[FlJoePa]

Jay's a good person - despite his politics. Not so good of a coach, imo. He and Bill Kenney recently filed a $1 million suit against the University for damage of future earnings.

It really isn't about the money (at least for Jay), rather another attempt to get Freeh and some b.o.t. members on the record under discovery.

[Gaffer]

It really isn't about the money (at least for Jay), ....

Well then. I guess it's safe to say then that he's donating the proceeds to the fund he'll set up for the Sandusky victims, won't he.

[iowamark]

“Jay, I never told you guys about Jerry because I didn’t know if it was true,” he said. “I certainly couldn’t walk into the office and accuse a guy of something that I didn’t witness or know to be true. I didn’t know that he’d done all of that stuff. I had no idea. I just didn’t know.”

Joe Paterno made the statement: “In hindsight I wish I had done more.”

What a horrible indictment of Joe Paterno! And in his own words.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Thanks for posting. Good man smeared.

[I cannot think of a name]

Something that has always bothered me about this (and in the interest of full disclosure I should mention that I am not a football fan and barely new who Paterno was).

A cop hears that his partner is dirty. He reports it. What is he told to do next? Act naturally, don't change anything about your routine, don't do anything to cause your partner to be suspicious. If you do, he may being destroying evidence and impeding the investigation.

Now from what I have read of this, the minute Paterno heard about this, he reported it. If he had confronted Sandusky himself, and Sandusky began intimidating witnesses and destroying evidence, would the same people now condemning Paterno for doing nothing now be condemning him for sticking his nose into where it didn't belong?

[bluedogpdx]

I’ve been kind of a big college football fan for a long time so I know at least a little bit about Joe Paterno and what he did for Penn State and all of the young men who played for him. And I would have to say that the Joe Paterno legacy maybe far and aweigh the classiest record in all of college football. But all that came crashing down with the Jerry Sandusky revelations.

And, I think as part of Coach Paterno’s and Penn State’s “punishment” was to have some of their wins vacated and I hope at some point this is reversed