@murraymakerKen MurrayIf older women who are into younger guys are cougars, are older men into younger boys called Nittanny Lions? The PSU administration and board may think they can get away with this on the local level, but there is no way that their response thus far is acceptable on the national level with all the attention the story is getting. Remains to be seen if they have gotten the message. Have to wonder what kind of advice (legal, PR or otherwise) they are receiving, if there is any at all.
Two things:
Few things are more annoying than people who tell other people what they're not allowed to make jokes (funny or not) about. Do you send a self-righteous PM to everyone who makes a pedophile joke about Eric Van? I suppose you're still boycotting Letterman, Leno, Jon Stewart et al and all of their sponsors for their Catholic Priest jokes? Sandusky is the lowest form of evil, and everyone who helped cover this up is a colossal scumbag. But a joke is just a joke. Don't be the thought police.
Or Paterno was told to keep quiet by his bosses (with the threat of his job) and he is going to start throwing those people under a train. Doesn't excuse him not going to police, but may shed light on it.
I am not disagreeing with this post, but I've noticed that Stewart and Colbert haven't touched this.
I think it's more Tiger banged Ho's and cheated on his wife and it was a huge scandal, but he didn't break the law.
The thing is, their school is their football program...in fact, the entire town is the football program.
WOW!
The Cardinals will be staying at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the new hotel at the Vatican, where turn down service means the bell boy isn't interested. -Jon Stewart
Athletic Director is still on payroll. He has a leave of absence and the university is paying for his defense.
Nice going, troll. Nice. Good to see we have healthy people on this site who have a sense of perspective on rape. Which is important, because we all should really sit back and appreciate the perpetrators' perspective on this. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
I f I was at Penn St. I would be absolutely furious about this. Board of Trustees should have completely cleaned house. Keeping the AD and fire JoePa is completely disingenuous.
Because it is depressing as hell that there need to be laws dictating that someone behave like a semi-decent human being?
If in fact he does arrange to talk at length publicly, it has the potential to go down as one of the most awkward and surreal press conference ever in athletics. Maybe most awkward/surreal press conference period.
You could probably say the same for half our criminal laws and most of our tort laws.
I thought they should cancel the rest of the season when this story broke to send the message that the football program is not above the reputation of the university. But if the Madden story is correct, they should eliminate their football program now and forever.
ESPN could make a statement by not broadcasting Saturday's game. Nothing good will come of that game being on the air.
I think it is a fair perception that Sandusky, Schultz and Curley are being let off the hook to a degree. Joe Paterno has been focused to a large degree. Certainly, he is deserving of such focus, but his wrongdoing is clearly less than those three and the focus of the media doesn't reflect that.
they should donate whatever ad revenue generated from that time slot to some child protective agency/charity, that's for sure.
Media attention is based as much as, if not more, on the size of the public figure, as it is on the severity of the action/inaction. Always has been, always will be.
I think this is a key statement and is one of the main disconnects for the Pro and anti Joe people. The pro people take the chain of command at face value and say he followed it. The con people like you believe the AD was a Paterno puppet who did Joe's bidding while giving Joe the required cover.
ESPN is in a tough spot.
Agreed.
