Poppycock.
Paterno made his own choices. The consequences he suffered were as a result of his own actions.
sorry pal, my sympathy is in teh children who were molested under his watch.
Thank you for having the guts to post this.
Save your concern and sympathy for the young boys that were molested.
I'm confused. Didn't he already have terminal cancer?
Sorry - I can’t work up so much as a single sniffle. Sports figures get away with almost anything, and this is another case of something being swept under the rug getting discovered. So it came back to bite him. Who cares? He made a fortune as head coach, and he, as part of his duties, should have kept an eye on his employees. Screw him.
National icon my foot. I’m 59 years old and before all this hubbub about him facilitating child molestation, I didn’t know who Joe Paterno was.
The fact that an aging Paterno wasn’t really able to comprehend the whole matter will not convince some of his lack of blame. Some people will insist that he should have been able to understand such despicable behavior, and they will never accept that some among us come from an era where such repulsive activities were utterly inconceivable.
The premise is right, that a man of that era simply has no understanding of today's culture of homosexuality and so on. That, however, is an indictment and not a defense of Paterno.
Most Townhhall articles are pretty reasonable, this one isn’t. I don’t see much likelihood that something like that cold have been going on for years and Paterno not have known about it and the school had no options but to get rid of him. For that matter I’d anticipate the football program being shut down for at least the next several years, if nothing else they’re not going to be able to get serious players for a while.
“They they they”
Go home little kid, your mommy’s calling you.
The death of an 85 year old man with terminal cancer was "premature"?
The Board of Trustees of Penn State University gave Joe Paterno lung cancer?
Wow! They really ARE all-powerful...
The single most damning moment for Paterno was when he held court a few days after the allegations surfaced and helpfully explained that the Board of Trustees had better things to do than look at the issue.
That was a blatant display of his de facto power, and the board could not let it stand. I don’t think Paterno was evil, and I have come to believe he was more of an addled figurehead than any sort of conniving dictator. But the board did the right thing for the university in the long run. Did they do the right thing for Paterno? Well, that really shouldn’t have been their concern. Everyone thought what was good for Joe was good for PSU and vice versa, but this situation changed all of that.
Ping.
JoePa’s body was riddled with cancer. His days were numbered. That’s what took his life. Not the public. Not the press. Not the university officials. May he RIP.
I leave Paterno’s judgement to God. However, I call BS on the author and his title. Crybaby.
New theory - remember, the Grand Jury testimony was accidentally released(correct me if Im wrong there)...which resulted in the shitstorm that ended with Joe being fired.
Perhaps - they knew Joe was terminally ill...and if they could keep a lid on this until he had passed - they could spare him all this crap - and keep the focus on Sandusky and not the University.
And remember - Joe had testified to the GJ - he knew what was going on - independent of public/media. That had to be a weight as well.
Not sure that casts the board in any better light, though.
Hadn't he read the bible through at least once?
Great man?
I thought he was a football coach.
Wow! Evil post of the day! Proof that there is a devil and that he is active in this world.