# It's time to officially Pit Joe Paterno and the Penn State football program. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167 "2011-11-07T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 286
**Author:** ![NoLittlePlans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoLittlePlans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoLittlePlans)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5703 "2012-10-24T01:42:32Z")
Jerry Sandusky/Second Mile Victim No. 1 Aaron Fisher released his book today, titled “Silent No More.” “Do I blame Penn State,” V1 asked outloud? “No.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5704 "2012-10-24T01:47:59Z")
Darn, I was looking forward to having the final post in this threadzilla. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5705 "2012-10-24T02:00:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Darn, I was looking forward to having the final post in this threadzilla. The Tubers won’t let you. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5706 "2012-10-24T02:18:15Z")
I think this pit thread should be kept on the front page forever. No no wait, here me out. It should be used as a disciplinary tool. After getting several warnings, but before a suspension, the offending poster should be forced to post here and debate with **SA**. The worse the offense, the more pages the poster should be forced to endure. I predict the rate of bad behavior would drop dramatically! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5707 "2012-10-24T02:31:28Z")
I’ll be good, I promise, just don’t throw me in the Paterno Patch! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5708 "2012-10-24T02:39:16Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > The Tubers won’t let you. The kings of the potato people, wot? ---
**Author:** ![NoLittlePlans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoLittlePlans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoLittlePlans)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5709 "2012-10-24T03:04:28Z")
Victim-1/Hero Aaron Fisher on NCAAvsPSU: Jerry Sandusky’s downfall also brought down Penn State and brought on severe NCAA sanctions. “I think that was a bunch of bull. I don’t think they should have had that. That’s hurting the players, to punish them and take all their wins and stuff like that,” he said. “Do I blame Penn State, no. Do I blame their students? No, not at all, their students had nothing to do with this. It’s just that the people who were put in a position to help didn’t.” Full interview: [Victim One Speaks With Newswatch 16 | wnep.com](http://wnep.com/2012/10/23/sandusky-victim-speaks-out/) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5710 "2012-10-24T03:07:25Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > The worse the offense, the more pages the poster should be forced to endure. I predict the rate of bad behavior would drop dramatically! A truely effective deterent; but how do you punish posters who misbehave in this thread? Do you make an even worse thread to sentance them to? I can’t imagine what the topic would have to be. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5711 "2012-10-24T03:14:33Z")
> [@The\_Lurker\_Above](#): > > A truely effective deterent; but how do you punish posters who misbehave in this thread? Do you make an even worse thread to sentance them to? I can’t imagine what the topic would have to be. 🙂 And if you make that thread, then what if they misbehave there? Then you have to make a yet even more terrible thread… Oh dear. I’m afraid it’s paper towel tubes all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5712 "2012-10-24T03:19:51Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Oh dear. I’m afraid it’s paper towel tubes all the way down. That’s some quality funny, right there. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5713 "2012-10-24T03:20:55Z")
> [@The\_Lurker\_Above](#): > > A truely effective deterent; but how do you punish posters who misbehave in this thread? Do you make an even worse thread to sentance them to? I can’t imagine what the topic would have to be. 🙂 Federally backed municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of known Russian communists to come to your home and _kill your puppies!_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5714 "2012-10-24T03:32:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Federally backed municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of known Russian communists to come to your home and _kill your puppies!_ UN-mandated amendment to obamacare that requires religous organizations to pay for infants to be circumcised by islamic-atheist commie-socialists! This is fun ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5715 "2012-10-24T03:43:07Z")
So close… UN-mandated amendment to Obamacare that requires religious organizations to pay for Federally backed municipal bonds which pay for forced busing of known Russian communists to come to your home and have your for infants kittens be declawed by islamic-atheist commie-socialists! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5716 "2012-10-24T03:46:24Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > UN-mandated amendment to Obamacare that requires religious organizations to pay for Federally backed municipal bonds which pay for forced busing of known Russian communists to come to your home and have your for infants kittens be declawed by islamic-atheist commie-socialists! Do they travel by bicycle and take their shoes off when they come in the door? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5717 "2012-10-24T12:45:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Do they travel by bicycle and take their shoes off when they come in the door? Only if they are fat. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5718 "2012-10-24T16:02:44Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Only if they are fat. And circumcised. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5719 "2012-11-01T16:25:33Z")
Update: [ex-Penn State President Spanier also to be indited](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/01/ex-penn-state-president-spanier-charged-in-sandusky-case/?hpt=hp_t3) along with Curley and Schultz. I believe the expression is “Winning!” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5720 "2012-11-01T16:57:37Z")
Nonsense. Any idiot instinctively recognizes the impossibility of a grown man of Sandusky’s size and age anally raping a young boy in the shower, and his acquittal on that count proves it didn’t happen. There was no crime, and therefore no cover-up. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5721 "2012-11-01T17:13:59Z")
And sometimes multiple idiots. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5722 "2012-11-01T19:02:49Z")
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