Posted on 07/23/2012 8:24:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
College sports' governing body today suspended Penn State's football team from postseason bowl play for four years and fined the university $60 million for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The team also must vacate all wins from 1998 through 2011.
"The career record of former head football coach Joe Paterno will reflect these vacated records," the NCAA said in a statement. "Penn State must also reduce 10 initial and 20 total scholarships each year for a four-year period. In addition, the NCAA reserves the right to impose additional sanctions on involved individuals at the conclusion of any criminal proceedings."
The fines are to be paid into an endowment for non-university programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims, the NCAA said.
"The NCAA recognizes that student-athletes are not responsible for these events and worked to minimize the impact of its sanctions on current and incoming football student-athletes," the statement said. "Any entering or returning student-athlete will be allowed to immediately transfer and compete at another school. Further, any football student-athletes who remain at the university may retain their scholarships, regardless of whether they compete on the team."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I imagine around 1998, Paterno learned about Sandusky, they made an agreement that Sandusky would “retire”, in exchange for PSU sweeping what happened under the carpet....they figured that from there the problem would just go away.
But Sandusky didn’t go away, he flaunted his leverage knowing that the Administration wouldn’t dare do anything to him, lest their image be blown to smithereens. That’s why he was still allowed to access the campus facilities. Call it a case of “Mutually Assured Destruction.” And the longer it went on, the worse it got, and the worse it would be once the news came up, as most cover-ups go, things just snowballed from there.
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IT’S HIGH TIME L/E NAILS EX-PS PRES SPANIER FOR PROTECTING SANDUSKY’S WELL-KNOWN NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES NBC news reported Emails uncovered by investigators suggest Spanier colluded with PS’s former Senior VP for Finance and Business, saying it would be “humane” to Sandusky to NOT alert authorities, NBC news reported.
COMMENTS Even left-leaning college administrators are starting to have second thoughts about the excesses of “gay-friendly” atmospheres on campus........these pedophile-havens have held numerous “homo-sensitivity training” sessions on campus......(read indoctrination).
Penn State prez Graham Spanier-—is a “human sexuality scholar.” How this guy got to be a college prez with that degree is amazing. SPANIER actually held what he called a “C***fest” on campus and installed a special tent just to indoctrinate WRT homo sex practices.
Spanier is out as PS prez-—but he and his wife are still on the PS payroll as tenured profs. Spanier also advocated wife-swapping——could be the reason why M/M Spanier are still getting paychecks-—they must have some hair-raising stories to tell WRT group sex play on the PS campus.
SPANIER CONTROLLED MILLIONS IN STATE AND FEDERAL EDUCATION GRANTS L/E needs to determine the extent of PS’s federal, state and local govt grants which emanate from an assortment of govt entities.....that might have covertly subsidized pedophile activities.
Besides the DOE, grants could have been issued by the EPA and DOJ for various campus projects——including monies private Foundations from a variety of private charitable organizations AND funding from more traditional sources, such as corporate and private foundations. Checkout PS donors available from the Capital Research Center, a non-profit which studies advocacy groups.
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SOURCE: deadspin.COM
The majority of attention given to today’s Freeh Report has centered on figuring out Joe Paterno’s role in allowing Jerry Sandusky to go unstopped. But the most actively nefarious character—other than Sandusky himself—in the commission’s story is former university president Graham Spanier. Even before today’s news, experts had suggested that Spanier’s actions could be brought before a grand jury. Here are ten of the more reprehensible plot points from the Freeh Report, many of which support the notion that he could face criminal charges:
<><> Testifying to the 2001 grand jury he was unaware of the 1998 investigation against Sandusky, even though emails from 1998 show him discussing the investigation with athletic director Tim Curley and university vice president Gary Schultz.
<><> Repeating this claim to the Special Investigative Counsel, and stating he “never heard a report from anyone” that Sandusky was abusing children.
<><> Failing to notify the Board of Trustees that an investigation of a prominent assistant football coach was underway, withholding this information from them even while the board was considering (and approving) a favorable land deal between the university and Sandusky’s Second Mile charity.
<><>Approving and pushing for Sandusky’s emeritus rank—and the facility access privileges that came along with it— despite Sandusky not qualifying for it by the established academic rules.
<><>Declaring Curley’s plan to suggest Sandusky stop hanging around children, without actual sanctions, to be “a humane approach” rather than contacting outside authorities to investigate suspected abuse.
<><>Telling the Special Investigative Counsel his first knowledge of the 1998 incident came at the April 2011 grand jury appearance, when notes from his Attorney General interview a month prior reveal he was questioned about it then.
<><> Approving an unprecedented $168,000 lump-sum retirement payment to Sandusky in 1999.
<><> Showing no interest in identifying the child involved in the 2001 incident or ascertaining whether or not a crime had occurred.
<><> Opposing any and all independent investigations into Sandusky’s behavior.
<><> Modifying the November 2011 Board of Trustees statement without their knowledge or approval, asserting that Curley and Schultz requested administrative leave rather than that the board had actually decided to place them on leave.
10 posted on Fri Jul 20 2012 08:43:08 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) by Liz
I think that pretty well says it —
"IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,...
you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling, "If."
“The best indication of future behaviour is past behaviour.”
Yes, but one single incident is not necessarily representative of past behavior as a whole. That’s cherry-picking.
“After enough reports and enough meetings with enough people, records of the 1998 incident were made, but clearly early on the Chief was trying to keep it off the record. That is what the record shows, isn’t it???”
Ah, so there was a record, just not for that one meeting. So, clearly, one can’t extrapolate that any time these things were reported to the campus police, there would be no record.
Either way, all of that is pretty tangential, since this should have been reported to the real police. You can claim they were all just following the “chain of command”, but taken as a whole, it seems that everyone involved wanted to wash their hands of the affair rather than make sure that Sandusky couldn’t continue to molest children.
There is only one person who had direct access to the Board of Trustees, to whom the Football Coach, the Athletic Director, the Vice President were all answerable, who knew whether the police [campus or real] had been called and whether a report had been filed -- and that was "human sexuality" Graham Spanier, the President of the University.
And of all those that Freeh names in his report, "human sexuality" Graham Spanier was the one who could have cared least about whether or who Sandusky was molesting. And people want to point the finger at Paterno??? Laughable --
“And people want to point the finger at Paterno???”
Of course they do. When you are part of a criminal conspiracy, it doesn’t matter whether you are the top or bottom of the totem pole, whether you are the mastermind or the muscle. You are all equally guilty of all the crimes committed. Every one of those guys knew that Sandusky was a child molester, and they all conspired to keep his crimes a secret. They all knew Sandusky was still walking the streeets, showing up at Penn State events, showing up at the football facilities, and still strutting around with young boys, and they all kept their mouths shut.
Sandusky and Paterno worked closely for 30 years. The other administrators came later, so it stands to reason that of all of them, Joe was closest to Sandusky.
We know from the Freeh report that Spanier was the mastermind of the cover-up. What are the authorities and the university doing about that???
You are all equally guilty of all the crimes committed.
If that is so then why are Spanier and Curley and Schultz still walking around free???
Every one of those guys knew that Sandusky was a child molester
and the one in the most advantageous position to do something about it was Graham Spanier but that would mean exposing his human sexuality cult at the university to investigation.
They all knew Sandusky was still walking the streeets, showing up at Penn State events, showing up at the football facilities, and still strutting around with young boys, and they all kept their mouths shut.
They all know Spanier, the master ennabler himself, is still walking the streeets, showing up at Penn State events, showing up at the football facilities, and still strutting around with university students, and the authorities have still not arrested him.
Wow -- it must be the Football Coach's fault, right???
And yet he still picked up the phone and called the Athletic Director in 2001 to report his longtime friend after the McQuery incident.
Big deal. It was two day's after he was told. Paterno never even tried to find the child or to ensure the child's well being. Paterno called the athletic director to alert him that Sandusky was at it again and there was a witness this time. The emails and notes show that what took place next was a cover-up. Sandusky still had access to the showers after 2001 and was still bringing children to football practices and games. Sandusky raped a child before the Alamo bowl using tickets given to him by Paterno.
I'm not buying that Paterno didn't know what was going on. Several janitors said that they knew what Sandusky was doing in the football team's showers but were afraid of Paterno.
I own apartment buildings. I have rented to people who turned out later to be criminals. I evicted them. If I saw them hanging around the buildings today I would call the police.
Paterno let Sandusky bring children to football practice and games for years after 2001. Sandusky was also convicted of raping boys at Penn. State in 2002 and 2003. There wasn't a third party to witness those attacks so Joe Paterno didn't need to call the A.D. in 2002 and 2003 to try to sweep it under the rug.
I think there are other coaches and players who know what Sandusky was doing as well. I think there are people at the Second Mile who knew as well. Those people are still sticking their heads in the sand.
That's the most bothersome part of it all and that he has never been located.
I think there are other coaches and players who know what Sandusky was doing as well.
It wasn't much of a cover-up, was it??? A lot of people at Happy Valley accepted it, joked about it, made ice cream cones about it,....
I think there are people at the Second Mile who knew as well. Those people are still sticking their heads in the sand.
Supposedly they were notified in 2001 -- and most of the molestations occurred after that and were of Second Mile children.
The longer Penn State and Paterno swept it under the rug, the more leverage Sandusky gained, if they took him down, he knew he could take everyone else with him.
I would dare say it was known all through the college coaching community.....the lack of offers for Sandusky from other universities suggest that throughout the entire coaching fraternity there was knowledge that Sandusky was toxic, although they may not have known the exact reason.
When is Second Mile going to be investigated? I suspect that’s where the real ugliness will be found.
It folded rather quickly. But it did have a longtime president and CEO who should be investigated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Mile
<>I’m not buying that Paterno didn’t know what was going on.<>
The Grand Jury did. It came down to Paterno and McQueary versus Schultz and Curley. The Grand Jury returned indictments against Schultz and Curley for perjury and failing to report the abuse of a child. To the very end these two were insisting that it was reported to them to be only “horseplay”.
And then human sexuality promoter President of PSU Graham Spanier, who had earlier ordered Paterno not to speak to the press, showed what side he had been on from the beginning. “After the charges came to light, former President Graham Spanier issued a statement in which he said Curley and Schultz had his unconditional support, and saying they “operate at the highest levels of honesty.”
What!!! No “unconditional support” for McQueary and Paterno, just the two cronies charged with perjury and failure to report child abuse???
<>Sandusky raped a child before the Alamo bowl using tickets given to him by Paterno.<>
That was 1999. Paterno told the Grand Jury that he had no knowledge of the 1998 incident, which incidentally was reported to law enforcement and fully investigated. If the Grand Jury believed him to be lying, why didn’t they charge him with perjury???
Freeh’s evidence indicting Paterno is an email from the none other than an indicted perjurer who has now lawyered up.Is that the best evidence that Freeh can find???
Finally there is this little tidbit. McQueary said that he reported the 2001 incident to the police. What??? What police??? Gary Schultz was THE POLICE. As Vice President of PSU, he was head of and had oversight over the PSU Police Department.
He had a meeting with Schultz and Curley after reporting it to Paterno. Why would anyone think that once the head of the PSU Police Department knew about the incident that it would get swept under the rug??? Why would anyone think that the head of the PSU Police Department would fail to investigate it from there???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_sex_abuse_scandal
Freeh’s report didn't let anyone off the hook and in his public comments Freeh indicts all of Penn States heirachy and doesn't blame Paterno anymore than the board of directors.
The two things Freeh pins on Paterno is one that he didn't inquire into the well being of the victim and two that Paterno refused to adhere to the Clery Act.
I am not on a grand jury and this isn't a court of law. The burden of evidence in court is a lot greater than it is in my court. O.J. Simpson did not kill his ex-wife so said the court of law. I have stated before that Paterno reported the incident to his superior which was the minimal thing he had to do. Freeh’s report states this but he is also of the opinion that Paterno as a man of his statue and influence could have done a lot more for that child.
I believe that Paterno who coached with Sandusky for thirty years knew a little more about him than he has led us to believe. I also believe McQuery was given a full-time job at Penn State for keeping the shower incident “in house”. It appears that Penn State had a culture of fear as reported by the janitors employed there, created by Paterno.
This isn't over for Penn State or Spanier, Curley or Shultz. They will get their day in court. Paterno is dead and his lack of action is something he took to the grave. Paterno did not go to the police and there was no police report. Paterno went to people he could count on to keep things quiet.
The longer Paterno and Penn State covered up for Sandusky, the more leverage Sandusky had over them, since if they were going to turn him in, he would take them all down with him.
Few people have touched on the fact that this only broke, right after JoePa got win 409 to surpass Eddie Robinson, how long did they sit on this story? Was there some kind of agreement to only break the story once JoePa had the record?
David Newhouse broke the story in March of 2011. The national media ignored the story until a couple of weeks before the indictment was handed down.
David Newhouse broke the story in March of 2011. The national media ignored the story until a couple of weeks before the indictment was handed down.
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