Posted on 11/09/2011 5:38:02 PM PST by re_nortex
Here's some reactions from around Centre County to news of Joe Paterno's decision to retire at the end of this season.
From Fran Fisher, who said he's "a good friend" with Joe and Sue Paterno and started in the Penn State radio network the first year Paterno became head coach: "It's a difficult thing to think that his retirement is the result of a circumstance that is not appropriate to defining his career."
(Excerpt) Read more at centredaily.com ...
Ok. Thanks.
I was just thinking today about JoePa, when informed of Sandusky’s sodomizing a kid in the team shower; and his doing “the minumum” by informing his immediate superior, the AD, and then seemingly taking a multi-year siesta in regard to the matter. From what we’ve learned, he never once even inquired of ANYONE regarding the matter. Nor did he ever sit Sandusky down, look him in the eye and say, “Jerry, you low-lifed bastard! What should I make of the rumors I hear about you abusing young boys right here on campus?”
But it seems like God usually gives a person one last chance to “do the right thing” and clear their name. JoePa’s one last chance popped up just a few years ago, when it was all over the Central Pennsylvania media that some individuals had contacted authorities and accused Jerry Sandusky of sexual assault, etc., and that Sandusky was under investigation.
That was JoePa’s cue to wake the he!! up, go to the authorities with what he had known for years, and try to cooperate in the investigation instead of hiding in the shadows and seemingly hoping it would all just go away.
Bi-i-i-i-ig mistake!
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
And THAT, to my mind, is where JeoPa blew his last chance to at least come off APPEARING as though he gave a crap! So henceforth his legacy will be pretty much THIS SCANDAL.
I want to know why McQueary didn’t beat Sandusky into a coma when he processed what he was seeing.
I suppose i was caught up in wishful thinking. Theres no reason to suggest that a fellow in his position wouldnt have been educated as to what to do when certain things happen. I was thinking of persons from an earlier generation who didnt grow up with the internet, those who might have been “sheltered” from the crap you can find with modern technology. Thats all, really.
defining his career.....yeah that’s the ticket. He’s now among the ranks of Brett Favre and Tiger Woods. Their records are not what will be remembered, how they blew in the end will be.
defining his career.....yeah that’s the ticket. He’s now among the ranks of Brett Favre and Tiger Woods. Their records are not what will be remembered, how they blew in the end will be.
A common misconception is that prior generations were just naive babes in the woods. They were not. For centuries people were very aware of all the vices we are aware of. That frail 85 year old guy you see on the street might have fought his way across the Rhine, and probably had a hell of an R & R in Paris when he was in his twenties.
i suppose he wanted to keep his job
Thanks for the honesty. PSU used to be my favorite team (except for the SEC).
understood . thanks
At Penn State under Paterno–child rape was just collateral damage……
Life is full of choices, I guess.
This whole thing makes me ill.
FReegards,
SirL
Apparently, the retirement begins right now.
It’s stunning, isn’t it? In a matter of days a kingdom crumbles to the ground.
Or as Chaz Noll would put it, "...he's getting on to his life's work."
Do you think this is the biggest sports story of the year? Decade?
Greatest sports scandal, ever, since the Black Sox.
Ooops, highlighted the wrong line from another thread.
And then there was the disappearance of Gricar who was on this case....this is the tip of the iceberg.
HE’S FIRED AND GOOD RIDDANCE, EVIL PREVAILS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING! WHAT HE DID AMOUNTED TO NOTHING FOR OVER 15 YEARS.
HE IS A SELF SERVING NARCISSIST !
WHAT HAPPENED AT PENN STATE IS A MICROCOSM FOR WHAT IS WORNG WITH THIS COUNTRY. GOOD MEN DOING NOTHING WHILE EVIL RUNS RAMPANT!
GET YOUR ASBESTOS SUIT READY, IT’S HOT WHERE YOUR GOING JOE!
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