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

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I just wonder if JoePa has reached the limits of his stroke in Happy Valley. We discovered a few years ago he couldn't protect Rene Portland forever.

 

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While that may be true it stands to reason the first place a witness would think to call would be the local police department.

 

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It occurs to me that a lot of the folks writing about this story haven't read the indictment. Maybe because it's too painful?

I just read Bill Lyon's story (column?) on Philly.com. Some of his word choices are unfortunate. The facts about Sandusky's past that Lyon chooses to highlight make one shudder, and I don't think he meant for that to happen. For example, in singing his praises, Lyon points out that Sandusky was a foster father to many children.

He's been charged with 40 counts. In other words, those are the counts the prosecutor thinks she can prove. What about all the others?

 

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I'm not going to read it. Too much for me.

But, yeah, pointing out that he was a foster parent to so many kids as a point in his favor is like pointing out that a person who murdered his parents is an orphan.

He set up the charity -- in 1977 -- to be around children. Maybe -- maybe -- he didn't molest kids at first, but he certainly was titillated by being around them.

And, once he crossed the line, beginning in 1994 at the latest, I believe (though probably much earlier), I'll bet he abused far more than 5 kids.

His charity specifically "served" the kind of kids who are ripe for abuse.

Priests, coaches, and other authority figures that prey on kids look for the ones from broken homes. The ones who need "mentors". The ones who think no one would believe them if they came forward. The ones who don't have a loving figure in their life and who could be confused by the actions of a respected community figure.

For a priest or a coach, that might be a small fraction of the kids you interact with.

For Sandusky, that was every kid he came in contact with.

 

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Rene, the loyal Catholic who hated gays. Now we have a sex abuse cover-up. Hmmmm....

 

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Gee, ya think? Ohio State was about free tattoos and jerseys, this is about children being raped.

It's absurd to even compare this to any other recent college scandal, except maybe that Baylor/Bliss/Dotson situation. This is something entirely different. Ohio State and Miami didn't involve any criminal violations, only silly NCAA rule violations. I simply nodded my head to the allegations in those cases knowing that stuff is going everywhere. Whereas the grand jury report in this case utterly stunned me and made me want to puke.

Didn't JoePa have some famous quote years ago about how he "couldn't leave college football to Barry Switzer and Jackie Sherrills of the world", the implicaiton being that he was needed to maintain the moral integrity of the sport. And the press back then always bought into that notion that JoePa was operating on some higher moral plane than other coaches. And it turns out he had a child rapist running his "Linebacker U" defense at the very time he gave that quote.

 

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What Lugnuts said. They should all go and Sandusky deserves to be shot. At some point, Paterno is going to have to face the media and answer questions as to why he didn't call the police. Nothing that old geezer piece of shit says can justify his inaction.

 

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I don't know why but I am starting to think of Paterno as Colonel
James from Boogey Nights.

At least Woody went out swinging.

 

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derwood, I'm just addressing the many questions of why nobody called the police. That's a call a person would make if they don't know who investigates specific types of cases. People keep implying nobody said anything to police. I'm saying it's all but impossible to be certain absolutely nobody did -- and it has nothing to do with who actually does the investigation in such matters. That's all I'm saying. It's only a tangent.

And I agree with Lugnuts. Everybody must go.

 

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Unless Penn State fires everyone (guilty, not guilty, didn't know didn't care) on the staff right now and brings in an Urban Meyer, Jon Gruden type of name with a new staff, they are going to be amazingly bad in 2-3 years.

How do you think recruiting is going right now?

If they do not fire Joe, I see them winning three games, at best, for a long, long time.

 

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"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."

-- Joe Paterno