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Posted on 11/10/2011 6:39:53 AM PST by Colofornian
Joe Paterno was fired last night and rightfully so. In less than a week, Paterno went from being one of the most revered coaches to ever lead a football team, to being a man in the middle of one the most disgusting scandals that’s ever taken place in college football.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, you know that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, founder of the Second Mile Children’s foundation, was accused of sexually abusing eight minors, including over 40 different charges from 1994-2009.
Despite his tremendous accomplishments at Penn State, Paterno deserved to be fired. He should not have been given the luxury of retirement, the way Sandusky, himself was allowed to in 1999. He was rightfully fired and disgraced. This is not a man who should be remembered for 409 wins. This is not a man who should be remembered for 2 National championships. This is a man who should be remembered by the fact that he had the opportunity to put a child rapist in jail and instead, chose to try and protect the Penn State name.
In 2002, then Graduate Assistant, Mike McQueary testified in front of a grand jury that he witnessed Jerry Sandusky engaging in sexual acts with a 10-year old boy in the Penn State showers. He did not call the police. He did not try to stop Sandusky. He shut the door and called his father. This a 28-year old grown man. His father suggested that they sit down with Paterno the next day, and they did.
Paterno told him he’d take care of it. He called Athletic Director Tim Curley and thought that was enough. Curley informed Gary Schultz the Senior Vice-President Of Finance but they did nothing. This wasn’t a university issue. This wasn’t two adults engaging in these acts on school property. This was the rape of a child. Four men had the chance to do something about it, and did nothing.
In 1998 Sandusky was accused of sexual abuse of a child, but it was thrown out. In 1999, Sandusky retired at the age of 55. He was always rumored to be the successor for Paterno at Penn State University. He was a great defensive coordinator. But he was never even rumored to take another job in football. What I find even more troubling is the fact that McQuery walked in on this in 2002, when he was a graduate assistant.
In 2003, he was now a full-time coach. Ray Gricar, the district attorney who didn’t file charges against Sandusky, subsequently went missing in 2005, and was declared legally dead in 2011, less than a year before he planned to retire and all his files and evidence would have been turned over to the incoming DA. His computer was found in a river with the hard drive removed. The hard drive was recovered a little further up the river and was completely destroyed. Now I have no evidence at all that any of this is linked to the Sandusky scandal, but it just seems a little more of cover up than the coaches just being negligent to me.
This has nothing to do with football. This has everything to do with the morals of men. Three men had the chance to stop this and they didn’t. In fact they enabled it. Sandusky was allowed to keep an office, even in retirement, at the Penn State Athletic Facilities. He was able to run his charity to prey on the innocence of his victims for the next seven years. Seven years of the sexual abuse of little kids who needed help and thought this man was giving it to them. Seven years could have been erased.
Mike McQuery, Joe Paterno, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley should all be held accountable for every one of Sandusky’s discretions over those seven years. They should all be in jail. But they won’t. Everyone in the program from top to bottom should be fired.
The program itself should be given the NCAA’s Death penalty. But let’s face it. Students didn’t have lunch with a professional football player. They didn’t trade clothing, rings and autographs for tattoos or take a couple bucks to live on, so we all know the NCAA won’t step in.
Here is a link to the Grand Jury Report. Read it if you dare. I must warn those who haven’t read it, it’s extremely sickening.
Silence IS a cover-up. You don’t have to “prove” the negative (the silence). The silence itself is the cover of darkness. You can see the light through the darkness — and there was no light within the Penn State staff who knew what went on.
In this way, then, as this rolled along...at some point at least, it involved into a conspiracy of silence. I don't know if that was the intent from the beginning. We don't have enough info on that. But at some point, it evolved into that. The conspiracy WAS the darkness; and they would let no light to emit on the matter.
From the article: Ray Gricar, the district attorney who didn’t file charges against Sandusky, subsequently went missing in 2005, and was declared legally dead in 2011, less than a year before he planned to retire and all his files and evidence would have been turned over to the incoming DA. His computer was found in a river with the hard drive removed. The hard drive was recovered a little further up the river and was completely destroyed. Now I have no evidence at all that any of this is linked to the Sandusky scandal, but it just seems a little more of cover up than the coaches just being negligent to me. This has nothing to do with football. This has everything to do with the morals of men. Three men had the chance to stop this and they didn’t. In fact they enabled it. Sandusky was allowed to keep an office, even in retirement, at the Penn State Athletic Facilities. He was able to run his charity to prey on the innocence of his victims for the next seven years. Seven years of the sexual abuse of little kids who needed help and thought this man was giving it to them. Seven years could have been erased. Mike McQuery, Joe Paterno, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley should all be held accountable for every one of Sandusky’s discretions over those seven years. They should all be in jail. But they won’t. Everyone in the program from top to bottom should be fired. The program itself should be given the NCAA’s Death penalty.
I don't know if Paterno should eventually be in jail, but indeed, clean house!
They work hard to tap dance around the fact this was a homosexual problem.
Bingo!
The 800 pound gorilla sits in the room laughing, and nobody wants to talk about it. If he'd only chosen boys 6-7 years older, Ellen Degenerate and every other fag apologist scumbag would be on TV defending him.
actually, if you look at the Catholic Church sex scandals, about 80% of the abused were boys from ages 12 to 17.
I’ve never heard of a hetero-sexual man interested in males.
“They work hard to tap dance around the fact this was a homosexual problem.”
Don’t forget Mrs. Sandusky.
Far more important ~ really important ~ last thing those crowd want to do is engage in criticism of homosexual behavior. Why, odds are good on this, most of them indulge in it themselves from time to time.
What does he mean "one of the most disgusting?".....This pales all other scandals by a magnitude of a thousand.
Speaking about living under a rock ... I understand that Paterno reported the problem some ... long .. time back.
Paterno wasn't living under a rock ... his superiors were.
Paterno isn't the bad guy here.
The pig was raping kinds in the PUBLIC SHOWER for 15 years and nobody caught him? That is not credible. There should be an investigation into whether there was a conspiracy to protect the perverted bastard. Because obviously there was.
He finds out that child rape is happening in HIS SHOWERS and you think it is sufficient to report it to his boss and that’s the end of it?
I would have grabbed the bastard by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the pants and tossed home out the front door and told him if he ever came back the entire foot ball team would make him sorry he did.
Anything less makes Peterno as much of a sleaze bag as the rapist.
And it’s taking everything I have not to fling an insult at you for sticking up for the sick bastards.
And leave him free to abuse others? Naw, the only solution would have been putting a bullet in his brain pan right then and there....worry about the ramifications later.
Let’s make a clean sweep of it and get rid of Barney Frank!
Paterno isn't the bad guy here.
He's one of them. Think about it. You hear about molestation taking place in your place of business. Abuse perpetrated by a guy you know well. You call your superiors and nothing happens. This guy is still allowed in your place of business. You wouldn't have your middle line backers run him out the door, permanantly?
I'm horribly disappointed in Joe Pa. The man's a father and a grandfather - how could he have done so little? I'll never look at him the same way again.
Joe Paterno IS Penn State! If he called the authorities in Central PA with a tip, I am sure it would be taken seriously. I am certain he was on a first name basis with EVERY power broker and important law enforcement officer in the State of PA.
This is disgusting and my opinion of Mr. Paterno is forever destroyed.
Shame on him! Shame on the AD And SHAME of all shames on Penn State.
DISGUSTING!
Listening to Fox this morning they referred to it as a “sex scandal”. No sex was going on in that shower. Childrens souls were being destroyed.
It is offensive to trivialize it by calling it a sex scandal.
So here i am reading the grand jury report and i’m only on page 7 and i already want to throw up.
What a sicko sandusky is.
Paterno is just as sick.
Mike McQueary actions bother me the most he is a big man and did nothing to stop a rape that he is witnessing instead of even calling the police he calls his dad. The next day instead of calling the police he goes to Joe's house to tell him what he saw. I know if this was me I would have laid out Sandusky just in the heat of anger and maybe have even killed him in rage.
Yes, like they did with Illiois, got them to give up the Chief as a mascot! Where is the NCAA in all of this scandal????
He was caught plenty of times, read the entire transcript here: http://deadspin.com/5856777/a-guide-to-the-sexual-child-abuse-charges-against-jerry-sandusky-and-to-penn-states-alleged-willful-ignorance
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