Posted on 01/30/2012 5:00:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Poppycock.
Paterno made his own choices. The consequences he suffered were as a result of his own actions.
sorry pal, my sympathy is in teh children who were molested under his watch.
Thank you for having the guts to post this.
Save your concern and sympathy for the young boys that were molested.
I'm confused. Didn't he already have terminal cancer?
I missed this. I didn't know that Paterno had even seen a child in the locker room, let alone one who was being abused.
ML/NJ
Sorry - I can’t work up so much as a single sniffle. Sports figures get away with almost anything, and this is another case of something being swept under the rug getting discovered. So it came back to bite him. Who cares? He made a fortune as head coach, and he, as part of his duties, should have kept an eye on his employees. Screw him.
National icon my foot. I’m 59 years old and before all this hubbub about him facilitating child molestation, I didn’t know who Joe Paterno was.
The fact that an aging Paterno wasn’t really able to comprehend the whole matter will not convince some of his lack of blame. Some people will insist that he should have been able to understand such despicable behavior, and they will never accept that some among us come from an era where such repulsive activities were utterly inconceivable.
The premise is right, that a man of that era simply has no understanding of today's culture of homosexuality and so on. That, however, is an indictment and not a defense of Paterno.
I totally agree with this article. They killed JoePa and they are still in charge??? SHAME on them and the press!
Similar thoughts.
The press have been relentless in their condemnation and pursuit of Paterno. They are something much less than relentless in examining the NAMBLA-like aspects of this case. Sandusky’s crimes have been described as everything from molestation to rape to a ‘sex scandal’ (ugh) but the PC code of the press means that the most glaring aspect of the case has been ignored (at worst) or simply recounted in matter-of-fact terms (at best).
Most Townhhall articles are pretty reasonable, this one isn’t. I don’t see much likelihood that something like that cold have been going on for years and Paterno not have known about it and the school had no options but to get rid of him. For that matter I’d anticipate the football program being shut down for at least the next several years, if nothing else they’re not going to be able to get serious players for a while.
“They they they”
Go home little kid, your mommy’s calling you.
The death of an 85 year old man with terminal cancer was "premature"?
It’s a very confusing and stunning episode - that we’ll now think of Paterno totally differently than we have all assumed we would think of him for the past several decades.
On one extreme are those who think he’s just as guilty as Sandusky - and on the other are those who want to saint him.
I have no doubt that he really could not process what McQueary was telling him. I am sure that whole scene was totally foreign to him. And yet, rumors are that Sandusky’s proclivities were an open secret in State College. (I cannot deny or verify this).
So -The truth is probably something along the lines of the fact that he held onto a job longer than he should have for a number of reasons - and that part of this motivation for keeping quiet was to protect Penn State football - which is a very poor reason.
I feel for the victims of Sandusky, and for the family of Paterno.
The Board of Trustees of Penn State University gave Joe Paterno lung cancer?
Wow! They really ARE all-powerful...
The single most damning moment for Paterno was when he held court a few days after the allegations surfaced and helpfully explained that the Board of Trustees had better things to do than look at the issue.
That was a blatant display of his de facto power, and the board could not let it stand. I don’t think Paterno was evil, and I have come to believe he was more of an addled figurehead than any sort of conniving dictator. But the board did the right thing for the university in the long run. Did they do the right thing for Paterno? Well, that really shouldn’t have been their concern. Everyone thought what was good for Joe was good for PSU and vice versa, but this situation changed all of that.
Ping.
JoePa’s body was riddled with cancer. His days were numbered. That’s what took his life. Not the public. Not the press. Not the university officials. May he RIP.
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.