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Penn State...what did Paterno know?

g5jamz

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This entire Fiasco just goes to back up what I've been saying for a long time: College football is now a 100% profit-oriented business. It is no longer about the schools, the students, or the sport. It's about TV-deals and money.

Paterno (and the President of the school, whom he told) both deserve harsh fines for making a business decision at the expensive of innocent human beings who were being actively abused. He chose not to bring it to the light in order not to attract bad attention that would hurt his recruiting and media draw. White-collar crime of the worst nature.

Paterno did do enough to satisfy the legal requirements in this case. However, EVEN if he did not believe the allegations, it WAS his moral responsiblity to report them to the police.

His choice (although not illegal) DID contribute in allowing the abuse to continue for years.

This IS shameful and Paterno definitely should resign now.

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This entire Fiasco just goes to back up what I've been saying for a long time: College football is now a 100% profit-oriented business. It is no longer about the schools, the students, or the sport. It's about TV-deals and money.

Paterno (and the President of the school, whom he told) both deserve harsh fines for making a business decision at the expensive of innocent human beings who were being actively abused. He chose not to bring it to the light in order not to attract bad attention that would hurt his recruiting and media draw. White-collar crime of the worst nature.

College football may be all of those things, but I doubt finances had much to do with this. Scandals of this sort have occurred even at non profit charities and churches.

This is about reputation and people keeping their jobs, not about BCS dollars.

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Paterno did do enough to satisfy the legal requirements in this case. However, EVEN if he did not believe the allegations, it WAS his moral responsiblity to report them to the police.

His choice (although not illegal) DID contribute in allowing the abuse to continue for years.

This IS shameful and Paterno definitely should resign now.

Weak laws in PA. In NC it is a criminal offense not to report it to DSS if you have any reason to suspect that a child may be being abused.

A lot of people let these children down. The devastation of abuse causes lifelong problems for many. Destroys some. Unbelievable that people don't care about that.

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Umm, THEY KILLED THE DA THAT ORIGINALLY BROUGHT THIS TO LIGHT. This thing is deeper and nastier than anyone could have possibly imagined. Just look at how horribly this has been handled just within the last three days if you want some idea as to how awful the leadership has been at PSU for the past two decades.

If you think JoePa didn't know this poo was happening, you're a moron. This Sandusky creep brought these kids to bowl games with him. They stayed at the team hotel before home games with him. They were part of the pregame meal. He ran overnight camps ON CAMPUS as late as 2009. All of this has been reported since the 1998 instance that was investigated. JoePa still thought it was all right for Sandusky to do all of this?

What about Sandusky's wife? What about their army of children that they had? No one thought it was suspicious when he would get up in the middle of the night and go down to the basement bedroom with 10 year old boys? No one thought it was suspicious when he would be "working out" with little boys at PSU until midnight? His wife not only was an accomplice, she blatanty tampered with the investigation by threatening witnesses.

The fact that the FBI didn't swarm into that campus Monday morning and throw everyone in jail is baffling enough. JoePa still has a job? He plans on coaching this weekend and "will only answer questions about Nebraska" today at his weekly press conference? What ******* planet are we on?

How anyone who claims to be a PSU fan is not completely and totally outraged right now is stupefying. The idea that you'd let that weird old asshole finish the season is just another indictment of what a strange, cultish, bizarre program you've let yourselves deteriorate into over the past 20 years. You've let the personal pride of one man bring down an instituition. PSU is going to be sued into oblivion before this is all said and done, and it's got little more to do than with one delusional old coot's desire to go down in the record books.

Though the world would be a better place without all of them, I'm glad Paterno didn't die before this so he can see his entire life's work ruined. It's just too sad that he's probably too senile at this point to even understand what's going on.

Watch this presser at 12:20 today. It's going to be an absolute joke.

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Sandusky, his wife, anyone that lied to the grand jury should go to jail...period (IF the cover up allegations are true).

Anyone at PSU that knew and did nothing to ensure Sandusky was off the campus (post charges) and had the authority to do so. Resign now.

Cancel football season. Pay out to the remaining colleges you were supposed to play and those go as forfeits.

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