I've read a lot of people stating that Penn State football should be killed, and some who have not.
The more I read about this, the more I really do wish violence on The Holy Order of Football (and I'm not talking PSU entirely -- this reverence of football and worship of it's heroes has got to stop, in the name of all that is sane!).
But at what point does this all end?
- We still have perjury trials for several top Penn State officials to take place, probably during the football season.
- This probably means that the NCAA is probably going to "be forced to" let Penn State have a football team for next season, at the very least. This is an unthinkable scenario, for any number of reasons.
- Let's look at their relevant schedule. This team was half-decent last year. Their first three games, as of now, are on ESPN or ABC's coverage. They have to go to Virginia, Iowa, and Nebraska. Iowa's a tough place to get a win, but if the team goes full "fuck you all", with Wisconsin and Ohio State coming to Penn State, you could have a real situation where a division title is not out of the question.
- And now let's look at the other side of it: Post-Freeh Report, basically every poll I've seen on the subject indicates that, by at least a 3-2 margin, the public appears to want Penn State football dead.
- If the NCAA isn't going to get in front of this, you could see a sentiment not unlike a banner which went over the PSU area today: "Take the statue down, or we will!"
- This could go far beyond attacks on the infrastructure or on the players -- if the NCAA does not Death Penalty Penn State, it risks having to explain to schools like USC and Ohio State why Penn State Football is, as Infante put it, Too Big To Fail. This probably means a lawsuit against the NCAA by USC and/or Ohio State, with other major programs probably joining in.
- This, combined with public pressure, could -- and very quickly! -- result in the NCAA's role in administering college sports being put into question, and I believe...
- It would probably be terminated by a breakaway group of major programs, some wanting no rules and some wanting a lot, under the guise of a similar construct to the present BCS.
- And then there's still the Mark Madden Theory: That Penn State was pimping these boys out for football program and campus contributions.
- Or how about the District Attorney who was investigating this who "disappeared"? He either got so much "Fuck You Money" that he's living under an assumed name somewhere (he was declared dead by local officials just before this all went down in 2011), or he got killed for Our Holy Obsession With Football.
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