Posted on 03/10/2013 8:32:44 PM PDT by Colofornian
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State trustee Paul Suhey admits relieving Joe Paterno of his head coaching duties in November 2011 over a late-night phone call was not the right tact.
Stephanie Deviney, another trustee, is certain the whole board feels that way.
“We apologize, we screwed it up as far as how we delivered the message,” Suhey said Friday in an interview. “Our decision, we’re not going to go back on. But we messed that up big time.
“People are still so hurt by that, and you know, damn it, we screwed it up.”
The Paterno decision will go down in the annals as the trigger of when Penn State alumni and diehard fans turned against the board, and the anger has not relented. They email the trustees, write letters — even call them out in advertisements in this newspaper.
But, four trustees, in an interview with the Centre Daily Times’ editorial board, said they are committed to turning the corner, opening up and building on the progress the university has already seen in responding in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal. The trustees — Suhey, Deviney, board Chairman Keith Masser and Paul Silvis — said they hope the university community will meet them in the middle as part of moving forward.
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The trustees say they did not fire Paterno, thought they stood behind it as the right decision given the details of the presentment.
“We retired him three weeks early,” Suhey said...
(Excerpt) Read more at centredaily.com ...
Hmmm, questing how a child predator could have feasted upon Children for Decades, with multiple people knowing he was a scumbag is being a “hateful sheep”. But Alumni like you, who will say/do anything to point the finger away from JoePa, are what exactly? Holy Warriors of truth?
Your mindless bullsh*t is the same type of thing that allowed Sandusky freedom to sexually abuse minors for all those years.
If a child being assaulted was reported to you, how long would you wait to report the alleged perp to police or confront the POS face to face? I'll bet you are as gutless as the PSU administrators.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Victim-2-Jerry-Sandusky-Child-Sex-Abuse-Penn-State-135250088.html
This is the verbatim account of Victim 2 from the Grand Jury presentment
Child molester apologist!
Which the Sandusky Jury did not accept in its entirety as they acquitted him of the most serious charge in the presentment.
Or are you just willfully ignorant of that???
And are you now accusing Paterno of having something to do with Victim #6???
Your false accusations and name-calling never ends, does it???
Was Sandusky exonerated? Yes or no? Is child endangerment a 3rd class felony, Yes or no?
are you now accusing Paterno of having something to do with Victim #6???
I have no idea how much Paterno knew. I know that he failed to report immediately to police an incident of child endangerment/sexual abuse that was reported to him. That is shameful, dishonorable and disgusting.
Good luck with your Joefan nonsense, his reputation will never return, particularly with idiotic Joegroupies around such as yourself.........going through life foolish and stupid must be no fun.
Do you have a mini-Joe statue of him at home that you pray to? Do you enjoy making a fool of yourself? Do you have an old chart showing he was the winningest coach ever?
Maybe instead you ought to have the pictures of all the kids that Sandusky molested under his watch.
Buh-Bye.
A 3rd class felony is not a 1st class or even a 2nd class felony either -- is it???
And while other Victims showed up to testify against Sandusky, Victim #2 did not.
If the 2001 incident is all the jury had in the Sandusky case, there might never have been a conviction.
What McCreary said he saw was far less than the exaggerated Grand Jury presentment and the wild accusations thrown around about this case. And the jury recognized it and ruled accordingly.
But please don't let those facts get in the way of your bombastic lynch mob accusations.
Was Sandusky exonerated, yes or no? A class 3 felony isn’t a misdemeanor is it?
That was not his place to do that. That was McCreary's place. He was the eye witness -- not Paterno. If McCreary believed what he saw was serious then he would have called the police or atleast broken up what was going on -- but he didn't because he obviously didn't find it serious enough.
And the police that McCreary would have called would have been the police that had jurisdiction over the incident -- the Penn State University Police Department, whose head he met with anyway a few days later.
That is shameful, dishonorable and disgusting.
Paterno arranges for McCreary to tell what he saw to the Athletic Director and the 2nd in charge of the University who heads the Penn State University Police Department -- and that is "shameful, dishonorable, and disgusting" to you. What world do you live in???
By April of 2012, per Business Insider in an article where they labeled the Penn State cover-up THE BIGGEST PR disaster of 2012, the campus had hired "Edelman and La Torre for crisis management in April 2012. The school pledged to spend $208,000 a month for 12 months on PR support, but the damage was done." Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-pr-disasters-of-2012-2012-11?op=1#ixzz2NEwFqxfE
If Penn State has been spending $208,000 a month for a year now just on EXTRA PR expenses...it wouldn't surprise me if that funding includes some unleashing of Internet "jopologists" who are out there attempting to counter those who are still highlighting the vastly negative side of
And even if those paid trolls aren't yet on FR, it wouldn't surprise me the least that some of the jopologists with their rAPOLOGIES we hear from are soaking up some of their ammo from Penn State's war chest "PR" people.
The hell it wasn't. Paterno should have called the police immediately and confronted Sandusky. Paterno admitted he should have done more. The whole administration and authority figures were gutless, dishonorable and disgusting, just as are their defenders.
Was Sandusky acquitted of the most serious charge against him for Victim #2??? yes or no???
Was that acquittal 1 of only 3 acquittals out of 48 charges against him??? yes or no???
Was that acquittal the most serious of the 3 acquittals??? yes or no???
Was that the only acquittal out of the 10 class 1 felonies that he faced??? yes or no???
I rest my case.
I think this is the general problem. Everybody is a scumbag except for MY scumbag.
It’s the problem with Congress, for sure. As for Penn State, the fact that they are still playing football today is an act of corporate shamelessness.
When USF committed far, far, far less egregious improprieties in their basketball program, their president folded their team.
The Japanese asked McArthur if the US would protect Japan if she renounced her armed forces, because Japan could no longer be trusted with an army.
Penn State? They played the entire year like they were the victim. They should have renounces all NCAA sports and started over again. The money clouded everyone’s judgement to the point that the old man was beyond reproach.
Now board members are getting crap for firing this guy early.
“Look what we had to overcome last year.”
You know what I haven’t heard ONCE since the story broke?
“How can we ensure that this never, ever happens again in Happy Valley? How can we, from the Governor on down to the guy swabbing out the stalls in the bathroom, get together to ensure no other boy is raped at a state school.”
Penn State’s not the only one. Auburn should have been handed the death penalty for buying their QB the year they won. Ohio State should have been handed the death penalty too, but they got an upgrade at coach instead.
OSU had the temerity to argue that they should have been ranked regardless of the bowl ban, since they had an undefeated season.
You hand that kind of money to the NCAA and you let Penn State get away with what they did, and I promise that something worse will happen and they’ll get away with that too.
It’s stinks to the highest heaven. It was an open secret that Sandusky was raping boys. Paterno was the only guy in Happy Valley with the clout to call for an investigation, and he didn’t.
It was all about the bucks. Without the NCAA, there is no Penn State.
No -- McCreary should have if what he saw was serious??? But he didn't.
He told his father that night but his father didn't call the police. And then he told the family doctor and he didn't call the police. Neither of them saw it as that serious enough to call the police.
Why the double standard???
Paterno admitted he should have done more.
Sure -- with the benefit of hindsight you should have done more too, but we don't get those benefits in this life.
The whole administration and authority figures were gutless, dishonorable and disgusting, just as are their defenders.
Ohhh my -- and their defenders too. So then only their accusers are honorable. Is that what you think??? Are you exemplifying some kind of honor by launching accusations but those you are accusing are not allowed the right to defend themselves.
Have you read your Constitution lately or what history tells us about what happens when people engage in diatribes like that.
Was Sandusky exonerated, yes or no? A class 3 felony isn’t a misdemeanor is it? The POS is rightly confined to prison and all of those who allowed him to sexually molest children for years and their dishonorable defenders should join him.
Yes, you are in essence, enablers for the next pervert.
Why the double standard???
Double standard? Don't we always expect the highest standards from authority figures? Paterno wasn't a run of the mill PSU employee, was he?
Paterno's salary tops $1 million
May 29, 2009 4:21 pm
By Bill Schackner / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno topped $1 million in salary last year, making him the highest salaried employee at the university, according to data the school will file under the state's new Open Records Law.
Mr. Paterno's salary for the period ending in June 30, 2008 was $1,037,322, the university said today.
The disclosure is the fullest accounting yet of the earnings of one of America's most widely known athletic coaches, though the amount would not include any outside funding that coaches typically receive. It does include a head coach's bonus and any other bonuses he might receive, as well as compensation from the university for television and radio appearances.
His pay was the highest among the 32 employees and officers whose pay is required to be submitted to the state by today. This is the first time the stat'e public flagship university has released salaries because it has traditionally been exempt from filing a federal disclosure and from state open records laws.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/breaking/paternos-salary-tops-1-million-343740/#ixzz2NN3lZjcr
Put the shovel down, you're burying yourself.
It was not the Victim #2 class 3 felony charges that got Sandusky his 85 years, nor the class 3 felony charges against the other victims either.
It was 9 class 1 felony charges against the other victims that did it.
Are you calling Joe Paterno a pervert???
Why are you so incredibly stupid?
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