Day 8-11: the days go by

On days like this it's hard to write with so much going on in the day. The thing that has taken my attention is the issues that are surrounding and seem to have overcome the football program at Penn State. It's a tough situation in my view because as a player I understand the consequences a program recieves as a whole when one individual's misdeeds come to the forefront . It scars the public image of not only the person invovled, but trickles down through all the way down to the equipment manager. In this circumstance, it has gone straight to the top for it's sacraficial lamb to purge the institution of the charges on Jerry Sandusky. The truth of the matter is shocking enough, but when coupled with the end of an illustrious career it takes on a whole new face. Joe Paterno has coached at the university for better than half a century and netted the school near one-billion dollars in revenue, and has been a large part in shaping the college football landscape. The media has called for his immediate resignation, stating that no one will be able to focus on the game if Paterno is on the sidelines. In response, I could only see this as the reality in the situation, It wouldn't matter. If he's there or not the focus will now be on him and the others that have been removed. It is easy for an outside voice to say that its his program and all falls under his umbrella, but as it is in a place of demand such as a head coach, there are alot of things that go unseen when you are in charge of over 100 college boys, 20 coaches and staff. thats just looking at it as a realist, understanding the numbers are irrashional to claim under one man's supervision.

The thing that is missed from the "subjective reviews" of media associates is the humanity of this situation. As a college athlete you are a part of a family with the head coach, be it wanted or not, as the  roll of father figure and in a more understandable means the patriarch. But with that in mind, one must look at it like this, If an outside source were to verbally slander one in your group, what do you do? Do you trust this person you've allowed to get close to you? That you've come to love like a brother? I say yes. And this is what Joe Paterno did. In teams, trust is one of the standards that great teams are built on, without it the foundation gets shakey and fails at some point along the journey. Paterno chose to back his man and ended up being wrong. A fact that I have no doubt is destroying him and his team, as well as the families that are stricken by this set of incidents. No one wants to think that someone they trust is capable of the act of child molestation or anything in that realm, so when it actually happens its even more unbelievable.

 Paterno's career has been more than influential to many young men that have passed through Penn State. To fire a man of such esteem is an act that shows absolutly no respect for the great accomplishments and social duty upheld by Paterno. The right thing to do is to let the man finish his season and allow his players, fans, and Paterno himself a sense of closure that doesn't revolve around this inccident that shouldn't be the final event in an amazing lifetime.


But there will always be poems...

"My auntie was a smoker"

Her wrinkled hands
were soft to touch
Those blakened lungs,
her soothing voice
She had yellow teeth
with a beautiful smile
And blood-shot gorgeous
green green eyes.


"It's not casual, we have a modern romance"

your funny
looking when I get down to it, built perfectly for me.
that crooked smile and burnt red eyes
Match your zombie stiff posture
produced by the liver bludgeoning the night before.
that birds nest hair styled only to one side'
the racoon eyes you gave yourself
                                                   calls to me.
I would hug that headache away
if you didn't look cute with your nose scrunched.
I would give you your clothes
if my shorts did'nt look so cartoonish.
As you stand there holding up the wall,
your face in you hand and the drinks on your breath
I wonder,
how I ever survived
without you.

A 3-part Relationship

I
infatuation
time
sex
petting
love

II
your a god damn blood clot.
would only be right
that you'd attack my heart.

III
I will remember you
when we were new
Please think of me
how I used to be.