isn’t that exactly the point?
When JoePa wanted to “watch out” for his players, look how far he was willing to go!
He went to Spanier and threatened to pull the plug on his fundraising if he didn’t fire this woman.
Who was running this university?
And now, when the poop hits the fan, JoePa goes for the “I’m just the football coach..” approach?
When JoePa wanted to “watch out” for his players, look how far he was willing to go! He went to Spanier and threatened to pull the plug on his fundraising if he didn’t fire this woman.
Any casual PSU fan knew that Joe Paterno 'handled' player discipline "in-house". Usually the punishment that he handed out was harsher in terms of what you'd expect for similar infractions committed by players at other universities. Over time I would think that the University just deferred to Paterno in all matters involving the players. That doesn't excuse Spanier, the university president, from his obligation to oversee the athletic department.
Like I said in an earlier post -- Paterno is a side-show now. We need to see what the university knew. I suspect that there is a lot more being covered up given Spanier's Gay-friendly initiatives at the university. I may be proven wrong, but I don't want it to go un-investigated. Same goes for Sandusky's "Second-Mile Foundation".
You hit the mark.
This has been the JoePologetic used by Penn Staters ever since this broke. Why who is Joe to launch an investigation? Why Joe is only a coach. Why he has no control as if he was some dictator god.
(They only forgot to add the /sarc on that last line)