Friday, January 06, 2012
Penn State fans suffering from bad case of Green Bay Packers Syndrome
So some Penn State fans don't want an outsider coming in to coach their much vaunted football program. You know, the program engulfed by allegations of locker room pedophilia, management cover ups, failure to follow the law, flunking the most basic moral test of protecting the most innocent in society. Yeah, that program. ...
It's going to be a long re-building process for Penn State if their most ardent fans have their way. Remember the Green Bay Packer Syndrome, i.e. the never-ending quest to build success by reliving the past. It rarely works. In the case of the Packers, they brought in coach after coach with alleged magical associations with the late Vince Lombardi. They allegedly "understood" the "Green Bay way." They all sucked. The Celtics suffered from a variation of the Green Bay Packers Syndrome in the 1990s and early 2000s, always insisting some new addition had to "bleed green" to succeed. The Norte Dame football program has had its own strain of the Green Bay Packers Syndrome, always bringing in some coach with a quasi-Cinderella tale that fits with alums' fairy-tale image of the program. (Never mind that the last two Notre Dame coaches to win national championships were hardened NCAA journeymen and scoundrels; the alum prefer to stick with their fairy-tale delusions.)
So some Penn State fans don't want an outsider coming in to coach their much vaunted football program. You know, the program engulfed by allegations of locker room pedophilia, management cover ups, failure to follow the law, flunking the most basic moral test of protecting the most innocent in society. Yeah, that program. ...
It's going to be a long re-building process for Penn State if their most ardent fans have their way. Remember the Green Bay Packer Syndrome, i.e. the never-ending quest to build success by reliving the past. It rarely works. In the case of the Packers, they brought in coach after coach with alleged magical associations with the late Vince Lombardi. They allegedly "understood" the "Green Bay way." They all sucked. The Celtics suffered from a variation of the Green Bay Packers Syndrome in the 1990s and early 2000s, always insisting some new addition had to "bleed green" to succeed. The Norte Dame football program has had its own strain of the Green Bay Packers Syndrome, always bringing in some coach with a quasi-Cinderella tale that fits with alums' fairy-tale image of the program. (Never mind that the last two Notre Dame coaches to win national championships were hardened NCAA journeymen and scoundrels; the alum prefer to stick with their fairy-tale delusions.)
