As someone who's had 8am classes every day for a semester, its surprisingly not that bad.

I hated 8am classes, especially if they were on the other side of campus.

I do not understand mourning someone who condoned by inaction the ongoing rape of children.

I do not understand cults of personality and never will.

Penn State's culture seems more in tune with its own need to follow a flawed leader than with the actual results that following that leader caused. And as a result Penn State's culture seems to me to be deeply flawed.

Maybe in a few years once they snap out of their cult, get out side of Creepy Valley and mingle with the rest of society, they will start to understand just how deluded and easily led they were.

You do not blindly follow a pedophilia enabling befuddled liar no matter how many of you he makes feel good being "Pappa." That is the definition of a dysfunctional family. That is the definition right now of Penn State.

Video of Penn State fans mourning Joe Paterno (new window)

I don't fault people for feeling they way they do about Paterno. A lot of people can't just turn off their emotions and feelings about the good things they see they guy as being responsible for. This despite the scandal.

That said, I, too have never understood the cult of personality, regardless of who it is. Dale Earnhardt is a great example. When he died, it was like people lost their closest friend, when in reality most people never even met the man. It's just weird.

TV's Vinnie: If you make a religion out of college football, please kill yourself. You are part of the problem.

This.

Some Bass Playing Guy: That said, I, too have never understood the cult of personality, regardless of who it is. Dale Earnhardt is a great example. When he died, it was like people lost their closest friend, when in reality most people never even met the man. It's just weird.

Brother, you have no idea. I had to witness some of the Earnhardt mess myself. I wanted to open my office window and yell "Grow up!" a couple of times that afternoon.

And now Dean Smith is ailing and probably not long for this world. When he croaks, I'll probably have to leave the state for a week or so.

SilentStrider: As someone who's had 8am classes every day for a semester, its surprisingly not that bad.

Those were some of my favorite classes.

This personality cult has got to go away. Three days of mourning? He coached football, he didn't feed the poor, he didn't house the homeless, he didn't arrange eternal peace in the middle east. He taught people how to play a farking game.

Most importantly (and worst of all), he did the absolute bare minimum when he had reason to believe that children were being harmed by his colleague. That's what he's going to be remembered for, folks. His creepy football cult and his child-rapist-protecting status.

TV's Vinnie: If you make a religion out of college football, please kill yourself. You are part of the problem.

This x 2.

Nice to see they will have a good turn out... (new window)

LesserEvil: Nice to see they will have a good turn out... (new window)

As a gay man, I'd be tempted to side with Westboro on this one.

LesserEvil: Nice to see they will have a good turn out... (new window)

For once, I have no problem with this.

Dookie V was on Mike & Mike yesterday verbally fellating Paterno and saying he did everything he could have done. Made me want to puke.

Snarfangel: Kim Jong Paterno?

Does this mean we should start economic sanctions on PSU?

SoCalSurfer: SilentStrider: As someone who's had 8am classes every day for a semester, its surprisingly not that bad.

Same, my best grades were actually in those

I was lucky enough to go the Law School where Prof Conviser taught (He's the guy who owns Bar-Bri, the country's largest Bar Review company) Of course everyone wanted to take his classes because fark it, it was like getting free bar review. But in his fairly typical assholish way, he decided he'd only teach classes that started at 8am-and he had an attendance policy.

And yet, now that I'm up just before 5:00 am every morning so I can make the 6:15 bus for an hour commute to my job; that suddenly doesn't seem like the outrage it was when I was in school. Funny that.

MattyFridays: I still don't understand why people are so quick to dance on Joe Paterno's grave but act like McQueary is blameless.

He's the real problem. He's the real enabler. And in the end, he sold out those kids for a job.

I don't. But McQuery did not have the authority that JoePa had. JoePa could have demanded police take action, JoePa could have demanded his own administration stop sitting on its hands hushing things up. JoePa could have taken a pistol and shot the pedo himself if he'd wanted, probably gotten justifyable homicide.

Instead, JoePa told his boss and washed his hands of the whole thing, then never followed up for ten years after, not so much as once. He probably continued to interact with Sandusky on campus, he definitely went on with business as usual at his football coaching job knowing Sandusky was still using Second Mile as a rape-recruiting business.

The *best* you can do for JoePa is say he just had no idea how to frame child rape and it baffled him and he didn't know what to do so he gave up and moved on. Does that sound like a leader of men and a shaper of moral minds to you? It sounds like an empty shell of a leader to me. But then I tend to look down on leaders whose actions don't match their words.

Penn State, the rest of the nation isn't drinking your kool aid. The sooner you realize it the better off you'll be in life.

The Big Ten made a huge mistake buying into the Cult of JoePa in 1994. I would be happy to see the Big Ten figure it out and kick Penn State out, but I suppose thats putting morality ahead of dollar signs. At the least, they should hold Penn State to some pretty high accountability standard now that the truth about JoePa's so called clean program has emerged.

Ohio State only cheats in the traditional way and ol sweater vest has plenty to answer for, but as far as we know never allowed an assistant to rape any kids.