Rutgers Felt The Need To Apologize For Penn State Protestors At Football Game

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Rutgers University apparently felt the need for it's fans who protested Penn State with signs that includes "PED State".

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...te-rutgers-idUSKBN0HA2B720140915?feedType=RSS

I thought paying fans and students had the right to express their pleasure or displeasure with their or the opposing team.

Rutgers used the word "classless" yet the mere existence of the Penn State Football is based on yearS of cover up. The Penn State football team on the field owes their spot on the team and presence to over decade long cover up of criminal child abuse. Then wasn't it oh so politically correct Rutgers that allowed students to protest Condeliza Rice out of her guest speaker appearance.
 

Not one of the players or coaching staff was involved in the past deeds at Penn State. The issue was dealt with, some years ago, by both the court system and the NCAA. The shirts WERE "classless". This was not, as you suggest, "expressing displeasure with the opposing team". This was the opening of an old wound, having nothing to do with those on the field.

Your attempt to make a comparison with this classless act and the protest against Secretary Rice is apples to oranges. The Rice incident saw students protest... "expressing displeasure"... with the very person who was scheduled to speak to students. The protesters did not feel Secretary Rice's opinions were constructive and exercised their freedom of speech to protest against her. In the Penn State case, the students who chose to exercise their freedom of speech with the "Ped State" references were directing their opinions at those who had no direct involvement in the issue.

I most certainly applaud Rutgers for offering the apology for the "classless act" some of their students chose to participate in.
 
Grumpy Ol' Man said:
Not one of the players or coaching staff was involved in the past deeds at Penn State. The issue was dealt with, some years ago, by both the court system and the NCAA. The shirts WERE "classless". This was not, as you suggest, "expressing displeasure with the opposing team". This was the opening of an old wound, having nothing to do with those on the field.

Your attempt to make a comparison with this classless act and the protest against Secretary Rice is apples to oranges. The Rice incident saw students protest... "expressing displeasure"... with the very person who was scheduled to speak to students. The protesters did not feel Secretary Rice's opinions were constructive and exercised their freedom of speech to protest against her. In the Penn State case, the students who chose to exercise their freedom of speech with the "Ped State" references were directing their opinions at those who had no direct involvement in the issue.

I most certainly applaud Rutgers for offering the apology for the "classless act" some of their students chose to participate in.
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Disagree. Penn State has lived off the football program for decades. Even if just the revelations let alone prosecutions had taken place by the late 90s when by all indications when it was known Sandusky was up to something the program and school would've taken a major PR hit which would've reduced anything from funding, sudsidies, attendance and a lower revenue from the football program itself. Those working or in attendance now are benefiting from over a decade of delayed prosecution and cover up. The campus and facilities including the Paterno Library are what they are because of very prosperous football program. Fruit of the poisonous tree if you will. Even though innocents might live in a drug dealers house property bought from drug money that house can be confiscated as Penn State's football should've been. To me the Penn State football program is contraband.

The thing with Rice is that you allow protest and free speech or you don't.
 

I don't think anyone denies that PSU did wrong. I just don't know if we can call this a cover up because a lot of people in high places knew what was going on, but just chose not to either make an issue out of the case or prosecute the case. The now Governor of PA knew about this issue several years ago when he was the AG (Attorney General). The President, the A.D., the State Police, the FBI and the State College police departments all new about what was going on, but no one made a case out of it.

At the time when this issue came to light Ray Gricar was the DA for Center County where PSU is located. In 1998, he declined to press charges or prosecute Sandusky. A few years later, Gricar went missing and has to this day never been found. His county issued laptop computer was found with the hard drive missing, but the hard drive was recovered with very little information being recoverable by forensic computer experts. In 2011, the football world persecuted Paterno, head football coach, for not doing more to have Sandusky charged. My question was what was he supposed to do, if the DA refused to press charges? The FBI was also aware of Sandusky's goings on.

As GOM as already stated above, anybody connected to that incident is not around today. No players, coaches, leading Administrators, students or even the water boy. They're all gone. What Rutgers fans did would be no different than if other events in the past were still being brought up and condemning those factions in society that are still around today, but never participated in the events that took place ions ago. Sort of like how the whites treated the blacks back during slavery times. I wasn't around, so why would or should I be hated or held accountable for it?

By the way, Paterno raised nearly $14 million for the library, which he contributed millions of dollars of his own money to.
 
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