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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 434779, member: 185"] what are you a psychologist?! :-) Cuz your nearly spot on. I was never able to hate Penn state like most other Syracuse fans. This because I thought I knew the man at least a little after some exposure. You're just a little off on why I hung on to it before throwing it out and here goes... I hung on to that because until I became firmly convinced he covered up everything to save the brand name and his own name revealing it all (and him) to be a fraud, I held up everything Penn state and especially Paterno to be emblematic of all that was right with college sports. The things he wrote in that letter where far different than all the other ones revealing some of the man and not just the institution or the sport. As a result I as a Syracuse kid actually considered going there, especially since another kid from my school years earlier went and was successful. Needless to say I can't say I was crushed but oh SO dissappointed with (for the lack of a better phrase) a further loss of innocence in life. Can't tell you the despair when Bees and others in reporting the news of it all convinced me he was crooked and not just old. So there it went and out it went. That's the real reason behind it which is somewhat in line with the rest of your cool/good post. That Invictus movie was a force of life movie, amazing to me that it was real and played out that way. Using a sport to lift thousands. Awesome stuff. Now back to Penn st and doing the same there. I wouldn't have had quibbles if they shut them down for a year and then rehabed them the way you say. The delusional component down there makes me wonder if they even still fully get it the way they should. But assuming for a second they have and it being so important to so many the way SU football is to all of us, well then lets hope they go forward with some insight and attempts to learn from the horrendous experience of it all. Good/interesting topics for a slow no game weekend. [/QUOTE]

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