You are seriously, desperately trying to concoct this ‘conspiracy of Joe Paterno’ with dramatic broad brushes of speculation and desperate reaching.
It MAY have gone down like that, but at this point we have very little evidence that it DID go down like that. I will concede that Paterno should have followed up after the 2002 incident, but you act as if that because Paterno didn’t move heaven and earth to impale Sandusky on a spike in the public square that old Joe was the hub of some deep dark conspiracy.
Joe was a moral coward. No one disputes that. After the bar he set, he had every right to get booted out on his butt. But the willful conspiracy thing? You need to look at Curley, Schultz, Spanier, Waddell, the DA, the police, and possibly many many others and focus your outrage there. Until I hear and see more evidence, the Great Joe Paterno Deep Dark Pedophile Conspiracy is a bunch of delusion on people’s mind.
You all need to get your eyes of Paterno and start focusing on this very possible sex ring that Mark Madden was talking about. The obsessive fixation on Paterno is not going to help bring even one of the possible perps to justice.
We are. We just keep getting redirected to Joe by posters like you that keep posting pathetic BS about Joe. Joe knew. Move on.
What would you have done?
I predicted that there was a sex ring before I had even heard about Mark. I predicted 11/7 that Paterno would not coach another game. I predicted 11/7 that Spanier would be out ASAP. I have posted and maintained a list of those that 'knew'. I am sure that I must have posted it to you. I will repost it to you just to make sure.
People we know that knew Sandusky raped little boys.
President Spanier
AD Curley
VP Schultz
PSU Attorney Wendell Courtney
Second Mile Attorney Wendell Courtney
University Police (Detective Ronald Schreffler)
State College Police (Detective Ralph Ralston)
Department of Welfare (Investigator Jerry Lauro)
Child Services
County DA Gricar
County Prosecutors
Coach McQueary
Coach Paterno
Various elementary and high school officials
John DiNunzio (Keystone Central School District Interim Superintendent)
Second Mile officials
Joe Paterno’s staff including down to the janitors
Still to be determined:
Media
NCAA Coaches (Nobody wanted him when he retired)
Board of Trustees
If Joe was not so fixated on himself we would not be so fixated on Joe. Joe's response to all this has been PATHETIC. His mind just don't work right.
The obsessive fixation on Paterno is not an obsessive fixation at all, but rather an appropriate reaction to those on these boards who actually have the chutzpah to claim that Paterno is merely a scapegoat or victim. Young boys got raped. That should be the concern - not that Paterno was wrongly fired.