Two thumbs up to the Sporting News for a brilliant article dealing with yesterday's revelations regarding Paterno and PSU. The article is absolutely brilliant and titled "No Joe Paterno Statue. Ever. So stop complaining."
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...tim-jerry-sandusky/1r9g608kzgt9h1u5bj93xm2sct
Among the excerpts from the article:
"Is it possible to re-erect the Joe Paterno statue in its former place on Penn State’s campus ... just so it can be pulled down again?
No. It just needs to stay down, forever. Putting it back up should never have been considered.
This week, the very notion should be driven from everyone’s minds. With what we have learned, no way it can even be discussed, no matter who wants to discuss it or how loudly.
No, no, no.
Unless it’s to make the point, once and for all, of how much it needs to be taken down and discarded forever, along with the delusions that university, that program and that coach created and nurtured for so long. If possible, the entire culture of a coach on a college campus being elevated to a deity has got to go in the trash, as well.
Yank that culture down, and never build it up again."
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...tim-jerry-sandusky/1r9g608kzgt9h1u5bj93xm2sct
Among the excerpts from the article:
"Is it possible to re-erect the Joe Paterno statue in its former place on Penn State’s campus ... just so it can be pulled down again?
No. It just needs to stay down, forever. Putting it back up should never have been considered.
This week, the very notion should be driven from everyone’s minds. With what we have learned, no way it can even be discussed, no matter who wants to discuss it or how loudly.
No, no, no.
Unless it’s to make the point, once and for all, of how much it needs to be taken down and discarded forever, along with the delusions that university, that program and that coach created and nurtured for so long. If possible, the entire culture of a coach on a college campus being elevated to a deity has got to go in the trash, as well.
Yank that culture down, and never build it up again."
