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The only place I've heard any indiation of that theory is from truffle.

http://deadspin.com/5857440/alleged-victims-mother-jerry-sandusky-admitted-it-to-my-face-13-years-ago deadspin has to have about a dozen or more entries on this issue.

Times change, maybe Paterno thought this younger generation was all for diddling kids.

What steps possibly need to be taken? Is it necessary for there to be a line in policy saying child rape is bad and maybe someone should call the police? It's not unique to Penn State, but this is obviously the most egregious example of where the football team and the money and power it commands becomes out of control. Short of drastic changes to the culture of college sports in general, I don't get how you 'prevent' this from happening. The coaches and administrators in charge at these schools clearly become corrupted with the power, money and influence they have. Penn State is fairly unique. Penn State football is State College, and Joe Paterno is Penn State football. The whole big fish in a small pond thing isn't that unique, but typically you have a strong leader at the head of that situation. Joe Paterno isn't a real leader. He's a figurehead. This is a pretty obvious example of the whole "fish rotting from the head down" situation. There is a leadership vacuum in State College and specifically the football team and athletic department. JoePa decides whether or not he stays, but that's about all he does. He's the head coach but he doesn't coach. When you have such a rudderless ship as that organization, where the head coach's boss has virtually no power over that head coach and the head coach has no power but the power to say he's going to stay there you have no accountability. You have no real "buck stops here" guy and situations like this can arise and be left to fester without a real leader doing a damn thing about it. It's not really the culture of college sports that allows this to happen, after all, it happens all too often in other places. It's the culture of Penn State football and State College Pennsylvania that allows this to happen.

that is not a reasonable response. there are thousands of people in the state college area whose livelihood depends on the football program. it would be extraordinarily stupid to harm all of those people because a small handful of administrators and coaches acted improperly. you get rid of the people involved (which will end up including the president of the university, the guy who oversees the entire athletic department, and the head coach of the football program), you take steps to ensure that something like this never happens again, and you move on from there. one way to ensure that this doesn't happen again would be to set up a local governmental body that people could call when they witnessed crimes or were informed of serious crimes that occurred within their organizations. it could have the power to investigate people who were accused of crimes and arrest them and charge them when necessary, eventually leading to punishment for those found to be guilty of crimes. it would need a catchy name, something about how they represented the people, but they were also chill so you could trust them. maybe use a shortened form of populi for people and a word for something really cold. pol-ice. something like that. either way, it is too bad pol-ice didn't exist back then, because then this all could have been avoided (think how easy it would've been for everyone involved to just dial a number and inform the pol-ice of the child rapist they had caught!). luckily, with truffle's strong leadership, the university will "take steps to ensure that something like this never happens again," since the current system simply doesn't allow for the resolution of such a problem. Ain't no law around here lawdog.

Now you're making me consider benching Stafford for Cutler for the first time this year.

Agreed but I would be shocked if the NCAA did anything to the football program specifically. It seems like a stretch to me but I could be wrong. If Penn State cleans house they will probably leave it alone. But if all they do is a CYA charade they might get involved.

mamas don't let your babies grow up to be exposed to pedophile enablers and apologists.

he was diddling kids long before he became a former coach.

Well, you know what they say, wish in one hand and crap in the other....., oh wait, nevermind.

you got to protect the brand

The apologists in the Linc parking lot last night had a much more level headed view of this situation than truffle.

lol I know, I know, your football coach, AD and president let a predatory pedofile wander around with only a token attempt to stop him from his continued molestation and rape of children. That's not really *that* bad, is it? Most of it has nothing to do with football or the football program. there is no cause to even be punished by the NCAA, so yes, your statement was comical. All of it has a lot to do with the football program.

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Not reporting it immediately to law enforcement is reprehensible in my opinion, but I can't even fathom how much of a dirtbag he is if he covered it up.

Bucs play at home this week so it will probably be blacked out. Then again, the Bears are on at 4:15 so they might be on no matter what Yeah, I think only the Bucs game would be blacked out. Not all NFL games. I know. I was saying if there Bears were on at 1 you might have a chance because the Bucs will probably be blacked out. But the game is at 4:15, and there are only usually 1-2 games on at that time slot, and the fact that the game was moved there 2 weeks ago makes it likely its the premier game during that time, meaning you will probably get to see the game without having to go somewhere with Sunday Ticket. what do you mean "having to go". He should jump at the chance.

guys, I'm sure he didn't literally laugh out loud.

I went back and looked at King's fine 15 and saw this note on the Eagles (ranked 11, three spots ahead of the Bears): As I wrote earlier, Nnamdi Asomugha is getting comfortable in the Eagles defense, and is texting and emailing his defensive coordinator during the week. Just what teams on the Eagles' schedule need -- Nnamdi getting it. Drew Magary is spot on in his ripping of King for his ridiculous columns. Why is the fact that he texts his coach during the week the least bit meaningful?

With an 8.5 point spread and all the talk about Philly finally figuring it out, I absolutely expected every expert to pick them to win. I had a lot of confidence about this one and it befuddled the people at our tailgate.

I'd like to think I would have gone right up to him and stopped it while in progress, but in reality I think most of us would have turned and ran out of complete confusion/revulsion. I understand having his first contact going to his father. But at that point, he and his father should have gotten law enforcement involved immediately.

Part of me feels sorry for him. He can only blame Sandusky and himself here, but I do pity the man for being in the situation he's put himself in. I guess I don't have a lot of pity for him, at least not in the sense that I feel sorry for him. His inaction resulted directly in child abuse. He could have prevented it easily, there was no intervening factor that shields him from blame. If these kids were local, they probably held JoePa in this almost god-like esteem. And the man completely let them down. Clearly Sandusky is ultimately responsible, but Paterno isn't worthy of sympathy. I don't have a lot of pity, but I can't help but think some of this is related to his diminished capacities. I'm not sure a 50 year old Paterno screws this up as badly. But ultimately you can't demand to keep your job as head coach and de facto boss and let this go on.

feels a little strange with the bears as favorites again. But I'm liking what I'm seeing with this team. I have issues with a lot of Lovie's coaching decisions, but there is no denying he gets them ready to play as well as any coach out there. Their resurgence seems to be tied to the embarrassment against the Lions last time, and I'm thinking revenge will be the primary motivator this tme.

Bucs play at home this week so it will probably be blacked out. Then again, the Bears are on at 4:15 so they might be on no matter what Yeah, I think only the Bucs game would be blacked out. Not all NFL games. There's some fun waterfront places with the games on somewhere around there. Haven't been in a while though.

i think he let down every kid that was ever assaulted by sandusky, not just those that were assaulted afterwards. Yeah, you're probably right. Instead of forcing them to struggle with the notion of reporting what happened to them on their own he could have brought it all to light much sooner, presumably taking a major weight off of their collective shoulders.