The late Joe Paterno, longtime head coach of Penn State football
*(Via Chicago Tribune) – The NCAA on Monday hit Penn State with a $60 million fine, banned the football team from bowl games for four years and vacated all of its wins from 1998 to 2011 in the wake of the university’s child sex abuse scandal.
At a morning news conference, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Penn State will lose 10 football scholarships initially and gradually be reduced by another 10, dropping their total to 65 for the 2013-14 school year.
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All of Penn State’s victories from 1998 through 2011 will be vacated. Coach Joe Paterno’s record will reflect the vacated victories, meaning he no longer will be recognized as the NCAA’s all-time winningest coach.
The $60 million in fines will go toward a fund for victims of child abuse. Penn State also will be placed on probation for five years.The Big Ten has scheduled a teleconference for 10 a.m. CT to announce conference sanctions.
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Penn State has finally removed Paterno’s bronze statue. Some say it should have been turned facing the opposite direction to symbolize what Joe did after learning he had a raging pedophile in his camp. I’m sure he knew something long before Sandusky was exposed.
I would like to see the victims get compensated as well.
Ain’t this some shyt. Everybody is going on about Joe Paterno, I don’t give a shyt about him. What about the mofo that SAW the molestation and didn’t stop it? Not only that he should have went to the cops instead of calling his dad and asking his dad what he should do. He is a grown azz man and he doesn’t know to stop it and call the cops? I don’t know how this mofo gets a pass when he’s the one that SAW THE MOLESTATION!!!
Nothing’s going to happen to him. A janitor witnessed something too and only told his fellow colleagues out of fear of the athletic department. Joe ran it and everybody else ran around in it…guess that’s why he laid down and died right in time cause his day was coming.
But he didn’t stop it!!! He saw the molestation and kept quiet about it because he wanted to keep his job. GO TO THE DAMN COPS!!! He gets no pass for that.