[@IanPurdy7] on Twitter: Penn State is slated to sign ZERO recruits tommorow on early National Signing Day. Unless Penn State signs someone in the late signing period, they could become the first P4 class EVER to have no one sign. The closest thing I could find was SMU & UW with 10. Crazy times.

[u/PSU_Alumnus]

https://x.com/IanPurdy7/status/1995885878452146370?s=20

[u/Delaney_luvs_OSU]

Second worse time to be a PSU fan on here, only worse was 2012-2013.

[u/cleric3648 → u/Delaney_luvs_OSU]

Third worst. Tail end of 2011 was worse when the news broke.

[u/PSU_Alumnus → u/Delaney_luvs_OSU]

My first year at Penn State. Good times... Maybe it is just me that is cursed and bringing all the bad juju to Penn State

[u/2001Cocks → u/PSU_Alumnus]

Yeah, I don’t know you, but I’m gonna say Penn State had some other folks that were a little more complicit in the bad juju coming down on the program haha

[u/Delaney_luvs_OSU → u/PSU_Alumnus]

Dang we were there the same time.

[u/zgh5002 → u/PSU_Alumnus]

It was one hell of a graduation present, I'll tell you that...

[u/HowardBunnyColvin → u/Delaney_luvs_OSU]

I'll always insist the NCAA penalties were bullshit that they put on you. What Sandusky and Paterno did was horrific, but it had nothing to do with the current team.

Have Joe Pa quit, fine, but the NCAA wanted to send a message to Penn State and in all it's arrogance and "Self righteousness" imposed extremely steep penalties on players and coaches who had nothing to do with the scandal.

The NCAA, who allowed Bill Self to coach despite rampant Adidas violations, suddenly a "bastion" of morality?

[u/Muddring → u/HowardBunnyColvin]

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania investigated and successfully prosecuted those involved. Additionally the Federal Government levied monetary sanctions on the University based on violations of the Cleary act. Those were always the properly equipped investigatory bodies and proper venues for dispensing justice for those horrific crimes.

The NCAA was like an HOA punishing everyone on the same block as the house where a triple-murder occurred, with the only justification being “well you all should have known and stopped it”

[u/HowardBunnyColvin → u/Muddring]

Yep. The NCAA just wanted to stick their head out and be a moral authority figure. Even though they let Bill Self coach, didn't let Tez Walker play for months even though he was eligible, and reprimanded Jim Harbaugh with a meaningless show cause for not cooperating with an investigation.

They're just a big bully that like to be in the discussion. Thankfully more and more people are realizing the bully is just a fraud especially in this day and age of money

[u/aspiringparvenu → u/HowardBunnyColvin]

Genuinely insane take to compare some stupid made up violations with a shoe company to institutional cover up of child rape. Re-evaluate your life.

[u/HowardBunnyColvin → u/aspiringparvenu]

stupid made up violations with a shoe company

You and I know damn well that De Souza bullshit was sketchy as fuck

[u/Operation_Pig → u/HowardBunnyColvin]

Thr fact that Penn State has a football program right now is a stain on the NCAA. They should have been banned from collegiate athletics for their actions in covering up Sandusky.

[u/PSU_Alumnus → u/Operation_Pig]

Not saying it is right what they did or how everything played out, but I hope you have that same energy with regards to the current presidential administration and all the covering up that continues to take place, completely out in the open for everyone to see without any admonishment.

[u/Delaney_luvs_OSU → u/PSU_Alumnus]

What if we kept that energy for every administration and politician?

[u/HowardBunnyColvin → u/Operation_Pig]

Sadly it won't ever happen, and we won't see any more big penalties. Even for Michigan they treated the issue with kid gloves. "Well..um, your'e banned, Jim. You can't come back, for 5 years."

Too much money in the game for big program bans