Joe Paterno

[Prizefight]

Both of my brothers, multiple members of my family are Penn State alums. Grew up going to Penn State games. Feels like a part of my childhood died this weekend.

 

The level of disgust I feel for anything Penn State right now is unprecedented. And Joe Paterno, who no longer deserves the adored nickname of JoePa, is just as, if not more guilty, as anyone other than Sandusky.

 

I really wish the genuine worse for everyone involved.

[rocket]

who would have guessed that a child molestation scandal would bring joe paterno down, and not old age

[minnesotacubsfan]

JoePa DISGUSTS me. wait, make that the entire state of Pennsylvania.

[TruffleShuffle]

everything disgusts you.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Australia doesnt disgust me. neither does Austria. or astrology... astrals... lots of things I guess

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

The whole situation is incredibly depressing. I feel awful for the victims, I'm angry at the administration for standing by idly, and am close to losing all faith in college athletics.

[TruffleShuffle]

i think he should be allowed to continue coaching, but only on the condition that he is raped once before continuing his coaching responsibilities.

[Sammy Sofa]

Again with the pro-rape posts.

[TruffleShuffle]

Again with the pro-rape posts.

 

I SAID ONCE.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Again with the pro-rape posts.

 

I SAID ONCE.

 

 

DO YOU HAVE ANY [expletive] IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

[UMFan83]

i think he should be allowed to continue coaching, but only on the condition that he is raped once before continuing his coaching responsibilities.

 

Good luck finding someone to willingly rape an 85 year old man.

[Prior4CyYoung]

This use to be such a great place to go to read about the cubs and everything else. But now were talking about raping 85 year old men? Gross.

[TruffleShuffle]

i too am shocked that a thread with the title "joe paterno" (a famous football coach), contained in the nsbb section "rants" under the heading of "non-baseball talk," does not contain valuable information about the chicago cubs.

[C.C.]

Again with the pro-rape posts.

 

I SAID ONCE.

 

 

DO YOU HAVE ANY [expletive] IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

 

And that goes for all three of you.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

i think he should be allowed to continue coaching, but only on the condition that he is raped once before continuing his coaching responsibilities.

 

Good luck finding someone to willingly rape an 85 year old man.

 

But if you need someone to do his best to ignore it and sweep it under the rug, there's a soon-to-be-unemployed elderly gentleman in Pennsylvania with excellent experience in the field.

[BeerHere]

Apparently Sandusky wrote a book - "Touched"

 

http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-Sandusky-Story/dp/1582613575/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320764022&sr=8-1

[Prizefight]

And then the school cancels its press conference with Paterno. Classy to the end for sure. Making absolutely zero effort to improve their public perception.

[SouthSideRyan]

And then the school cancels its press conference with Paterno. Classy to the end for sure. Making absolutely zero effort to improve their public perception.

 

After they told the media no questions about the whole raping minors situation would be allowed.

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

Spineless, gutless, cowards.

[BeerHere]

It seems like this story is going to get worse before it gets better. Eight victims so far. I read the deposition on ESPN and this guy sounds like a serial pedophile who used his program for at-risk kids to feed his compulsions. There are a couple parts that disturb me:

 

1) the fact that multiple knew they had an employee of the university that was a stalking pedophile and did nothing but try and cover it up. I can't help but feel like they allowed this to happen to protect JoPa and/or the university's precious "reputation" in Happy Valley.

 

2) the grad assistant......I can't seem to get past the fact that this guy (he wasn't a kid at 24 years old) witnessed a child being raped (he saw a 10 year old boy getting sodomized in the Penn State showers) and all he could think of doing was calling his dad? It never occurred to him or his dad that they should call the police? As a human being, at an absolute minimum you call law enforcement. What he should have done was stopped the guy in the act and protect a ten year old child from an obvious pedophile while dialing the cops. That guy is a textbook definition of a coward, and so is his dad.

Edited November 8, 2011 by BeerHere

[UMFan83]

And then the school cancels its press conference with Paterno. Classy to the end for sure. Making absolutely zero effort to improve their public perception.

 

After they told the media no questions about the whole raping minors situation would be allowed.

 

I was really looking forward to the press conference just to see a confused JoePa getting grilled with questions.

[Tracer Bullet]

PSU's lawyers aren't dumb enough to let Joe take questions on this. Wonder why it took so long to cancel.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

child abuse rape

 

Not that there was anything wrong with your post, but let's be clear about what this was. There are already some apologists out there trying to obfuscate the issue by calling it "abuse" or "fondling" or "inappropriate behavior."

[Prizefight]

Paterno's son issuing a statement saying his Dad is disappointed that the presser was cancelled. So we are to believe that Joe Paterno doesn't have the authority to hold a press conference?

 

Clearly it is due to either A) he can't speak about the impending legal firestorm, B) the school is worried that he will babble something that'll indict more people/the school or likely a combination of both.

 

To issue a statement like that, somehow makes them look worse and I refer them to the signature segment on my favorite show...hey budddddddddddddddy

[SouthSideRyan]

Additionally, how can McQueary stay on at Penn State after not only knowing this happened, but knowing that nothing was done about it. I can't blame him as much as Paterno, because he was just a grad assistant, but this is just sick stuff that was going on, I can't imagine being able to convince yourself that your eyes deceived you or that JoePa took care of it. I've seen it described as a cult of personality on BTF, and it really seems like it was this situation where he reported to Paterno, Paterno said he'd take care of it, and he'd already bought in from playing and coaching with him, so that was that.

 

I'm sure McQueary's feeling horrible shame from this, but honestly he should, it's an awful situation, and I'd constantly be second-guessing myself the rest of my life if I was him.