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Originally Posted by als463
Okay, for the sake of reasoning and not to make anyone feel the least bit slighted (since that is definitely not what I intended), the point that I was trying to make--thank you ASTAlumna06 for helping me try to explain and agreeing--was that when you have such a strong alumni base, many times a family may choose to go into debt before sending their child elsewhere. Let me use LSU, Alabama, Michigan, whatever school we want to use that is super into football (or that university for whatever reason).
If Matthew Michigan comes from a long line of Michigan Alumni and a big scandal like what is going on now happened there, I believe that he may stay at Michigan because his family is all about the generational pride in the university. That is the only point I was trying to make. You can change that to Louis LSU or Adam Alabama (or whatever you want--it doesn't matter--just pick a school) and that may happen. That is the point I was making. If my future child chose Penn State over many other schools, I would be over the moon because I bleed blue and white (not for the sports, either). It's just something to think about when talking about students leaving the team. That's all I was trying to say. I hope I explained it without offending/ upsetting anyone.
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Isn't this a massive strawman though? Like, this point literally doesn't matter to this discussion, at all - and nobody really argued against it with any real aplomb.
The point you were making is that Penn State will still be able to field a football team? OK, acknowledged.