Posted on 08/06/2014 7:34:38 AM PDT by FlJoePa
IN HINDSIGHT, Joe Paterno wrote, the day after he got fired with a phone call, he wished he had done more. He had not committed a crime, he had not witnessed a crime, he had reported what sounded like a crime to his superiors.
The haters jumped all over that sentence, like it was some kind of a confession that the legendary Penn State football coach had somehow enabled Jerry Sandusky to sexually abuse those kids, while he looked the other way.
The haters spent a lot less time debating the note he scribbled on a pad before going to the hospital, where he died, the note that said, "Maybe the silver lining in this is that some good can come of this."
Jay Paterno says those are the words people should focus on. Says it in his new book, "Paterno Legacy."
It is an honor-thy-father book, describing JoePa's values, his work ethic, his philosophy that you could have big-time football success with honor. It's got some inside-football in it, some humor in it, some hard truths.
The publisher would set deadlines for certain chapters and Jay turned them in ahead of schedule. The publisher blinked in disbelief because writers who turn in manuscripts ahead of schedule are unicorn-rare.
"I told them," Jay said yesterday, "that that is the way I was raised. As a son, as a player, as a coach. Get to a meeting 10 minutes early."
JoePa would have been proud of that. And happy that the portrait Jay paints includes some warts. You could fill two shelves with articles and books about JoePa, that read like nominations for sainthood.
"He would say all the time," Jay recalled, "I wish I was half as good as they make me out to be."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
It’s what they do.
“The Paterno haters will be here in 3...2...1... “
Hard to defend a guy that covered up for a pedophile ...
“It’s what they do.”
I admired JP for decades .... till it came out he enabled a pedophile.
“Oh”, thought Joe Pa....”too messy....I’ll tell Dean Wormer...he will give Sandusky double secret probation....” nuff said.
no hate...just deep deep disappointment in a great coach who took the easy way out.
I still think somebody went to Paterno and made him ‘an offer he couldn’t refuse.’
Pedo Rings don’t last unless there are ruthless people keeping them going.
“I still think somebody went to Paterno and made him ‘an offer he couldn’t refuse.’
How big was this pedophile ring? We will never know.
...and what happened to the prosecutor who disappeared?
I suspect there are very powerful people who want it to stay that way.
Putting Sandusky away was very "tidy."
Paterno should have reported his suspicions to a police agency ‘outside’ Penn State’s influence.
I know I would have...which is one reason I wouldn’t have been there.
I would like to read the book someday. My eyes are bad. Maybe it will come out in audio.
“It is an honor-thy-father book, describing JoePa’s ...”
It is an honor-thy-father book, attempting to rewrite history.
1. He says JP could not legally followup on why Sandusky was not investigated.
2. He says Sandusky was not at PSU functions after he told his superiors.
Which basically would have meant his coaching days would have been over.
“Which basically would have meant his coaching days would have been over.”
He should have retired years before this. He was over-the-hill.
Besides, what a statement it would have been. Retire and announce that he was retiring because of the pedophilia at PSU.
Joe didn’t have any “suspicions”. He had a sketchy 2nd hand account.
Another example of just injecting false information into a narrative and repeating it as if it were the truth.
Joe reported what he was told to the proper authorities and set up a meeting between MM/GS/TC.
And perhaps some of those “authorities” knew, and basically told Joe not to bother.
Joe followed procedure. Period. If he had done anything more, he would have been interfering in an investigation.
“Joe didn’t have any “suspicions”. He had a sketchy 2nd hand account.”
Uh, he had a detailed first hand account.
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