You know, I was thinking about this the other day, and I realized I can’t remember how it was that it all got revealed. I remember the day the story broke, because I remember hubby telling me in the car to find ESPN radio or something so we could hear about what was going on.
But what WAS going on? What brought on these revelations? For the life of me I can’t remember.
I don’t know if what you say about posters here is accurate, but it does seem that the major result of the “scadale” was to cause poor Joe Paterno to end his illustrious life in disgrace. It does almost seem like whatever happens to Sandusky is an afterthought.
That is so wrong and creepy. It just sums up this whole thing so well, so wrong and creepy.
Paterno was more popular than Sandusky so there were more people who wanted to excuse him from responsibility. If Sandusky was ‘the winningest coach evah’ then there would have been more vigorous defense of him from the start. Since he’s a football hasbeen, he has fewer defenders. Similar to the way that Michael Jackson fans insist all accusations MUST be false because he was the ‘king of pop’.
Whatever "positives" Paterno brought to the Penn State campus, they pale in comparison to THE serial rapist cover-up negatives that he and his fellow Penn State paycheckers wielded to protect their campus idol...the glorious football program and its reputation.
Paterno was more popular than Sandusky so there were more people who wanted to excuse him from responsibility. [Ransomnote, post #10]
Yes...and this also addresses Skeeter's comment on #4...
A LOT of the discussions went further in depth because so many JoPologists came out of the woodwork.