The entire football staff needs to go, NOW.
That says they all knew what was happening.
That was, like, thirteen minutes ago? Or are things still screwed up from the clocks changing?
Kick him to the curb. He stayed well past his “best by” date and now he’s going out with the weekly trash.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer serial homosexual child-rapist enabler.
What a tool...
What a sad end to such an illustrious career, well maybe not as illustrious now as we thought.
The real sad thing is that predator was allowed to damage all those young children. The Bible has some very strong words about those who would harm those little ones.
Something about them being better off to have a millstone around their neck and tossed into the water. I think that applies to abortionists too.
Good. I’m sorry, but he was an enabler in all of this.
I’m just heart-sick for the victims.
This is some good news. Paterno should be ashamed.
I tend to agree with a commentator that I heard today who suggested firing and prosecuting the entire staff plus bulldozing the locker rooms where it happened.
Further, I see no reason on earth why so called institutions of higher learning need to maintain professional sports teams at all.
JoePa: your legacy is as an enabler of serial child rape. Was it worth it? For you and the children? You sanctimonious POS...go straight to hell.
Sandusky's victims (and they are yours also) spent enough time in hell.
I think Paterno was more than just an enabler.
He needs to be banned from the campus.
I am saddened by this whole mess. I am equally disgusted by the fact that anyone, particularly those involved in mentoring children in athletics, has taken advantage of that position of trust by mollesting them. There is a special corner in hell reserved for the quilty party(s).
A man who has devoted his life to building young men and a storied football program should have done more. When first allerted, he should have kept the grad asst. in his office and immediately called the police to come out and speak to him, then, only after calling the authorities should he have called the University President. I’m confident that, given the same circumstances again, he would have handled it differently. However - that and a buck will buy you a soda. Nothing can undo the damage that has been inflicted upon innocent children. That much is unfortunate.
I, being a huge college football fan and former player, am sad that JoePa needs to go out in this manner. 46 years at Penn State - where he and his wife have given virtually every penny they have ever earned back to the university (donating over $4mil and then raising $14 mil to build the Paterno library) and built a legacy that will forever be unmatched. His commitment to his “Grand Experiment” allowed Penn State players to always excel in their studies while being formidable on the field of play. He wrote the book on melding athletics and academics. For that to be torn apart makes me sad for JoePa. It is a sad day for those children involved, it is a sad day for college football, but it is also a sad day for Joe and Sue Paterno. I join them in feeling a sense of loss.
The whole thing is really weird. I tried to think what the ordinary normal person would do when he saw what was happening.
I think they would have ran up to him yelling to stop and ask him what the heck he was doing. They I would take the kid and try to protect him while we got into touch with his parents.
Then I would have phoned the cops. Then maybe paterno too.
I read somewhere that Urban Meyer bought a house 4 miles from the Penn State campus several days ago. If that’s true the firing was in the works. I have a feeling they gave him a chance to resign and he didn’t take it. He wanted to finish the year.
bump