Penn State coach, AD, VP charged in child rape case

Are you even aware that after TWO different child molestation/rape incidents that he knew of, Paterno still allowed Sandusky to bring a little boy to a closed practice in 2007?


F-cking sick. All of them.

 

Sandusky's NAMBLA habit was apparently the worst kept secret in the athletic department, if not the entire University. When they're done investigating, they're going to find more people complicit with this scandal than oblivious to it. Nearly everybody with any sort of position of prestige or power is going to be gone. There may be a few holdovers, but they're likely to be the most removed from the whole situation. An (almost) entirely new coaching staff needs to be brought in, and the athletic administration as a whole needs to be completely cleaned out.

 

Hard time believing this is going to be true.

If it is true, while I would not personally recommend the death penalty for the school, I'd definitely recommend it for Sandusky.

 

I get that feeling too. I would like to see what evidence is behind that claim.

 

Penn State can clean house and bring in Urban Meyer to save the day, right?

Not if Ohio State can help it.

 

Yeah this is the part that is egregious.

When Paterno found out about the incident I could totally understand him taking the step of reporting it to the university president and/or athletic director and thinking he had done his job.

However, once you saw Sandusky on campus again, BOOM triggers should go off in your head that this isn't right. From there, to do nothing, particularly with as much power as Paterno is said to wield, is unfathomable to me. He definitely deserved to be fired. My only disappointment in the firing is that the board spokesman last night didn't lay the hammer a little heavier in the press conference. I'd have said something like:

"In a perfect world, this university would have loved to see Joe Paterno coach this football team until he was ready to retire. This is not a perfect world however. By his own testimony and subsequent statements, Joe Paterno actions and inaction amounted to what at BEST could be characterized as an egregious failure in judgement. This university could not in good conscience allow Joe Paterno to continue on in any capacity as doing so would amount to an endorsement of those actions. Therefore, effective immediately, Joe Paterno has been dismissed from Penn State University."

 

Thats true DM... But saying "everyone" needs to go , is just plain unconstituional... Only if Sandusky tells everything , will there be true justice ...

 

Unconstitutional? Aren't you a libertarian/conservative javal_lon? You believe in a constitutionally protected right to keep your job? I thought libertarian/conservatives were all pro "at will" terminations and "right to work" pro.

 

That's not really what I meant. It just doesn't make any sense to give these guys the death penalty when they failed to give the death penalty to schools that broke rules. At the end of the day, giving the death penalty is punishment to the school, its fans, and its players. None of those 3 had any part in this... you get rid of the people that had anything to do with this and leave everyone else out of it. Just wouldn't seem justified to me to punish the whole program, that's all.

 

The school's most powerful component and its highest officers are allegedly corrup to their very core, and subverted the law, endangering future victims of a serial kid-rapist in order to protect the cash cow of the football program...of course it should be punished.

That's like saying Enron or arthur anderson shouldn't be punished since it was just Skilling, Lay et al.

 

Yup, McQueary will be coaching on Saturday.

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Holy crap. That spoiler is troubling. Everyone be sure to click the spoiler and view the graph.

 

My god. Looking at that... It just fills you with anger that you have no outlet for. These kids (and countless unknown others) were failed so f-cking poorly by those that should have been looking out for them. And hearing all this "everybody knew" stuff coming out of State College today... This is some sad sh-t here.

 

Most the posters in this thread are not half the man JoPa is... he has done and continues to do many things that are amazing and not discussed because he doesnt talk much about them. He has paid to put a poor child through college every year for nearly 60 years, out of his own pocket. He has set a good example and been honest and consistent to young men, a very good role model.
I am extremely disapointed in how he handled this situation, but I will not let it destroy what he has done for 80 years.

 

Yeah I'm baffled at these "everybody knew" reports. If that is accurate and this really was some sort of "common knowledge" and this man was still on campus...

I mean wow. The boom needs to drop.

 

Can someone explain what happened in regards to Victim #6?

 

JUST WOW.... YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS... DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE MEETINGS?

 

I wonder if all the kids who were anally raped or forced to give fellatio to an old man will be able to overcome their psychological trauma if they are told how sorry Joe Paterno is that he didn't prevent their abuse and that he's paid to put a poor kid through college.

The worst part about all of this is that children who are victims of sexual assault have a higher likelihood of becoming perpetrators later in life.

But hey, at least Joe Pa put some poor kids through college. Hopefully the man he allowed to stay on campus despite knowledge of him raping children never got to meet any of them.

 

it was just a shower and he promised never to do it again!

 

Nah, and it won't be a "game-time decision" as Tom Bradley said. Plain and simple McQueary won't be on the sideline Saturday.