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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by linotype, Nov 5, 2011.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

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

    the really dumb part, which I could never get a handle on, why wouldn't Paterno realize like within about 10 seconds of first learning about it that it had the potential to tank his whole program?


    I mean I know he wants to be loyal and protect his old pal and everything but just about as soon as you see real evidence he is in fact engaged in this stuff, don't you say, "Screw loyalty, I am saving my own ass by throwing him right down the nearest elevator shaft. Better him than me."
     
  2. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

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

    Considering former head coaches Galen Hall (Florida), Ron Vanderlinden (Maryland) and Dick Anderson (Rutgers) are all assistants, it must be fairly lucrative.
     
  3. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

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

    Vampires.

    Get on board with that theory now and you'll look like a genius in two weeks when Eric Holder has to send a slayer to clean up the whole bloody mess.
     
  4. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

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

    Lucrative to make it worth their while for sure, although Hall was pretty much out of coaching when Paterno hired him (I believe to take play calling away from JayPud). Anderson and Vanderlinden were pretty much damaged goods after failing at their respective college football graveyards.
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

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

    Yeah, I don't think PSU hired them away from lucrative promising HC jobs to take asssitant slots.
     
  6. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

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

    Because he's been out to lunch for 20 years. He was untouchable. He was the lauded JoePa. St. Joe. I mean, his "one minute" statement showed that. No one could take down the sainted Penn State program in his warped mind.
     
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

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

    Duddddde. List me the schools with three ex-HCs as assistants.

    And I know you want to, so give it some hard thought. ;)
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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

    I'm with you there.

    The only thing I can think of is Paterno and/or the administration thought getting Sandusky out in 1999 was good enough for plausible deniability if anything happened later. Obviously they were wrong.

    But again, I'm trying to apply logic to case that has the main actors not using any.
     
  9. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

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

    Incestual (I think you mean incestuous, actually)......Ugh...You just had to use that particular word here, didn't you, BYM2?... :)
     
  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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

    Candlelight vigil for the victims at PSU tonight. Nice photo.

    http://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/photochlochlo/status/135192658523070464/photo/1
     
  11. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

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

    Sandusky made $456,000 from being affiliated with Second Mile after the 1998 (which was, if you recall, after the incident where he showered with an adolescent boy, and was overheard by a detective telling the mom of that boy he'd like to kill himself) according to tax returns Deadspin acquired. They continued paying him all the way through 2009.

    http://deadspin.com/5858533/
     
  12. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

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

    Class gesture by the student body tonight. Good for them.
     
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