How long before Paterno is "retired" ???

[starbigd]

This whole scandal is sickening. The minute words like r*pe, child, and shower were spoken in the same sentence, authorities should have been called.

I don't see how ANY of the administration that had knowledge about this, including the great Joe Paterno, survive this.

 

[WoodyHayes1951]

He's gone after the bowl.

The entire Athletic Department is gone.

I can't imagine anyone surviving this...

This makes the stuff at the U look small time.

 

[yeodonie]

He's gone after the bowl.

The entire Athletic Department is gone.

I can't imagine anyone surviving this...

This makes the stuff at the U looks like child's play......

poor choice of words?

 

[WoodyHayes1951]

poor choice of words?

LOL.

Yes.

there was no pun intended.

 

[MISKO]

Attorney General addresses Penn State's Sandusky scandal

 

[axisoftime]

Penn State recruiting might be severely damaged from this. Pennsylvania talent is welcome with open arms a few hours west in Columbus

 

[starbigd]

Penn State recruiting might be severely damaged from this. Pennsylvania talent is welcome with open arms a few hours west in Columbus

Seriously.....why would you send your kid to play there with that kind of crap going on?

 

[metal_frk_334]

I hope Joe Pa does not catch the brunt of this. A great man like him should not go down for the wrong doing of someone else. Obviously they were friends and colleagues. None of us would want to believe that someone that close to us was doing something like that. Especially not at the word of a graduate assistant. He did more than many of us would have done in that situation. You can try to be holier than thou art and act like you would do more in that situation, but you are lying to yourself and everyone else. What Sandusky did is unforgivable. He should be locked up for the rest of his life, but Paterno did not do these things and his legacy should not be effected by what he did not do. Nobody should go to the police with baseless allegations against a good friend. Think of friends you have had all of your life. Would you believe a young guy you barely know over them? People need to put this into perspective.

 

[starbigd]

I hope Joe Pa does not catch the brunt of this. A great man like him should not go down for the wrong doing of someone else. Obviously they were friends and colleagues. None of us would want to believe that someone that close to us was doing something like that. Especially not at the word of a graduate assistant. He did more than many of us would have done in that situation. You can try to be holier than thou art and act like you would do more in that situation, but you are lying to yourself and everyone else. What Sandusky did is unforgivable. He should be locked up for the rest of his life, but Paterno did not do these things and his legacy should not be effected by what he did not do. Nobody should go to the police with baseless allegations against a good friend. Think of friends you have had all of your life. Would you believe a young guy you barely know over them? People need to put this into perspective.

The reason Joe Pa HAS to go down for this is because he did nothing to resolve this on his watch.

Once again - we're talking disadvantaged youth getting molested and raped in his facilities. He has a fudiciary responsibility to make sure this is fully investigated.

He didn't commit a crime, but he ALLOWED one to be committed for over a decade by looking the other way. Sorry, he does not get a pass for that.

 

[WoodyHayes1951]

No one even attempted to identify the poor boy. Didn't even feel interested in finding out the kid's name.....

That's probably the most pathetic thing about this whole ordeal.


How can you claim to be a molder of young men and fail in this situation?

 

[starbigd]

Exactly. Kids were molested and raped on your campus for a DECADE......and you were told about it from a direct WITNESS twice.

You don't get to survive that in any job no matter how great you have been.

 

[bonham]

once*

 

[starbigd]

once*

Once it was reported, and nothing done. The second time Paterno was told directly, and basically nothing was done.

That's a COMPLETE failure on his and every decision makers part. You can't trust them to do the right thing when children are involved, then you can't trust them, period. We're talking defenseless boys here.

I don't think this will taint Joe Pa's legacy, but it's time for him to go. Leave now before the good reputation he has gets soured.

 

[bonham]

I agree.

 

[metal_frk_334]

This whole thing smells like a last ditch effort to force his hand and clean house up there. After all of this time it comes out now?

 

[MISKO]

joe paterno isnt being investigated .. dont ya think that your anger should be at the people that did the crime .. just a thought

 

[WoodyHayes1951]

This whole thing smells like a last ditch effort to force his hand and clean house up there. After all of this time it comes out now?

Sandusky was being investigated for a long time.

I heard about this months ago.

The difference is that no charges were thrown down.

 

[mysfit]

Sad comment on how often society, or individual members, looks the other way.

 

[sayheykid1]

Paterno should never be allowed to coach another game at Penn State. This horrific incident is what I will think about first whenever I hear his name mentioned.
Paterno and officials at Penn State enabled this guy and share some responsibility for what happened to these poor victims.

 

[starbigd]

Wow. They are ROASTING Paterno in the media......and I'm not sure I don't disagree -


In any event Paterno did acknowledge in his grand jury testimony that he’s known since at least 2002 that Sandusky was a child molester, although incredibly enough now he’s even trying to walk back that admission. He testified that Mike McQueary told him he had seen Sandusky “fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy” in the PSU football locker room showers (McQueary testified that he saw Sandusky anally raping the child). Now in his statement Paterno is trying to get people to believe that he was told that his 58-year-old lifelong friend and co-worker was doing something “inappropriate” to a ten-year-old boy in a shower, but that he had no idea it was anything all that bad: certainly not bad enough to cause Paterno — by far the most powerful person in the PSU AD and arguably the most powerful person on campus — to wonder why the only thing that happened to Sandusky was that he was told not to bring the kids he was raping into the locker room any more (Sandusky retained all his access privileges to the campus until yesterday, and indeed was running football camps for young boys on Joe Paterno’s hallowed football field until two years ago).

This disgusting and horrifying spectacle is among many other things a cautionary tale about what can happen to someone when you indulge his selfishness and egomania to the extent that PSU in particular and the national sports media in general have indulged Paterno’s over the past few years. For quite some time now, Paterno hasn’t even pretended to perform many of the tasks any other head coach at a major college football program is expected to do. He hasn’t gone on a recruiting visit in nearly five years, and his season he’s spent most games high up in the press box rather than on the sidelines, while not even being in electronic contact with his staff, who are making all the in-game decisions that a head coach normally makes. He is in terms of actually doing his job a pathetic figurehead, performing it in name only, so that he can continue to pile up whatever “records” the media credit him with.

But Paterno isn’t a figurehead in terms of holding onto his job, as opposed to actually performing it. The Sandusky grand jury investigation has been going on for more than two years. It provided the perfect opportunity for the powers that be at PSU to nudge Paterno out the door, but he wouldn’t go, even with the firestorm that’s now finally broken hanging over his head. He’s a crazy old man who isn’t going to quit until either someone fires him or he dies with his boots on. He’s been living a lie for years now, and in the end it’s led to him trying to weasel-word his way out of his complete failure to do what he could to make sure that Jerry Sandusky didn’t continue to r*pe little boys. Joe Paterno was once an admirable figure to the extent football coaches can be admired, but when faced with a genuine moral crisis nine years ago he failed utterly. He’s become a fraud and a disgrace, and should be treated as such.