Posted on 11/09/2011 7:30:27 PM PST by Colofornian
Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier (SPAN-yer) amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.
But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.
One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn't go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower...
(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...
It was his MO. He used the practice to his advantage. Hence, his MO.
That is absolutely what should be done. I think they need to eliminate the football program for an extended period of time. I am so ashamed to have been a PSU fan. And to think, I thought I had hit my lowest point as a football fan when the Eagles signed Mike Vick.
What the heck is he going to say? Sue Me?
This will affect every single college and university. College football will never be the same.
WRONG.
The NC-Athletic-Association will do NOTHING.
PSU is on the verge of meltdown. The football program means nothing compared to the damage to the University itself.
Kirk Herbstreet says: “This is not about NCAA violations. This is off the Richter scale.”
>>The Westboro protesters have announced they will be there @ the game.<<
Useful idiots and Karma...strange bedfellows, indeed
Excellent points and good to hear. Unfortunately, I believe that if this were taking place at Ohio State, the scene would be a mirror image (or worse) of Penn State. The administration, athletic department and fans are just horrendous here. It's the football program and everything else be damned in Columbus.
This is unchartered territory, the greatest sports scandal, ever. And it involved a program that was held up as a model program.
Dime to donuts PSU will be kicked out of the B1G TEN.
I would love to rally Big Ten, Big East, etc., schools to come there to support the innocent and help them over these horrible times.
From the viewpoint of a trustee, you first fire the persons in the cross hairs to limit liability and culpability back to yourself.
By firing Paterno, they limit an investigative path to themselves.
If downtown State College isn't a smoking ruin by the weekend...
Absolutely. We shall see what happens.
If this has been going on since 1998, and the DA passed up on it, and another DA was murdered, than someone has been protecting Sandusky for a long, long time.
Every freshman on that team can transfer. I have a feeling a lot of them will. And this hurts a team. It happened to Tenn when Kiffin left.
They probably will need to take a year off from football....assuming all the players are released to go to other programs....and a whole new coaching staff brought in, there is no way they’ll be ready by next season....think of it like the Marshall program after the plane crash. It will take time to bring in a whole new batch of recruits, and for them to be competitive. They’ll probably lose to teams like Temple, 49-0 for the first year or two.
The asst coach/grad student and the janitors have to explain why they didn’t stop the crime in the act. They saw it.
It may be easy for someone who has never been in that situation to know how we would act. Worrying about your job and consequences.
I would have looked for a blunt instrument in the locker room to use as a weapon.
No one will want a PSU degree for a long time.
I doubt that. A thorough investigation to determine the enablers will commence. The top has been decided. The program will never be what it once was in our lifetimes. This is a terrible event.
The internet reaction to this going back five days now is simply uninformed reactionaries piling on top of uninformed reactionaries.
How can you have a “sports scandal” that involves zero current players?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.