Frank Stallone
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I'm not a fan of either team.
It bothers me that this school is making money off a scandal ridden football program in which everyone from the coaches to the President of the Penn State had their hand in. This isn't about students, fans, or most of the faculty. This is about shutting down the program for the rest of the season out of respect for what happened and the investigations that are currently ongoing.
By playing football you are giving fans such as BrownsBoy the "high" of overcoming a situation that hasn't fully been compromised yet. In other words, they need to wait until everything comes out. There are new victims, new cover ups and new information in general coming out everyday. This isn't the time to move on.
Like I said, it's not the players fault, it's not the students fault but at the same time your officials are responsible for their actions and that will have an unfortunate effect on everyone who attends the school.
Christ the school was taking money from Sandusky to hold his overnight camps there AFTER he had already been accused of sexual acts with minors. Penn State should suspend their football program for at least the remainder of the season until everything is sorted out because we're a long way from that point. If the school is truly all about the victims then start acting like it. That might mean not stamping PSU paw prints on the sides of your vigil candles...
What does suspending the football program do, though? The victims families even said that wasn't what they wanted. The current players, team etc. have no involvement with this. Punishing them is foolish. Wiping out the football team takes away more than football. It takes away a shit load of jobs. It takes away a shit load of school based opportunities, including internships, journalism experience, EMS practice etc. Taking away football does nothing but hurt people who were not involved.
I am not saying all 96,000 students across the state JUST focus on the victims. There are dumb people that really don't get it. But this situation will NEVER be overcome. It isn't a situation that can be overcome. I also do not even hesitate to think winning football games helps anything that has to do with child abuse. PLAYING the game last week allowed us to come together and calm down, so it did help in that respect. You can't look at all of these minute details like PSU on the side of a candle and say that people don't get it. We still have to go about our lives, go to class, support our school, go to football games, hang out with friends and so on. But there is a focus on raising child abuse awareness, and it will only continue to grow as the dust settles and people realize the situation more and more.
I by no means back one person even associated with all of this. The only thing I care about with them is that Joe survives his cancer. But that is a whole different story. Again, I don't get a sense of overcoming problems by winning football games. I felt the same way this week, as I did last week. Not being at Penn State, you'll just have to take my word on the fact that the majority of the students do care about the victims, and any potential victims that come in the future. If you dont, then so be it.