Posted on 11/09/2011 10:31:05 PM PST by tcrlaf
I know. Sorry for the kneejerk reaction re boilermakers.
The V.P. is a finance position and only over saw the police the same way a mayor over sees the police. Financial only. The V.P. never reported this incident to campus police or local police as the law says he should have.
Penn State doesn’t operate in a vacuum. As a member of the Big Ten, whatever happens there impacts every other football team in the Big Ten and really every team in the NCAA. College football is all about money - HUGE money. Not only money garnered on Saturdays in the fall, but licensed merchandise sold every day of the year. Also corporate sponsorship and broadcast rights.
There’s absolutely no way PSU will suspend this football season, or the next, or ever.
Also suspending the season hurts the current players, who had nothing to do with this sordid matter. It would affect their scholarships and also future pro prospects.
No way. PSU is a gold mine to the Big Ten and to all of the NCAA. PSU and other big football programs make it possible for the little guys, like UConn to HAVE a football program. College football is all about money.
Yeah, the creativity was quite lacking.
There were the usual stadium chants, like “We Are...Penn State,” seven nations army, zombie nation, etc. There were also chants in support of Paterno, like “Joe. Pa. Joe Pa. Joe Pa.” and “Joe can’t go.”
But when the students wanted to criticize someone, it was either
“F*** Sandusky”
“F*** the Media”
“F*** Curley”
“F*** Spanier”
“F*** the Trustees”
and worst
“F*** the police”
"Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly said Monday the university's failure to report the alleged incidents to police or child-protection officials likely led to further victimization of young boys for several years. Paterno's legal requirement was that he notify his superior, but on Monday Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan suggested there was a "moral responsibility" for the coach to make sure police were contacted."
"Here's the timeline that counts:
Welcome.
” Everyone who protected this pedophile should be hung alongside him.”
Yeah.....in a perfect world. Most will get a slap on the wrist.
You left out Paterno reported it the VP in charge of campus security at the same time he reported it to the AD....
...and you left out that another official charge was brought against Sandusky in 1998 for ‘inappropriate’ behavior towards minors...charge was later dropped by Centre County DA Gricar, who has since dissappeared without a trace...one would have to believe that a control freak like Paterno would have no idea that such a charge,along with subsequent police activity, with reportage in the local media, against his own beloved assisstant coach who was still on the staff at this time, had ever taken place, in order to believe that he did the right thing with McQueary’s information in 2002...the possibility that Sandusky was a pervert was there in 1998, just before he was turned down as the next HC (do you think, maybe had something to do with the original charges), and so in 2002 when McQueary drops his bombshell, don’t you think a more vigorous reaction than ‘we’ll sleep on for a night, then kick it up the flagpole’ was in order?...
...if you don not believe that, please explain...
You left out Paterno reported it the VP in charge of campus security at the same time he reported it to the AD....
...and you left out that another official charge was brought against Sandusky in 1998 for ‘inappropriate’ behavior towards minors...charge was later dropped by Centre County DA Gricar, who has since dissappeared without a trace...one would have to believe that a control freak like Paterno would have no idea that such a charge,along with subsequent police activity, with reportage in the local media, against his own beloved assisstant coach who was still on the staff at this time, had ever taken place, in order to believe that he did the right thing with McQueary’s information in 2002...the possibility that Sandusky was a pervert was there in 1998, just before he was turned down as the next HC (do you think, maybe had something to do with the original charges), and so in 2002 when McQueary drops his bombshell, don’t you think a more vigorous reaction than ‘we’ll sleep on for a night, then kick it up the flagpole’ was in order?...
...if you don not believe that, please explain...
...apparently I feel so strongly about this, I felt it necessary to post my comment twice...
Your post is right.
The only thing I would add is that Paterno and Sandusky supposedly did not have a good relationship with each other.
I don't think they will forfeit the last two road games...but this rioting gives them a reason to forfeit this Saturday's game.
They can just claim security concerns.
God tends to eventually take away things and people that become rivals to Him.
Did you read the Grand Jury report?
Bingo...
Besides, Paterno's legal testimony before the Grand Jury coupled with NCAA bylaws 2.4 on ethics was enough for the trustees to dump Paterno.
We will all be stunned (stuned) by who all knew about Sandusky’s predilections and chose not to act.
If they drop Penn State, how would they explain keeping Indiana U. all these years? Kinsey facilitiated child rape and abuse via studies [see Tables 31-34 of his studies] & the university, in turn, enshrined him.
Why has a Paterno "investigation" become the mantra of too many posters?
Silence IS a cover-up. You don’t have to “prove” the negative (the silence). The silence itself is the cover of darkness. You can see the light through the darkness — and there was no light within the Penn State staff who knew what went on.
In this way, then, as this rolled along...at some point at least, it involved into a conspiracy of silence. I don't know if that was the intent from the beginning. We don't have enough info on that. But at some point, it evolved into that. The conspiracy WAS the darkness; and they would let no light to emit on the matter.
Paterno is condemned more for what he didn't do over the long run vs. what he did do in the short run. (Otherwise, there would be charges pending vs. him, too!)
Paterno waited even 24 hours to report the crime to his superiors. Yet the 24-hour wait pales in comparison to the near-decade long silence of McQueary and his direct supervisor, Joe Paterno. And by "silence" I mean ANYBODY off-campus who would do any good in getting Sandusky off the campuses for good.
So what is their chant?
My, My, Hey Hey
The pedophile enabler has got to stay
????
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