Penn State...what did Paterno know?

[The_Cannon]

I know the NCAA has nothing to do with this, but this is just one of a long line of recent failures in college athletic departments and the entire college football structure needs to be erased and restarted.

[SmootsDaddy89]

As a UNC fan, thank you based god for Joe Paterno and Penn State.

[Happy Panther]

HP, there is no way Joe didn't know.

He knew something inappropriate for sure. The report does not detail what he was told.

[The_Cannon]

Joe Pa is on his way to practice now. I hope he addresses the media at some point today. It won't change much but he needs to at least talk about everything.

[The_Cannon]

I'm watching ESPN now and Scott Paterno looks like a giant bloby douche

[SmootsDaddy89]

For people saying it's not JoePa's fault because he's old and probably didn't understand the severity of what was going on:

If you're too old to understand that rape is bad, you need to be in a nursing home, not a football coach.

[Carolina Husker]

If you read the report this is not true. Or at least not described as you say it.

He was told about "something of a sexual nature" and "folding." While still disgusting it is not clear from the report exactly what Joe was told.

McQueary told Paterno what he saw. What Paterno reported to his superiors was that it was "something of a sexual nature."

Also, the campus police is not the PA police, and Schultz is hardly a police officer. And he was heavily involved with Sandusky's Second Mile, so basically you told someone with a vested interest in keeping things quiet and then didn't mention it for 10 years when nothing happened. It's the definition of willful negligence.

[Carolina Husker]

P.S. The backstory on the first tweet is that McQueary is rumored for years to have let his wife sleep with a recruit back in 2005.

[SmootsDaddy89]

lol that is fantastic.

[Happy Panther]

McQueary told Paterno what he saw.

Semantics. he may have said "I saw something inappropriate" or"fondling" or "I saw 10 year old rape."

We have no idea.

[GritsRgreat]

morgan fogarty was all over it (WFNZ) this morning. I usually just stare at he boobs and mouth, but she really nailed it.

[Carolina Husker]

It's semantics only from Joe. McQueary admitted he saw the anal rape of a 10 year old boy, hands pressed against the wall and heard "slapping sounds." Those details are explicitly listed in the report.

Joe turned that into the much more benign "something of a sexual nature" to lessen his involvement.

Dude is 100,000,000% creepy.

[SmootsDaddy89]

in fairness, rough anal rape is "something" of a sexual nature.

Much like killing someone with an ice pick is "sort of" assault.

[GritsRgreat]

That place needs to be flushed out and reborn... It could take years.