The Front Row

A pure hypothetical, but imagine you were born in PA, right in the heart of Nittany Lion country. Or maybe if your father was a diehard PSU fan and you followed in his footsteps. And you grew up and became a diehard yourself, never knowing anything else. Happy Valley, Beaver Stadium, and JoePa is everything to you.

In light of all that has happened: Sandusky and his evil, JoePa and PSU Executives look the other way, PSU Fan and student reaction, with students rioting after JoePa is fired, fans on the internet forums/twitter/FB making absolute fools of themselves and the program with their pathetic attempts at rationalizing, the frech report being just as bad if not worse than everyone thought, the ncaa sanctions, possibly even worse than getting the death penalty itself, the PSU BoT making things even worse by attempting to challenge the sanctions, former PSU players challenging the vacation of wins, the administrators and civil lawsuits haven't happened yet, possible sanctions from the DoE, and depending of how this BoT challenging turns out, the program possibly getting a multi-year death penalty or kicked out of the NCAA.

Things just keep getting worse and worse at PSU. Through all of this, there is one constant. The fans, students, some former players, and some current admins at PSU JUST DON'T GET IT!!!!!! Children were being RAPED and they DON'T CARE!!!! They do not see the seriousness of this situation at all, but many of them will still still say "O$U Cheats!".

I would be utterly disgusted to be associated with this institution, in any form. The belligerent ignorance is just rampant at penn state right now. I would like to think that if I had been a fan of PSU all this time, I would see now that this school which I wasted so much time cheering for over the years is an absolute pathetic joke, the members of which do not care about human decency or exhibit any common sense. And either switch to a different school, or stop caring about college sports altogether. However, I might have been so heavily drawn to the allure of what once was a working myth of "success with honor", and "doing the right things", that after the smoke and mirrors were lifted and we all discovered the fraud that PSU really was, I would be in so much disbelief that I would try anything to rationalize it and pretend it isn't true, just like most of them are doing on the different PSU forums, and have been doing the past 9 months or so.

So how about it? If you were a PSU fan all these years, would you weather the storm, or jump ship? (And if you'd did jump ship, I don't think any level headed person could blame you).