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The judge's ruling on Friday hasn't garnered national news yet? Gee, I even posted it here yesterday and it didn't get ONE reply. I can't understand why. The ncaa is as screwed as Katy Perry was last night.

What a nice eulogy for a man who looked the other way when one of his employees got caught buggering young boys.

I met Coach Paterno in 1989. He was a true gentleman - soft-spoken, humble and engaging. May God bless him.

I just Googled and found some stories on the ruling:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ncaa-penn-state-fail-to-get-lawsuit-over-fine-tossed/

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/10/04/judge-refuses-ncaa-penn-state-bid-to-toss-suit-over-60-million-fine-in-sandusky/

http://triblive.com/mobile/6910936-96/ncaa-decree-consent

There are some others.

Where were you all yesterday? Taking a day off? Penn Stater's don't take days off.

yesterday's yet to be discussed discussion

The irony of your campaign to "rehabilitate" the reputation of your deceased hero ball coach is that people eventually will forget about Paterno's role in enabling the pedophile Jerry Sandusky to operate at Penn State for a number of years.

But for some reason, you are insisting upon keeping the question of Paterno's involvement alive and inflaming passions, when otherwise it would slowly fade from people's memory. Much like how Ted Williams is mostly remembered today as a great ballplayer when years ago, he was more known for being a jerk with the media and having his head cryogenically frozen.

All this obsession for a ball coach. I'll never understand it. I like sports as much as the next guy but I'm not collecting baseball cards, wearing jerseys and seeking out autographs. I leave that for the 12-year-old boys.

Joe Paterno was a ball coach. He conducted practices, recruited high school boys and put a competitive ball team on the field for one of the larger universities in the Northeast. He also looked the other way when one of his staffers was serially molesting those boys, taking showers with them and engaging in disgusting sex acts with them. Maybe Paterno didn't think it was any of his business. Or more likely, maybe he didn't want to tarnish the reputation of his employer, and his "legacy."

Anyway, he made his choices and he had to live with them during his remaining days. Just like the Catholic church, when they made the mistake of trying to sweep their issue of pedophile priests under the rug. They made a bad decision and they took their lumps and moved on. Now the Catholic church is mostly back to normal and their churches are crowded once again.

Just like the stands of Penn State will be crowded once again for the Saturday ball games. People are going to forget and move on. So let it go. Just let it go.

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