I'd rather Sandusky get it. But anyone who defended Paterno or rationalized this whole situation looks like an absolute jackass right now.So does Penn State get the death penalty?
I hope not. The athletes have basically nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, much of this is so long ago that justice will never be meted out. Had it been, Sandusky, Paterno, and at least a handful of others would have been in jail decades ago.So does Penn State get the death penalty?
Yep. Sorry, current players, you are the sacrifice for the sins of the fathers. This is so egregious, so disgusting. Paterno was as big, maybe a bigger, piece of shit than Sandusky.Imposing the death penalty is a deterrent, not a punishment for past behaviors. Since the only thing that matters to these coaches and universities is wins, you hit them there. The next time some pervert rapes a kid and the head coach knows about it? He won't alert the authorities because it's the right thing to do, because obviously if you can coach linebackers proper technique then that's more important, he will alert the authorities because he will be scared they will hurt the program resulting in less wins.
In 2014 I went with a group of friends to the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. I was following BC but as you all know Penn State was the opponent. Great game and if BC had a kicker, they would have won that thing. Be that as it may, the game was a sell out ar close to it. 50,000 or so were at the game. 40,000 were PSU fans. The biggest cheer of the game was when Penn State won the game in OT. The second biggest cheer, and losing out only by a nose to the winning kick? The flash on the jumbo tron of Joe Pa when they were doing a montage of great moments in both teams' history. They showed Flutie's pass. David Gordon's kick at ND, A Luke blow up tackle etc. for BC as well as the PSU win over Miami in the Fiesta Bowl and a number of other great plays on the Penn State side as well. They then showed a picture of Joe, on the sidelines, in his typical garb we all remember.....and the place exploded, as if he had come back and was leading the Lions onto the field. To this day, Joe Paterno is a god in Happy Valley. Not even something like this can change that.Every college and university in America has been complicit in covering up rape much more recently than the 1970s. What's so unusual here isn't what happened; it's the complete refusal of a large segment of the PSU community to accept the moral reckoning that needs to take place.
They were all in awe of the guy, from the President and BOT on down. And if something happened inside the program, it was handled inside the program. Those two unbeaten seasons in 1968-69 gave Paterno a lot of leverage. When Ernie McCoy left as AD and took the Miami job in 1970, Joe instantly became the most powerful man in the athletic department. McCoy was the last guy who could stand in the way of the young prince. Every AD after that was a figurehead, except for his friend Jim Tarman, whose job ostensibly was to protect Joe from himself. I suspect he was the "Jim" mentioned on the phone line with Joe by the 1971 accuser.40 + years ago seems like it would have been real easy for Penn State to rid itself of the guy, why the heck didn't they? Both the options to just pass him along to some other unsuspecting school/community (like many of the priests were, sadly) or blackball him were much more in play than they are now.
FTFYThey were all in awe of the guy, from the President and BOT on down. And if something happened inside the program, it was handled inside the program. Those two unbeaten seasons in 1968-69 gave Paterno a lot of leverage. When Ernie McCoy left as AD and took the Miami job in 1970, Joe instantly became the most powerful man in theathletic department. state of Pennsylvania. McCoy was the last guy who could stand in the way of the young prince. Every AD after that was a figurehead, except for his friend Jim Tarman, whose job ostensibly was to protect Joe from himself. I suspect he was the "Jim" mentioned on the phone line with Joe by the 1971 accuser.
I think you may have answered your own question.If I wasn't clear, I meant Sandusky getting canned, not Paterno....Paterno ran everything, why did he think it was worth keeping Sandusky around when it could at any time blow up in his face? I guess the more time went by the more imperative it became to keep it all a secret.
As James Carville once said, "you have Pittsburgh on one end of the state and Philadelphia on the other and its Alabama in between."PA just needs to be put on a weight-loss program. There's a LOT of fat in the middle. But it's not Kansas or anything.
They wish they were Alabama.As James Carville once said, "you have Pittsburgh on one end of the state and Philadelphia on the other and its Alabama in between."
Football wise, yes they wish they were Alabama.They wish they were Alabama.
As Wendell Pierce said of the insurance companies post-Katrina, "there is a special, special circle in hell for them."People still defending him/PSU are flat-earthers.
You don't say...He pictured himself as a walk-rounded man but he had tunnel vision when it came to his football program.
You worked for six years under Jerry Sandusky. Did you have any inkling of what was going on?
Schiano: Because of the situation being what it is, I'm not even going to get into it. I'm so far removed. Again, you don't need people making commentaries on things like this. It's just a sad thing.
I'm sick to my stomach.Following the assault, Doe informed a female student working at the Nittany House that he had been sexually assaulted by Sandusky, only to be told he would likely be in trouble for sneaking out of the house if he went straight to the house director, Clifford Gordon. The student advised him to instead go to a female assistant working at the house, whose name was redacted in the document.
When Doe sought out the unnamed assistant, according to the deposition, Gordon was called in anyways. When Doe told the Gordon about the incident, the coordinator yelled at Doe for sneaking out and attempted to “poke holes” in his story.
Several hours later, with Doe still sitting in the chair facing the wall, Doe saw Sandusky and a man presumed to be athletic director Jim Tarman exit the premises. (Doe said he could not testify under oath that it was Tarman for sure, saying that he remembered the names “Harman” or “Carman” after the incident.) The pair likely entered the house through the back door, as Doe testified the men would have had to walk past him to get to the office had they entered through the main entrance.
While Sandusky and the other man left, Doe was informed by Gordon he would have to pen an apology letter to the pair for “telling lies,” and that his time at the Nittany House was likely coming to an end.
Melt the statue down and recast it as a block with the Penn State logo and the words "integrity must always prevail."Yeah, they need to take that damn statue out of storage and melt it down now, so that it can never be restored to its former location outside the stadium....
It's interesting that he started his letter with the Duke lacrosse case. There is one huge difference between the Duke case and Sandusky - in the Duke case, the only crime committed was the fabrication. In this case, Sandusky was charged with 52 instances of sexual abuse and found guilty of 45 of them from 1994 to 2009.