All Bark and No Bite

I couldn't make this one up!

Ah, so I finally get around to the Twilight Zone episode which even Rod Serling woulda been proud of. This Penn State thing is damn near unbelievable! Their football program along with the entire university, alumni, and fans have really taken a shot to the pills with this Jerry Sandusky fiasco. What a POS!! That “pure as the wind driven snow” façade is no more for Penn State. And Jo Pa, God rest his soul, is now saddled with a legacy no one coulda fathomed less than a year ago! It's gonna be up to the opinion-makers, revisionist historians, sports writers, pundits, and peckerwoods to decide how this thing goes down from here on.

He just looks guilty!

It’s a terrible and sad thing that happened to all those young boys who were preyed upon by that sick Sandusky sum bitch. And it makes it exponentially worse that so many people in positions of power who coulda prevented some of his behavior didn’t step up and do the right thing ‘cause of their concern over the image of their precious university. Well boys, how’s Penn State’s image doin’ now? I believe all the people who did somethin’ illegal or covered up some illegal goin's on should be punished to the full extent of the law. Hang’em up by the neck and set their privates on fire, I say!

Mark "The Fuhrer" Emmert

So now that you know how I feel about that, what in the name of NCAA probation does that have to do with the kids and coaches who are at Penn State now?? If the NCAA wants to punish the Penn State athletic program for “lack of institutional control”, then punish the sum bitches with the controllers in their hands! I heard NCAA president, Mark Emmert, actually talkin’ 'bout how much "collateral damage" the NCAA’s sanctions are gonna have on those parties not remotely involved in this scandal. Collateral damage? Holy shit! You mean we can’t just punish the bad guys? We gotta punish everybody within a four county area too? That’s the biggest buncha horse shit I’ve ever heard of... but it's all they got!

The NCAA’s been power trippin' over this country club bunch for years without havin’ an effective way to implement their stupid-ass regulations! They’ve been tryin’ to big time these college sports superstars into believin’ somethin’ bad’s gonna happen to’em for breakin’ the Almighty NCAA rules, while all the time they're just doin' alotta barkin' without any bite! The only thing Emmert and his little band of Nazi’s can do is punish the institution that's left standin' there holdin' the bag and anyone who is, or will be, a part of it! 

That bulge in his
pocket isn't a hip pad!

Let’s go back a bit and look at an easy example of NCAA ineptitude: Reggie Bush. (If you don't know this story you probably need to be readin' someone else's blog). Seems as though I remember while Ol’ Reg was matriculatin’ through the hallow'd halls of Southern California he was winnin’ himself a Heisman Trophy and Pete Carroll a couple National Titles before takin’ “his talents” to the NFL’s New Orleans Saints for more money than most of us could make in 5 lifetimes. After Reg started cashin’ those NFL checks the NCAA finally got around to findin' out that he actually started cashin' checks while at USC. I reckon they thought they had enough dirt on him and his agent to take ‘em to court and prosecute hell out of ‘em!! But wait, that’s right, Ol’ Reg ain’t a member of that country club any more (and neither is, or ever was, his sleeze-ball agent) so the NCAA is left tryin’ to find somebody they can legally punish so they don't look like they went on this fishin' trip without a stringer and a livewell. (BTW – Coach Carroll took a late flight outta LA to Seattle to cash him some NFL checks too).

I wonder who let Reggie Bush
take a picture with their Heisman?

Well, guess who gets throwed in the NCAA penitentiary for this mess? That’s right, the only thing left that the NCAA can penalize: USC and whoever's still there or acomin'. And whose still there is a buncha guys who probably never met Reggie Bush but are now on DSP (Double Secret Probation) 'cause he decided to start bein’ a millionaire a bit early. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the Nazi’s did make Reggie UPS his Heisman back and made USC vacate a buncha wins while he was there. OUCH!! That's gonna hurt him and Coach Pete all the way to the bank!! Check the history books to see who won the Heisman in 2005 and the NCAA football championship in '03 and ’04. Hold on, I'll save you the trouble. It says Reggie Bush, USC, and USC. You won’t even notice those little asterisks beside'em sayin' it really didn't happen (*- this is an asterisk for any UNC football players graduating after 2000).

That's right, you're all goin' to jail!

So what does Reggie Bush have to do with Penn State? It's the same problem just a different issue. Let's look at it. First of all, I’m pretty sure the NCAA dudn’t have a rule in their massive book that says rapin’ kids by someone not employed by the university is a sports violation. This is a legal matter for the courts, not the NCAA. The courts are the only ones who can put some teeth into the punishment and bring the hammer down on the assholes who need punishin’! If we’re gonna screw around with Penn State’s football program ‘cause they got some bad folks in it then we might as well just DSP every program, organization, business, and government that’s ever existed ‘cause their all guilty of havin’ some bad apples in their cart.

WHEE! 

If Emmert and his Boys from Brazil wanna punish the bad guys who think they're gonna hang on to their cushy, overpaid jobs no matter how awful their behavior...just tell’em they're banned for life from ever working at another NCAA institution in any capacity and take’em to court for whatever the hell you think you can take’em to court for. If you wanna hit the institution where it hurts (aka - in the pocketbook), lay a fine on their ass that'd make Sam Walton blush and make‘em play football for free (i.e. whatever revenue you generate from TV games or bowls'll be distributed out the window of a low flyin' cropduster over Haiti). But don’t start punishin’ the INNOCENT folks that are left at Penn State by takin’ away scholarships, bannin’ em from their conference championships and bowl games, and such! How the hell is that gonna keep the next Jerry Sandusky from doin’ his creepy thing? IT'S NOT, ASSHOLES!!! BTW – What has the NCAA done to Jerry Sandusky? NOTHIN'! “Cause they don’t have the authority!

             NCAA Meanies

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is just a big, impotent, blowhard that's been chest bumpin' these 18 to 22 year old kids around the room to try to keep'em from gettin’ their schools (which is all the NCAA lords over) in trouble . But after Reggie Bush did his thing and only had to mail a trophy with the likeness of a slow, white boy playin' football in a leather helmet back to Indianapolis to pay for his "sins”, why would any superstar give a rat’s ass what NCAA rule he broke when he knows the only thing he's gonna get is rich and all the poor sum bitches left at his school are gonna be the ones servin' the NCAA sentence for whatever he did?? I get that. 

So this is the NCAA world we're livin' in. Joe Pa’s dead and the thousands of good things he did will forever be overshadowed by this, Sandusky’s in jail for the rest of however long his fella inmates are gonna let him live, assistant coach McQuery’s life is f’d up for the rest of it, Penn State and some of their other execs are gettin’ ready to get their asses sued in civil court, Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll are both millionaires and we got some Numb Nuts at the NCAA who decided the proper punishment for all these goin's ons is to put the Penn State and USC football programs on probation! I reckon' that's supposed to keep pedophilia and takin' under the table money down to a dull roar from here on out. OK, I DON’T get that!

Jo Pa and I feel the same way about the NCAA!
Hey Joe, can you turn that up a little? I can barely hear you.