Meet your NCAA president, and world's biggest hypocrite, Mark Emmert

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are you a lawyer or trained writer? (contradiction)

you write very well and know how to construct an argument (or at least by message board standards)

No I just like to argue against things that I think don't make sense or aren't right. I've always had a knack for expressing myself and putting my thoughts together. I would never be a lawyer becuase sometimes they have to argue things that don't make sense or that aren't right and I can't do that.

 

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Speaking as a Penn State Alum that is about to go back for grad school, I will say this. I do feel a lot of people are coming down too hard on Penn State as a whole. I find it disgusting that people want to kick all of us for the action of one monster and the in-actions of man who betrayed our school by not doing the right thing and helping those kids. They talk about a cult. They talk about the riot when Paterno was fired. That was a riot of 500 idiots out of a school of 40,000 kids. Why does the candlelight vigil of 10,000 students demanding justice for the victims never get mentioned? Desmond Howard talks about kids just up and leaving, but it isn't as simple as that. I'm going into my course because it's the best Communications graduate program in the Northeast.

I will say this, our sports program got a decent deal in my opinion. I will take what the football got over a four year death penalty any day of the week, and will also laugh at people underestimating how quickly PSU will rebound after the time has been served. Believe me when I say that stadium will still be filled every home game.

I know I'll get insulted for what I say, but I don't care. Penn State is bigger than one man. Paterno helped build Penn State, but he abandoned Penn State in my eyes when he abandoned those kids. We're about to show all of you we're bigger than football, we're bigger than one man and this place will survive.

Say what you want to me, I'm still proud I'm a Penn State man, I'm proud of the friends I made there, what the degree got me in the real world and the academics.

WE STILL ARE PENN STATE!!!!!

I respect your point of view. The reality is Paterno stood as the symbol of your school and it's gonna take time to separate the two. I would never suggest that people leave the school that is best for them or turn their back on their alma mater but for people to try to claim victimhood or talk about abuse of power or overstepping bounds in light of what has come out is just .

 

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So what I "give focus to" in one thread on a message board on a topic that y'all discussed for over 900 replies must mean that for the past 8 months that we've all known about this, and I've barely breathed a word about it on the boards, you claim to know how I focus my attention? You've bugged my room and heard the convos I've had? You've bugged my phone, my texts with my family? Yeah it might be a few posts to get your moral high ground on on the coli then call it a day, but my community been talking about this for months. I don't need to prove that shyt to you just because this is the one thing YOU 'VE SEEN ME SAY on the matter. What you think I just spew my every thought on to the board? Your entire argument is a fallacy - you jump to conclusions and make assumptions about my thoughts and motivations simply because I don't voice every last damn thing I think on to the-coli.com. The NCAA thing is OBVIOUSLY an issue, as you seem to ignore or have forgotten, since YALL talked about for 900 replies. Should I repeat that again? You all, not me, YOU ALL, debated this for 900 replies. Columns coming out daily on both sides of the fence. I'm a PSU fan so it's of more interest to me than is to yall. Buttttttttttttt YALL are the only ones who can talk about it? I'm supposed to just bow my head in shame? Bro, I've BEEN made to feel like I need to bow my head in shame for MONTHS. I've BEEN bowing my own head in shame toward several individuals and groups for MONTHS. Don't come on here and act like you know what I think , talk about, or care about simply based off one thing I chose to make a thread about on the-coli.com

I don't know what you say or do offline and frankly it's irrelevant to the discussion. I am responding to what you have said in this thread and that only. I don't claim to know your heart I just know that the arguments you have made in this thread are weak and pointless and keep shifting. You are entitled to think, feel, say whatever you want. I am too. Just like you are free to say whatever you want, I am free to say whatever I want in response to that. Have I threatened you or your loved ones? Have I threatened your livelihood? No I have simply disagreed with the POV you have expressed on here. No one can make you feel any kinda way unless you allow them too. I encourage everyone to do what they feel is right. However when you present and POV on a message board you are asking for people to respond to it. How you gonna catch feelings because those people invoke their right to dissent against your dissent?