OUInsider - Owen Field

I'd suggest they are acting no different than any fan base would under the circumstance. If the tables were turned, would we feel any different? It is a shame that all the repercussions fall unto students, fans and players who had nothing to do with it. As for Brown, it was his choice to leave, and who can blame him. He has only one more year left to play, in an offense that is challenged at best. Here he has a chance to show what he can do with a QB that can actually get the ball to him and to play for something that might mean something, a conference championship and a shot to be on a NC team.

Its just a few bad fans--we all have them.

How many players has Penn State lost? I know there best running back went to USC and there best receiver went to OU.

I think they've lost close to 10 so far. Any fan of PSU should just shut up and let things die down. The sad part is that guy really thought he made a great point.

OK, let's follow the bouncing ball here.

Brown, (who has 75% of a Penn State education in 'Happy Valley'), is smart enough to know that, 'something don't look, (feel, smell, etc), so good to me.'

So this 3/4 PSU grad decides to go somewhere else. He alone chooses to come here, and calls to see if we'd take him.

We say, 'yes, if you really want to come,' and he decides to do so.

So the guys that maybe aren't so quick to figure out that something stinks in 'Happy Valley' throw mud at us for giving asylum, and using an 'OU education' as their taunt?

Looks like this genius (as a result of a PSU education), figures he must be moving up, not down on the food chain. So, we're left to ponder:

If PSU students are so damn smart, why is this PSU guy doing something so dumb?

I don't know, but something doesn't line up.

AH OUInsider

How does it become an OU issue now that a student athlete has decided to transfer with no penalty to give himself a better chance at his potential NFL career? The NCAA put the sanctions on PSU, not OU. We had a ship available and he asked for it. What's the problem? Now we are the a-holes because of it? Makes no sense. If I were in his shoes or any of those kids shoes I would exit as well. Why continue to play for a school that can't even sniff at a championship for 4 years? I wish that school the best especially because those kids are being punished for crimes they did not commit, but it's sad that the fan base cannot accept that the situation is out of anyones control and these kids have to do what is best for them and their future. It doesn't require a college education to have common sense and common courtesy.

These guys have to realize that the players were all recruited to PSU via Paterno's 'Grand Experiment,' and certainly it's accompanying 'morality', prestige of the program as well as W/L records, were a huge part of the selling points.

Now, most of those 'selling points' are gone.

Paterno was discovered to be covering up a series of despicable crimes to enable the reputation and glory of PSU to continue.

Instead of prestige now people just wince when you say 'We Are PENN STATE!' (We don't see those ads on TV anymore since the June verdict do we?)

Championships and won - loss records also look to be diminished. Maybe considerably.

So much of what these guys came to Penn State for no longer exists. So how can anyone blame some of them that are so sick they want to just leave and forget about it. After all, almost every player there had multiple offers.

The majority of them probably agonized over the final choice. Do these PSU people really believe they could go back 3 - 4 years and have the same success recruiting IF these same players knew then what they know now?

AH OUInsider

This is so true IMO. First and foremost I feel horrible for the victims of Sandusky and then I feel sorry for the fans. Football is not the most important thing in most of the world but is very much a way of life in places like Norman and not so Happy Valley.

While it is very true that PSU is a much better school than OU, Brown is making a football decision. I can't blame him. I also can't blame some of the fans for lashing out due to major anger and frustration. Their program is in turmoil but will hopefully bounce back. It is not fair to all of the fans, alum, students, etc. to be punished because of Sandusky. He was the idiot.

Here's the list from EPSN on the transfers so far:

Rob Bolden QB LSU
Justin Brown WR Oklahoma
Tim Buckley S NC State
Anthony Fera K/P Texas
Khairi Fortt LB California
Kevin Haplea TE Florida State
Ryan Nowicki OL Illinois
Jamil Pollard DT Rutgers

The biggest insult would have been he could play for OU this year but PSU would have to give him his degree.

Silas Redd.

This writer and many of the PSU fan base simply need to get professional help