Posted on 11/08/2011 11:40:43 AM PST by bjorn14
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.
The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s exit, 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 national brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about how to manage his departure have begun, according to the two people.
Paterno was to have held a news conference Tuesday but the university canceled it less than an hour before it was scheduled to start.
At age 84 and with 46 seasons as the Penn State head coach behind him, Paterno’s extraordinary run of success — one that produced tens of millions of dollars for the school and two national championships, and that established him as one of the nation’s most revered leaders, will end with a stunning and humiliating final chapter.
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You are correct. Fifty year-old guys fondling ten year olds in Joe's showers is not that big of a deal. After all, was the boy crying or did the boy get off during the fondling.
Are you kidding?
Well the facts will eventually come out, but the evidence is pointing strongly toward enormous culpability on Paterno’s part.
That’s REAL world.
In the legal world, deployment of lawyerly techniques such as your obfuscations, shadings, misdirections and subtleties may actually save his rear-end.
Plus a deal with the prosecutors to agree to testify against all his buddies.
Referencing that he was still acessing Joe's locker room all this time.
Even if Paterno thought the 1998 incident of him being in a shower with a male child wasn't a big deal, no crime committed, investigation found nothing, etc- you think an almost identical situation just four years later would be “enough is enough!!!!!” to any man worthy of the name.
Paterno is scum. PennStatePedo football is scum. Woe to any decent men of decent character slimed by their association with such slimeballs.
Actually, "caught in the act" more often than not means being seen in the act.
What was Paterno supposed to do about the 1998 incident? I don't know, how about what any decent human being should do? Report it to the Police,
Um, that was reported to the police. The police declined to charge Sandusky.
What was Paterno supposed to do about the 2002 incident? I don't know, how about what any decent human being should do? Report it to the Police
Read the Grand Jury report. It appears he had a long conversation about it with the head of the University Police
remove him from Penn State permanently.
And how, exactly, is he supposed to do that if the AD & head of the University Police Department and maybe the PSU prez himself are covering for him?
No, I'm not kidding. The guy was there for 32 years and a football hero. If he needed somebody to give him a recommendation, he probably could have gotten the school's president himself.
And I'm not even sure if a long-time faculty member needs anyone's recommendation to get that status at PSU.
What do you know about the process?
Obviously the University Police at PennStatePedo University are not the real Police - and more interested in the interests of PennStatePedo than some underage sodomized children.
That is why ALMOST TEN YEARS after the SECOND incident - saying ‘I did what I was supposed to do under the law’ is a travesty of minimalism and ‘the buck don't stop anywhere near here’ to any decent person.
This so called man was supposed to protect young men and develop them into champions - but he turned his facility over for YEARS to a man who just couldn't seem to stay out of the showers with male children. Something he knew well from two separate incidents for around TEN YEARS!
LOL. You sure seem to know your facts about the case. How old was Sandusky?
And "Joe's showers"? Did he have the power to keep Sandusky out of them.
With regard to showering with kids, if the head of the school police didn't think it a big deal; and the local LEO's didn't think it a big deal in '98, what exactly is Paterno supposed to do about it?
The real world is where you don't live. I'm giving you the facts -- at least as claimed in the Grand Jury report.
But you live in some fantasy world where Paterno never reported it to the police (i.e Schultz) and had some special power in which he could keep Sandusky from facilities to which appears to have had a contracted right to access, and that he had some sort of special investigative law enforcement ability that would enable him to purse crimes the average police couldn't.
I can't fight that fantasy.
LOL. You sure seem to know your facts about the case. How old was Sandusky?
Fifty-four at the time of the 1998 molestation.
Now why would President Spanier give a boy-banger emeritus status? Makes you wonder, huh?
Fair point.
One call to the Board of Directors or even to the governor!
The grand jury report seems to have left unanswered the issue of what exactly McQueary told Paterno about the 2002 incident. I wonder why?
I think that a possible answer is that Joe Paterno is cooperating with the prosecution and that the designated fallguys are the AD and the VP of Finance.
Paterno probably thought that he’d skate, but Spanier has been trying to get Paterno out of there since his last contract expired. University president Graham Spanier has to go... Paterno too.
Obviously, more than you.
Yup.
Something is really screwed up at that school, and I truly don't believe that it is JoePa.
So school me. What is the procedure to gain emeritus status at PSU? Why would he need JoePa's recommendation?
Was JoePa a department head?
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