Poppycock.
Paterno made his own choices. The consequences he suffered were as a result of his own actions.
I agree . . . to, in any way, lionize JoePa is disgusting. He knew for years what his pervert animal buddy was doing in the showers and did NOTHING to prevent it. I feel bad that JoePa didn't get a chance to go on trial and then, perhaps, be walked out of court in prison jammies.
To say that JoePa is in any way a victim is ridiculous. I just think of the dozens, if not more, of little boys sodomized by that Sandusky slob and I wonder what anyone is thinking if there's the slightest tear for JoePa.
From the ridiculous headline, you’d think the article was about Christ.
Exactly.
Sandusky is the villian in the this story. However, I think that the graduate assistant is equally villianous, as are all the rest of the people who allowed this abuse to happen.
IMHO, when you catch someone molesting a kid in the shower, you don't run away to think it over and tell your daddy. You pick the pervert up, give him 5 in the chops and let the chips fall where they may.
From what little I've followed this story, it sounds to me like there was a distinct pattern of serial abuse going on, that was studiously ignored from the top down.
BTW, whatever happened to that reporter who made accusation of Sandusky "procuring" boys for high dollar donors? That particular story went quiet, real quick.
No kidding. He made it all about himself at PSU, hanging on far past his usefulness as a coach. PSU hasn't been relevant nationally for 15 years, but he still hung on. Well, when you make it all about yourself, you get the bad along with the good.
Negligent indifference to horrible crimes against children is not "doing what you're supposed to do." He had his name all over that program, but when it mattered, when innocent children's lives, essentially, were on the line, he shut his eyes and passed the buck. Maybe the 65 year-old Joe Paterno wouldd have been more diligent in tracking down the truth of the terrible rumors, who knows?
And I don't think Penn State people know how creepy their idol worship of JoePa looks to the rest of us. I know they don't take their college football any more seriously than we do at UGA, but we don't worship our coaches. Heck, if they don't win the SEC every year, half the people want him fired.
Jo Paterno's case is a sad fable on the sin of pride.