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Yikes!
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JoePa's weekly press conference was cancelled by Penn State; Joe's son Scott says Joe will have a presser off campus later. Scott says that Joe wants to speak but Penn State won't let him. So they are going around Penn State to speak to the allegations. I'll give JoePa that much credit.
Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno Exit Amid Scandal
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 most revered leaders in sports — will end with a stunning and humiliating final chapter.
Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator under Paterno, has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys across a 15-year period, and Paterno has been widely criticized for failing to involve the police when he learned of an allegation of one assault of a young boy in 2002.
Additionally, two top university officials — Gary Schultz, the senior vice president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the athletic director — were charged with perjury and failure to report to authorities what they knew of the allegations, as required by state law.
Since Sandusky's arrest Saturday, Penn State — notably its president, Graham B. Spanier, and Paterno — have come under withering criticism for a failure to act adequately after learning, at different points over the years, that Sandusky might have been abusing children. Newspapers have called for their resignations; prosecutors have suggested their inaction led to more children being harmed by Sandusky; and students and faculty at the university have expressed a mix of disgust and confusion, and a hope that much of what prosecutors have charged is not true.
On Monday law enforcement officials said that Paterno had met his legal obligation in alerting his superiors at the university when he learned of the 2002 allegation against Sandusky. But they suggested he might well have failed a moral test for what to do when confronted with such a disturbing allegation involving a child not even in his teens. No one at the university alerted the police or pursued the matter to determine the well-being of the child involved. The identity of that child remains unknown, according to the Attorney General.
Paterno has not been charged in the matter, but his failure to report to authorities what he knew about the 2002 incident, in which Sandusky allegedly sexually assaulted a young boy at Penn State's football complex, has become a flashpoint, stirring anger among the board members and an outpouring of public criticism about his handling of the matter.
In recent days Paterno has lost the support of many board members, and their conversations illustrate a decisive shift in the power structure at the university. In 2004, for instance, Paterno brushed off a request by the university president that he step down.
Paterno came to Penn State in 1950 as a 23-year-old assistant coach making $3,600 a year. He planned to stay for two seasons, to pay off his student loans from Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature.
He became the head coach in 1966, and he has been widely credited with helping spearhead the Penn State football program and the rest of the university from a local enterprise into a national brand. Along the way, Beaver Stadium grew to 108,000 seats from 29,000 and Penn State's endowment grew from virtually nothing to more than $1 billion.
What separated Paterno from many of his coaching peers until this week was that he did this with few questions about how he grew the program. Penn State's lofty graduation rates and education-first ideals, known as Paterno's Grand Experiment, became as synonymous with the program as its plain uniforms and dominating defenses.
Paterno led Penn State to national titles in the 1982 and 1986 seasons, and he complemented the on-field success with the reputation of a throwback sideline professor, whose tie, thick glasses and black Nike coaching shoes became as predictable in Northeast autumns as the changing foliage.
Paterno's reach on campus extended well beyond the football program. He and his wife, Sue, have donated more than $4 million to the university. On campus, everything from an ice cream flavor at the Creamery to a library now bears his name.
"There's no individual in the entire 120- or 130-year history of the university that has had a greater impact on the institution than Joe Paterno," Larry Foster, a former trustee and a president of the alumni association, told The New York Times in 2004. "He's just reached into so many areas."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/penn-state-said-to-be-planning-paternos-exit.html?_r=2&hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/penn-state-said-to-be-planning-paternos-exit.html?_r=2&hp)
It's a violation if you buy a running back a Tshirt, but the NCAA don't care if you molest little boys. ~Colin Cowherd
I think the whole chain of command needs to be purged. Including JoePa.
Quote from: Spooky on November 09, 2011, 08:31:24 AM
I think the whole chain of command needs to be purged. Including JoePa.
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Boston radio station WEEI reporting Sandusky & Second Mile pimped out young boys to rich donors... at about the 7:20 mark.
http://audio.weei.com/a/48513214/mark-madden-talks-about-the-penn-state-scandal-and-drops-a-new-bomb-about-jerry-sandusky.htm (http://audio.weei.com/a/48513214/mark-madden-talks-about-the-penn-state-scandal-and-drops-a-new-bomb-about-jerry-sandusky.htm)
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The whole thing is so very sad.
I can't help but think that Penn State is not the only place this is happening. Any place with access to children must do better at protecting children and recognizing Pedophile behavior. Apparently pedophiles are people too and not monsters in appearance. :(
I know nothing but it seems sad that someone who did so much good for Penn State failed and that has lost him EVERYTHING he ever had, reputation, respect, whatever else he would have had as part of his retirement. JoePa dropped the ball and lost the game in life. I am also upset that his is the main name I hear and not Sandusky or all the others who also knew or suspected but didn't say.
If you see something that feels wrong I think you have to speak up and have people think you are a fool; than keeping quiet and letting evil happen and be right. That little feeling is a sixth sense and alarm that we need to trust. :(
JoPa is no different than some Bishop ( or any other high level cleric ) covering for a pedo-priest .
He could have done the right thing 14 years ago but chose not to .
>:(
Quote from: AdmiralDigby on November 12, 2011, 10:06:39 AM
JoPa is no different than some Bishop ( or any other high level cleric ) covering for a pedo-priest .
He could have done the right thing 14 years ago but chose not to .
>:(
It really is shocking how so many tried to bury this. The people that witnessed the actions be it Janitors or
an Assistant Coach should have gone straight to the cops. Good lord why wouldn't someone have hauled him
off those kids when they saw him. I just can't fathom that kind of thinking. Why in the world would they think
this would have ever been able to be a secret forever with all of the kids involved. It's mind blowing it stayed
a secret this long. I think the amount of children involved is also going to be a shocker. 8 children right now
is going to be just the tip of the iceberg.
As horrific as it may seem , I fear you are not wrong .
:(
There is the rumor that he was 'pimping' them out to donors (Second Mile and Penn State). Every time I read more I just get sick to my stomach.
And I can almost forgive Paterno for passing it on to his bosses and assuming they would take care of it. But the fact that Sandusky kept bringing young boys on campus and even to pre-season games, where Paterno would had to have seen him, just blows my mind. What SHOULD have been going through Paterno's mind is a)hey, why isn't this guy in jail and b) holy crap he's got another young boy with him, I need to STOP THIS!
I went to Texas A&M. I know all about cult-like love of school. But if R.C. Slocum or any other beloved Aggie (such as John David Crow) had been accused of allowing this to happen, I would have been in the streets baying for blood. To see these douchebag students rioting because firing him 'tarnished his legacy' just makes me ill. What tarnished his legacy is his placing football above the welfare of innocent children.
Lord, I can feel my blood pressure skyrocketing.
The more I read the more I think what we have heard is only the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people knew a lot more than they are letting on and knew it for a long time.
JoPa sold his home to his wife for a dollar about four months ago. He said it was for tax reasons but lawyers say it was to try to cover his assets.
I no longer believe that this whole thing blew up the week after JoePa got the record for most wins in college football is a coincidence.