Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: Penn State update <more bad news>
From: mjk@icf.hrb.com (Michael J. Kelley)
Date: 2 Sep 92 04:03:37 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: HRB Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep1.202745.9944@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, rowdy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (robert.dieckmann) writes:
> In article <1992Aug29.064049.19496@icf.hrb.com> mjk@icf.hrb.com (Michael J. Kelley) writes:
> 
> I have no such reservations.  The 2 players were arrested for
> looting their classmates dormitories.

You should get your facts straight before you go shooting your big mouth off. 
They were arrested by State College police at an off-campus apartment. It is
still burglary and they got what they justly deserved.

 
> My criticism is that their are 2 players who were charged with
> obstructing justice, but were allowed to keep practicing with
> the team.  

What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty??? Anybody could go down to 
the police station and charge that some football player beat the shit out of
him because he wouldn't give him his lunch money. They would bring him up on 
charges and then there would be a hearing...etc. Does that mean that the player 
should not be allowed to practice because somebody made up some bullshit story.
There are alot of people out there who love to hate the Penn State football
players just because they get so much attention. I have worked the past three
years with E.J. Sandusky and he is one heck of a nice kid. Not that everybody
on the team is a nice kid, but people are out there who love to bring these 
kids down. 

>Then one player was arrested for selling cocaine,
> but he's allowed to keep practicing with the team; now this case.
 
Again this is a similar situation. I have heard that the evidence in this case
is very sketchy at best. I've heard that this one may not even go to trial
because of conflicting evidence against him. 

> As long as Joe Paterno does nothing, there is no message.
> Mr. Paterno should send a message that is loud and clear,
> and then this kind of hooliganism will stop.  I think it is a
> carryover from the QB who was constantly being hauled in
> on drunken charges, but little was done by the athletic department.
 
If memory serves me correctly, this player was suspended from the team for a
brief period of time. He then promised to go through treatment for his problem
and later came back to the team. 

You have any idea how many college students are arrested for public drunkeness?
What do you want the Athletic Depatment to do?? The school doesn't do anything
to the hundreds of students who get busted for public drunkeness. Should we
ruin a kids life simply because he's a football player and he got caught doing 
what thousands of other kids do here in State College.  


> The image of Penn State football is slipping.

I'll agree here, but it's because of narrow minded people like you who are too 
quick to judge others. 
 
 
                                                                 Mike Kelley
                                                                 St. College,PA.
 
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