aalion said:

Screw it. I will tell you want you want to hear, why you want to hear it, and follow it up w a bunch more that you will ignore cuz it doesn’t fit the nonsense conspiracies from GIA that have saved you guys from facing the truth that Cael has honestly and legitimately lapped the field despite your scoff and disdain and excuses every step of the way.

I am sure I will regret this.

Ira Lubert was the main backer behind hiring Cael. Wealthy real estate guy and business guy. Made sure PSU had the money to hire Cael and staff when the budget was a bit short. Documented in the Athletic by Audrey Snyder.

Lubert isn’t alone … there are many many significant donors. I have given about $50,000. The organization of the PSWC and NLWC is unbelievably efficient and fundraising is significant. Obviously success helps tremendously.

Lubert also had ties to The Second Mile, Sandusky’s charity. As did dozens of prominent business people and politicians across PA. US Steel, CEOs of Fortune 500 banks and Pharma companies, the PA Dept of Children Services who helped fund it, etc etc etc. Lubert (and none of the others, including the 50 full time child welfare employees of The 2nd Mile ) were ever charged w any kind of wrongdoing. That’s probably what you are searching for..,,

That said, because of the Sandusky scandal, Cael was subjected to a full time NCAA appointed compliance monitor in his first couple of years, as was the entire PSU athletic program. Literally had the NCAA looking over their shoulder with mandated transparency.

Further, PSU and the Paterno estate had ongoing (separate) lawsuits against the NCAA for years after the scandal.

Yet GIA pretends Cael was able to cheat? That he was able to leverage a less strict compliance department in that environment? That the NCAA was going to ignore any violations after mandating a compliance officer spend years doing nothing but looking for stuff to ding PSU for? That w existing lawsuits they wouldn’t look for more evidence of PSU malfeasance? Laughable.

The idea is ludicrous.

And it and the dozens of other excuses…

- it’s just recruiting
- the “fun” attitude is silly
- the refs are in Cael’s pocket
- it’s just (DT and Ruth… Bo and Nolf… )
- the 3 inch bunder
- the religious beliefs are misguided
- the “tampering” (lol Cal Baptist has a better argument than Iowa)
- etc etc etc

… just stop Iowa from introspection and learning. And as a result Iowa might be being bipassed.

I hope you got what you wanted.

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Parkland Fan said:

I attended both of PSU's NIT championship games, and Madison Square Garden was packed and rocking. Students were bused in. The games were well played and exciting. I wish we were in it this year.

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nerfstate said:

I'm not going to pretend to know what went down there--but one thing you may not know is that some posters on this site disingenuously post wild, out-of-pocket takes to try and rile up people and make the discourse less civil, and generally way off topic. We're talking years of effort. Sometimes, those posters get banned, but come back with a new screen name, or two, every few months. It is possible the mods, privy to more history than you'd likely know, were trying to nip that situation in the bud.

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