1) This whole situation is just horrible. The hearts of all of us in Happy Valley go out to the victims and their families.
2) I hope to God that the Mark Madden rumors are not true.
3) The general opinion around here is that JoePa is innocent and is being unfairly criticized by the media. That's why students were chanting "F*** the media" and tipped over the tv van.
4) Saying there were 2,000 people at the riot last night is one of the most ridiculous reports I have ever seen. At first, I thought it was a typo and they omitted a zero. The media has done a better job estimating attendance at Glenn Beck rallies and the annual March for Life.
5) I watched Bradley's press conference in a restaurant in downtown State College. A large portion of the people there were either crying or close to crying. Others have told me the same thing was happening where they were watching the press conference.
6) This whole situation is one of the most unbelievable things I have ever witnessed.
Penn State creating new 1%ers. The plaintiffs lawyers are slobbering to sign up the guys that Sandusky buggered.
“The board of trustees got it wrong. They should have consulted the victims before making a decision on Mr. Paterno,”
BINGO! The school went knee jerk without thinking this out. Penn State will lose so much from this mess. Of course the school and football will survive but it will cost them so much more than just paying the 9 victims which by the way, If I was Penn State, I would ONLY pay the victims that were abused at the school. Why pay for a victim that was at the perps home or at the camp site that the school had nothing to do with it.
It’s entirely possible that JoePa was under threat not to go to the authorities, at the risk of bodily harm to himself, or to family members......if so, that might absolve him.
I’m sure there is a lot more to this story that we don’t even know about yet.
Rather odd response. The first concern of the victims is that the coach was fired?
This story stinks to high heaven.
This is by far the worst scandal in any football program in U.S. history. A 25-year death penalty by the NCAA should be pronounced immediately. Otherwise, that body can’t justify what it did to SMU for a far less serious infraction.
Paterno resigned effective at the end of the season.
The BOT only sped it up a little.
How anyone can read the GJ report, and conclude that Paterno could stay at Penn State another minute, is beyond me.
The media was not the problem, the children that rioted over a coach should be a wake-up call to those institutions that allow an individual to become larger than the institution he’s supposed to represent. He’s a football coach, not Jesus and he should have been canned twelve years ago.
When those rioting children grow-up, they’ll understand the concept of responsibility and what happens when a single bad decision snowballs just because the path of least resistance was followed. Nobody ever said that dong the right thing was easy, it’s often the more laborious decision.
They should start by jailing those children responsible for the destruction of property and forcing them to work with battered children for a few years.
How would the victims have felt to see Paterno carried off the field on his players’ shoulders this weekend, or to see him given a 100,000-person standing ovation?
JoePa enabled a Child Molester!
End of story.
That said, the Trustees may have information the public does not. I hope the Madden rumors are not true also, but I keep coming back to the fact that Sandusky "retired" in 1999 at age 55 after a police investigation in 1998, in the prime of his coaching career. And he never sought another coaching job. Was there a deal? If so, was JoePa in on it? How could he not be?
I'm afraid there are other shoes to drop here.
My heart goes out to these victims, and I hope that they get the counseling that they need. I have a good friend who was molested and to this day she has a hard time not believing that it was partially her fault. These victims need to be made to understand that it is not their fault, nor is any of the fallout resulting from it.
It isn’t up to the victims to decide who needs to be fired. Paterno is certainly not innocent. He eased Sandusky out as assistant coach, but let him have continued access to Penn State athletic facilities long after he knew that Sandusky was using them to molest children.
Sorry, but what this guy did or failed to do is despicable. The cult of Penn State—students, coaches, officials, fans—are no different from the Hollyweirdos who rallied around Roman Polanski. Just as they thought being a great artist should pardon the sin of drugging and butt-raping a middle schooler, then fleeing the country instead of facing justice, the Penn State cult believes being a great coach should pardon the sin of whistling “Dixie” while your homie fondles young boys.
Blind celebrity worship is one of the things that’s bringing America down.
Police on the scanners last night were estimating 500+, which grew to over a thousand by the time they started sweeping the streets.
Pictures of the crowd are all over the internet and Twitter.
Two thousand would be easily believable.
After hearing what I have heard and seeing what I have seen I think his fears are well founded.
What do you think that says about the people at PennState?
Note the word 'may'. He is grandstanding.
JoePA is complicit.
He knew what happened, He saw the guy still hanging around with an office and little kids present. When he saw the guy still hanging around with kids he should have gone to the cops.
That’s the stuff legends are made of.
Get real!!!!
Joe’s not whining, he knows.
A pretty said state of affairs (no pun intended).
Everybody thinking JoePa is being unfairly criticized should ask themselves how they’d feel if they were getting raped and all JoePa did about it was report it to his superiors once and never even follow up enough to find out if he should at least fire the guy that was raping you. JoePa did the absolute minimum, which really in a situation like this is way too little, yeah he didn’t let the info rot on his desk, but that’s all he did. I’m not necessarily saying he should have been fired immediately, but I’m not going to go so far as to say firing him was wrong. And anybody that thinks criticizing him is wrong is a flaming idiot.