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Olympic Hoops; Penn State
Published: 7/13/2012 12:57 PM
Last Modified: 7/13/2012 12:57 PM

College coaches are best known for one thing: showing off.

The Pitinos and Caliparis of the world work the cameras the way a street performer hustles a crowd, prancing and mugging and gesturing.

The other night coach K made a more creative move for publicity. In a game versus the Little Sisters of the Dominican Republic, coach K did not start Kevin Durant! Talk about goofy. Durant was first off the bench and made about 10 staight three-pointers. The Olympic first team played like a bunch of aging former super stars, Kobe leading those huffing and puffing around. The reserves came and restored order.

Who couldn't coach this team.

Concerning Penn State, what's all the debate about? It's simple. When the Baylor hoop coach tried to cover up a murder, the hammer came down: Put Penn State in solitary confinement three years, no TV, no bowl, no anything. Let current players transfer right now without penalty.
See? Simple.


Reader Comments 14 Total
jimmyd (7 months ago)
Finally someone brings up Baylor B-Ball. But of course that was only a murder you know. And a coverup afterwards.
Golden Hurricane (7 months ago)
I know this is gonna sound funny, but it's true.

The Penn State situation is WAY more egregious than the Baylor ordeal. Don't get me wrong...the Baylor thing was despicable and Bliss and Baylor deserved everything they got, however, that was an isolated event.

This Penn State travesty went on for 14 years THAT WE CAN PROVE and involved multiple victims. On top of that, the most powerful men in the history of that university were harboring and enabling this criminal to rape little boys.

Again...both are deplorable...but if we are comparing the two, the Penn State scandal is much, much worse.
                    
jimmyd (7 months ago)
Sad, but I may have to agree with you.
241362 (7 months ago)
The key is to let any and all players transfer and play anywhere immediately.
217719 (7 months ago)
There are two ways to look at this. Hold accountable the people who knew and conspired to keep this criminal behavior quiet, and knowingly let it continue. Prosecute and sue them to the full extent of the law. Take everything they have away. If the University want to settle in one mass settlement and avoid any culpability or accountability for the individuals, then fire them all and shut down the football program for a number of years.

If the people who committed the egregious acts are held accountable and punished both criminally and financially, let the football program continue with probation and bans, and immediate transfers if a player so desires. many of these players have long term friendships and relationships that make it hard for them to pick-up and leave. They are not the criminals.

If they choose to stay and play for PSU. It is with no bowl games, no TV, no fan fare. In addition the school itself receives stiff scholarship limits.

The saddest thing of all is "Me First" Joe Paterno has the all-time wins record, and will probably have it for a long long time.

He should have left many years ago. He hung on to get the record. Paterno doesn't know the meaning of team.

Sandusky was his hire and he and other high level echelon of PSU Administrators need to be ruined for what they allowed to happen to these children. Wish Paterno would have lasted a few more years to hear the derision he deserves and see his statue toppled.
241362 (7 months ago)
Well put.
It looks like you can't trust really old coaches.
                    
colhi64 (7 months ago)
Age had nothing to do with this. Besides, he was not a really old coach when this started. Well, maybe he was at that... Still, age has nothing to do with trust, honor has everything to do with it.
241362 (7 months ago)
Don't let football coaches run the universities.
Period.
Gene M (7 months ago)
241, you can't live in Oklahoma and say things like that. I hope you're at home with the bolt of lightning strikes.
DomoArrigato (7 months ago)
NCAA Death Penalty for PSU Football...Let them come back in 5 years with a whole new crew of coachs and team players...Clean the culture of PSU "hide it or it will hurt PSU" from the campus.

I never thought that I would say this, but "NO, JOE PA!!!!" Remove the statue, or put blinders over his eyes, and a gag around his mouth...He failed many children in his silence and inaction.
241362 (7 months ago)
Let the players be able to transfer immediately,
Then you can feel justified in wiping a crooked university off the face of the earth.
                    
DomoArrigato (7 months ago)
If I remember right, when SMU was given the death penalty in football, the team members were able to transfer without penalty, and have immediate eligibility.

Can you imagine the recruiting storm that would develop and descend on PSU if the death penalty is applied in football?
241362 (7 months ago)
The program is dead man walking no matter what happens officially.
jimmyd (7 months ago)
The death penalty may be problematic. In the NCAA rules, it states the death penalty can only apply if a program is already on probation from an earlier Major infraction. Wouldn't apply here, same as it didn't for the Baylor b-ball program. SMU was already on probation at the time.
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