Paterno helped cover for Sandusky...

[dawg821]

so says Dan Wetzel... Pretty interesting in my opinion. So Holy Joe wasnt too
holy after all. And this guy blasted Jackie. Major hypocrite in my
opinion...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/n...fXXYrOoRZc5nYcB

I
always thought Paterno was a smug, self righteous jerk. These allegations, if true and I think they are, also make him a FELON...

 

[dawg821]

so says Dan Wetzel... Pretty interesting in my opinion. So Holy Joe wasnt too
holy after all. And this guy blasted Jackie. Major hypocrite in my
opinion...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/n...fXXYrOoRZc5nYcB

I
always thought Paterno was a smug, self righteous jerk. These allegations, if true and I think they are, also make him a FELON...

 

[DirtyLopez]

sexing young boys in the shower, at the very very minimum he would have told sandusky not to come back into the facilities much less the showers. By allowing him to keep coming around with kids, in my mind was enabling the sick 17er to keep it up. Yeah, I believe he covered it up.

 

[HotMop]

this is it.

 

[FlabLoser]

This is well above and beyond abusing the system SEC style. This is putting the football program above the welfare of children entrusted to people running the program. In the 1st degree. Not in some negligent mistake, but in a calculated way.

PSU should lose football.

 

[patdog]

The bigger question is WHY did Paterno cover for Sandusky? I've had a strong suspicion ever since this first came out that there's a lot more dirt on Paterno that hasn't been made public yet. A LOT more.

 

[57stratdawg]

It's not really fair to just assume Paterno was involved with kids (or whatever you're implying). I think he just wanted to keep Penn State's name clean. He probably knew if it came out, it'd be terrible for the football team and university. Just do the easy thing and hope it never comes out.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

nm

 

[Hump4Hoops]

This incident goes so far beyong a problem that is affecting the product on the field, its horrible, but totally a legal issue. If anyone needed the death penalty recently it would probably have been Miami. We didnt see it happenm and probably wont ever again.

 

[patdog]

he sure didn't have any problem trying to throw the school under the bus to try to get the heat off himself when this all came out. Not only did he help to hide this, he continued to let Sandusky have unlimited access to the athletic dept and all the facilities even after he has been shown to have known what was going on. And this wasn't the first time he actively covered it up, it was at least the second. If he was so concerned about keeping Penn State's name clean, why did he continue to allow a known child molester to have access? Especially knowing that continued access made it that much easier for him to find new victims? There's more to this story than we know about now.

 

[esplanade91]

I hope, if there's evidence pointing towards him covering it up, his name is Pete Rose'd from the HoF and his name goes down in history synonimously with "sex offender" and not "greatest of all time". A lot of guys, to go back to Pete Rose for an example, have done a lot of ****** things to screw up their legacy, but nothing touches this, if true. And this is coming from a guy who has respect for JoePa.

Certainly makes my blood boil thinking about him and his quote on JWS, again, if true.

 

[esplanade91]

Sure wish Bobby Bowden hadn't been outted now also. Free Shoes U doesn't even compare.

 

[RocketDawg]

It's not really fair to just assume Paterno was involved with kids (or whatever you're implying).

I don't think it's out of bounds to at least consider whether Paterno was involved. Kinda like the uppers in the Catholic church covering up for the priests, and then you find out they're involved too. <div>
</div><div>But it could be he was just trying to save embarrassment for the university and protect a friend. If that's the case, the gravity of the crime must not have been fully realized by him.</div>

 

[Woof Man Jack]

This incident goes so far beyong a problem that is affecting the product on the field, its horrible, but totally a legal issue. If anyone
needed the death penalty recently it would probably have been Miami. We didnt see it happenm and probably wont ever again.

"This incident goes so far beyong a problem that is affecting the product on the field." And that's EXACTLY why the death penalty should be given.It's one thing if Sandusky was only using his charity as a way to lure children, but he was using the Penn St. football program as the main piece of bait. As Wetzel put it, "Sandusky used the program's allure like a lollipop to draw kids into his van." School officials knew about it, and chose to do nothing. Their inaction must be punished, severely.

 

[PBRME]

I think initially it was to keep the program's image intact. Towards the end it was selfish on his part. They used influence to keep the story quiet until he broke the record for most wins. Doesn't matter now. Hopefully the majority of people are like me and lost all respect for him, and could give a @%*% less about his accomplishments.

Paterno helped create a safe haven for a piece of **** to go about raping kids as he wanted. Instead of going to the police, and banning the sick %!!+@%, Sandusky was basically told to just make sure no one sees you doing it.

 

[prettygooddawg]

Guess I was partially correct. And, the other fifty or sixty should be in county farm hard labor camps. Now, save the very least, they shall be first.

Let's don't be too naive, just think about your own home highschool days, your church..your company..all have 'covered-up'.

Save your families, they shall be first!

 

[EmoryBellard]

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But it could be he was just trying to save embarrassment for the
university and protect a friend. If that's the case, the gravity of the
crime must not have been fully realized by him.

As someone(s) said on this board when this first came out, JoePa handled this in a very 1950s-esque manner, in addition to trying to help a close friend. This is in NO WAY to let him off the hook - if all these allegations prove true, he should absolutely be Pete Rose'd.
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[SheltonChoked]

First, charge the Penn State program with lack of institutional control. To me this is a slam dunk,Joe Pa had the power to cover upmultiple felony child rapes. You think an little NCAA rule about anything else had him worried?

The secondthing is after the dust clears and you know when Joe Pa first found out about what Sandusky was doing, forfeit all the wins from then on out.They would have never happened if the truth was out.

 

[patdog]

if that's the case, why did he continue to give Sandusky unlimited access to the athletic dept., especially knowing that access was a huge recruiting tool for him to get more kids into his "program?" I could easily see Paterno taking an old-school approach of covering it up to avoid the embarrassement, but if you do that, you tell Sandusky he's cut off from the athletic dept. You don't let him retire and then continue to bring young boys up there every day. And you certainly don't just do nothing again several years later when one of your assistent coaches catches him in the shower. I'm not saying Joe Paterno was molesting little boys. I'm just saying that's the only explanation for his actions that make any sense to me.

 

[Original48]

Just what the hell was going through Paterno's mind every time he saw Sandusky with a little boy post 2001? You know he saw him with boys after he knew what Sandusky was...on the sidelines, at the facilities, the charity, whatever. What did Paterno think about when he looked straight at that little boy? I'm certainly not blaming Paterno for the actions of Sandusky, but after 2001, how many mothers and fathers lost their kids to this terror because of Paterno?

 

[was21]

maintaining the image of Penn State football....period. He had no other interests and was desensitized to anything that would adversely affect that image. Had he lived, he probably should have been indicted for covering up the mess.

 

[kimmer]

NCAA sanctions should deal only with compliance with rules intended to regulatefairness in athletic competition. They should never be used to punish a school or individuals associated with that school for crimes committed that have nothing to do with athletic competition. Such crimes should be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law and the penalties meted out to individuals who are convicted of these crimes.

The crimes committed here are staggeringly horrible and any cover-up is similarly so but to have the NCAA weighing in on things like this would be potentially open pandora's box.

 

[aTotal360]

I agree that his lack of action was wrong. <div>
</div><div>But I think someone said to him, "Hey Coach, Sandusky is foolin' around with some boy in the shower" and never realized it was as bad as it really was. I think part of the problem is that he wasn't given the gruesome details in order to protect him. I just think Paterno is soooo old and naive that he doesn't even think its in the realm of reality to do the stuff Sandusky was doing. Once again, I am not excusing Paterno, but I think he was insulated from the problem to an extent.</div>