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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #30 on: November 10, 2011, 10:52:52 AM »
The students are Rioting.
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« Reply #31 on: November 10, 2011, 11:15:55 AM »
The students are Rioting.


Still trying to figure that one out...
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2011, 11:18:40 AM »
Completely agree, but it almost sounds like he got strong armed by Paterno and The President.  I mean, you report it to the gods of Penn State, they say they'll take care of it.  It's gotta be hard to go over the top of the president and a legendary football coach.  Gotta do it though.  Shame he didn't make the right decision.

Yeah, but he was 28 years old, so he's well into "manhood".  I'm guessing he was never outside the college atmosphere though, and it made it harder to go over the President and Coach.

I think he'll live with that regret until the day he dies.
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2011, 11:27:56 AM »
I'm not sure if you're an idiot or just a terrible person  :headscratch:  

It doesn't take much digging to see what the deal is here. Everyone who is trying to defend this scumbag as 'just following protocol by informing his superiors' is a moron. The only reason he did that instead of going to the police is to pass the buck and allow it to be swept under the rug. It's just sickening ;\

Just to re-iterate - they covered up multiple child molestation cases to protect a college football program



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It is a sad deal no doubt, but firing Joe Paterno was not the right call, imo.             
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2011, 11:47:04 AM »
Everyone in the line, from the grad student who witnessed the assault through the university president that got the info 3rd hand, should have done one simple thing. Call the Police. The Police investigate criminal activity, not the head coach, not the university department heads and not the university president. Each and every one of those folks who did NOT call the police bears a portion of the guilt for every assault that happened past the one the first witness saw. All it takes to enable a pedophile is to do nothing and that is exactly what those folks did. Why anyone thinks merely passing the info up through the college chain is an adequate response is doing nothing to stop the crime.

I haven't seen anything where paterno took any supervisory action against or with his own subordinate in response to being directly notified that his subordinate was seeing committing a child rape. That simple bit of inaction speaks volumes.  :mad:
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #35 on: November 10, 2011, 12:01:44 PM »
Neither.  I'm actually a very good person and a rather level headed individual.  I simply do not jump to conclusions and I certainly do not jump on bandwagons (not keen on the mob mentality) since as I've already said, we dont know the entire story and we never will.  Reading someone's testimony does not make for a guilty verdict, I remind you.  

It is a sad deal no doubt, but firing Joe Paterno was not the right call, imo.            

So what part of JoePa seeing Sandusky still around campus for years, exercising emeritus status, and still having young boys in tow while going in and out of the locker room after one of his staffers has already reported abuse to him once, is following due procedure?

This is normal behavior?

I hope that, for the sake of these boys (or men now) that he did none of the things they say he did and that it is all made up.  I really do.

I also understand playing Devil's advocate, but not Devil's idiot...

JoePa did not report anything to the police, did not follow through with what he reported to see if the allegations were true or not and didn't think twice as to why Sandusky was still allowed to roam freely upon campus.

Most normal folks would actively pursue the status of an investigation of this type.

Especially if it pertains to their #2 guy.

In this case, doing nothing was just as bad as intentionally covering it up.

That goes for all involved.
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #36 on: November 10, 2011, 12:32:28 PM »
It is a sad deal no doubt, but firing Joe Paterno was not the right call, imo.             

At least you've cleared up my earlier confusion :aok
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« Reply #37 on: November 10, 2011, 12:45:26 PM »
What a sickening 23 pages.
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #38 on: November 10, 2011, 12:59:53 PM »
didn't read the entire thread.....but I just hear sandusky may have been pimping boys to big time school contributors.

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« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2011, 01:02:34 PM »
didn't read the entire thread.....but I just hear sandusky may have been pimping boys to big time school contributors.

Where did you hear that? If it's true (which is impossible to tell at this time) this thing is way bigger than anyone first though. I hate to speculate at this time, though.
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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #40 on: November 10, 2011, 01:13:33 PM »
I have a quite a few peers in the media indy..the talk is all over..but nobody is willing to break it yet..still digging I think.  who knows..things are changing by the minutes.

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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #41 on: November 10, 2011, 01:39:01 PM »
The more that comes out the worse it looks..


Why did Sandusky retire in 1999?  He was only 55...

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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #42 on: November 10, 2011, 02:32:44 PM »
The more that comes out the worse it looks..


Why did Sandusky retire in 1999?  He was only 55...

He wanted to commit more time to his neverland ranch, err, childrens foundation.

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« Reply #43 on: November 10, 2011, 02:53:22 PM »
He wanted to commit more time to his neverland ranch, err, children's foundation.

I guess so....  If Penn state forced him to retire knowing he had a "Problem', but then still gives him privileged access to facilities there's going to be an "S" storm flying around. 

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Re: Joe Paterno
« Reply #44 on: November 10, 2011, 03:02:54 PM »
soda, the Presentment mentioned something about a better benefit package if he retired then. I think what you mentioned could be very true, though. They knew he had a problem and forced him to resign. That's my opinion anyway.
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