Not just Paterno, but Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, Bill Parcells, Tom Landry, Bill Belichick, the list goes on and on. It's almost homoerotic the way these coaches are obsessed over by other men. I find it more than a little creepy. Football is just a game. Get a grip people.
I don’t worship any person, dead or alive. I detest the media and what they have done to an honorable man’s reputation and legacy.
For that, you can accuse me of whatever whenever, but it won’t make me stop getting the truth out. You can stand w/ louis freeh and his scam report. I’ll stand with Sue and Jay.
Sorry.
Amen.
I’m curious as to how you arrived at terming this the “Penn State sex candal” instead of...
* The Jerry Sandusky sex scandal
* The Second Mile sex scandal
* The Central Mountain HS sex scandal
* The PA state/local child agencies sex scandal
See, I don’t think you read what Jay had to say, yet you commented on it with your whatever it was.
The truth will come out.
The scandal should not even be about Joe Paterno or the Penn State Football program. They both played a very minor role in the scandal, sort of like the Quick Mart in the Ferguson, Missouri riots.
Paterno did what he was supposed to do by the book and report the reports about Sandusky to his superiors. He also refused to let Sandusky continue in his position as an assistant coach. Enough other teams in the conference knew enough about Sandusky that he was unemployable.
Sure, JoePa should've gone to the media and done more. He even expressed that regret in the final three months or so between when the SHTF and he passed away.
But the real focus of the scandal should've been the gay friendly atmosphere which PSU President Graham Spainer, his wife and others carefully constructed over the years.
These scandals and the cover-up were a direct result of that construction by Paterno's superiors. It would've been nice if Paterno had blown the whistle early and loud while the gay friendly atmosphere was being constructed.
It might have blown the whole thing up or it might have resulted in Paterno being dealt a similar fate as the founder/inventor of Firefox Mozilla. We don't know.
We do know that Spainer was informed of his termination the morning of the news conference and had the time to prepare a carefully worded statement for the press which "sort of" took responsibility but mostly took the focus off the gay friendly atmosphere he had build at PSU.
We also know that Paterno was informed of his termination about 10 minutes before the meeting/media event begin and had no such opportunity.
He could have been given the same opportunity as Spainer or even been terminated the following day but was not. Which begs the obvious reason why.
The only logical explanation is that sometime later in the day, it was decided by the PSU trustees that the focus could NOT be on PSU's gay friendly atmosphere. And the only way to assure that the topic wasn't even discussed was to blow it off the front pages with Paterno's termination.