Institutional history is different at different institutions. For some institutions, it means memories of beloved professors or emotional alumni reunions …
For Florida State, it means fond recollections of cheating scandals, and the millions of dollars the university spent unsuccessfully appealing associated NCAA sanctions. It means reflecting on years of corrupt trustees, and bringing to mind those local firms that specialize in declaring almost all of the athletes FSU sends to them learning disabled. And, as the title of this post suggests (it’s a comment made by an FSU booster), institutional memory at FSU means remembering how the university deals with its generations of criminal athletes.
This FSU person, for instance, can’t remember a first arrest being enough to throw anyone off the team; so although Nigel Carr has just been hauled in for having committed many illegal acts in the space of a few hours the other night, FSU sports fans seem pretty sure he’ll still be able to play.