Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE 2* Sandusky Arrested Again

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

"Yeah, Jerry, I know we told you not to bring kids around and made you give up your keys to the locker room. And we know that you're retired, but could you do some recruiting for us?"

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/HaireoftheDog/archives/2011/11/11/sandusky-actively-recruiting-for-penn-st-last-year

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Apparently Sandusky was recruiting for Penn State as recently as....recent.

http://www.wyff4.com/r/29738465/detail.html

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

There is literally no way this gets better for Paterno. None. There is no Hail Mary pass coming that can explain all the wrongs and contradictions, other than maybe "He's had dementia for 15 years and we covered it up, and for that, we are morally responsible if not criminally responsible."

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

All he has to do is tell the investigators he's fuzzy on the details. Perjury charges are almost impossible to make stick unless the lie is blatant.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Honestly I could see this one being not quite this way -- maybe Sandusky used the Penn State name and his rep to get close to the kid for his own pervy intentions. But, I could also see the program being arrogant enough to keep him recruiting and figure it would never hurt them.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

I have to say, I'm kind of amazed and disappointed at some of the recent posts on this thread.

Mike McQueady walked in on a 55-year old man anally raping a 10 year old boy in the shower. Both Sandusky and the boy looked and saw McQueady, and McQueady's response was to slink out, go home, and then report it to the coach.

That's an acceptable response? Some of you really say that's what you would do in that circumstance?

Imagine your workplace. You turn a corner.... and there's a 55-year old co-worker anally raping a bent-over 10 year old boy. That boy looks up and looks you in the eye. And you're going to sneak away, and (eventually) report what you saw to your supervisor?

Really?

I don't think it makes me some kind of "backyard Rambo" to say, I am stopping the 55-year old man from raping to 10-year old boy. Jesus Christ, how is that even a question? Picture the scene in your mind. You are walking away? Really?

The "if he's crazy enough to rape a child..." justification is weak. Honest to God, if I did what McQueady did, I absolutely could not live with myself. I would see that kid's face every time I closed my eyes for the rest of my life. And I would deserve it.

And worth noting -- McQueady was a few years removed from being a D-I QB when it happened. It's not like stopping the assault was going to be a problem.

I can sort of understand going to Paterno instead of police... almost. It's chicken and wrong, but I get the culture and can see why he did it. But walking away from the assault? Hell no.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

"I saw Sandusky prison raping a 10-year-old" is not a detail anyone would believe could be forgotten.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

It doesn't matter if they believe him. It matters if they think they can conclusively prove a perjury charge.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

But there is something wrong with blind loyalty.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

PC, I think you're underestimating the shock factor involved in seeing something like that -- like, medically defined, walk-around-in-a-trance kind of shock. I agree that he has become a part of the cover-up in the ensuing nine years and he has probably reached the conclusion that he failed as a human being, but that's a tough one to sit and say you know what you would have done.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired


I heard a Jacksonville Jaguars player and PSU alum on the radio saying whenever the players did charity work in the community, they were told to do it with The Second Mile.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

20-30 pages ago I posted that some kind of reduced-capacity explanation is almost certain to be put forward for Paterno at some point.

Even though it belies the constant PSU blather we've gotten for the last 15 years or so that JoePa was utterly with it, right on the ball, sharp as a tack, in full control of the whole situation, despite growing evidence to the contrary. Because none of that matters anymore.