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*Wednesday night legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired by the board of trustees amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.
But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.
Speaking at his house to students, Paterno said, “Right now, I’m not the football coach, and that’s something I have to get used to.”
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Good!!! He was more concerned with football than those young kids. Also, he spoke at the Republican National Convention when Bush stole this first election…after all of those Black brothers, Franco Harris etc. made him an icon. So much for republican family values. Fanteeking
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I’m glad they fired him AND the university president. They also need to fire anyone else who is still around and was in a position of power at that time. I wonder if the then graduate assistant who actually witnessed the azzault is still around? If so he needs to be fired too. It’s hard to imagine a grown man seeing another man having sex with a child and not immediately intervening. I guess he was worried about keeping his job.
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From a journalistic point of view, I think this provides some vindication for how the Catholic scandal was handled. Unlike the CNN, MSNBC and other MSM coverage which seemed to barely show any anger or outrage at the priests, sports journalists, on radio at least, stepped up to the plate and demanded tough actions. They’ve been lobbying for Paterno’s ouster from day one.
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Reds, there was some anger shown by Don Lemon on CNN and a few others, but I know exactly of which you speak. A lot of those media people see Paterno as some old, Greek demi-god who could do no wrong and walk on water and part the Red Sea. I heard that PSU football program earned 70 million a year and Paterno & Company was more concerned with keeping the money flowing. Just to think, he let that bastard Sandusky float free for nine years is mind-boggling. What if it were Paterno’s grandkids and not somebody else’s? I hope they destroy all of his statutes on campus. Fanteeking
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What really happened at Penn State? Were the legal authorities really not aware of this guy for all those years?
Really?!
“In 1998, Gricar (the DA) made the decision not to file charges against Sandusky after a mother told university police Sandusky had inappropriate contact with her 11-year-old son (in the showers) . .. After a lengthy investigation by university police Detective Ronald Shreffler, the investigation was closed after Gricar decided there would be no criminal charges. …He (the DA) had never explained his decision not to prosecute Sandusky”
Fast forward to 2002. That’s when a graduate student saw Sandusky raping a ten year old boy in the shower.
So what was the difference between this and the 1998 incident?
In both cases, we had the same man in the showers with a young boy. Oh, in this case someone actually saw him. And what difference does that make? What do they think he was doing differently in the 1998 incident? So was it only the mother that thought he was doing something wrong then?
State police Commissioner Frank Noonan said, as far as state police can tell, Paterno fulfilled his legal requirement to report. “But somebody has to question about what I would consider the moral requirements for a human being that knows of sexual things that are taking place with a child,” Noonan said. “I think you have the moral responsibility, anyone. Not whether you’re a football coach or a university president or the guy sweeping the building. I think you have a moral responsibility to call us.”
But someone did report it. The law knew about this guy for like 13 years and they didn’t do anything about him
So playing devil’s advocate. Can’t Paterno and the other university officials defend themselves by saying that they didn’t see any point in reporting it to the police again, since he was already reported to them and they didn’t do anything? And why did the DA not prosecute? Was he in collusion with the university to prevent a scandal?
OK, this is the deal. Joe Paterno and the university knew about this guy and still allowed him on campus. They had it within their power to keep him off the campus and away from as much kids as possible and they did not. And even if the local DA did not want to prosecute him, they could have gone to federal authorities.
I just hope all these pundits commenting on this incident, and the ensuing lawsuits, will take everyone into consideration. Both the university and law enforcement is culpable, in my opinion.
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