Video: LaVar Arrington Speaks At Candlelight Vigil
by Kevin Powers on Nov 12, 2011 8:14 AM EST
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Although I find patting yourself on the back for doing selfless things a little contradictory:
So I think it's safe to say we've seen a shift in mood. This is a complex situation, not a simple case of every character wearing either black or white. If you need another reminder of that, go read Posnanski again.
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Anyone can say We Are when things are going well
If you’re really Penn State, you say it now
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 12, 2011 8:35 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
A little early in the morning for things to be so dusty in here
Everyone lost.
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Damn dust storms...
in the Lehigh Valley. Its like that move “The Day After Tomorrow”.
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Also
from the OS twitter feed.
Everyone lost.
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by Peter Gray on Nov 12, 2011 8:37 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
Penn State is still nothing but a bunch of pedophile rapists if you watch the news
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
Then don't watch the news
I don’t care what the media thinks, I don’t care what the haters think.
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by WFY on Nov 12, 2011 9:05 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Me neither
I have yet to see a news report that accurately reflects the information in the GJ investigation, assuming everything in it is even true.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
I haven't watched the local or national news in almost 15 years.
They’re a joke. And I don’t need anybody to tell me what is news and how I should think about something. The internet has made the broadcast news obsolete in my opinion. I can get a myriad of varying opinions on any subject online, take them all into account, and make up my own mind.
What I've learned should be done from the media (especially the Pgh media):
-PSU football should be eliminated entirely.
-PSU students are horrible for rallying around Joe and should all be lined up and shot.
-I should kill myself because I attended Penn State.
-All other alumni and fans should also kill themselves.
-Any high school kid who wants to go to Penn State is insane and not worthy of living in our oh so civilized society.
-Any parent who lets their kid go to PSU should lose custody of all their kids and sent to a concentration camp.
-State College should be nuked.
-This is the worst thing ever to happen in the history of mankind.
You'll get that from the Philly media as well
So many people just waiting for this to come crashing down and the piling on is disgusting. I’ve known this for a while so shouldn’t be shocked.
I'd feel a lot better about our chances today
If Silas Redd didn’t just tweet that he was listening to Drake.
Everyone lost.
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I love PSU's chances to lay the hammer down
1) PSU has been the better team all year. Better S&P+, F/+, Annar Ranking, Sagarin Ranking, and record against common opponents.
2) PSU is at home
3) PSU will be mad as hell
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 12, 2011 9:10 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Anybody else get the email from the Pres of the Alumni Assoc?
Would I be banned for life and vilified for spam if I ‘reply all’ with the link to the RAINN donation page?
16365 native
Pretty sure we were all BCC'ed
So “Reply All” wouldn’t work.
Lavar tackllin' issues like he tackles Illinois Quarterback's
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 9:44 AM EST reply actions
Retiring them like Troy Aikman
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
I'm stupid...help me out.
I’ve learned a lot reading BSD and need educating again so please help me with this.
I keep hearing how PSU should have at least canceled the game today and probably the entire season and maybe just given up football completely. So I’ve thought about all this and can’t come up with how doing any of that helps or accomplishes anything other than spreading the harm out even more to the innocent current players, merchants, students, ushers…vendors…ticket takers…maintenance workers, et al, fans, etc.
I know it would make I guess a lot of self-righteous people feel good, much like wearing a ribbon for a cause (while doing nothing else) does. But I just can’t see how it helps any of the victims in all of this to any real discernable extent.
by J Breezy on Nov 12, 2011 9:47 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
It doesn't, it's an irrelevant diatribe that some have seen fit to launch against PSU
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
It doesn't...
Some how cancelling a game shows that football isn’t that important blah blah blah. To cancel the game, PSU would have to retroactively forfeit it’s first 5 conference games, otherwise Neb, OSU and Wisky get an unfair advantage.
10/9/11 - the day the music died.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 12, 2011 10:10 AM EST up reply actions
I read a comment similar to this on an article covering the RAINN campaign
Someone posted that they thought it would be a nice gesture if Penn State donated all of the proceeds of today’s game to organizations like RAINN in honor of the victims, and continue to do that until the football program was no longer able to financially support itself, and then close the program in honor of the victims.
I’d typed up a very not-inflammatory response explaining that, while it would be a nice gesture, the football program supports virtually the rest of the athletic programs at Penn State and that gesture would affect thousands of student-athletes who had NOTHING to do with this atrocity. And in fact, could add to the victims’ guilt and referenced the lawyer that came out and basically said that about Joe’s firing.
Then I started to go through a convoluted process to get registered to post and lost it. And didn’t have the energy to go through it all again. (But I’m going back today.)
People don’t know all of the facts when they make suggestions like this. Again—it’s an emotional response. Which has been 99% of the average person’s reaction to this. I get it. We’ve probably all done the same thing in other instances. It’s just getting tiring to deal with it all.
But all the more reason why, in the face of such irrationality, it’s important for us to try to remain calm and rational. It will infuriate some who want a reciprocal response, but it will work with a lot of folks. And it’s HARD—because we are all still dealing with the emotional fall-out ourselves. But we’ve got to figure out a way to make it happen.
by psu87intn on Nov 12, 2011 10:12 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Doug Flutie makes rational comments
During a call-in to Versus noted there has been too much coverage of Paterno and not enough on Sandusky
It’s one of the “also see” links on the MSNBC page with the Jerry Needel interview.
16365 native
by SNOI7 on Nov 12, 2011 9:50 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Shit
Time to go donate more money.
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by skarocksoi on Nov 12, 2011 9:54 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Attendance today?
ESPN (I know, I know ) reporting parking lots emptier than usual. Is this going to be a record low?
16365 native
I'd be surprised if it didn't top at least 103,000 personally
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Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
Just got a text from a friend who's there
He says he doesn’t know what lots they’re looking at. That’s encouraging.
16365 native
It ended up being almost 108,000.
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by Orange and Black Forever on Nov 12, 2011 4:59 PM EST up reply actions
The worst thing for ESPN
Is if everything just went by like a normal Saturday and PSU won.
They would HATE that.
Strike that - they'd be pissed if Nebraska won
Then they couldn’t harp on how unfair it is that Penn State actually played
PSU is in a no-win (pun intended) situation with ESPN.
No matter what happens or what they do, it will be wrong and loudly criticized.
ESPN hasn't even been the worst actor...
guys like Andy Staples, Jason Whitlock, Buzz Bissinger, etc. have been falling over each other with faux-moral outrage.
10/9/11 - the day the music died.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 12, 2011 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
I take it you don't live in W. Pa.
Nobody has been harsher than the Pgh media. They hate PSU and this is some kind of nirvana for them.
Philly has been just as bad.
10/9/11 - the day the music died.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 12, 2011 10:26 AM EST up reply actions
Whitlock and Bissinger are professional trolls, so fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck them
I’m surprised at Andy Staples. Normally he’s a pretty even keeled guy, as well as an excellent writer.
Everyone lost.
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all he did was play the kid card...
10/9/11 - the day the music died.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 12, 2011 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
He was pretty used to being on the sidelines
when he was a player
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Good Luck to You Guys
Michigan Fan & Graduate Here…..I live and die with my school like I’m sure most of you do here as well. I’ve always been a fan of Penn State and everything that you guys have embodied…respect you guys as a worthy foe and rival of my institution.
I went through hell the past few years with what happened in our program….which, after the past week in Happy Valley, really puts things into perspective for me.
The next few months, even years, are going to be very difficult for you guys on many levels. I for one will say that I support you all and am excited to see how you all as an institution, alumni base and fan base respond. With few exceptions, I like what I’ve seen so far…
My advice – Don’t concern yourselves too much with what the media and opposing fan bases say (it’s easier said than done, trust me.)
Best of luck guys. Do what’s right and stand up for what’s right. I’m very much looking forward to seeing you guys on the field again soon and once the dust settles, for Penn State to emerge stronger and better than it was before (both on the field and in general.)
GO BLUE!
by Detroiter23 on Nov 12, 2011 10:10 AM EST reply actions 7 recs
+1, Thanks man
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
No Problem Guys
Like I said, I’m a huge Michigan Fan, but more importantly a huge College Football & Big Ten Fan…..If it means anything, the events of the past week have been tough for even me to deal with!
Even in some of the most difficult times in my personal life, Saturdays in the Fall have always been a therapeutic reprieve for me – Try to enjoy some Football today, and don’t forget that you guys still have a legit chance to smell roses in January (lucky fuckers)
by Detroiter23 on Nov 12, 2011 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
Thanks for the kind words
I have read many more supportive comments than negative from other b10 members, and it has been great.
Also, espn gameday just had a good 5 minutes on PSU, coverage-wise
Corso just said this wouldn’t be a tough situation for us to handle.
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:12 AM EST reply actions
??? Would you amplify that, please?
Was he talking about the team? Not turning on ESPN ever again, if I can help it.
Talked about the situation, wasn't anything negative on PSU
Played some of the LaVar clip, showed some of the riot clips, showed a Tom Bradley interview, espn game day didn’t say anything negative. Was impressed
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
Thanks.
At least they’ve started focusing on something other than JoePa.
Fwiw, now they're showing them getting on the bus
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:26 AM EST up reply actions
I'd like to say that maybe they learned something from their role in all of this
but no. I’m sure they didnt.
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Herbstreit made a (fair?) point
How challenging will it be for the staff to adjust to changes in communications? (People on sideline instead of booth, etc)
16365 native
Wow, I never thought of that.
Good thing they pay Herbie the big bucks to give us such insightful thoughts.
Even as a Michigan Fan
I really don’t mind Herbie – LOVE the way he doesn’t mind calling his Buckeye Brethren out.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CLASS OF 2006
HAIL TO THE VICTORS. GO BLUE.
by Detroiter23 on Nov 12, 2011 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
I really don't either.
But I hate his employer. Plus it’s really not his fault that sports is so shallow that there’s really very little insight to be given on anything.
Random thought....
You know those university “propaganda” ads that usually air around halftime? (All games, not just us.) I’m guessing it’s too much to hope that the PR geniuses at PSU have pulled ours in favor of a PSA on RAINN or something similar…
16365 native
If its coming from the BOT
I’m betting they just phone it in.
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Yes, ESPN sucks
..But what media outlet doesn’t???
First person to name one wins a prize LOL
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CLASS OF 2006
HAIL TO THE VICTORS. GO BLUE.
Really think until it all shakes out....would like to see TB runs this team
Maybe for 2-3 years
May no act.................
I would love that too, but no way it happens
I’ll be surprised if the BOT even waits until after the bowl game to can the entire staff.
Another Bradley interview
Yeah, so far, seems like we’re in good hands with Tom. Love it, and love how he talks.
Tom Bradley- Bringing back Success with Honor since 11/9/11
Forget the 409 wins and 2 national championships. Joe Paterno helped mold thousands of young men into productive members of our society.
by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Nov 12, 2011 10:32 AM EST reply actions
Never spent time with the guy
But as I mentioned in another thread, he used to frequent Mad Mex at odd hours while my (then) girlfriend was bartending. From the stories she told, if he can coach as well as he can drink, we’re in good hands.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
Outsider Opinion - Bradley
Should’ve been in charge (officially at least) for the past five years.
JoePa was way past his time and should’ve retired years ago. Shame the way it ended for him the way it did, but I think it would’ve been better for all parties if he would’ve retired and handed the reins to bradley a couple of years ago.
Just my two cents
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CLASS OF 2006
HAIL TO THE VICTORS. GO BLUE.
by Detroiter23 on Nov 12, 2011 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
I hate Ohio State
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 12, 2011 10:33 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
This
This is what Joe Paterno was about. He made so many players into great men and leaders. LaVar Arrington is a shing example of that. As bad as how it ended let’s not forget Joe’s legacy.
Shining*
It would be nice to not make spelling mistakes while I am trying to make a nice point. I swear I have a Penn State degree.
Who got off the bus first, McGloin or Bolden?
Lets get back to normal around here…Hehee.
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Fine
I’ll get my wallet. As soon as I find my pants…
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by skarocksoi on Nov 12, 2011 11:27 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
hahaha
no, I wish. Still havent found those pants. I’ll donate at some point today though.
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ESPN showed the players getting pumped up
Looks like Zordich was leading the charge, and they all seemed ready to play. Here’s to hoping they come out and win one for Joe.
My brother just texted from a tailgate....
He said there’s a plane circling w/a banner that reads “Joe is so dirty he needs a shower.” Charming.
16365 native
He said there’s a plane circling w/a banner that reads "Joe is so dirty he needs a shower." Charming.
Why would you hire a plane with that message just to mock Joe’s alleged personal hygiene?
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by Orange and Black Forever on Nov 12, 2011 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
Where can I find..
a stream of the radio broadcast?
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 12, 2011 11:49 AM EST reply actions
ESPN being kinda fair to start
Acknowledging that the players had nothing to do with this, painting the student body in a favorable light.
\V/ for Villanova
by dees ees en drama on Nov 12, 2011 12:04 PM EST reply actions
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