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Pro/Con: Did NCAA restore Paterno’s good name?
Duluth News Tribune ^ | 1-30-14 | Christine Flowers

Posted on 01/31/2015 8:46:53 AM PST by FlJoePa

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"Overall, the man was a giant, and the people yapping at his heels were moral dwarves. They didn’t just dislike him, they resented falling into his shadow. "

Ouch...

1 posted on 01/31/2015 8:46:53 AM PST by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

Bull.
He knew and did nothing.

Pervert enabler, at a minimum.


2 posted on 01/31/2015 8:48:30 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: FlJoePa

You keep trying here at FR but no dice. He KNEW. He did NOT want to make waves and young boys were RAPED to protect the perverted alums


3 posted on 01/31/2015 8:52:13 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: FlJoePa
Paterno’s name is destroyed forever. There can be no rehabilitation. Condoning child sexual abuse, or looking the other way because it's the easy thing to do, will end up defining who you are...no matter how many football games you won.
4 posted on 01/31/2015 8:55:37 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Vaquero

The lead js prosecutor went on national television and said there was no evidence that JVP was part of any sort of cover up. What more do you want to hear?


5 posted on 01/31/2015 8:55:54 AM PST by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

Paterno holds many NCAA records, many of which we will never know, and give others nightmares for the rest of their lives.

But Penn State can be proud of Joe for having the most wins for a coach who is blind and mute.


6 posted on 01/31/2015 8:56:14 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: FlJoePa

Paterno can rot in hell. No excuse can undo the evil he knew about and allowed.


7 posted on 01/31/2015 8:56:31 AM PST by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: FlJoePa

It was too bad that Barry Switzer and Jackie Sherrill left college football to the Joe Paterno’s and Jerry Sandusky’s of the world.


8 posted on 01/31/2015 8:58:57 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: FlJoePa

What did the lead prosecutor say about staying in a job so long that you become a blind out of touch dottering fool - capable of not noticing serial pedophilia in your own locker room?????


9 posted on 01/31/2015 9:04:43 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: FlJoePa

He has no “good name” to restore, and frankly, I couldn’t care less if he was erased from history altogether. He’s just a stupid football coach, for cripes’ sake! And a pretty chickensh_t one at that.


10 posted on 01/31/2015 9:06:13 AM PST by IronJack
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Yawn. Come back with facts, not hyperbole mixed with jealousy (as the author so correctly points out).


11 posted on 01/31/2015 9:07:44 AM PST by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

I would have gone to the police “outside” the university. But that’s me.

Paterno instead became a pedophile’s enabler.

FlJoePa, I’d seriously consider changing my screen name.


12 posted on 01/31/2015 9:08:31 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Mase

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?


13 posted on 01/31/2015 9:08:58 AM PST by scrabblehack
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he didn’t know... he was informed of an incident that happened the day before. at best, third hand knowledge. he reported it to the dept head, as he’s supposed to, which was then reported to the campus police (which are actual police in state college) and sandusky was evicted from the facilities. from there, it’s up to the cops.

as i’ve asked all the haters since this began... what more would YOU have done?

would you call the police and demand to know what’s happening? they’d stonewall you, as they never comment on investigations.

would you storm over to sandusky’s house? then what? burn it down? attack him? no, YOU would not.

so again, i ask... what more would YOU have done that Joe did not?


14 posted on 01/31/2015 9:11:59 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Do you know anything about Joe Paterno? Do you know how many of his players went on to do great things - because of his insistence that they be more than football players? The Grand Experiment and Success with Honor weren't make believe. They happened.

His legacy is what Jimmy Cefalo says it is. None of you - nor anyone in the media - can change that even with your wild imaginations and vindictiveness.

15 posted on 01/31/2015 9:12:34 AM PST by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa
Do you know anything about Joe Paterno?

I suspect he stayed quiet because he liked to knock off a piece himself once in a while.

16 posted on 01/31/2015 9:14:17 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: sten

I would call every legal authority in the jurisdiction from campus to county to state or federal until the child molester was arrested.


17 posted on 01/31/2015 9:14:42 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: FlJoePa

Not jealousy. What an idiotic moronic statement. You are still the child man, obsessed with worship of a college football coach - so much so you named yourself AFTER HIM as your screen name. That’s infantile.

I could care less about Penn State football or Joe Pa either way as a coach. It’s just not that important to me one way or the other. But logic is what logic is: and Joe Pa EITHER:
A: Knew about it and covered it up
B: Was so out of touch and out of control that he didn’t know.
C: Knew a little something, but stayed conveniently ignorant of the rest.

There are NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES. PERIOD. Even if it were B, it’s NOT excusable. Grow up.


18 posted on 01/31/2015 9:15:26 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: onedoug

Before he changes his screen name, he would have to grow up and out of his infantile fascination and worship.....


19 posted on 01/31/2015 9:16:44 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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Overall, the man was a giant, and the people yapping at his heels were moral dwarves.

Yeah, except for all that child rape stuff.

20 posted on 01/31/2015 9:17:46 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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