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AP: Joe Paterno to retire at season's end
CBS Sports ^ | November 9, 2011

Posted on 11/09/2011 7:25:38 AM PST by Zakeet

UPDATE - Nov. 9: The Associated Press is reporting that Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season.

As the amount of alleged victims in the Jerry Sandusky case climbs rapidly, reports are emerging that Penn State head coach Joe Paterno's coaching career will soon come to an end. Official support for Paterno is reportedly "eroding," even as Nittany Lion fans rally in support of the longtime coach.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Paterno's 46 years as Nittany Lion head coach "will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks." According to two sources familiar with top administrative discussions who spoke to the Times, talks to determine "how to manage his departure have begun."

"The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s exit," the Times writes, "but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious brand will not survive to coach another season."

(Excerpt) Read more at eye-on-college-football.blogs.cbssports.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; coach; homosexualagenda; paterno; pederast; pederastagenda; pederasts; pederasty; pennstate; retirement; sandusky; theend
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To: Zakeet

if he knew of children being abused on his watch....he needs to GO!


101 posted on 11/09/2011 8:20:40 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: xzins

google sandusky grand jury report ...


102 posted on 11/09/2011 8:20:43 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: mindburglar

These past few years I have watched penn State football games on TV and smiled, wondering, “Who is that carrot top on the sidelines with the clipboard”? He always looked excited and really into the game. I will never again look at that guy the same. He was 28(!) when he walked into that shower and saw the gay pedophile Sandusky raping the boy. And he walked away and called his Dad? Yikes.


103 posted on 11/09/2011 8:21:01 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: brownsfan
This should help:

Timeline of events - Jerry Sandusky

104 posted on 11/09/2011 8:21:08 AM PST by QT3.14 (Trapped on Leftopia's west coast amongst defective cyborg Leftoids)
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To: brownsfan
As far as I know, someone came to Joe with a rumor. Joe immediately went to his superior. Is Joe supposed to be all knowing?

Joe Paterno is cooperating with the DA and the grand jury. I think that it's reasonable to conclude that the grand jury report is putting a spin on Paterno's role in return for that cooperation.

As far as Joe being "all-knowing"? It's pretty close to that with JoePa. He 'handles' every problem that faces the football program. No athletic director or university president has the stature to take him on when it comes to that program. His power comes directly from the PSU board of directors. Spanier, the PSU president, wanted Paterno gone when his last contract was up, but couldn't get it done due to that board.

105 posted on 11/09/2011 8:21:45 AM PST by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: xzins

yes.

Text version at nyt (so you can copy and paste if you want to):

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/06/sports/ncaafootball/20111106-pennstate-document.html

Original version in PDF:

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf


106 posted on 11/09/2011 8:22:50 AM PST by free me (heartless)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Could Spanier be a fellow radical homosexual and did not find Sandusky's conduct out of bounds?

My thoughts as posted earlier. I think it goes further. What did Sandusky have on Spanier. Photos? What was on Gricar's hard drive that he wanted to destroy? Why did Gricar 'disappear'?

107 posted on 11/09/2011 8:23:23 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: Lancey Howard
. And he walked away and called his Dad? Yikes.

And got a job as WR coach ...

108 posted on 11/09/2011 8:25:22 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: NewinTexsas
They all knew. Why did they protect Sandusky? Did Sandusky have some 'special' knowlege pertaining to Spanier?

When Spanier became President at Penn State in 1995 and set the standard that homosexuality would be not just tolerated, but embraced by the University.

Spanier is such a radical homosexual advocate (we must wonder now if he is a homosexual himself) that he believes there is no such thing as pedophelia!

109 posted on 11/09/2011 8:26:03 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: halfright
That's the part of this scandal that I don't understand. McCreary was pretty precise in his description of what he witness to all but Paterno. Why? It doesn't make sense.

Wondering if the DA just allowed Paterno to wiggle-out of his culpability here by failing to closely question McCreary & Paterno on the discrepancy. If that did happen, then McCreary has got to be regretting his decision to cooperate on that point, because it looks bad for him.

110 posted on 11/09/2011 8:27:11 AM PST by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: NewinTexsas

I don’t think it has to get that convoluted. It’s big time NCAA Football. Billions at stake. “Protect the Program” is commandment #1. And now we know how far that goes.


111 posted on 11/09/2011 8:27:28 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Zakeet

Sounds like Penn State University would be a great candidate for an Office of Special Counsel training opportunity... and fast.


112 posted on 11/09/2011 8:28:06 AM PST by Mashood
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To: AGreatPer

Urban Meyer’s daughter is attending PSU. Rumor has it that Meyer has purchased some land in nearby Boalsburg. Might not mean a thing. Dick Vermeil’s daughter attended PSU around the time that Vermeil left the Eagles.


113 posted on 11/09/2011 8:29:15 AM PST by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: Zakeet
If PSU allows this “creep” to Coach 1 more day, the President of the university should be fired!!! Let him go out “on his own terms” is an outrage, I read the Grand Jury indictment last night, it would come up short of making him an accomplice, but no question he is complicit. Every parent in America should be outraged and demand his immediate dismissal. This just shows what we have become in this country, a country of ‘star struck’ morons. Paterno’s years of service do not “buy” him a pass on this. PSU alumni should not let the Board of Regents rest until they ‘whack” this guy.
114 posted on 11/09/2011 8:30:04 AM PST by jazzo (Resistance is Futile)
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To: Wolfie
I don’t think it has to get that convoluted. It’s big time NCAA Football. Billions at stake. “Protect the Program” is commandment #1. And now we know how far that goes.

Sandusky was pushed out due to being caught with a boy in the showers. How did he manage to get such a special retirement package? He had the goods on someone high up. My suspicion is that person was Spanier.

115 posted on 11/09/2011 8:30:09 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: jazzo
If PSU allows this “creep” to Coach 1 more day, the President of the university should be fired!!!

The board has leaked it that Spanier is gone.

116 posted on 11/09/2011 8:31:07 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: NewinTexsas
Now that you mention Gricar, I read a couple of things yesterday that seem very strange about his alleged disappearance. Does anyone know if he has ever been seen again? Is anyone following up?

I read where the daughter of Gricar had him declared dead, however I read that there is a theory that he had been paid off, but there was no theory about who might have done that.

It seems that Gricar’s absence is relevant to all this, but you hear very little about it anywhere.

117 posted on 11/09/2011 8:31:16 AM PST by alarm rider (I took the pledge, I will never vote for another RINO, not now, not ever.)
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To: brownsfan
So, Joe Pa is a threat?

Why not ask the many boys, now men, whether they think JoePa is a threat?

118 posted on 11/09/2011 8:31:37 AM PST by Hattie
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To: Tallguy

I think this is why McQueary got a job. Payoff for silence.

The whole coaching staff should be fired, as should Spanier, and the football program suspended for this season and maybe next. Give the players who want to transfer special dispensation to play right away at other schools, and honor the scholarships of any who want to stay at PSU and finish their educations. The last part won’t happen because money talks, even in the face of sexual abuse of children, but I can dream.

Personally, I’ll be throwing away all of my PSU gear.


119 posted on 11/09/2011 8:32:10 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: free me; NewinTexsas

Thanks for the link. Appreciate it.


120 posted on 11/09/2011 8:32:13 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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