Training Log

Decided to go right ahead without deloading this week, because I still feel pretty good and want to attack the weights - so I did.


Squat - 250 - 6x3, 1x6
Power snatch - worked up to 195 (PR!)
Single-leg RDL - 35 - 3x6
Kneeling Band Crunches - 3x12


And then, of course, I didn't sleep worth a shit last night, so right back to the issue of little sleep...oh well.


Of course, the big news of yesterday was the Penn State punishment handed down by the NCAA. While it is, overall, a bit of a complex topic, my thoughts are pretty simple. I think Penn State got all it deserved, and the NCAA is doing all it can not to actually punish the current players by allowing them to transfer, penalty free, at any point in the next few years. For those who are mad that it punishes the current players, I disagree, for 2 main reasons:


1. If they chose Penn State due to its academics (I realize this might be, maybe, 1 guy?), nothing changes. They are getting a free education that is at a very good school.


2. If they chose Penn State due to its football program or coaching staff (particularly the old staff), they can leave with no penalty, so they can find another football situation that fits the bill.


If they are worried about going too far from home, there are schools like Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers, and a few in Ohio that I can't imagine aren't too far away (I'm not real familiar with the geography of that area). It's certainly a sad situation all around, and a friend of my brother's is actually a coach there under the new staff, so I definitely feel for him. But at the end of the day, it's just football, and there are still a lot of people getting paid decent money and a lot of kids who get a free education for playing. None of that changes.


But a lot of the people close to the situation - namely PSU fans - that are decrying this are, in my opinion, simply too close to the situation. They can't grasp the enormity of it. They feel like they already did what they needed to, they are on their own healing path, they've cleared out everyone who was in any way tied to what happened...but it's not enough. It was a culture that was supportive of all of it, and that has to change to a certain extent. As a Iowa fan and UNI graduate and fan, I would really like to think that if something like this came out, I would have the balls to not support them. And to a certain extent, I think that was the case with Iowa basketball and the Pierre Pierce rape case a few years back. But, it's apples and oranges, and a far smaller scale.


In any event, it's a case where there simply are no winners, and Penn State will struggle for a loooong time, unless Bill O'Brien is the right man for the job, in which case he hangs around for a few decades, and gets them back to respectability.