Posted on 01/22/2012 7:34:30 AM PST by Perdogg
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
Thank you for that post—well said
Joe Paterno may have died of lung cancer, but in reality, he died of a broken heart.
I agree, it is so very sad.
And, RIP JoePa.
“Joe Paterno may have died of lung cancer, but in reality, he died of a broken heart.
I agree, it is so very sad.”
I think if none of the Sandusky stuff had happened...Joe would have been coaching the 2012 season. Football kept him going day to day...
Sad news. This is going to go down as one of the strangest stories I’ve ever seen. I suspect it will be decades (if ever) before all of the facts surrounding Paterno’s tenure at Penn State are known.
Yeah, and I never heard about anyone in M.Jackson's inner circle reporting anything they had to have witnessed at Neverland. People even stood outside MJ's trial and released white doves for every not guilty charge. Where was the outrage when he admitted on TV that he slept with little boys? Didn't see it. Didn't exist. We were all supposed to assume that Michael's actions were totally innocent. But BTW, Joe Paterno is accused of complicity as if he committed the molestations himself.
This is starting to remind me of the coverage of the Gabby Giffords shooting.
First she was dead, then she was alive, then she was dead, then she was feeling much better, then she was dead, then she wasn't even at the shopping center, then she was dead, then she....
No wonder nobody trusts Big News.
This is coming from his family so he’s dead. Last night a local Penn State student newspaper reported his death and bigger media repeated it.
JoePa was not a witness
He knew about it, he didn’t do anything about it. Don’t try to justify Paterno’s inaction because you don’t think Michael Jackson got hit hard enough.
He was just a football coach.
I truly feel that Paterno and everyone else involved chose football, money and legacy over the well being of children.
They made a political statement with another Penn State Coach, Rene Portland. They fired her because she would not allow gays on her team.
Did CBS SPorts Confirm his death yet??
I can only assume Mr. Paterno was quite wealthy, and able to hire a private detective to get real evidence against the creep. In his position as a very successful head coach, he was surely used to being on top of details that might affect his team, disciplining bad behaving players, etc. This matter was so potentially destructive, he needed to take charge personally, and solve it.
With evidence against the creep, Paterno could have told him privately, “You’ve got two choices: turn yourself in, or do yourself in. And if you choose the latter, may I suggest you make it look like an accident.”
The problem is that you don't have all the facts. We do know that he reported the incident to the university officials, his bosses. This must have been a difficult decision given Paterno's relationship with Sandusky and his family for over 50 years. Sandusky played for Paterno at Penn State, starting at defensive end from 1963 to 1965. And he worked for Paterno from 1969-99.
Paterno has admitted he could have done more, but this sanctimonious crap about what he could have done in this instance is 20-20 hindsight. He DID report the incident and relied on the university to follow through.
The universtity officials were fired and so was Paterno. But the good Paterno did in his life far outweigh this lapse in judgment and perhaps, misplaced loyalty or lack of courage to go after someone you have been so close to over half a century. I blame Sandusky for his actions, not Paterno for not pursuing it more vigorously.
HOW did Peterno keep Sandusky around, even after all of this broke? He did so because they all felt that the "organization" was more important than anything else.
The entire situation is just vile, and it is the kind of thing a person goes to hell for.
You have a good, graceful post.
We have some hard hearted freepers who don’t understand the futility of hearsay testimony. As I read the mean comments on this thread I wonder why they are so angry at the wrong man. Perhaps they are closet liberals and don’t know it.
He reported it to his superiors after getting a second-hand report on the incident.
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