Posted on 08/18/2012 5:29:01 AM PDT by Zakeet
Joe Paterno had to be prodded by his family to read the grand jury report regarding Jerry Sandusky and did not understand some of its graphic terminology, according to a new book.
The book, Paterno by Joe Posnanski, was purchased Friday by the Associated Press in advance of its release next week.
In the book, Posnanski describes a scene at Paterno's home, two days after Sandusky had been charged with child sex abuse last November. Paterno's family and a close adviser were trying to explain to the Penn State coach that there was a growing sentiment Paterno must have known for years about the accusations against Sandusky.
The book quotes Paterno as shouting "I'm not omniscient!"
The book also indicates Paterno didn't comprehend all the terms in the report, asking his son what sodomy meant.
According to the book, later that night Paterno's son, Scott, told his mother that she should brace herself for the possibility that Joe could be fired.
Sue Paterno responded, "Scotty, that will kill him."
Paterno was fired by school trustees two days later, on Nov. 9. He died in January at age 85 of cancer.
Sandusky, Paterno's longtime defensive coordinator, is jailed and awaiting sentencing after being convicted in June on 45 criminal counts involving 10 boys.
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Since you were a student it is understandable that you would be unaware, particularly since those in some power had an interest in hiding it.
But to make the analogy work here, you would have had to be the Chief's supervisor or base commander. In those cases, it is a part of their responsibility and training to look out for this and to PROTECT the students.
Paterno won his first game against the University of Soddom and Gamorah. This scandal doesn’t involve some new-fangled “terminology” or acts.
Was that before biblical times?
No. Sorry.
What about that assistant coach who says he told Paterno about the shower incident? Paterno did nothing about it. That's not naive, that's willful ignorance in order to protect a friend at the expense of young boys.
Paterno's lucky he died. He had a LOT coming down on him due to his inaction and protection of Sandusky.
the term might have escaped him...but I am sure he heard of ‘buggery’, ‘bone smuggling’, or butt f******.
just because he never new the exact meaning of a word (biblically, sodomy means a plethora of perversions)did not mean that Joe Pa was some sort of blank slate with no knowledge of worldly things.
I suspect Paterno was such a powerful intimidating figure and getting up their in age that no one wanted to confront the guy and put their career in jeopardy I suspect the coaching staff were concerned about their career path that they knew enough about Paterno to not rock the boat and hope for the best. I am just guessing their was a deep denial factor too that someone from his era like to be exist in.
And we can expect another report about alumni who were with Sandusky assaulting boys on planes. This isn’t over.
Perhaps Paterno should not have been allowed to run the Penn St. football program with his obviously diminished mental faculties. The administration was such a bunch of weenies when it came to Paterno and let him run all over them.
Ooops -- there goes one of the lynchpins of the hate Paterno crowd.
They didn’t exactly “work together.” Paterno was the boss and could have fired him.
Pretty pathetic.
Both that they would try it, and the man they are trying it for.
Yeah, that's bad. I can believe that somebody could fail to comprehend that people could do such things. It's hard to believe that he failed to follow up, though.
I don’t if he did not know about screwing young men up the .... Joe was responsible for what happens in his team. That is why you get the big bucks.
Never happened. Sandusky was being investigated by the Department of Public Welfare in 1998 but the investigation was suspiciously cut short and brought to an end for no apparent reason, even though the DPW was aware of five more kids involved.
Curley did change his mind apparently in 2001, but that was after talking to Sandusky's charity CEO -- child psychologist Dr Jack Raykovitz.
That being said, for what reason should he have fired him??? He was a tenured professor of PE. He did in fact though encourage him to take early retirement which he did.
They were Obama supporters? Source, please, because everything I have read indicated they were conservative Republicans. If I remember correctly, either Joe or his son campaigned for McCain (?).
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