The Crumbling Cathedral of College Football

Unless you live under a rock, you've read or heard of the ouster of Coach Joe Paterno of Penn State for his failure to act in light of sex abuse allegations within the football program. This is a horrific, disturbing story, and it is good and right that Penn St. finally acted decisively in canning JoePa. In fact, shut the whole football program down. Perhaps the most ridiculous thing I've heard throughout this fiasco is JoePa's wife's response to the 2,000 Penn St. students who ridiculously began rioting upon news of their beloved coach's firing--"Beat Nebraska!"
Beat Nebraska?
If I'm Nebraska, I have no interest whatsoever in playing this game.
Heck, if I'm a Penn St. player I have absolutely no interest in playing this game.
The only right thing to do would be to shut down college football completely for the rest of the season so that people can gain just a bit of perspective.
A child was raped in the locker room showers at the PSU football facility by an assistant coach.
Another assistant coach who witnessed this did not a) step in and rescue the kid, or b) even tell the police.
Not a single administrator at the university did much of anything to remove a child predator from their isolated community. In fact, two lied before a grand jury regarding the case.
And Joe Paterno, the most powerful man in State College, PA, did nothing "beyond the legal requirement."
This is insane.
What is equally vexing to me is the fact that now the media comes out with gloves off, swinging hay-makers of indignation at the sorry state of this paragon of virtue.
Nevermind that college campuses have for decades been crawling with rapists...no problem, as long as they can ball!
What is most puzzling in all this is the indignation of (seemingly) everyone now. Why now?
Second, why the indignation? Relativism is the belief that any truth, moral, or aesthetic value is not universal or absolute, but varies by individuals and cultures. What makes Sandusky's action and the administration's failure to act reprehensible to the degree that Paterno has been fired (not on legal grounds, but because he failed to fulfill his moral obligations)? What obligations? What morals?
Outrage! Outrage! Outrage!
Are relativists (i.e. the media) allowed outrage?
And, so, finally, it is college football and the Tower of Babel it has become which receives my greatest disgust. College football didn't build itself. No. The builders are coaches, players, universities, college presidents, the NCAA, ESPN, and, ultimately, me. I've consumed for years. I am as responsible in this as any.
Now, the tower must come down.