“Say it isn’t so, Joe.”
Paterno was told about a severe locker room incident by a grad assistant and Paterno then took the initiative and reported it further up and met with the Athletic Director. I don’t think Paterno was the problem. He was probably expecting a Sandusky arrest when the investigation was complete.
I want to know why the ‘grad student’ Mike McQuerry (yes, you cannot make this stuff up) after walking in, unnoticed to the PSU shower room, why he did NOT IMMEDIATELY intervene! McQ is a former football player and was in his mid 20s (w/Sandusky in his 50s) when the incident occurred.
Why didn’t McQueery physically strike Sandusky? Why did McQ ‘tiptoe’ away and speak with his own father before going forward alerting anyone? Did this ‘discretion’ on the part of McQ lead to his meteoric rise in the PSU coaching staff? Could it be quid pro quo or blackmail?
Anyone who saw the live press conference last night can figure that out. The board spokesman with the dildo-shaped forehead was so evasive with repeated questions as to how Joe Paterno was informed of the decision that it was downright sickening.
My guess is they gave him a telephone call about 10 minutes before the press conference started. Graham Spanier, on the other hand, had a professionally printed statement to distribute to the press moments after the press conference ended.
Joe Paterno gave the board a really easy out earlier that morning when he announced he would be retiring at the end of the football season, just three more games. They could have accepted his retirement just as graciously but were too determined to take the heat off Graham Spanier and the culture of political correctness which he so carefully built at Penn State.
Nobody give a sh*t about Graham Spanier. By displaying Joe Paterno's scalp at their press conference, they essentially endorsed the very culture and cover-up which led to this scandal in the first place.