6 December 2011 –
I had hope that when the Penn State Board of Trustees fired its head football coach, president and other culpable minions, the school had grasped the ladder to recovery from the abyss of abetting child abuse. Alas, I was wrong. Once again, the school is putting football ahead of decency, with the full complicity of the NCAA and football bowl organizers. Penn State has accepted the offer to play the University of Houston in the TicketCity Bowl in the Cotton Bowl on 2 January 2012. The president of the TicketCity Bowl, Tom Starr, told Associated Press, “I can honestly say that we didn’t even think about that that. We just looked at all the positive sides—a great school, great legacy, players that deserve a reward.”
How can a school be called great when its senior officials allowed such crimes to be committed for years on its campus? How can a football program have a great legacy when its head coach allowed such crimes to be committed under his famous banner of “Succeed With Honor?” How we teach our young adults the real effects of criminal and morally bankrupt actions if the football elite, the reason the criminals were on the campus to begin with, are shielded from those effects? I wonder what lessons these princes of society, the football players, are learning from all this? I wonder if they are past caring already? After all, their coaches and mentors were too corrupt to stop horrific crimes. How could they have taught anything that requires courage to accomplish? Shame on everybody involved. Criminals raped children. Moral cowards covered up the crimes. But, Hallelujah!! Football continues. Penn State might as well bring its head coach back to stand on the sidelines in the Cotton Bowl, with a half-time pep talk over the big screen by his pervert assistant. Sad.
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