looking where program
was, is, where we want to be
was no other course
“Anything this significant just doesn’t come on a whim,” Kraft said. “You have to have scenarios, and we do. How is this going to go? What if this happened? But looking at where the program was and where it is and where we want to be as a program, I just felt there was no other course.”
Penn State athletic director Patrick Kraft on the firing on the Head Football Coach, James Franklin. (Quoted in the article At Penn State, James Franklin was standing on the edge of a cliff for years. Here’s why by Bruce Feldman and Ralph D. Russo, NYT 10/17/2025)
While the statement is about football, I can find application of that last bit in so many areas of todays life in America.
As voters, if we could only say, you have to have scenarios, and we do.
How is this going to go?
What if this happened?
But looking at where the Country was and where it is and where we want to be as a County, We just felt there was no other course.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HEY WE CAN SAY THAT!
Last time I checked, The Constitution of the United States still starts: WE the PEOPLE.
Admitted I haven’t checked today and you never know what those folks might try.
Does anyone else remember the scene from Star Trek, The Omega Glory” (Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 23 – and when I say Star Trek, for myself, I am referring only to the Original Canon of 79 shows, broadcast September 8, 1966 – June 3, 1969) where Kirk explains the Constitution.
The society Kirk and the Crew of the Enterprise come across in outerspace is based on the US Constitution but some how the document was buried in that society’s history and the words were only allowed to be spoken by a very few revered leaders.
In a long speech Kirk grabs their copy of the Constitution and says:
“Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way.
Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since, tall words proudly saying ‘We the People’.
That which you call Ee’d Plebnista was not written for the chiefs of kings, or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but for all the people!
Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, ‘We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution’.
These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well!
They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing! Do you understand?”
But looking at where the Country was and where it is and where we want to be as a County, We just felt there was no other course.
They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!
Do you understand?
There is no other course.
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