Posted on 08/06/2014 7:34:38 AM PDT by FlJoePa
IN HINDSIGHT, Joe Paterno wrote, the day after he got fired with a phone call, he wished he had done more. He had not committed a crime, he had not witnessed a crime, he had reported what sounded like a crime to his superiors.
The haters jumped all over that sentence, like it was some kind of a confession that the legendary Penn State football coach had somehow enabled Jerry Sandusky to sexually abuse those kids, while he looked the other way.
The haters spent a lot less time debating the note he scribbled on a pad before going to the hospital, where he died, the note that said, "Maybe the silver lining in this is that some good can come of this."
Jay Paterno says those are the words people should focus on. Says it in his new book, "Paterno Legacy."
It is an honor-thy-father book, describing JoePa's values, his work ethic, his philosophy that you could have big-time football success with honor. It's got some inside-football in it, some humor in it, some hard truths.
The publisher would set deadlines for certain chapters and Jay turned them in ahead of schedule. The publisher blinked in disbelief because writers who turn in manuscripts ahead of schedule are unicorn-rare.
"I told them," Jay said yesterday, "that that is the way I was raised. As a son, as a player, as a coach. Get to a meeting 10 minutes early."
JoePa would have been proud of that. And happy that the portrait Jay paints includes some warts. You could fill two shelves with articles and books about JoePa, that read like nominations for sainthood.
"He would say all the time," Jay recalled, "I wish I was half as good as they make me out to be."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Hmmm. I am confused about my role in this. Speak up and send the child molester to prison or keep quiet and allow more children to be molested.
...the week before he died, Paterno was interviewed, and when directly asked why he didn’t take a more active role in this, his response was that Sandusky didn’t report to him any more, and he didn’t want to insert himself and screw things up...
...yes this is lame, and this is, as I’ve repeatedly said, is the basis for my feeling that Paterno laid aside his honor at a time it really meant something...but the administration was more responsible for pedophile enabling than Paterno...
“1998 was fully investigated and no charges were filed.”
Yep. The commander of the PSU police station shut it down. time to moveon.org
“...but the administration was more responsible for pedophile enabling than Paterno...”
Possible, but JP was part of it all.
I remember seeing JP (informal interview) speak. His first words were to the effect that we don’t know that JS may be guilty.
WTF! JP knew at least in 1998 the JS was a child molester.
1998 was investigated by the state police, local police, and campus police. It was Gricar’s call to not prosecute.
You aren’t real good with facts.
WTF! JP knew at least in 1998 the JS was a child molester.
...we don’t know that for sure...let’s just say he’d heard rumors, and may have had suspicions...
“Gricar”
Yep. Gricar too his secrets to the grave with him.
“...we don’t know that for sure...let’s just say he’d heard rumors, and may have had suspicions...”
Let’s use common sense. He knew.
Let’s use common sense. He knew.
...yes, common sense would indicate that...I think when McQueary came to him, his suspicions were confirmed, and was a crushing time for him...McQueary described him as distraught, slumping and sighing in dismay, consistent with someone who desperately wants something to be untrue, and knowing that his worst fears are being realized...
I've already given the proof and the consequences of what happens when someone IS LYING......so give it up. Your anal retentive fixation on Paterno's perceived guilt is quite disturbing and not worth discussing any more.........
“I’ve already given the proof and the consequences of what happens when someone IS LYING......so give it up. Your anal retentive fixation on Paterno’s perceived guilt is quite disturbing and not worth discussing any more.........”
So, if a neighbor saw someone molesting your daughter you would not want to know since the consequences of his possibly lying are worse than the molestation?
“Your anal retentive fixation on Paterno’s perceived guilt is quite disturbing and not worth discussing any more”
Great choice of words since JP enabled child predator that favored boys.
Your anal retentive fixation on Paterno’s perceived guilt is quite disturbing
...that’s odd...I don’t find his posting on this thread anal rententive in the least...he is simply responding to the OP’s challenges...
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