestly think....

we should steal one of Jim Tressel’s first changes when he came to Ohio State, by making the Football team sing the Alma Mater with the band at the end of every game.

Learning the words to that song brought me a sense of pride about where I was and the tradition behind it that I didn’t have before. I still wasn’t a perfect student, but at least had a heightened sense of responsibility to uphold something greater than myself.

For those of you, who may not know:

For the glory of Old State.
For her founders strong and great.
For the future that we wait.
Raise the Song, Raise the Song

Sing our love and loyalty.
Sing our hopes that bright and free,
Rest O mother dear with thee.
All with thee, All with thee.

When we stood at Childhood’s Gate,
Shapeless in the hands of fate,
Thou didst mold us, dear Old State.
Dear Old State, Dear Old State.

MAY NO ACT OF OURS BRING SHAME,
TO ONE HEART THAT LOVES THY NAME
MAY OUR LIVES BUT SWELL THY FAME
DEAR OLD STATE, DEAR OLD STATE.

"A setback is just a set up for a comeback." -Drew Brees

by kajpsu on Sep 6, 2008 12:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Give me a break

by speedomike on Sep 6, 2008 9:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

a piece of

kit kat?

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Sep 7, 2008 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd be surpised

if any students, football players included, knew anything but “We don’t know the godda**ed words.” Altough I did learn to appreciate the alma mater after I graduated.

For the glory

by Paige2PSU on Sep 7, 2008 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The students know the words now

I liked the way the students used to sing it — our own inside joke. I sang it that way all through my undergrad years, but switched to the real thing after graduationp.

I remember a Penn Stater magazine article about it when the folk lore prof basically said, it was a great student tradition.

Blogging about D.C. Baseball since April '04. Penn State alum. Also partial to the Washington Capitals, New York Yankees and Yale football.

by WFY on Sep 8, 2008 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs