Lots of Zohners disagree with my suggestion that Penn State cancel the remainder of this season’s schedule. Even the great Fred Garcia disagrees and when Fred disagrees I take pause.

With all due respect to all of you, I’d like to try again and I admit I may be wrong. But this is a serious issue worthy of serious, grown-up and polite debate — all of which we have here on the Zohn.

Lots of you say canceling the rest of the season is unfair to the current players on the team and to the other teams Penn State will play.

I say that’s the entire point. In light of what is happening right now at Penn State there should be no more fun and games for a while. The mood should be somber. No one should be cheering for touchdowns or victories. That should be over with for a while. People at Penn State need to sit quietly and reflect on what happened and what really matters.

The people who say cancellation would be unfair to the players are using, to a much smaller degree, the argument that football comes first and must not be messed with, no matter what. I don’t like that reasoning at all.

Penn State should take a moral stand — something it failed to do for more than a decade. When you take a moral stand there are repercussions. The repercussion is that some of these players won’t play. When their careers are over and they are grown men they can say with pride, “My school took a moral stand when I was there.”

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