It’s just convenient that Duke also happens to suck.

That photo, the students all with a raised arm. I have many comments but they all end up invoking Godwin’s Law.

I think part of it was that that friggin football team had god like status in the region. Sandusky used that status over and over again.

I suspect that’s not an everyday activity for insurance adjusters.

At least one of the kids was abused for years.

I think it’s more that the insurance company told the University that they have to pay up themselves for the abuse during all those years where people knew what was going on but did little or nothing.

The TravelPro roll-aboard is showing up as $134.95, not $94.

The TravelPro roll-aboard is showing up as $134.95, not $94.

As well as an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

They weighed the pros versus the cons. Pro: get to be part of the Penn State football program and have your name associated with Joe Paterno’s career and legacy. Cons: have to ignore regular reports of child molestation and turn a blind eye to molestation is you see it yourself.

Dottie Sandusky, as well.

I just read essentially this from a Penn State fan in the comments of the Washington Post article. He/she was claiming that all major football programs include “monsters”.

The journalists at PennLive.com did a GREAT job. They’re the ones that brought this whole mess to light.

As a Maryland alum, I remember in the mid-1980's after Len Bias overdosed and Lefty Driesel lost his friggin mind when the Penn State fans around me were calling Maryland “Cocaine U” and bragging that Penn State sports were built on honor. Nothing horrible like a star basketball player using cocaine could EVER happen…

He donated a bunch of money to the University for things other than football, such as the library. None of that outweighs choosing to ignore the molestation of children.

They got cocky. The sanctions against them were reduced, so they were looking to gain more back that they’d lost.

So, there’s at least one lesson in that.

Not all. A few have learned hard lessons in the past and work differently now. I’ve taught at two universities at which the athletics department provides tutoring and mentoring, but the athletes are held to the exact same standards as other students in classes. It’s a breath of fresh air.

I saw similar things when I was teaching at a major State university, especially with the more prestigious sports (football and men’s basketball, primarily). Athletes from the lower profile sports were generally better. That said, they could still be entitled pains in the arse. One semester, I had a couple of swimmers…

Martin Luther King’s assassination and the riots. The TV coverage of his actual death and the riots that followed afterward, then seeing the burned parts of DC afterward. I was in kindergarten and remember that we stopped going to or through several parts of town. Mostly, if we went into DC it was the the museums and…

“and also that you should definitely avoid anything with talc in it, which has recently been linked to cancer.“