Penn State pedophilia

[Moliere]

They fired JoPa over the phone. Wow! I guess that is more symbolic than anything. You take a guy that had as much of. OT more power than the BoT (even though he formally reported to the AD) and you fire him over the phone. Very fitting and it sends the message from PSU that no one connected to this is bigger than the university.

[DrumNFeather]

This author had the same reaction I did to the wording of his statement:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoot...diately-110911

My point was just that Joe can say whatever he wants, but even at the point where he was saying he was retiring, he had no control over his future. I think the board felt the same way...he can say whatever he wants, but we'll determine his fate. Ultimately, that's exactly what happened.

[UtahDan]

I see now that several thousand students gathered to protest and vandalized, turned a news truck over, set some stuff on fire, etc. Gotta think they are from Maryland.

[DrumNFeather]

I see now that several thousand students gathered to protest and vandalized, turned a news truck over, set some stuff on fire, etc. Gotta think they are from Maryland.

[dabrockster]

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind...ctim_talk.html

WTF is wrong with these kids!!!!??!?!?!?!??! There moral compass is beyond repair if this is their response. This is disgusting, and the press conference. Who let the Paterno student body fan club in there. They just made themselves and the PSU student body look horrible and what the BOT was trying to accomplish..

The guy who spoke did a very good job in a very difficult situation..

[Solon]

I wonder if Penn State won't just kill their football program. It is a university that prides itself in its reputation, which has just been sullied in the worst way. If serious academics are calling the shots, I think they may well conclude that going the route of the University of Chicago would be to their advantage and would help restore some of the luster to the university itself. I am speculating, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised to see such a move.

It would be nice if Penn State wasn't just concerned with football for once, but I think football generates about $50million per year, which funds all the other sports. No way football is gone. The school is going to take a major hit in fundraising, sponsors, etc. from this. Penn State is already facing a pretty bleak financial forecast. This is only going to exacerbate it.

What a sad ending to JoePa's career. Why he didn't just pick up the phone and call the cops is such a damning indictment of the bubble and culture he created and lived in.

I can't help but wonder what McQueary really saw, and what he really told Paterno. The inaction/indifference of these coaches & administrators is incompatible (in my mind) with the savagery of the crimes. There's got to be more to the story, but I suspect we'll never really know.

As this story develops and fades, I think we'll see more stories of Penn State football and the law, specifically cases of strong-arming local law enforcement to keep players on the field (I have heard of at least two other situations where players' legal troubles miraculously disappeared).

I feel especially bad for Sue Paterno. She's a pillar in the community as well - in some ways even more than Joe (who is aloof).

I'll take JoePa in the 2012 death pool. The guy is going to pull a Bear Bryant now that he's out of football.

:depressed:

[dabrockster]

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoot...diately-110911

Here’s the thing, Joe. Your goals are now meaningless. Football has been put in its proper place, set into proper context by allegations that a man you granted access to your football program reportedly as late as last week — the man whose allegations of sex abuse drew you to testify to a grand jury 11 months ago — is accused of abusing at least eight kids over a 15-year span.

So this POS had access to PSU football facilities as of last week??!?!?!?!! Just goes to show how arrogant and big Sandusky and Paterno and everyone were in this.. They had already testified and they still allowed him to be there????

[Moliere]

http://www.nesn.com/2011/11/jerry-sa...rk-madden.html

If this rumor is true then "Holy Shit!"

[tooblue]

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7...-state-scandal

Imagine: Victim One, according to the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, was often taken out of class by Sandusky to be further molested. Just taken out of school by somebody who wasn't his parent, with no questions asked until his mother finally called the principal and asked her to check into it. Later that day, the principal called back in tears. "You need to come down here right now."

According to a 1998 study on child sexual abuse by Boston University Medical School, one in six boys in America will be abused by age 16. For girls, it's one in four by the age of 14. Those "If you see something, say something" billboards shouldn't just be about terrorism. They may apply to sex abuse, too. Doesn't matter if it's your uncle, your longtime assistant coach or your buddy. You HAVE to say something. And yet, precious few people have the guts to say anything at all.

"The fear is too strong," Kennedy says. "People don't know what to do. They think, 'Oh my god, how bad is this going to look? What are we going to do now that we've let this guy operate right under our noses? We better keep quiet.' But it can't work like that anymore."

Does Kennedy blame Paterno?

"Does he have grandkids? [Yes, 17.] How would he feel if it were one of his grandkids in that shower with the coach? What would he have done? Somehow, the perpetrator felt welcome at that school. We need systems in place that make perpetrators feel unwelcome."

This is very tragic.

[Flystripper]

Paterno's legacy is forever tarnished, as it should be. I am not sure if Penn State can ever recover. Would you send your football playing son there? Not in a million years.

[Hot Lunch]

http://www.nesn.com/2011/11/jerry-sa...rk-madden.html

If this rumor is true then "Holy Shit!"

HOLY SHIT is right. My goodness. This just keeps getting worse. How sick and twisted are these people? How in the world could people try to cover this up and sleep at night.

[Flystripper]

HOLY SHIT is right. My goodness. This just keeps getting worse. How sick and twisted are these people? How in the world could people try to cover this up and sleep at night.

If true, this is a scandal that could torpedo the entire institution. Good luck trying to raise money. Good luck with attracting the best and the brightest.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

http://www.nesn.com/2011/11/jerry-sa...rk-madden.html

If this rumor is true then "Holy Shit!"

This story was written 7 months ago. I guess the rest of the media picked up on it only after Sandusky was arrested.

I'm not sure what to make of the pimping allegations, I'm not ready to buy it. But the more plausible issue raised is that Sandusky was damaged goods at the age of 55 and never got another coaching job. Did other schools know about this, or was Sandusky too wedded to the charitable foundation that enabled him to continue preying on young boys?

[Pheidippides]

HOLY SHIT is right. My goodness. This just keeps getting worse. How sick and twisted are these people? How in the world could people try to cover this up and sleep at night.

I take back everything I said about not being more horrified. Fry every last one of them. Line them up against the wall and shoot them like you would a rabid dog.

[lambdacoug]

http://www.nesn.com/2011/11/jerry-sa...rk-madden.html

If this rumor is true then "Holy Shit!"

How the fuck do people do this shit?!? This is a rumor, but stuff like this happens, and I simply cannot understand the depths of the depravity required to do something like this. If this happened at Penn State with even peripheral involvement by the university (ie. in their facilities), then I don't want to ever see another athlete don a PSU uniform in any sport, I want the university stripped of its academic status (AAU) and I want to see professors leave the university. If I were a professor there, I would already be considering if I wanted to continue being associated with a university with this on its record, if the above rumor is true, I'd be out looking for another job.