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Summer travels result in early season cohesiveness and success. Zips by 3.

You've been watching Akron football for a long time and you should know better. He would be disqualified immediately from consideration for one big reason.... All Paterno has done is win games. 400+ wins...why in the heck would we want a guy like that. The guy couldn't design a "building process" to save what's left of his life. We are about building processes, not winning. I wish some of you could get this straight. I'm sick and tired of explaining it.........

Nothing surprises me when it comes to college athletics.

Here is the only hope I can offer.Last year, I didn't believe it was possible to lose every game and we didn't. I also find it almost impossible to believe a team can go winless in MAC play. Because of that, the Zips will win this weekend. Can't is the kind of team a team who is bound to win at least one game in the MAC beats.Go Zips!

His grand jury testimony is clear as to what he saw. People who write grand jury findings are pretty good at it and it is clear as to what he saw. Maybe his brain was protecting him, but from what? Mabye he as scared of the culture of PSU where Paterno has the final say on everything and could destroy his career. Remeber, McQueary grew up in State College and never experienced life outside of Paterno's little kingdom. Maybe he thought his career was more important than a child rape case. All of that doesn't matter. He saw a child being raped and did nothing about it.

Penn State's failure of powerGood read Dave. Thanks for posting. I have no idea how Paterno had the nerve to walk on the practice field yesterday. My mind wonders to what the players on the team are thinking and what they thought when he walked on the field? What do they think now when they take a shower after practice in a room where a boy was raped?I truely believe a guy like Paterno has lived a life of people telling him he is right for so long, he has no idea when he is wrong. It would be a shame for him to take the field this Saturday.Lastly, Paterno should not talk to the media and should have his personal attorney do all of his talking for him at this point. Why? I think the FBI should investigate what went on and if he slips up and tells the truth in a presser, it could be held against him. I think a Federal crime may have been committed and he needs to take the 5th as he may have contributed to it.

Remember we are dealing with all the information. I certainly would have broken it up knowing what we all know. But do we know what McQueary knew at the time? Actually, we do. McQueary's grand jury testimony shows he heard slapping sounds like people having sex. He walks in the shower and sees Sandusky raping a young boy with the boy's hands against the shower wall. There is no doubt as to what McQueary saw and he did nothing to stop it. In fact, he ran away like a scared child and told his daddy. He was 28 at the time.I have always heard there is a dark side to Paterno. My bet is a lot of the people around PSU are scared of the guy.

ArticleI find it interesting that some of the more thought provoking articles on this issue are written by women who don't cover sports for a living. Maybe it's because they don't take sports too seriously.

Bingo!!!I can honestly say that if I walked in on something like this when I was 28, there would have been a fight to the death. I would have killed Sandusky, or he would have had to kill me trying to save himself from me, but someone would have died. I have no idea how McQueary doesn't go into that shower with fists flying. Chain of command my foot.....

Maureen DowdInteresting take on this situation. One part I find very interesting. Since this story is all over ESPN, young children are hearing about it and maybe for the first time they are hearing words like "molestation". They get curious and then ask their parents what that word means. Now parents have to talk to their children about this issue years before they may want to talk to them about it or are even prepared to talk about it. This story is so f-ed up.....

I agree. This is a national tragedy and I don't think it is an overreaction to say so. In the back of my mind, I think, "If there were 9, there were probably 90". A very sad story.

Everyone, please refrain from Can't bashing for a minute. Can anyone give me a good reason why this is the case? It makes no sense to me.

We need a guy like Dambrot. Leavitt is not that guy as he doesn't really understand the mac and getting mac players. It is much more difficult than rounding up players in Florida.I'd go as far as to say the next coach will take on a much bigger problem than Dambrot took over. Save the facilities rants, there is simply zero talent on this football team. If all it took was facilities, we would be much better.

Or, it could impact your ability to become the all time winningest coach...

Hours or minutes?

I want the truth to come out in this matter no matter how bad it may be. I don't think the local authorities have the nerve to press an issue on Paterno. Since children were taken across state lines in some cases, it makes it a Federal crime. Paterno needs to sit in front of a Federal grand jury and answer some questions coming from the pricks that are Federal lawyers.

Or, he didn't want the issue to go any further so he kept himself in the dark about what was going so he could claim not to know later. It wouldn't be the first time we saw a high profile coach in the last 12 months keep himself in the dark.

The basis of the thread is about average points per game and the end result if we continue at our current average points per game. If we don't average more than 16.3 ppg the remainder of the season, we won't have more points this season than last season. I don't know if you have a language barrier or not, but this isn't that difficult

Odd...I was told Clayton Moore's passer rating is much better than what we had in 2010? How can we be scoring fewer points? We even have a better running game in 2011?We are not. Please consider the source. In 2010 we scored 121 points through 9 games and in 2011 we scored 138. The 2010 total included 13 OT points. Obviously GP1 was not a finance or math major.There is noting inaccurate about my facts.Are you saying mine are wrong?? I know you are not because mine are correct. You are just manipulating the facts to support your case. You are comparing averages of 12 games against 9 and we both know the 2 "pay" games are in the beginning and would skew the date in your comparison. Since you are wrong and we are on pace to score more...what does that mean to your analysis??The data is the data. If we continue on at our average points per game, we will not score more points than 2010. With only one home game remaining, I could see the Zips scoring less than 42 points in the last three games.

If there is a 1% chance of the deal happening, how much time should TW put into it?

Odd...I was told Clayton Moore's passer rating is much better than what we had in 2010? How can we be scoring fewer points? We even have a better running game in 2011?We are not. Please consider the source. In 2010 we scored 121 points through 9 games and in 2011 we scored 138. The 2010 total included 13 OT points. Obviously GP1 was not a finance or math major.There is noting inaccurate about my facts.

I'm not sure why they need to be regulated. Because a bunch a crappy conferences like the MAC can't play at the same level as other conferences? That isn't the fault of espn, that is the fault of the crappy conferences. They were all crappy long before espn came along and will all be crappy long after espn is gone.Lack of competition would be a good reason, but with espn, nbc/vs and cbs, there seems to be plenty of competition.How would the federal government regulate individual state schools? State schools are a state matter and not a federal matter. Seems to be a lot of work for no reason.Do we really want the idiots who brought us the current state of our Federal government to start regulating college athletics?

I respectfully disagree and it goes to this sentence. ESPN should not and cannot be regulated as they are a media outlet and they have First Amendment rights. All the do is broadcast games and it is up to the consumer to watch the games.

When something like this happens, a person should not lose curiosity with the issue beyond telling his boss. It's not like he heard the guy was stealing pens from the supply cabinet.

Altoona Newspaper ReportPaterno was looked by Grand Jury and nothing came of it. Still makes me wonder if he even followed up with the AD he told. Didn't he think it was strange a coach was caught having sex with a young boy in the team shower and the police never showed up to take away Sandusky? I'm looking forward to an FBI investigation into this matter. The state can't seem to get the job done.