RIP Coach.

Can't agree will Hela, he was the power at that school and he allowed evil to flourish rather than risk scandal and ridicule. The taint on his legacy is something he earned and deserved. As a leader of young men he should have known his job was to protect them, not the Penn State Football program.

Nevertheless, RIP Coach.

 

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what crap.

it was his superiors, that he told and trusted to handle it properly, that did nothing and actively swept it under the rug. he may have been a legendary figure, but this whole "he was the ultimate authority" bs is nonsense.

in the absence of an imminent threat, there should have been an investigation - but nobody wanted facts, they wanted a brand name to tear down because nobody had heard of the people who were actually responsible for what happened.

 

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You're fooling yourself if you don't realize that Paterno was the ultimate power at Penn State. If he had asked for action there would have been action. He did not, so there was not. The appearance is that it died on the administration's desks...

It died on Paterno's. Don't kid yourself.

You clearly fail to understand the power of a coach at a school like that.

 

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Garth is spot on here. Paterno was the fall guy and was no more guilty than most of the schools administration; who all kept their jobs btw.

 

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Ummm. No, they didn't sparky. They not only lost their jobs they face criminal prosecution.

You should learn facts before you stop STFUing.

All Paterno had to do was call for action and the school would have done whatever he wanted. Instead he turned "boffing up the butt" to "horseplay" and made the whole thing less than it was. This is not made up, this is in the transcripts. Paterno was in denial and the school followed his lead.

They are all guilty but excusing Paterno is ignorant. Football fills the coffers, football rules the day.

 

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This.

pffft. How very un-outpost

 

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15 points to my dead pool.

Yes. Most likely true. Sad all around.

 

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1) your'e deluding yourself if you think he had that much power.

2) he did ask for a investigation. many people rushed to assume that somehow he did it with a nudge or a wink that it shouldn't be taken seriously, but frankly for anyone who knew anything about the man thought that was entirely inconsistent with his character and the type of program he ran for his entire life.

we already know from McQueary that what he saw wasn't fully relayed in the first place the same way it was later to Paterno's superiors, and frankly i don't think Paterno would have been able to cognitively process the full extent of it, which he pretty much said himself in the WaPo interview when he said he felt the right thing to do was to report the matter to people he thought would properly handle it.

the public wanted blood, and they got it.

 

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