Penn State...what did Paterno know?

[Happy Panther]

it was after reading it that i formed the opinion that all parties mentioned are at least a little at fault.

Indeed

[Kitten Diver]

Donor page for Second Mile Charity if you want know some of the names in question as far as boosters Sandusky was pimping to:

http://www.thesecondmile.org/waysToGive/recognition.php

[JakeFlake]

Donor page for Second Mile Charity if you want know some of the names in question as far as boosters Sandusky was pimping to:

http://www.thesecondmile.org/waysToGive/recognition.php

Surprising ... no priests on the list.

I kid, I kid. I am a devout catholic.

[Epistaxis]

I don't know what happened but I'm glad everybody else does. Paterno is not even in the fugging building when this happens but the next day a grad student tells him he saw some bad doo going on. Paterno notifies the AD and chancellor(?) who actually gave the creep the authority and access to be on campus and in the facility. The guy doesn't work for Joe anymore so he reports it to the people who allow him to be there. What the f*** is he supposed to do make a citizens arrest? JP may be dirty as hell in this but from what has been reported it looks like what he did was a pretty reasonable reaction under the circumstances.

The worst thing about this country is how quickly people jump on the media driven frenzy train.

In my mind a reasonable reaction when you are god and king of a campus, and your right hand man is raping boys in YOUR shower, witnessed by YOUR grad assistant is to fire the guy, find out who the kid is (no one did, or cared), make sure he is ok, and call the cops yourself and be damned sure a FULL investigation is launched.

That is, unless you suck as a human being.

Or you are senile.

[The_Cannon]

In my mind a reasonable reaction when you are god and king of a campus, and your right hand man is raping boys in YOUR shower, witnessed by YOUR grad assistant is to fire the guy, find out who the kid is (no one did, or cared), make sure he is ok, and call the cops yourself and be damned sure a FULL investigation is launched.

That is, unless you suck as a human being.

Or you are senile.

He wasn't employees by Joe at that point. He was a professor with the university not the football department, so Joe couldn't fire him. Joe could have raised hell though. If Joe Paterno so much as sneezes in Happy Valley there's some one there with the finest tissue softened with the tears of virgins there to wipe his nose for him. If Joe wanted Sandusky gone all he had to do was say it, but he didn't.

[Epistaxis]

As you state, if Joe wanted him gone, fired, whatever, it would have happened.

[JakeFlake]

Several things will come of this, notably:

1. About 25 civil lawsuits

2. Penn State losing its accredidation

3. Getting a severe NCAA probation (if this is not lack of institutional control, I don't know what is).

[cbarrier90]

Several things will come of this, notably:

1. About 25 civil lawsuits

2. Penn State losing its accredidation

3. Getting a severe NCAA probation (if this is not lack of institutional control, I don't know what is).

I don't know about #2, but as far as #3 is concerned, if there was ever a time to bring back the "death penalty" in college football, this is it. I thought Miami and Nevin Shapiro was bad but that's nothing compared to this.

[Kitten Diver]

Several things will come of this, notably:

1. About 25 civil lawsuits

2. Penn State losing its accredidation

3. Getting a severe NCAA probation (if this is not lack of institutional control, I don't know what is).

Yeah I asked about accreditation earlier in the thread. So there are 2 of us that see this as a possibility, since we know that the admins knew and did nothing.

[Carolina Husker]

Several things will come of this, notably:

1. About 25 civil lawsuits

2. Penn State losing its accredidation

3. Getting a severe NCAA probation (if this is not lack of institutional control, I don't know what is).

I only see #1 happening, actually, and I think it'll be twice that number.

[Epistaxis]

I don't know how the program is going to continue this weekend, much less the rest of the year.

Can you imagine being on that team right now?

How could you focus?

[JakeFlake]

I only see #1 happening, actually, and I think it'll be twice that number.

There will at least be an investigation with number three, trust me. I worked at the NCAA for a summer. The NCAA smells blood in the water and they will be circling.

[Carolina Husker]

Anyone who's "waiting on more evidence" to decide if JoePa is part and parcel to this whole fiasco, as journalistically honest as it may be, is 1. severly underestimating the severity of the phrase "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy" 2. completely unaware of the culture JoePa created at that University and 3. dreaming.

This will not get better for Joe. He will not be exonerated.

[Dpantherman]

From what I read, it relates directly to needing his testimony. Why not working for Penn state would prevent that is what in trying to find out