Wartman-White (PSU) out for season
http://pennstate.247sports.com/Bolt/Wartman-White-lost-for-the-season-4…
Big loss for them, probably their best LB. Appears very possible Penn State is missing all 3 of their starting LBs this weekend.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
Probably their best defensive player. We should break their backs early and cruise.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
Somebody just took a hit in Draftageddon. (Seth?) Hopefully W-W will recover and be back next year.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:54 PM ^
wasn't his last year. That's the worst. I still feel bad for Ojemudia.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
Pretty sure he'd be eligible for a medical redshirt, but yeah that sucks. These guys put in so much work through the spring summer and camp and it sucks when guys get hurt right off the bat. As much as I want bad things to happen to PSU, I would never wish injury on any of their players.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
As said in the podcast, this is what happens when you honor JoePa....
September 20th, 2016 at 12:45 PM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
This injury may be new, but the pain he has been feeling inside with a name like "Wartman-White" runs long and deep...
September 20th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^
At least it's not Genital Wartman
September 20th, 2016 at 2:15 PM ^
Yes, that first name would really compund (w) a bad situation...
September 20th, 2016 at 5:45 PM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 1:38 PM ^
son of a founder of a major accounting or law firm in central Pennsylvania. Sorry to hear about his injury against the same team a year later. Now that is some bad karma and a similar injury to his last one, just the other leg. It appears PSU could be without its entire starting linebacker unit against Michigan.
Do you think our team might take advantage and run a bunch up the middle and or test that outside perimeter again when the vanilla shakes stack the box. I think so. In any case, look for PSU to do what Colorado did gameplan-wise both offensively and defensively with their own tweaks. Nobody gets that creative week-to-week, unless your personnel can't deal with what the other side is known to do, and then you get forced into it.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
First time I've heard of this guy.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:47 PM ^
That's terrible. Prayers for a sucessful recovery.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:49 PM ^
I do not know of this young man in particular so he might be the greatest human being on the planet off the field but sorry, he plays for Penn State so not sorry he's out.
Anything bad that happens to those miserable fucks is A-OK with me. Hope they enjoyed their chance last week to reaffirm to everyone they wont accept the truth about St Joeseph and will never accept any responsbility for the crimes Sandusky committed.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^
You know what? Hate the administration, hate the fanbase, hate the cultish Penn Stater culture...
But if you're taking glee in a college kid getting injured, that's too far. The players aren't the problem. We're better than that.
September 20th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
I think (I hope) he is happy that the fans have to suffer through their team receiving setback after setback, and not that a kid incurred a tough injury.
A fine line there, I know, but I also certainly want Penn State fans to be miserable. Not happy the guy got hurt, but the silver lining is that it causes PSU fans sadness.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^
That sounds like a fairly charitable interpretation of the comment. In any case, it should be possible to root for bad things to happen to Penn State the institution without taking apparent glee (or finding silver linings) in college athletes getting injured.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
When he accepted the offer to play there he made a conscience decision to represent the adminstration, the fanbase and the cultish culture. He is them and they are him. He is not fundimentally different, IMO, than the assholes wearing the "Sandusky was framed" t-shirts last Saturday.
If you can find the word "glee" or anything else denoting happiness in his injury have at it. I said I wasnt sorry he was out and I'm not. While not wishing injury on anyone I'm also not going to pretend that anything that makes that particular fanbase, team and university sad bothers me.
If that offends your delicate sensibilities I dont know what to say.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:10 PM ^
He is them and they are him. He is not fundimentally different, IMO, than the assholes wearing the "Sandusky was framed" t-shirts last Saturday.
Really? Do you actually think that?
September 20th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^
So you're holding a decision against him that he made when he was ~17? Seems reasonable. I know I made nothing but great decisions as a teenager.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:43 PM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 1:54 PM ^
So he should have let go of his scholarship and left PSU?
September 20th, 2016 at 2:03 PM ^
he could have tranferred and gotten an equivalent education at a school that doesn't openly support the rape of children.
September 20th, 2016 at 8:43 PM ^
Yes.
I mean, I can see there being familial pressures or some such that would make it ok - just barely - to stay at Penn State. Actually, I'd have to think about that. But I think I can understand some circumstances where I wouldn't think a guy was morally culpable for being on the PSU football team.
But in almost all cases, yes, he should get the hell out. How can the people in that program even sleep at night? Place is bad and staying there supports it.
Also, kids at 16, 17 years old are very much old enough to know that it's bad, mmmkay, to commit to a school that puts a "BUT" after every "Yes the pedophilia was bad".
If they go there, they own it.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^
You're a miserable-ass human being.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:17 PM ^
Or he signed on the dotted line to play football and get an education.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:28 PM ^
So let me summarize... screw some teenager and his health because when he was 17, he made a decision for a free college education and the opportunity to play football without considering the possibility that there may be a huge conspiracy amongst the coaching staff and school to cover up a serial child sex abuse problem (that wasn't even public when he decided)?
Nice.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:28 PM ^
Conscious.
My wife does that all the damn time, it's so maddening.
Conscience is what should be kicking in right about now to make you feel bad for what you said, and you should be conscious of the consequences of your consciously stated statement.
September 20th, 2016 at 2:45 PM ^
Well, as long as Timmmaay got the ball rolling . . . it's "fundamentally."
September 20th, 2016 at 1:06 PM ^
Looking at his 247 profile, he committed to Penn St. before the Sandusky story broke, but signed his LOI after.
This is the last class I would say that you can't blame the kids. Everyone in the following classes chose to go to the school/program that supported a child molester.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^
Oh no! 18 year old kid keeps his word....news at 11 !!
September 20th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
... this idea that someone should get credit for keeping their word to an organization as morally corrupt as Penn State is silly. There is no honor in following others to hell.
That being said, I don't have any opinion on this young man. If it helps Michigan win a football game and the kid isn't permanently injured in life impacting ways, I shrug. Injury rate in football at that level is 100%. Kid still gets a free education and an opportunity to make something of his life. I feel no sympathy. There are plenty, plenty of other human beings in the world I focus my sympathy energy on.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:55 PM ^
So you have no sympathy for Drake Johnson, Mone, Lewis?
September 20th, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^
Sympathy for victims of sexual abuse facilitated by Penn State's reckless leadership >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>sympathy for injured college football players that play for the school with which I associate > sympathy for random player on a team that represents an institution I despise.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^
You're a miserable-ass human being
September 20th, 2016 at 1:18 PM ^
Normally, you are very reasonable and above this kind of stuff.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
This particular issue definitely hits a very raw nerve with me as a father. If you want to really see me lose my shit in a thread go find the original one when when the story of McQueary witnessing the shower incident and did nothing first broke.
Probably best I just stay out of this topic in the future. This is not one I am able to have any semblance of objectiveness about so sorry to all I offended.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:40 PM ^
I'm a new dad. Little girl just turned one in August.
I thought for sure this wasn't you because I've been around long enough to know the decent posters from the attention-seekers.
But you can understand why people are jumping on you, right?
September 20th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^
How can you play the "I'm a parent, and thus reacted harshly" card and not see the hypocrisy in simultaneously celebrating the injury of a student-athlete?
September 20th, 2016 at 1:57 PM ^
I'm done talking about this one Bando. Like I said - I'm obviously incapable of being objective here for reasons I dont wish to share with you or the rest of the board.
September 20th, 2016 at 2:06 PM ^
You brought it up, man. If you're not capable of being objective, why even discuss it in the first place?
September 20th, 2016 at 2:16 PM ^
There is something deeper to this Bando. I don't want to speculate too much but there is a reason this is affecting him so personally. Probably should just let it go.
September 20th, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
I, for one, was unaware this was the place for unbiased objective discussions.
In fact, reading this blog since 2010 or so, I'd say it consists of primarily subjective, biased opinions.
September 20th, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 2:30 PM ^
Because when your lack of objectivity means celebrating the injury of a student-athlete, which is something that is pretty much frowned upon across the board in the realm of human decency, you don't get a pass.
September 20th, 2016 at 2:35 PM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 2:53 PM ^
DetroitBlue, you know this isn't a place for that logical crap.
Berate him until he quits the blog.
/s (clearly)