Paterno is a scapegoat for the PSU Administration who should have been responsible for Sandusky. It is ridiculous to say that an 80 year old football coach is responsible for the HR of a major state university. As much as the university milked Paterno for all the fame and money he brought to the school, its crazy to say that he should not have been supported with an administration team to make sure that everything off the field was managed properly.
There are lots of examples of football coaches, even very popular ones having failings in other areas. And besides he was one year from an announced retirement.
Bullcrap. He supposedly knew every damn detail about that program. He had more power than the school administrators. He turned a blind eye to his pervert assistant.
No respect for the old fool. not taking action on that one thing ruins everything else he did. Disgusting to support him.
This has nothing to do with HR. This was a criminal matter, and he could have called the police at any time.
This is the biggest pant load of whitewash I ever read about Ped State.
FlStJoePa?
...except that the 80 year old football coach was Joe Patern who made it pretty clear to the University president that he wasn’t leaving any way except feet-first and 2 successive attempts to get him to retire failed. No. Joe was the 800 lb gorilla at PSU, not just the athetic dept or the football program.
The deference shown to Joe is what caused the non-supervision of the football program and it’s hangers on, like Jerry Sandusky.
“It is ridiculous to say that an 80 year old football coach is responsible for the HR of a major state university.”
Thanks for bringing insight and clarity to the Parerno issue, it is news to everyone that Paterno was an 80 year old football coach for 40 years.
It’s too bad that we didn’t get to see Joe in prison jammies. That would have been perfect.
He wasn’t 80 the whole time. This goes back to the 70s. And Paterno hired him, and outlasted multiple administrations. He either knew or he was stupid, either way honoring him is sickening.
This isn’t about a “failing”, this is about allowing HUNDREDS of children to be RAPED under HIS VERY NOSE. They should put a urinal on his grave.