If PedState had a shred of integrity, they would have shut the thing down and reevaluated the role that NCAA sports has at the school.
If PedState had a shred of integrity, they would have shut the thing down and reevaluated the role that NCAA sports has at the school.
...no, the football program was only peripherally involved, the major culprits were the president, the nominal head of the campus police force,and the athletic director...and they only to the extent that they knew of Jerry’s proclivities, and decided to let that knowledge ride, so long as Jerry did his business somewhere else...which, as we all now know, he did with gusto at a high school some distance from PSU...evidence of actual events at PSU is quite limited, and at any rate Jerry’s foundation bore the brunt of responsibility for his sociopathology moreso than the university...
...in hindsight, we all now see that the PSU administrators erred in keeping the matter in house, but clearly they thought it would never blow up the way it did, and thus made their erroneous calculus...as for Joe Paterno, who had input into the matter and went along with the decision, we must remember that he was a football coach not a sociologist, and he left the matter to those he believed would better handle it...and again in hindsight we see the fallacy in that...
...in the end, the proper sanctions to the football program seem to have worked out...the original sanctions were too harsh, and the reductions were warranted...it would appear that the more ardent PSU fans feel that the characterization of Paterno’s involvement in the Freeh report crossed a line into defamation, that he colluded, with malice, in a cover-up designed to hide criminal activity...I acknowledge their frustration with that, and don’t believe malicious intent entered into any decision that was made, by anybody...but it is clear that poor judgement was employed, as they knew, after McQueary, they had a repeat molester (with emeritus stature) that they were responsible for bringing to the program...