re: #7 _RememberTonyC

Is this departure really a drastic departure from our general football reverence in the US? Athletes receive special treatment from the moment they show potential. The more they realize that potential, the more authorities look the other way—in terms of grades and violation of the law. Part of this reaction could be that if Penn State is just as amoral as we know every other university and professional sports culture is, then what’s left?

Still the initial point of the post is most valid—something is wrong in a culture in which the moral compass needle is drawn to a place where the magnetic pull is the weakest.