.....well, I’m confused, your post (last sentence) states something to the effect there is a pending trial. Is that not true?
I’m having a hard time understanding exactly what position you are taking.
Do you support the Paterno family or the school or somewhere in between?
My view is that Paterno seemingly came to believe he screwed up by not having done more to stop Sandusky. Doesn’t that pretty well amount to THE END (of story) as far as Joe Paterno’s role is concerned?
On a percentage basis, what do you think the schools degree of fault in the whole affair was? What do you think the degree of fault of Paterno’s is?
I don’t know. You seem to know a lot of facts so I would be interested in your opinion.
Here is basically what I know (not all of it) as posted on another thread asking me why I hate the ncaa - which I do btw.
I hold the ncaa way down the list of culprits here. Way below the PA OAG, PSU’s own b.o.t/administration, freeh, and his fairy tales, ambulance chasing atty’s w/ “memory repression experts”, and many others are probably above them.
I think we’ll find that the PSU b.o.t. themselves crafted the Consent Decree because that’s they way they do things. Frazier (ceo Merck), Peetz (ceo BNY Mellon), and Surma (former ceo US Steel) basically took over the University.
Tommy Corbett jumped in and got Spanier as his prize. Surma wanted Joe. (google Vic Surma Jr.) sometime. Peetz and Frazier went along and then went into corporate defense mode (which Frazier perfected after killing thousands with Vioxx).
They had to stand behind their decisions, so they commissioned freeh, thinking it would justify their decision making. All that worked until people started actually reading the report.
I think it will also come about that the PA OAG used freeh’s flawed report to file charges against Spanier, which I would assume is a big no no. There is a very active Spanier vs. Freeh defamation lawsuit going forward. There are also rumored federal investigations into the second mile as well as the PA OAG.
It’s a mess that if I hadn’t followed it as closely as I have, and someone tried to tell me all the details, I wouldn’t believe them. They want to make movies about this? It will have to be a trilogy, and we’re not even to halftime yet.