Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

[NFBuck]

Does your board consist of 32 members? Do some of the members on your board have a idol worship problem with a dead guy?

If the answer to the above 2 questions is NO, then you can not relate any of your experiences to the Penn State BOT.

These are not normal people, therefore it is not a normal BOT.

 

[NFBuck]

This is classic 5 stages of grieving. First denial. We have seen that in spades. Now anger. Lashing out at the NCAA with threats of lawsuits. Next will be bargaining. Probably after the lawsuit is thrown out. I am sure after a football season or two depression will set in. Sadly I am not sure they will ever hit the last stage, acceptance.

 

[alexhortdog95]

The board may, and in PSU's case has, delegated signatory authority to whomever it wishes. Your board may or may not have similar signatory authority. There is no requirement that these structures be uniform, which accounts for why your church board may well be set up differently.

Here's where I'm getting mixed up at guys:

President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer (Board Officers), and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business, and the Corporate Controller (University Officers).

By this definition, I'm seeing that the Board president should be signing this document (Peetz) unless she gave....AHHHHHHHHHHH

So, you guys are saying she probably gave permission to Erickson to sign the document on behalf of the trustees? If so, that's pretty ballsy too.

And to answer the question about dead guy worship - not to step on someone else's beliefs, but we DO worship some guy that walked on water, and fed a multitude with two fish and five loaves of bread.....and he sure as heck isn't buried in Happy Valley, PA...

Not sure how good of a football coach he would have been, though.

 

[Muck]

Alex is wiccan. No male worship there.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Ped Aggy's board has an executive committee, which makes sense given its unwieldy size. The executive committee was aware of the consent decree and authorized Erickson (himself an ex-officio member of the board) to sign the decree.

Lubrano was pissed because the matter was not put before the whole board (i.e. him) and that was what caused the dog and pony show that evening when the full board met to discuss the consent decree.

 

[alexhortdog95]

Alex is we canned.....Ped State. No male worship there.

FIFY

 

[alexhortdog95]

Ped Aggy's board has an executive committee, which makes sense given its unwieldy size. The executive committee was aware of the consent decree and authorized Erickson (himself an ex-officio member of the board) to sign the decree.

Lubrano was pissed because the matter was not put before the whole board (i.e. him) and that was what caused the dog and pony show that evening when the full board met to discuss the consent decree.

Robert's Rules of Order will get you every time....

 

[buxfan4life]

Here's where I'm getting mixed up at guys:



By this definition, I'm seeing that the Board president should be signing this document (Peetz) unless she gave....AHHHHHHHHHHH

So, you guys are saying she probably gave permission to Erickson to sign the document on behalf of the trustees? If so, that's pretty ballsy too.

And to answer the question about dead guy worship - not to step on someone else's beliefs, but we DO worship some guy that walked on water, and fed a multitude with two fish and five loaves of bread.....and he sure as heck isn't buried in Happy Valley, PA...

Not sure how good of a football coach he would have been, though.

I thought he rose from the dead, thereby become not dead. Soooo...... :p

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Here's where I'm getting mixed up at guys:



By this definition, I'm seeing that the Board president should be signing this document (Peetz) unless she gave....AHHHHHHHHHHH

So, you guys are saying she probably gave permission to Erickson to sign the document on behalf of the trustees? If so, that's pretty ballsy too.

No, I'm saying that Erickson had and has signatory authority because his position on the board, if nothing else, clearly outlines that he - as University President and Secretary of the Board - has been authorized to sign on behalf of the board/university.

It's in their own by-laws. It may or may not be wise.

 

[alexhortdog95]

No, I'm saying that Erickson had and has signatory authority because his position on the board, if nothing else, clearly outlines that he - as University President and Secretary of the Board - has been authorized to sign on behalf of the board/university.

It's in their own by-laws. It may or may not be wise.

Hmm. I still don't belive that's the case, because if so, then the appeal wouldn't have even been filed. But, like you said, it is their bylaws, for them to understand.

Heck, most of us understood that when you have a mass rapist, and a coach and others that did jack about it, still being allowed to get money playing football is a pretty good deal.

Bunch of quacks....in Nikes.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Hmm. I still don't belive that's the case, because if so, then the appeal wouldn't have even been filed. But, like you said, it is their bylaws, for them to understand.

You give people too much credit. Joe Paterno's estate has no standing before the NCAA and that didn't prevent his estate's lawyers from running it up the flag pole.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

"Mark Emmert showed himself to be a sanctimonious hypocrite," says Anthony Lubrano, a trustee who joined the board in July and is an unabashed Paterno supporter. "Joe Paterno had more integrity in his little finger than Emmert has in his whole body."

You don't think Emmert got wind of that statement at the time, and now Lubrano and McCombie are filing nuisance appeals and threatening to pull the ncaa into a legal battle.

I find it very interesting that the ncaa hasn't quickly swatted down these two idiots' appeal as they did with the Paternos. My hunch is that something is going on behind the scenes. Something perhaps along the lines of organizing a conference call with the 18 ncaa directors.

 

[Muck]

I thought he rose from the dead, thereby become not dead. Soooo...... :p

 

[alexhortdog95]

You give people too much credit. Joe Paterno's estate has no standing before the NCAA and that didn't prevent his estate's lawyers from running it up the flag pole.

Naw, not credit. Just disbelief that the board of trustees even allowed this new trustee to go this far and even get an appeal considered. This has to be the most chewed up board of trustees I've ever seen.

I'm gonna have to print all this stuff off and take it to our meeting next Tuesday. We think we have it rough at times, but sheesh. These guys are quacks.

As far as the family's appeal, they have no legal standing. The board of trustees are a legal entity for the school, not a bunch of cultist (well, they are, but they're LEGAL cultists) hacks who are holding on to a dead guy's already broken and shattered legacy in the hopes of restoring a good name - which will never happen.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

These four board shitheads who think they can appeal are really quite stupid.

First, they don't themselves have authority to act on behalf of the university as they are not a quorum.
Second, 4 out of 32 isn't a yes vote. In other words, the mere fact that 4 Trustees disagree with any particular action is inconsequential.