Hardball   |  January 08, 2013

Matthews: ‘Hiding hell is not tolerable’ in the pursuit of a big-time football program

Chris Matthews says Penn State needs to accept their punishment, and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett should not be fighting the NCAA sanctions levied against the school.

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>>> let me finish tonight with this. i don't know what happened at penn state to get that school in so much trouble. not really. i believe crime was kwi committed. what i don't know what was told through the chain of command , what got to the president and how. and were there so many euphemisms used about horsing around it was hard to grasp what happened in the locker room. what needs to be established by penn state and what is being done to penn state is to say rape is not another cost factor in maintaining a bigtime football program. hiding hell is not tolerable in a win/loss record. it's not about keeping the state upbeat. it's about being truly and genuinely proud of what you're doing with football. it's about having a tradition of excellence. penn state can't reach that goal by exonerating what happened in happy valley when this shouldn't happen anywhere. penn state is a great school. it's a truly great university today and will be tomorrow if it will face up to what happened, takes the punishment and makes the best of a bad situation. anyone else otherwise is not a friend of penn state .