Two Photos at the empty JoePa statue site that are indicative of the change at PSU:

[Are_grits_groceries]

The shirts say "We Are Pissed Off"


http://media.sportsbybrooks.com/2012/07/joepaternostatuesite.pdf

Dear PSU students, fans and worshipers,
JOE PATERNO WAS NOT A VICTIM!

You seem to be unable to wrap your twee minds around this fact. Until there is some iota of change and remorse about what happened, I hope you lose every game you play by eleventy billion points.

It seemed that you were going to stand up and play while putting PSU pride back together. It now appears that you are intent on strengthening the cult of Joe. That is what lead to this abominable situation.

Signed,
Gawd and Everybody

[hifiguy]

1. Don't be surprised if some other teams run up the score

on PSU this year.

[DonCoquixote]

2. Notice the bad spelling

"who's only mistake was to believe in you"

God, I hope the academics finally run all athletics off that campus. Only in America would College educated people be glad they cannot spell.

[Xyzse]

4. Corrected--

"[b]Who's Only Mistake Was That He Believed In You".
-as per mentioned by others Whose rather than Who is-
Granted, I would have placed a "," comma in between "Mistake" and "Was" for emphasis, but that was also arguably correct.

[arely staircase]

6. whose nt

[Xyzse]

7. That's true

Thanks! Was mostly looking at how the wording changed completely missed that part out.
My mistake.

[CTyankee]

10. I wouldn't put a comma between "mistake" and "was." It is correct. "Who's" is incorrect.

The possessive "whose" is correct. "Who's" is a contraction of "Who is."

[Xyzse]

13. Yes, it was corrected by someone else.

I'll update the post to show the correction.

I was mostly looking at how the quotation changed the phrase.

[CTyankee]

18. I went back and checked the sign. That sentence is incorrect. It could be connected to the

sentence before it and that would require a comma before "whose..."

[SoCalDem]

11. Grammar & sentence construction is a lost art in most schools

and we all know they are eliminating "art".....

I LOVED diagramming sentences as a kid, and I don't think my kids learned about it much, if at all, in school

Without it, it's nearly impossible to make much sense when writing.

"Word" tries, but we all know how miserably spell-check misses the mark sometimes.

[CTyankee]

20. I'm beginning to wonder if we are a dying breed...

I, too, did diagramming and I remember liking it. I was good at it (I guess that's why I liked it so much!).

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I wish the NCAA had shut down their football program.

And made Penn State concentrate on academics, and not football! And stop the cult of personality of Paterno!!

Heavens, what a thought! Teaching kids to think instead of teaching them to knock each other down and hurt them!!

Woah!!

[arely staircase]

5. "his only mistake was that he believed in you"

yeah, that was it.

[SoCalDem]

16. His "mistake" was that he was a miserable example of a caring human

He was willing to write off the young kids who were being abused. He was more than willing to accept the accolades & big bucks . He was as much the abuser as Sandusky was.

[arely staircase]

21. i know. and what really gets me is when people talk about how much he cared

for the young men on his team and made sure they were getting a good education and didn't just care about the game. well he didn't give a sh*t about those kids getting raped in the shower by his friend the monster.

[Scuba]

27. Thank you. He failed the only test that mattered.

[arely staircase]

33. you are welcome

[arely staircase]

8. hey i wonder how many of these kids (young adults)

will eventually feel a lot of embarrassment later in life about what they chose to stand up for - an institution and people who aided and abbetted child rape.

at the very least there will come places and times when it will be clear that cannot mention the fact they defended these twisted people without experiencing harsh scorn others.

[Brickbat]

9. What a hilariously bad sign.

And "We Are Pissed Off" -- way to take a stand, boys.

College students are pissed off!

[slampoet]

12. Can't tell the difference between Who's and Whose. THAT is a PSU education.

This idiot just failed a 4th grade word test.





and the COWARD didn't sign it.

[Avalux]

24. It may not have been a student, or a former student.

I am pissed off at my fellow DUers. Someone posts a pic of that that stupid sign, and DUers make assumptions that PSU alumni and students are dumb and horrible people. Are you really so narrow-minded to say "THAT is a PSU education"? Ridiculous.

[slampoet]

28. You don't have to go to a University to get a PSU education.

Are you so uneducated that you don't grasp my metaphor?

[Avalux]

29. So now a "PSU education" is akin to being uneducated?

The lack of sensitivity for those of us who are connected to Penn State, yet don't agree with the JoePa worship makes me sad.

[PA Democrat]

14. What's with all of the capital letters?

[Whisp]

22. maybe OMC writ that owt.

[rateyes]

15. Dear Asshats who erected that stupid sign,

Mr. Paterno's mistake was in not beating the shit out of Sandusky before turning his ass into authorities, thus allowing child rape to continue unabated right under his nose.


Fuck JoePa, and the clowns he worked for, and the cowards who worked for him, and the horses they all rode in on!

[lindysalsagal]

17. It goes to show how a pedophile can carry on for years

We have to make the painful step of believing what we see rather than what we want to see.

Those poor kids.

[Whisp]

19. appears Penn State isn't much into edumacation or critical thinking.

I'm sorry but reading that was... painful. Fubar message done in the parlance of a grade 6er.

o, and btw.

fuck you in hell, JoePa.

[Avalux]

23. One person made that sign. That person does NOT speak for me.

How about posting a positive story about Penn State? I am sick of you bashing my school and making assumptions that all alumni, all students are boneheads who worship Joe Paterno.

Just get over it.

[Are_grits_groceries]

30. Just get over it?

That's your solution?
I don't think all people connected with PSU worship JVP. It is a world class university in many academic ways.
However, the only people I hear or see are the deniers. They are the ones defining PSU now. Are they getting the attention from the media? You bet, but why don't I hear somebody or some group trying to counter them.

The victims will never get over it. That's a fact. Until there is some clear recognition of the damage done and people truly expressing some sorrow and remorse over what happened, I won't just get over it.

It would be oh so nice to pretend that all is well now and everything is fixed. It's not. This will and should be a part of Happy Valley for a long time because it was beyond heinous. People can push for a compete change in the leadership and focus or they can whine and watch the same loudmouths take right back over.

And yes, if this was my alma mater, I have said more than once what I would want. I'd want the football stadium to be razed and the ground salted so nothing would grow. The empty space would be a message and a warning. I dearly love that place and it would break my heart. However, YOU DO NOT MESS WITH KIDS EVER!

You can get over it.

[Avalux]

35. Wow.

I am not telling the victims to get over it and agree you don't mess with kids ever. However, going after PSU with a vengeance as a means to deal with something personal isn't fair to those of us who are innocent AND support the victims. We are ALL victims here.

[Tansy_Gold]

38. No, you are NOT a victim.

You may be innocent, but you're not a victim. No one is taking away your college degree (assuming you have one). No one is asking you to cut ties with friends you made there. No one is bleaching you memory of the good times you had.

BUT YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM.

[Posteritatis]

44. FFS. You are not a victim here. Get over yourself. (nt)

[Tansy_Gold]

31. Get over it yourself.

No one is bashing all of Penn State or all alumni or all students. The only ones being bashed are the idiots who made the illiterate sign and those who still worship at the shrine of a pedophile protector/enabler.

[Avalux]

36. That's fine and I agree.

But making blanket statements about PSU isn't cool.

[Son of Gob]

34. No, I don't think people will get over it.

We're talking about Child Rape, Child Rape Enablers and the sycophants who worship a Child Rape enabler. So no, people won't and shouldn't get over it. For you to ask them to makes you look really bad, to say the least.

[Avalux]

37. Can you imagine how I feel?

I love that school, the experiences, then people I interacted with....positive experiences. I have had to struggle with a lot of feelings since this has all come out, and it hurts when people bash PSU as a whole. That's what I'm talking about.....go ahead and bash Sandusky, Paterno, et al and the fans who still support Paterno. I am right there with you on that. PSU is made of a lot more than those people.

[Posteritatis]

25. Looks like rape fans have found their new shrine. (nt)

[valerief]

26. Arrgh! Teh Stooooooopid. It hurts!!!! nt

[Tansy_Gold]

32. As far as the spelling:

"That is what LED to this abominable situation."

"Led" is the past tense of verb "to lead."

[KurtNYC]

39. Football IS a religion

Look at how they make a saint out of Jo Pa -- "Crucified" (in all caps) for his belief.

"God & Mr. Paterno..."

Wow.

[Tansy_Gold]

40. Amen.

[WI_DEM]

41. they just can't admit that JoPa was just as much involved in the cover-up. Very sad.

[Posteritatis]

42. What's worse is that some of them know he was and think that wasn't bad. (nt)

[Smilo]

43. I guess these are the

football players who were always forgetting to put their helmets on at game time.