How in the heck is what happened there, and worse, the fact that Paterno knew about it and helped purposefully keep it under wraps not an ethics or conduct violation?

In other news – Eddie Vanderdoes committed to USC. This means that in the post-Tosh Lupoi era we went 0-3 for the big 3 bay area recruits that were considering Cal, and who in my opinion would have been Cal commits had Tosh not left.

So when folks sit back and spew all this anti-Tosh stuff, the real world impact is that our recruiting has been hurt bad, and it will take a long time to rebuild what we had, and more importantly what we were going to have year after year.

So while it was the easy thing for Tedford and Barbour to not want to mess up the wage scale for the football staff – the right thing in my opinion was to pay the man what he was worth because our program was on the precipice of becoming consistently relevant again.

We’re back to the beginning in recruiting folks. Anyone else overwhelmed by the absolute silence in terms of Wes Chandler and the new defensive line coach’s recruiting chatter this year? I’m one of the ones on the side that thought they were good coaching hires, but bad hires in terms of recruiting (old and out of touch).

Nothing yet has happened to prove that wrong.

Things have to be done now to prepare for a good class next year. This year’s class is and will be tremendously weakened by the Tosh departure.

Chalk it up to another typical Cal dissapointment.

They benefited from hiding these heinous crimes, and now they should pay. Paterno’s family should also turn over whatever wealth they have.

The downside is that without football Penn State probably can’t fund other sports. But oh well. From a deterrent stand point I think it’s worth it. Let those other student athletes transfer immediately without sitting out years.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens when it’s the institution and middle aged white guys doing the wrong thing, as compared to young african american kids (the majority of college football players).

What I think of is the Penn State situation, compared to Ohio State getting suspended for kids selling memorabilia.

Sad situation. As a youth sports coach I was absolutely sick to my stomach to see the findings. It’s a damn shame. The football program at Penn State should be punished severely.

Institute a new rule that anybody who works for an athletics program at a university is required to report any suspicion of child molestation or otherwise face severe punishment.

Jeff Faraudo Says:
June 25th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Vacation was terrific, thanks, Steve. Went to Glacier Natl Park in Montana with my wife and younger son, visited some friends in Seattle, then my brother in Oregon. As always, nice to be home.