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College sports are a cesspool

  • Scummy coaches like Tressell/Calipari/Calhoun etc, Naked greed and backstabbing with the conference realignments, exploitation of the athletes, kids trading gear and tickets for tats and weed, boosters running ponzi schemes and partying with the players, Heisman trophy winners giving back trophies now a chilp rape and coverup scandal.

    Why do we continue to support this?

    VousGoo

  • I agree. From here on out I'm exclusively going to follow the last sport with integrity: professional boxing.

    funbunny

  • This kind of behavior exists in every single industry under the sun. If you want to stop "supporting" things unless they're run fair and square, and with dignity and morals, you'll end up sitting alone in a cave. Naked.

    Allenbaba ●

  • Allenbaba said...

    This kind of behavior exists in every single industry under the sun. If you want to stop "supporting" things unless they're run fair and square, and with dignity and morals, you'll end up sitting alone in a cave. Naked.

    This is exactly right. I think that the OP is failing to consider the scope and size of sports in general and major college basketball/football in particular. Think of how many thousands of people are involved. Of course you're going to have every kind of scumbag imaginable present....

    1thegame

  • Allenbaba said...

    This kind of behavior exists in every single industry under the sun. If you want to stop "supporting" things unless they're run fair and square, and with dignity and morals, you'll end up sitting alone in a cave. Naked.

    Never underestimate the dirtiness of the cave industry. Damn spelunkers.

    tecmoHOOperbowl

  • agree, it's not just PSU or college sports. It's our freakin society in general. greed, corruption, lack of decency and ethics. sorry for the rant but we are the roman empire, on its downward trajectory. People laugh at the OWS folks...it's the first step in the revolution as our culture has become one of spend, have, take, me, me, me. f others.

    TerpPride ●

  • Allenbaba said...

    This kind of behavior exists in every single industry under the sun. If you want to stop "supporting" things unless they're run fair and square, and with dignity and morals, you'll end up sitting alone in a cave. Naked.

    Sports is different though in that it exists for no purpose other than our own entertainment, and the power in sports exists only because we as fans give it that power. Seriously, I told friends 2 days ago that this incident is making me re-think even being a serious sports fan, and I'm not even a PSU fan. One thing for sure, I will never elevate my sports heroes above being flawed human beings and will never turn the other way if I see or hear of one acting inappropriately or criminally.

    skindeep

  • I think this is why other countries separate college educations and big-time sports. It's impossible to run a money-making sports enterprise that tries to compete at the highest level and be a wholesome academic institution without compromising yourself at some point.

    hgoodman ●

  • hgoodman said...

    I think this is why other countries separate college educations and big-time sports. It's impossible to run a money-making sports enterprise that tries to compete at the highest level and be a wholesome academic institution without compromising yourself at some point.

    huh? So if it's not a college, you feel better when a kid is anally raped and nobody reports it to the police?

    I know that's not what you are saying, I just don't get the point...either way you are trusting your kids to others, and at least at a college your kid is among a community of other kids that AREN'T part of "the program" that at least theoretically they can reach out to for help in a situation like this. Also, remember the fallout a few years ago from the exposure of systematic sexual abuse in minor league hockey development programs?

    skindeep

  • I agree with you....for the most part:

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    "I suffered through the Boller years and nearly a decade of offensive futility." -Bmorechil

    ccterp

  • skindeep said...

    Sports is different though in that it exists for no purpose other than our own entertainment, and the power in sports exists only because we as fans give it that power. Seriously, I told friends 2 days ago that this incident is making me re-think even being a serious sports fan, and I'm not even a PSU fan. One thing for sure, I will never elevate my sports heroes above being flawed human beings and will never turn the other way if I see or hear of one acting inappropriately or criminally.

    Sports exists to make money, just like every other business. You shouldnt hold it to any standard higher or lower than you hold any other giant business to. Look, every single enterprise with thousands of humans is going to have cheaters, rapists, murders, etc. Its simple math, the bigger the company the more of everything its going to have.

    1thegame

  • skindeep said...

    huh? So if it's not a college, you feel better when a kid is anally raped and nobody reports it to the police?

    I know that's not what you are saying, I just don't get the point...either way you are trusting your kids to others, and at least at a college your kid is among a community of other kids that AREN'T part of "the program" that at least theoretically they can reach out to for help in a situation like this. Also, remember the fallout a few years ago from the exposure of systematic sexual abuse in minor league hockey development programs?

    I think the point he is trying to make is that Educational Institutions should be separated, in general, from other industries in order to keep its 'sanctity.' Having a booming business enterprise makes it much easier to be tainted.

    I'm not sure he's directly referring to this specific scandal.

    Speedy Turtle

  • Allenbaba said...

    This kind of behavior exists in every single industry under the sun. If you want to stop "supporting" things unless they're run fair and square, and with dignity and morals, you'll end up sitting alone in a cave. Naked.

    Or you can do what the Ivy League did in the 50's and de-emphasize sports. And then you can watch the rest of the country dive into the cesspool that you created and watch them prance around in the limelight (or is it slimelight?). Of course it helps to have a HUGE endowment and not need the revenue from big time sports.

    EliTerp

  • we deal with it because college sports kick ass. college sports>>>>>>>>>pro sports

    GiantsNTerps

  • TerpPride said...

    agree, it's not just PSU or college sports. It's our freakin society in general. greed, corruption, lack of decency and ethics. sorry for the rant but we are the roman empire, on its downward trajectory. People laugh at the OWS folks...it's the first step in the revolution as our culture has become one of spend, have, take, me, me, me. f others.

    It's not society, it's humanity.

    bkmalik

  • WE GOT NO FOOD
    WE GOT NO JOBS
    RANDY EDSALL'S OUR FOOTBALL COACH

    PantsEnFuego

  • 100% of the Randy Edsalls are responsible for 90% of the cesspool.

    Chip Kelly --> NFL --> Fired --> Maryland

    Hogie

  • Speedy Turtle said...

    I think the point he is trying to make is that Educational Institutions should be separated, in general, from other industries in order to keep its 'sanctity.' Having a booming business enterprise makes it much easier to be tainted.

    I'm not sure he's directly referring to this specific scandal.

    Correct. I'm saying it's a lot less appalling when you read about some scandal at a club team in Italy or whatever, because those are athlete factories where you expect this shit to happen.

    If Penn State doesn't have a powerful football program, this doesn't happen for so many years without him being turned in. That's obvious. Sandusky may have been the criminal, but the football program allowed it to fester. If a professor is molesting boys in his classroom and somebody witnesses it, where is the motivation to keep quiet?

    McQueary kept it quiet because he knew that in college sports, snitches get stitches. And Paterno kept it quiet because he knew it brought down the whole program and the pearly white vision of him, statue and all.

    I'm just saying there is no reason for an academic institution to have to deal with crap like that all in the name of having a competitive football program.

    hgoodman ●

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