Originally posted by USN_Panther:
Originally posted by recruitsreadtheseboards:
Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
NOTHING is going to come out of this. Nothing. NOTHING.
Recruits,
I disagree. Something is already coming of it. The national and even worldwide perception is that Penn State is a very messed up place right now. This type of incident can and does happen at other places. But only Penn Staters will try to defend and justify that it is acceptable because it happens elsewhere.
The cult is getting absolutely hammered on this in the media, the message boards and at the watercooler.
The very thing that the Branch Campus Davidians hold most sacred is what was once known as the Grand Experiment which turned out to be the Grand Facade. They live their lives holding on to the one thing that makes them feel better about themselves--that they went to a school and root for a team that was morally and intellectually superior to all others. They smugly threw that at all others for decades. Now the truth is out and that so-called university turns out to have been hiding some horrific things behind the Wizard's curtain. No longer are they superior, but inferior in all of those things they held so dear for decades. Instead of praise for their allegiance to Penn State, they endure well-deserved ridicule.
Now the football team itself may not be feeling the brunt of the outrage at the cultists' behaviour, but the fans, students and the alums are. Their legacy is the institutionalised sexual deviance that we see coming from there. That is what comes to mind to many when you hear the words "Penn State".
And this is not just coming from the Joe Haters at Pitt. This is nationwide and even international. The PSU frat sexual deviance story was highlighted on the international CNN website. There is a story on the BBC website, and one in the Guardian as well. This story has been covered in the New Zealand papers as well. Penn State came up in a board meeting of our local ice hockey club in New Zealand. The national ice hockey federation is requiring background checks on anyone involved in coaching or managing the teams. Penn State was then mentioned and all kind of chuckled at that, but it is really not funny.
So that is what the cultists are facing. They wish to have it the way it was, but that isn't going to happen. Until they actually get to the root cause of the problem, which is them, they will be seen worldwide for what they are, not what they thought they were in days gone by. The curtain has been drawn back, and the once powerful Wizard is now seen to be just a fool.