The Board unceremoniously fired the most revered figure in the history of Penn State - something that I think most people would agree at least hastened along his eventual death. If the Freeh Report were to have exonerated Paterno the following summer, do you think that any single member of the Board would have kept…

On first impression I guess the contrast is that it didn't involve UT police waiting 15 days to interview the suspects, claiming that they "had trouble locating" the suspects, and there's no evidence that the players' friends were texting the young woman in question warning her not to mess with Texas football.

As more people pay more attention to the blog (which seems inevitable next cycle), do you worry about the effect of all that attention on the forecasts themselves? I.e. Do you think people might start staying home instead of voting because "hey, 538 blog says we have this thing in the bag"?

"LaMichael" Fanning.

"But we all know JVP has already been duly processed by a judgment none of us has the power to overturn."

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I have a question for you - I've followed a lot of what you've wrote on here. As someone who spent time in Happy Valley and enjoyed certain parts of my time there, what exactly did you go to school there? You seem to bitch about pretty much every single aspect of campus life no matter what. You hate the sports teams,…

The Board proposes good-governance reforms, which as the article describes them would have reduced Spanier's power at the university. Spanier says no thanks, and the Board apparently doesn't push the issue. The Board is now claiming - gasp! - that had those reforms only been adopted, this whole scandal would have been…

I see what you're saying. I think at the end of the day the NCAA is best off just going with a lack of institutional control violating the general code of ethics, rather than a specific violation. I have to imagine Penn State, faced with the death penalty (which doesn't seem unrealistic), would be willing to take just…

I guess I misread what he was saying then. By "Is the infatuation with adults playing a children's game so great that not even covering up for and enabling a molester doesn't deserve a hearty 'How fucking dare you?' If this doesn't cross the line, what in the name of God would?", I assumed he meant that Paterno…

Without detracting from what happened to you - which is truly and genuinely fucking terrible - I think there's a distinction.

I'm not sure I follow you? I didn't know the NCAA removed scholarships already given to incoming students - isn't is usually just future scholarships that haven't been accepted yet?

But where's the line if that's what you call a competitive advantage - not putting a stop to anything that would damage the image and reputation of your school means you get a competitive advantage? Wouldn't that encompass just about everything under the sun?

No problem. I'm an alum as well and, for what it's worth, this was really well written.

I'll play devil's advocate to that - I think the idea is that the program itself, not the incoming freshmen, lose out on scholarships. So if you you did something that benefited your program but was against the rules (paying players, whatever) to gain a competitive advantage for the program, the program is penalized.…

Thus the word "think".