Joe Paterno will not coach another game at Penn State, 6ABC in Philadelphia reports.

“That’s been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.”

That is the most obvious conclusion - that he would be ruined, and the issue may or may not ever even become public or acted on. Would he have had good reason to expect the campus police to work very helpfully with the interests of the school?

That's been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.

You know, in one sense his decision to be a coward was reinforced by Paterno as being the "right" one.

After all, Paterno "Rewarded" his silence by first upgrading his career from Grad asst (2002) to Wide Receivers coach...and then to the heavily coveted head of recruiting for Penn State position.

If that doesn't top it all in summarizing Paterno's "take" via actions, I don't know what does.

If you watch ESPN or read FR, or any media in between, the only thing being talked about is Paterno. He isnt the guy who abused anyone. He isnt the guy who saw it happen and did nothing. He isnt the administrator who could have barred him from campus. He isnt the police chief who could have arrested him. But he is the head that everyone wants.

If you have the time, Sam, please read this column...or this excerpt below...from Gil Libreton of McClatchy Newspapers:

We would like to think that Mike McQueary, then a Penn State graduate assistant coach, would have charged into the shower room and rescued the 10-year-old victim that day. We would like to think that Jim Calhoun, the janitor who witnessed the assault of the grand jury's "Victim 8," would have had the strength to report the incident to the police. But they didn't. Fear of going directly to the police apparently stopped them. That's how powerful Paterno's reign over the football program had become. Could it have happened elsewhere? Shamefully, yes. In a lot of places, the head football coach is the highest paid public employee in the state. Precisely for that reason, however, Paterno failed. He failed because HE HAD THE UNIQUE POWER TO DO SOMETHING about Jerry Sandusky, and he instead chose to lateral the sticky situation to someone else, his athletic director.

Source: Shame is now Paterno's legacy at Penn State

Here's what I find interesting: College Station admittedly has built up JoePa as a "god"...in one sense the most powerful man in the region. Yet to hear posters like you tell it, Paterno was some "weakling" who had no "barring" power on campus, etc.

This columnist got it right: As a local god, as if only one of the highest paid men in the area, Paterno "had the unique power to do something" re: Sandusky and instead chose to lateral it...without ever checking his A.D. again to see if the goal had been reached.

Tell us, Sam, what kind of a coach does something important and very intentionally without ever stopping to measure whether that goal had been met?

“That’s been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.” That is the most obvious conclusion - that he would be ruined, and the issue may or may not ever even become public or acted on. Would he have had good reason to expect the campus police to work very helpfully with the interests of the school? [combined comments by Woofdog & Moonman...who, if you combine their names as one moniker, would be "Woofman" -- and we even have a full moon! :]

Anyway...on the employee "fear factor" -- the columnist I cited in post #63 said the same thing...

McQueary is responsible for every victim after that shower. He had the power to stop it. Instead he called his dad, who called Paterno.

McQueary was scared of losing his job because of turning in a superior for a criminal act. He and his father are just as despicable as Sandusky in this sordid affair.

What a couple of selfish, chickenshit creeps!

As far as McQueary losing his job, it is gone!

Now, imagine a prospective employer for ANY type of job reading his resume and asking, "Are you THAT McQueary?"

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