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Meaning... After Joe gave millions for the new library and was now changing his will!!!! We better reconsider this. Not to mention the decrease in alumni contributions..

I have a problem with tom Corbitt, former in house legal counsel for Waste Management Inc., and head of the prosecuting team as PA attorney general(per his own words he started this investigation and called the grand jury as AG), spearheading Joe’s firing as a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees as Pa Gov. ... conflict of interest there???

You simply can't believe anything to come out of Penn State any longer.

Rodney Erickson, the new President of Penn State, says he only learned of the Sandusky investigation in November. Yet the Harrisburg paper ran the story of the investigation back in March 2011. And then-President Graham Spanier briefed the PSU Board of Trustees.

It's all getting sticky. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who was the Attorney General who began the Sandusky investigation, took gubernatorial campaign donations from the board members of The Second Mile while he had the Sanduksy grand jury impaneled. And he let Bob Poole, the Chairman of the Board of The Second Mile, host a fund-raiser for him, while the grand jury was impaneled.

Poole has admitted that he knew a grand jury was then investigating Sandusky.

Poole Anderson (his company) is paid $25 million a year by Penn State for work on its construction projects. Poole Anderson was also the construction manager for the $11.5 million "Center for Excellence," a Second Mile project. Corbett approved a $3 million state grant for it after getting elected. Then the state grant was put on hold after the indictments.

Now, The Second Mile is selling the property.

Where did The Second Mile get the 60+ -acre property for its Center for Excellence? It bought the property from Penn State for $168,000. In 2002.

I've said it before. There is no family tree in Happy Valley. It's a wreath.

Joe was given a death sentence.

When he was canned, I wrote that Joe probably wouldn't live for another year. Sadly, it seems like this is coming true.

Yesterday, from CBS Sports, we get this: JoePa back in hospital over cancer complications

Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno is back in the hospital. His family says he was admitted Friday for observation due to minor complications from cancer treatments, his family said.
In a statement released to the Associated Press, his family said that the 85-year-old Paterno continues to undergo a "regimen of treatments" after being diagnosed two months ago with what they have termed a treatable form of lung cancer.
The family hoped his latest stay would be brief. He most recently was in the hospital last month after re-breaking his pelvis following a fall at home. That stay also allowed Paterno to continue taking his cancer treatments, which have included radiation and chemotherapy.

Finally, I agree with Joe Paterno's statement that, "The first priority in this crisis is to serve the best interests of the victims ... everyone involved is entitled to due process."

Thanks for posting this article. Everyone was duped, and it was intentional. No one (not even JoePa nor his kids) gave us the impression that this wasn't a firing. No one said out loud that he was only suspended. I especially liked this portion of the article at the end:

I wonder how Jerry Sandusky’s victims – especially the post-2002 victims – feel knowing that instead of termination, Paterno simply received a four game suspension.

Nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

They used a band-aid when they needed stitches.

This is why Penn State University needs to be completely gutted. Not just the school president and the athletic department. Garban, Surma, every board member and any other person at Penn State with any sort of power needs to go. While publicly they are trying to paint a picture of change and remorse, internally all they are doing is trying save their own asses while protecting people like Paterno.

In other words, the Board has been playing both sides. They don’t care about the victims of child rape. They just want to make everyone happy.

Especially Paterno.

In reality, all they are really doing is showing the world how the hell Penn State let this tragedy happen in the first place.