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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 869127, member: 173"] Realistically, the chance of death penalty getting carried out was 0% - the costs of a death penalty are enormous, lots of private businesses depend on the revenues generated from football weekends in State College, the economy has been generally lousy for five plus years...from a political perspective it just had no chance of happening. Theres too many other people that would end up as collateral damage. As much as some folks on here feel it's a travesty Penn State didn't get the death penalty, it just wasn't going to happen. Having recently married a Penn State grad, and living a twenty minute drive from Beaver Stadium I'm more qualified than the average poster to discuss the Penn State fan base. I'd say the majority of their fans "get it", and want to move forward in a positive direction. The issue is the fans that worship at the altar of JoePa are extremely vocal and insist on putting up billboards on the way to the stadium that say '409', posting on message boards endlessly, taking pictures where the JoePa statue used to be, etc. It doesn't help that some of these folks are big donors that have political clout as a result...so while they are small in numbers from an outside perspective they appear to be representative of the Penn State fanbase as a whole. At this point the only way for the situation to be resolved is for the university to distance themselves from those fans...and accept that they are going to lose some portion of their fan base and donations as a result. Right now the administration is trying to split the baby and cater to both the fans that want to move forward and the ones that want to live in the past. They are going to need to tell the vocal JoePa apologists that with their behavior they aren't friends of the program and it's time to move on, and deal with the consequences. If they can't or won't do that, I expect Penn State will continue to be a political mess that periodically looks horrible to outsiders since the denialists have been allowed too much leeway by the university. [/QUOTE]

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