Wow, Phil Knight just slammed Penn State
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I am acquainted with a few Penn State alums who have long been upset at the university's administration and Board of Trustees. They've been posting Penn State/JoePa stuff for the past couple months seemingly nonstop on Facebook.</p>
Anyone who is excusing JoePa for not going further after nothing ended up being done about the situation is letting their thoughts of theman cloud their judgement. I have asked this question to multiple Penn State alums that I know after they try to defend him.
"If McQueary had come into JoePa's office and told him the EXACT same story and then told him that the kid being assaulted wasJoePa's grandson, would you have expectedhim to do anything differently?"
Every time I ask that question there is a look of defeat staring directly at me. JoePa may have followed his legal responsibility in this matter, (which some peoplestill question but I don't completely know the laws of Penn.)but his ethical responsibility was altered by the situation. And the situation was he did not have a personal attachment to the child in question but he did have a personal attachment to Sandusky and the reputation of the Penn State football program.
I for one don't think that this makes Paterno an awful human being, because that would disregard all of the other good things he did in his many years. It just goes to show that (1) we are all human, (2) that we all make mistakes, and (3) that sometimes we shouldn't walk around so mightilyon our moral high ground without recognizing those first two facts.
"If McQueary had come into JoePa's office and told him the EXACT same story and then told him that the kid being assaulted wasJoePa's grandson, would you have expectedhim to do anything differently?"
Every time I ask that question there is a look of defeat staring directly at me. JoePa may have followed his legal responsibility in this matter, (which some peoplestill question but I don't completely know the laws of Penn.)but his ethical responsibility was altered by the situation. And the situation was he did not have a personal attachment to the child in question but he did have a personal attachment to Sandusky and the reputation of the Penn State football program.
I for one don't think that this makes Paterno an awful human being, because that would disregard all of the other good things he did in his many years. It just goes to show that (1) we are all human, (2) that we all make mistakes, and (3) that sometimes we shouldn't walk around so mightilyon our moral high ground without recognizing those first two facts.
Couldn't agree more. This is the most disgusting display of how fame clouds reality I have seen in a long time.