[FlJoePa]

"Overall, the man was a giant, and the people yapping at his heels were moral dwarves. They didn’t just dislike him, they resented falling into his shadow. "

Ouch...

[humblegunner]

Bull.
He knew and did nothing.

Pervert enabler, at a minimum.

[Vaquero]

You keep trying here at FR but no dice. He KNEW. He did NOT want to make waves and young boys were RAPED to protect the perverted alums

[Mase]

Paterno’s name is destroyed forever. There can be no rehabilitation. Condoning child sexual abuse, or looking the other way because it's the easy thing to do, will end up defining who you are...no matter how many football games you won.

[Oliviaforever]

Paterno holds many NCAA records, many of which we will never know, and give others nightmares for the rest of their lives.

But Penn State can be proud of Joe for having the most wins for a coach who is blind and mute.

[Reno89519]

Paterno can rot in hell. No excuse can undo the evil he knew about and allowed.

[MuttTheHoople]

It was too bad that Barry Switzer and Jackie Sherrill left college football to the Joe Paterno’s and Jerry Sandusky’s of the world.

[IronJack]

He has no “good name” to restore, and frankly, I couldn’t care less if he was erased from history altogether. He’s just a stupid football coach, for cripes’ sake! And a pretty chickensh_t one at that.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Overall, the man was a giant, and the people yapping at his heels were moral dwarves.

Yeah, except for all that child rape stuff.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Paterno, like us all, was a fallen man. I met him. Seemed cold, but he was a NYer. I didn’t like his style of football. I think time passed him by as far as strategy.

Having said that, he did a world of good in the lives of players - many of whom were poor, fatherless, etc. The vast majority graduated. He ran a tight ship. He did what was legally required.

I do not believe he knew what Sandusky was doing. I had a former football player at PSU tell me that Sandusky was everyone’s favorite coach. He was likable and personable. No one believed it.

Those who assume and rush to judgment without facts would not like the same treatment themselves.

[Kirkwood]

I believe the sanction was scheduled to be lifted in 2015 when it was imposed. So no change in course here. The sanction was supposed to be punitive in nature in order to punish the school administration for stonewalling and covering up the truth. However the sanction wasn’t intended to last forever. So the NCAA did what they said they would do.

[goodwithagun]

Have they found the DA that went missing and was declared dead? You know, the one who investigated this in 1998 and never pursued charges? The guy whose hard drive was missing from his laptop in his abandoned car? Any body yet?

[RinaseaofDs]

This thread should have a vomit alert.