Posted on 11/09/2011 7:25:38 AM PST by Zakeet
UPDATE - Nov. 9: The Associated Press is reporting that Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season.
As the amount of alleged victims in the Jerry Sandusky case climbs rapidly, reports are emerging that Penn State head coach Joe Paterno's coaching career will soon come to an end. Official support for Paterno is reportedly "eroding," even as Nittany Lion fans rally in support of the longtime coach.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Paterno's 46 years as Nittany Lion head coach "will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks." According to two sources familiar with top administrative discussions who spoke to the Times, talks to determine "how to manage his departure have begun."
"The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s exit," the Times writes, "but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious brand will not survive to coach another season."
(Excerpt) Read more at eye-on-college-football.blogs.cbssports.com ...
That said, why the hell can't any "journalist" write a story using correct English?????
As the amount of alleged victims
NUMBER!!!
The NUMBER of victims!!!
Every day I see mistakes like this coming out of oh-so-brilliant college graduates. Every generation gets more and more ignorant. Thanks, teachers!
Yep. And left a serial rapist pedophile to roam the streets. Spanier and the people who were supposed to do something did nothing. There better be jail time. Real jail, not country club jail.
“Gay agenda is not the same as Pedophilia....with prepubecents, no less.”
YES, IT IS...
And that has been well documented on FR, over the years.
They will spend whatever money they need to hire lawyers and buy judges, in order to prevent discovery.
See the glacial pace at which the Duke Lacrosse Frame civil suits are proceeding.
No, but it’s still interesting. And telling.
That SOB is going to stay for the whole season? Unreal. Just goes to show how powerful he is. He’s the most powerful person at the school,,,more powerful than the school president, more powerful than the trustees. Can you imagine a televised Penn State game with him on the sideline? The cameras would be focused on him for the entire game.
They BOTH should go.
Paterno should get no breaks just because of the racist double standard in play on the affirmative action Holder.
If they had put half the effort in to PROTECTING CHILDREN, as they had in to Protecting the University....
Just heard on ESPN that players who were going to play for Penn have changed their minds and will play for some other school because of this.
“players who were going to play for Penn have changed their minds”
If you are a top-ten recuit with a potential NFL future, would you want to be forever associated with “Pedophile State”?
“..based on a fuzzy report from an undergraduate assistant..”
What? Have you read the grand jury discovery report? Fuzzy? A 60 year old man in the shower with a 10 year old boy?
McQuery is a coward to be sure, but he saw sexual conduct and then called his daddy. He didn’t do squat to stop the conduct. Paterno and everyone involved with this had not only a legal duty, but a moral duty to make sure that nothing like that happened again. Fuzzy? Really?
“Just heard on ESPN that players who were going to play for Penn have changed their minds and will play for some other school because of this.”
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Well now that is REALLY bad news for the sainted PROGRAM.
Child anal rape-no big deal.
But losing players- a real bummer.
Football uber alles. It just keeps getting worse.
Yes it is. Sexual deviancy is deviancy.
I'll also hasten to add, as an old fogie, that I hate how the sodomites have taken the perfectly fine word, "gay", and corrupted it to fit their vile agenda. In a few weeks, when we start singing "Deck the Halls", there will be the usual snicker at the lyrics ("gay apparel"). It didn't used to be that way back in my childhood of the 40's.
I want my country back AND I want my word back.
Apparently you would have done the same as Joe. Allow a known boy rapist access to your shower rooms. Thanks.
He’ll be gone before Saturday.
Now, if it turns out he knew a lot sooner or had received other accusations, then I'd be more inclined to agree with you.
But Head Coaches are usually deaf and dumb to the misdeeds of players and coaches - by design. There is normally a point man in most of these structures who's unofficial job is to take care of all the player indiscretions that happen when you are dealing with 18-21 year olds who are away from mommy and daddy for the first time (and a lot of them don't have "daddy" around to begin with).
If the Head Coach doesn't know about it, he's held less accountable and the program goes on - by design.
So I can fully believe that Paterno didn't know or didn't get all the details. Or he may have confronted Sandusky at some point and had to decide which guy was telling the truth - his longtime coach or a kid who might have misunderstood, etc.
That's what is so insidious about pedophilia. The perps often are well-respected people who know that if they are accused, they'll place their reputation against the accuser and ask "who would you believe?" I wouldn't doubt in the least that Paterno would "believe" Sandusky's denials. In retrospect, it's a huge mistake but, at the time, totally believable.
As Head Coach, you take public responsibility for a lot of things but you also have trusted lieutenants to make nasty problems go away and - in many football structures - the Head Coach isn't even told about it.
Then you toss in the fact that you're talking about a 70-year-old football coach who probably is more CEO than coach at that point and the whole scenario seems completely believable to me.
Again, the lynch mob shouldn't be aimed at Paterno. That's like blaming 9-11 on the guy who runs Logan Airport.
At the very least, Paterno should have made sure that Sandusky stopped holding football camps at PSU facilities (he was still doing that as of at least 2007).
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