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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think the revulsion and disgust will effectively kill the football program no matter what the college does, fair or not, I just suspect over the next week or so the trustees will realize the program is screwed anyway and so they might as well try and turn it into a chance to distance the school from it.
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The program will suffer for sure, but not for the reason you think. For an 18 year old jock, State College is about as undesirable of a place to live as you could imagine. It's a small town in the middle of nowhere in rural central Pennsylvania. All things equal, a star athlete would rather play somewhere else, but year after year, Penn State manages to field competitive teams because parents want their sons to play for Joe Paterno. Without him, there will be no reason to go to Penn State over a college with better weather or at least in a town that isn't a 2 hour drive from the nearest city. There's no way they'll shut down the program, but Penn State's days of being a top 25 team are coming to an end.