“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.
Oh I don’t know ...maybe because the perp would have been in jail if they cared as much about these kids as they did their football games. By the way it’s not nine any more it’s seventeen and counting and there are reports Sandusky was pimping these kids out to Penn State donors sorry if this ruins your schools season!!!
“BINGO! The school went knee jerk without thinking this out....”
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I guess you and those idiot rioters didn’t hear what Joe himself said about the sick situation, huh?
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.
I don't agree. PSU would keep itself open to even more potential liability if they let Paterno stay. Although Paterno met the minimum legal requirement - he failed to live up to the implied moral obligation he had as a leading member of the university staff.
Additionally, the Board of Trustees had to consider the wider implications to the university as a whole. PSU is NOT just sports. Because of this incident, enrollment applications, booster funding, alumni funding, corporate funding, government grants, etc. are all affected. Not to mention the impact on recruiting in ALL sports - not just football.
As far as consulting the families - I would not say that it was necessary. The families have NO say in what PSU does vis-a-vis personnel matters. But, it would have been decent of the Board of Trustees to give the families a prior "heads-up" as to their decision BEFORE announcing it at a press conference.
I went to PSU and lived right across from the football practice facilities in the "Nittany Dorms". I saw Paterno quite frequently in the parking lot. Even got to speak to him from time to time, so I was more than a passing acquaintance. We rarely talked football.
At the time, my impresssion was that he was a decent, honorable man. He had scruples - such as when he benched players for getting drunk at the bars, or when he dismissed Paul Lankford from the team for being involved in a robbery.
He was forgiving, though. If drunk players went to counseling and kept their noses clean, they were allowed to play again. He told Lankford to man-up and admit his guilt, accept the court's punishment, serve a one-year dismissal [BUT remain in school at his own expense], and keep his nose clean. After the year was up [and Lankford met all of the requirements], he was re-instated onto the team.
This is why I am puzzled - the circumstances of this incident is NOT the Paterno I knew ...
No, the Trustee’s needed to fire Paterno, no need to consult anyone.
There’s no reason at all to consult the victims. JoePa got fired for allowing a bad situation to fester within the school. The specifics of the bad situation (including the victims) is immaterial from the SCHOOL’S perspective, what matter for them is their name is being dragged through the mud because of a guy he employed and kept employing after finding out very bad things could be happening. It’s not the victims decision, it’s the school’s decision.
“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.”
Are you for real? What do you mean the school had nothing to do with it? The President of the school knowingly kept Sandusky on campus. Paterno knowingly kept Sandusky using facilities because of his silence to criminal action. Last I heard, both the President, the VP of Business, the Athletic Director, the football Head Coach, Paternos coach all worked for the school. The school allowed a serial rapist to operate on school property.