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Would still root for MSU - would hope that it was realized that less than 10 individuals led to this reprehensible situation and it shouldn't totally devalue the institution as a whole. Yes, one of the individuals involved was the football coach and I think the penalty addressed that appropriately with their total destruction of the Paterno reputation - they basically dug him up and spit on his corpse. Realize that both the NCAA and Big 10 are sending a message with this . Penn State (and MSU) are both great institutions - but it has to be realized that no one individual should ever have that level of power and influence. I don't see that happening again - the Penn State-Paterno relationship will never be seen again.

I do feel sorry for Penn State alum - they obviously had nothing to do with the situation but will ever be sullied with their association with Penn State.

You're lucky. If you had started a year earlier and gone 91-95, like me, you'd have endured an 0-6 start and a 3-8 season, worse than any season BW or JLS had.

I'm from that era too. I had tickets to the MSU scum game one year and couldn't even sell them for face. It sucked.

To be honest I would be out of my mind sad angry and depressed. I live for MSU and MSU sports and if I found something like this was happening and we recevied sanctions like this I would really want to be dead. I mean I know life goes on but knowing that a place you grew up loving and spent mass amounts of money at to attend and get a diploma allowed this to happen I would just give up.

I think it would be really hard to accept if something like that happened at MSU. As someone earlier in the thread said, this would be akin to finding out that Izzo was involved in a similar type of cover-up. For all of us who believe that Izzo is generally committed to winning "the right way" (which is the same thing that Penn St. fans believed about JoePa), having to come to terms with someone you revere violating all the ideals for which you revered them the most is pretty crushing. And the first response is denial. I'd like to think that if there was as explicit of evidence against one of our MSU heroes as there is against JoePa, most of us would accept it more readily than those in the Penn St. fanbase who are still in incredible denial.

I think that it would be a number of years before I could really start to get excited about MSU athletics again.

And I really just hope that that kind of s*** never happens at MSU so I never have to deal with this.

I will play along, believing that this will never happen at MSU

Assuming everything went down EXACTLY as was with PSU with a major sport coach at MSU.

MSU is not a one-horse-pony, so that immediately dampens the impact. As for the impacted sport, I would:

- personally vacate all gear associated with the years of the violation.
- provide financial support in some manner to charitable associations related with the offense.
- withhold all financial support to the university until I was convinced that processes and procedures were in place to
never allow it to happen again.
- do my utmost to continue to wave the Spartan banner in the name of all that I have grown to LOVE from the institution.

I hope these events have done nothing more than re-emphasize the quality of leaders we have in our sports programs. You can't put a price tag on the "family" word that you hear echoed from each (football) recruit. Damn, it's good to be Green.

My love has always been to the university first and the athletic programs second. Would I be hurt? Of course, but if MSU were going through the exact same situation that PSU is going through, I'd be ashamed of the athletic department. I would hope that everyone involved in the cover-up would be sacked and I'd accept the NCAA sanctions.

I would still continue to love my school, wear MSU gear, visit campus, enjoy WKAR, go to sporting events, etc. Even though MSU athletics is the face that most of us associate with the university, the university is bigger than the athletic department. MSU would continue to be a force of good in the world - we would just need to move past the bad.

Did you even follow the PSU story? This wasn't just a sports program violating rules...this was corruption at the highest levels of the institution.

become the fan of some other school's team.

I write this as a college football fan who knows you don't want to look too closely at any major sporting franchise.

Probably can't get too disappointed cheering for Trine(?) or Hillsdale.

It would devastate me. I have not always agreed with the MSU administration, but god I hope this type of cover up would never happen.

I enjoy football Saturdays and expecting final four runs. I think the people who support and run the university are good, if sometimes...

I believe our coaches and AD are second to none when it comes to integrity.

The sad thing is I believe the average PSU fan, the guy who was a fan, but not inner circle, was very much like me and believed that to be true as well. He must be crushed, mad and feeling cheated. I do not know what I would feel.

I feel angry, mad and incensed for the victims, but I feel bad and sad for the average PSU fan as well.

FU to all those that allowed this to happen.

People should support their religion, through good times and bad, while speaking the truth and demanding accountability.
They should support their families through good times and bad, while forgiving and setting an example for accountability.
They should support America, through good times and bad, while bearing witness and expecting accountability.

Nobody owes loyalty of this kind to a sports team.

At least you got to be in the inaugural Izzone.