[FlJoePa]

Get ready for another few weeks of Penn State news - as early as this weekend. This interview - which was done a couple of weeks ago - will air on Monday. But things are pointing to us hearing from either Wick Sollers (family attorney) or Paul Kelly (Lettermen attorney) before then.

Time to start to set the record straight. If anyone can handle Katie, it will be Sue.

[laweeks]

Too bad that the JoPa thing was dropped when he died. I just wonder how much his wife knew and didn’t say all those years. I have a feeling that she knew a whole bunch.

[CatherineofAragon]

In what way do you think the record should be set straight?

[ClearCase_guy]

If you took a poll in this country, I bet half the citizenry would tell you that Joe Paterno was a child rapist who is currently serving time in prison.

The media did an excellent job of trashing him. It's what they do best.

[fatnotlazy]

Thanks for the heads up. I will try to watch even though Katie irritates me.

[ConservativeInPA]

I have completely avoided threads about JVP hoping that people would have some sense of justice. But now I will break my silence.

I urge people to investigate Paterno's relationship with Sandusky. Hint: they were not friends, and Joe did not raise any objection to Sandusky's firing. He didn't even defend him. Joe may have had some idea of what was going on, but he did not have first hand information.

Time to put yourselves in that situation and think about what you would really do. Do you take rumor and a lack of charges as your motivation, or do you focus on football and all the problems going on with student-athletes?

The JoePa that I know is old school. He wasn't sophisticated, and that includes football for the last 20 years of his career. But he deserved to go out on his own terms - as much as I disliked seeing PSU lose. Given his lack of sophistication I completely believe that if Joe had hard evidence, saw it with his own eyes evidence, he would have personally cut Sandusky's cock off.

I think JoePa was just wise enough to think the authorities would take care of the problem. The problem was, the authorities didn't - at multiple levels of government.

[dupree]

How many times have you heard people say, “I just don’t want to get involved.”

Is it possible that Paterno was one of these types of people?

I know several people like this. You mention a problem to them and they don’t want to deal with it or they ignore it. There is something in their human nature that makes them like this. They don’t even see the problem. It doesn’t even register. Plus they have the ability to move on to other things as though the problem doesn’t exist. In Paterno’s case you’re dealing with an elderly man who’s got the whole football program on his shoulders. I think he knew Sandusky was a problem, but he was incapable of dealing with it.