Not sure one week after GS's trial is the time to go on the offensive. Again, not a huge fan, but he did inherit the mess too.
How about the three F-ing years that the Six Million Dollar Man has had his fat ass parked in the PSU Buffet Line?
Yeah...he can't win much by speaking up now and who is he really going to make feel better...a couple hundred hold outs. The media and people hating on PSU aren't going to say...well since it was just a misdemeanor...we were all wrong. It's just not going to happen and if anything it will be taken as well as Lord's comments were and he had to apologize within days.
Yeah.... but if he did speak out, think of all the $50 donations we would receive from those hold outs!!!!
The point is that all of those things are done and in the past. We aren't getting our money back and the reputation hit tgat we took cannot be remedied by anything other than Father Time at this point. The only thing that Barron or anyone else at PSU has the power to do is to prolong this scandal and make it worse by doing stupid things like issuing a combative statement on the topic. It's time to move on and focus on the University's mission.
Yes, combative. Combative against the accepted narrative. Don't be mad at me, it is what it is.
Maybe you can explain how such a statement is not combative to the narrative? It's okay if you can't.
If you don't understand how the public will see that statement as being at odds with the acceptance that PSU leaders failed miserably, then I can't help you. It is combative whether you believe so or not. It's also unnecessary and potentially damaging to the University. There is zero upside to making such a statement, especially now. You don't take a victory lap for CSS mot being guilty of conspiracy when they are guilty of failure. Doing so would be the definition of being tone deaf.
The "accepted narrative" may be false. Why perpetuate it if there are areas of untruth?
Because fighting it does no good. As I said, it makes you look tone deaf. The narrative is not going to move one inch by Barron making a statement.
That may have been the reason for decisions in the past, but not here.
So any other person in charge at PSU and they would be screaming victory after last week....ok then. Sane talk. Thanks.
Anyone objectively looking at this situation from the outside would advise Barron to just keep his head down and focus on the future. This whole "Barron should fight!" notion is nothing more than desperation and anger. It's an emotional response that lack rationale or foresight. That is why no one here can point to a benefit if such a statement.... because there is none. There is nothing to be gained here by PSU.
