How many more kids were molested since 2002? The number isn't zero, I can tell you that much. The lawsuits alone could set back Penn State athletics back into the stone ages. I hope it does.[/QUOTE] While we are realigning the conferences....do you think the MAC has room for PSU?
Rumor has it, "Jimmy Sexton has been in contact with Penn State officials to broker a deal to bring Nick Saban to Happy Valley as their next head coach".
I agree the showers need to be destroyed and rebuilt, and that Penn State needs to clean house all the way up to the University President, but I'm not following you on why Saban wouldn't want to go there. It's the perfect opportunity for Saban: Legendary Coach falls into dishonor, Honorable Institution in Need of a Savior... in comes Saint Nick on his white horse to save the day! What a classy guy! What a hero! Remember when Saban's plane first showed up at Alabama, the circus they threw for him, all the people lining the streets cheering, girls throwing themselves at him, the spring game selling out, etc? Wouldn't you want to experience that again if you were Saban? You go to Penn State and you'll get to experience that X10 And at Penn State, Saban (who is now 60 years old), won't have to deal with the pressure and stress that he has to deal with at Bama... if Saban starts having 8-and-9 win seasons on a regular basis at Bama, they'll fire him. If Saban does that at Penn State, they're already used to that! And at Penn State, Saban won't have to deal with the stress of competing in the SEC, which is much, much more of a meat-grinder than the Big Ten. In addition, Saban's done his 5 years at LSU, he's done his 5 years at Bama, he gave each school a national title, that's a fair shake to both schools... but he spent the first 50 years of his life in Big Ten country, compared to only 10 years in the South. And for the majority of Saban's life, including the first 30 years straight, Saban has lived within 3-4 hours of Penn State (WV, Kent State, Syracuse, Navy, Cleveland). And perhaps the biggest reason Saban would consider Penn State: It would be an opportunity for Immortality: no coach has ever won a national title at three different schools, and if Saban does it, it very well might cement him as the undisputed Greatest of All Time. But it won't happen unless Penn State sells him on it, just like Saban wouldn't have gone to Alabama if it hadn't been for the Alabama administrator that flew out to Saban in Miami to sell him on the Bama job, and refused to take no for an answer.
Penn State is over. Done. This is a horrific scandal that no leading coach or recruits will want to be near in any way. The Penn State brand is ruined and will be forever linked to child rape.
the University will get slammed in court no doubt, probably 100s of millions of dollars. But Penn State is a wealthy school with an endowment of $1.546 billion (compare to LSU: $554.8 million)
