The Award for the Slimiest Performance by a fan base goes to

[Townie72]

The crimes of Jerry Sandusky and the performance of almost everyone involved in the Penn State hiearchy were in a word "disgusting". They deserve everything that's coming to them and more.

But the silver medalist in the contest for slimiest performance in this has to be awarded to the fan base which is attempting to convert this tragedy into an advantage for the football team they support. By working themselves up into a fit of outrage or by feigning outrage and calling for sanctions and the Death Penalty, they hope to see Penn State weakened and their own teams prospects improved.

The envelope please.

And the winner is The Rutger's Scarlet Nation.

Check it out for yourself. No other fan base has shown this level of outrage. Is it because there's some sort of heightened sensitivity to these crimes and the cover-up among this group? Or is it because they think their team would benefit significantly? You have to be the judge.

Some of them were similarly outraged over the Bernie Fine deal and called for sanctions against SU.

I guess when your on the edge of irrelevance because of shifts in Conferences, it might tend to make you more sensitive to the failings of other programs.

Rutgers fans have always seen Penn State as one of their biggest problems as Penn State has treated South Jersey as it's own exclusive domain for football recruiting.

In one of the most curious of all moves in Realignment history, Rutgers eschewed joining the Big East in the early 1980's so that they could "stay associated with Penn State". At that date, Rutgers was more associated with Lehigh and Colgate than they were Penn State.

Can you imagine Penn State doing anything because it might mean they wouldn't be associated with Rutgers?

This award will stay with The Scarlet Nation until some other group outdoes them in moral outrage and transparent self-interest.

 

[JeremyCuse]

The crimes of Jerry Sandusky and the performance of almost everyone involved in the Penn State hiearchy were in a word "disgusting". They deserve everything that's coming to them and more.

But the silver medalist in the contest for slimiest performance in this has to be awarded to the fan base which is attempting to convert this tragedy into an advantage for the football team they support. By working themselves up into a fit of outrage or by feigning outrage and calling for sanctions and the Death Penalty, they hope to see Penn State weakened and their own teams prospects improved.

The envelope please.

And the winner is The Rutger's Scarlet Nation.

Check it out for yourself. No other fan base has shown this level of outrage. Is it because there's some sort of heightened sensitivity to these crimes and the cover-up among this group? Or is it because they think their team would benefit significantly? You have to be the judge.

Some of them were similarly outraged over the Bernie Fine deal and called for sanctions against SU.

I guess when your on the edge of irrelevance because of shifts in Conferences, it might tend to make you more sensitive to the failings of other programs.

Rutgers fans have always seen Penn State as one of their biggest problems as Penn State has treated South Jersey as it's own exclusive domain for football recruiting.

In one of the most curious of all moves in Realignment history, Rutgers eschewed joining the Big East in the early 1980's so that they could "stay associated with Penn State". At that date, Rutgers was more associated with Lehigh and Colgate than they were Penn State.

Can you imagine Penn State doing anything because it might mean they wouldn't be associated with Rutgers?

This award will stay with The Scarlet Nation until some other group outdoes them in moral outrage and transparent self-interest.

So glad you posted this as I was considering doing the same thing myself. You are 200% correct there entire football board is nothing but posts on the paterno issue and crying over the potential that PSU doesnt get the death penalty. I have never seen a fanbase more obsessed with anything then the Rutgers rivals board with the whole Penn State scandal it is unbelievable. There are more posts on there board about the scandal and how it affects recruiting etc then on Penn states own board.

 

[SU2NASA]

Bravo to the Syracusefan.com community for not a single post I've seen talking about any type of "benefit" to SU.

SU has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion on Penn State "University".

 

[javadoc]

Bravo to the Syracusefan.com community for not a single post I've seen talking about any type of "benefit" to SU.

SU has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion on Penn State "University".

Bees is even leading the charge to get us to drop our series with them, which I believe would be a financial loss, but would be the right thing to do, IMO.

 

[PhatOrange]

The crimes of Jerry Sandusky and the performance of almost everyone involved in the Penn State hiearchy were in a word "disgusting". They deserve everything that's coming to them and more.

But the silver medalist in the contest for slimiest performance in this has to be awarded to the fan base which is attempting to convert this tragedy into an advantage for the football team they support. By working themselves up into a fit of outrage or by feigning outrage and calling for sanctions and the Death Penalty, they hope to see Penn State weakened and their own teams prospects improved.

The envelope please.

And the winner is The Rutger's Scarlet Nation.

Check it out for yourself. No other fan base has shown this level of outrage. Is it because there's some sort of heightened sensitivity to these crimes and the cover-up among this group? Or is it because they think their team would benefit significantly? You have to be the judge.

Some of them were similarly outraged over the Bernie Fine deal and called for sanctions against SU.

I guess when your on the edge of irrelevance because of shifts in Conferences, it might tend to make you more sensitive to the failings of other programs.

Rutgers fans have always seen Penn State as one of their biggest problems as Penn State has treated South Jersey as it's own exclusive domain for football recruiting.

In one of the most curious of all moves in Realignment history, Rutgers eschewed joining the Big East in the early 1980's so that they could "stay associated with Penn State". At that date, Rutgers was more associated with Lehigh and Colgate than they were Penn State.

Can you imagine Penn State doing anything because it might mean they wouldn't be associated with Rutgers?

This award will stay with The Scarlet Nation until some other group outdoes them in moral outrage and transparent self-interest.

I noticed the same thing. Sad truth is it's only because they want it to benefit their own football program.

Especially after all the threads last year about how they're moving past Penn State in recruiting and keeping the state's best kids home. Now Penn State is working them over in NJ this year.

They need the Penn State program to go down so they can gain a foot hold with their own program. Simple as that.

 

[SU2NASA]

Just for the sake of it

 

[rrlbees]

I'm outraged as evidenced by my posts, but I don't think a single time the thought "how will this benefit SU" has entered my mind.

 

[billsin01]

Was this an actual ESPY category? Who won it last year?

 

[RF2044]

Bees is even leading the charge to get us to drop our series with them, which I believe would be a financial loss, but would be the right thing to do, IMO.

Completely agree.

 

[SU2NASA]

Was this an actual ESPY category? Who won it last year?

Ohio State, and every other year it's ever been awarded.

 

[texascpa]

I've seen the same thing. My guess is that this may be their last hope of salvation - that by the demise of one program, they may be able to keep their's afloat, at least for a short time. What other hope do they have? Oh, that's right the Big 10 call is just around the corner.

 

[SUATO92]

I've noticed this as well. But we must remember two things. One, they feel they are ped state's equal and feel slighted that it's not acknowledged by everyone else and two, they are bottom feeders who hope to feed off someone's demise like they did in the Ray Rice situation.

The crimes of Jerry Sandusky and the performance of almost everyone involved in the Penn State hiearchy were in a word "disgusting". They deserve everything that's coming to them and more.

But the silver medalist in the contest for slimiest performance in this has to be awarded to the fan base which is attempting to convert this tragedy into an advantage for the football team they support. By working themselves up into a fit of outrage or by feigning outrage and calling for sanctions and the Death Penalty, they hope to see Penn State weakened and their own teams prospects improved.

The envelope please.

And the winner is The Rutger's Scarlet Nation.

Check it out for yourself. No other fan base has shown this level of outrage. Is it because there's some sort of heightened sensitivity to these crimes and the cover-up among this group? Or is it because they think their team would benefit significantly? You have to be the judge.

Some of them were similarly outraged over the Bernie Fine deal and called for sanctions against SU.

I guess when your on the edge of irrelevance because of shifts in Conferences, it might tend to make you more sensitive to the failings of other programs.

Rutgers fans have always seen Penn State as one of their biggest problems as Penn State has treated South Jersey as it's own exclusive domain for football recruiting.

In one of the most curious of all moves in Realignment history, Rutgers eschewed joining the Big East in the early 1980's so that they could "stay associated with Penn State". At that date, Rutgers was more associated with Lehigh and Colgate than they were Penn State.

Can you imagine Penn State doing anything because it might mean they wouldn't be associated with Rutgers?

This award will stay with The Scarlet Nation until some other group outdoes them in moral outrage and transparent self-interest.

 

[BlackKnight76]

Rutgers just wants Penn State turned into a MAC team so they can put them on the schedule.

 

[Chip]

I'm outraged as evidenced by my posts, but I don't think a single time the thought "how will this benefit SU" has entered my mind.

I'll admit, that for about 30 seconds yesterday, I thought what if SU was opening with Penn State this year instead of 2013? Probably would be a larger than normal contingent of neutral NYC trying to get a ticket to the game just to root against PSU. And that PSU really isn't going to be that good this year, we'd have a much better chance to beat them then we will against Top 3 USC.

So, somewhat indirectly, I thought of an SU benefit. But I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean that I support child predators, or those in power who work to cover it up for their own gain.

 

[Townie72]

Rutgers just wants Penn State turned into a MAC team so they can put them on the schedule.

MAC? Rutgers doesn't want to schedule Western Michigan or any MAC team.

You must mean MEAC ... like Norfolk State and Howard.