Joel Myers is Unsuitable Homecoming Marshal

[B_Levinson]

Absolutely disagree. I know Joel Myers. When you create a $100 million company let me know. I have no respect for your opinion.

If you know Joel Myers, you know a proven liar who scapegoated a subordinate and also played a role, even through his failure to act, in causing Penn State more than a hundred million dollars in damage. The fact that he is individually successful does not change this.

 

[B_Levinson]

Picking fights with students doesn't further the mission nor does it help our optics.

The attack is not on the students, but on Myers. The students will not be booed on the 50 yard line the way Erickson was once booed, nor will alumni turn their backs to the students, if Myers shows up that day as anything but a spectator.

 

[elvis63]

It needs to be made clear that Joel Myers is not welcome at any Penn State event except as a visitor or spectator. He cannot be allowed to escape the consequences (opprobrium and ostracism) of what he did.

Guys like you don't speak for me.

 

[NedFromYork]

Guys like you don't speak for me.

 

[StinkStankStunk]

Guys like you don't speak for me.

Maybe if he "spoke", after a night of Mexican food and cheap cerveza........ Maybe that speech would approximate your commentary

 

[Woodpecker]

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

You don't need a wind to know which way the weatherman blows.

 

[Royal_Coaster]

Absolutely disagree. I know Joel Myers. When you create a $100 million company let me know. I have no respect for your opinion.

How much of that $100 million was obtained in quid pro quo dealings between himself and the other corrupt Board members? You know, I'll scratch your ass, you scratch mine. Personally, I prefer EPAWA myself. Far better than somewhat-accu-weather. Feel free to tell Weasel face that next time you dine together.

 

[Royal_Coaster]

Anyone who thinks tapping Joel was the students' idea, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

If we're to believe the Daily Collegian, no current student knows who Joe Paterno is, or doesn't care. But on the other hand, everyone on campus knows who Joel Myers is. Yeah, OK, right, sure.

 

[nits74]

Is there anything concerning Penn State that you guys don't whine about?

In a word, no. And with good reason.

 

[tomfleet]

Guys like you don't speak for me.

You don't speak or have anything to do with Penn State, you troll.

 

[tomfleet]

Maybe if he "spoke", after a night of Mexican food and cheap cerveza........ Maybe that speech would approximate your commentary

The "wind" is out of Joel's ass.

 

[PSUMATT85]

Tell the Homecoming Committee what you think! I did!


The U.S. Military Academy’s Honor Code says that a cadet shall not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Violation of these rules is an act of moral turpitude that disqualifies an individual from a leadership position.

Joel Myers scapegoated Joe Paterno on 11/9/2011 (a form of lying) and, even worse, was a party to the Board's statement of March 2012 that Paterno was fired for "failure of leadership." Board Chairman Keith Masser later had to testify in a deposition that Paterno was not fired for anything he had or had not done, but rather for public relations reasons. This makes Myers the kind of person whom the U.S. Military Academy would wash out on the spot as being unfit to command the trust, leadership, or respect of superiors, peers, or subordinates.

Here are the specifics. Mr. Myers was a party to the following statement by the Board in March 2012.

"While Coach Paterno did his legal duty by reporting that information the next day, Sunday, March 3, to his immediate superior, the then Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley, the Board reasonably inferred that he did not call police. We determined that his decision to do his minimum legal duty and not to do more to follow up constituted a failure of leadership by Coach Paterno. …At about 9 pm, we unanimously made the difficult decision that Coach Paterno’s failure of leadership required his removal as football coach."

This statement by itself indicates that every single Board member who was a party to this statement is incompetent, dishonest, or both. Joe Paterno was not supposed to call police, noting especially that Mike McQueary later testified under oath that he did not see anything he deemed reportable to police. He was supposed to report the issue to the appropriate person, which he did, and then keep his hands off the ensuing investigation, which he also did. This is also the NCAA's current written policy: you report the allegation to the designated person, and then keep your hands off. You do not "do more," "follow up," or run your own investigation.

Here, meanwhile, is Mr. Masser's deposition. “The decision to remove Coach Paterno had nothing to do with what he had known, what he hadn’t done. It was based upon the distraction of having him on the sidelines would have caused the university and the current football team harm. It had nothing to do with what Coach Paterno had done, or hadn’t done.”

If Paterno was removed not for anything he had or had not done, he was not removed for failure of leadership, which makes Joel Myers along with every other individual involved (including Mr. Masser himself) a liar or a party to a lie, as in "tolerate those who do."

I am copying this to the Board, Sandy Barbour, and Coach Franklin because they need to know that Myers' presence at Homecoming in the capacity of anything but a spectator will be a disgrace to the University and a deliberate insult to the entire Penn State community.


William A. Levinson, B.S. ‘78

Nice

I guess we have the following line up for the future too

17- rod erickson
18- Emmert
19- random alumni who wants to move on
20- freeh
21- Ann Reilly

 

[JoeDidntKnow]

Nailed it Bill. Myers is a complete dickhead and undeserving of being a marshal of anything let along the day Joe Will Be Honored. He and his fake dyed hair can go pound sand

 

[Royal_Coaster]

Like the saying goes, he don't know shit from shinola. The question is which one does Joel use to color his hair?

 

[elvis63]

Maybe if he "spoke", after a night of Mexican food and cheap cerveza........ Maybe that speech would approximate your commentary

I absolutely love Mexican food, but my beer ain't cheap. Today I might celebrate the win with a Cantillion, saison DuPont , or maybe A westveleryn 12.

And I still think he's an obsessed weirdo, much like yourself .

 

[psu1969a]

I am indifferent!

 

[tomfleet]

This BoT goes out of its way to piss off alums. Meyers is another turd who shouldn't have been picked.

 

[MtNittany]

I think Jen Carfagno would look much better on a float or in a convertible. Oh, and she isn't a traitorous prick either. Just my opinion of course.