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

Did someone say CRISIS?

 

Leader of men, Joe Pa does the bare minimum and that is ok with the Penn State fanboys. The NCAA and Penn State deserve each other.

The most powerful man on campus did sweet fuck all, congrats fanboys your hero is exonerated. He was just a lowly employee.

Candlelight vigils and a strong waitressing industry and all is forgotten. Raping boys in the locker room no big deal.

 

I thought this was the most powerful political cartoon:

 

Fixed. The differences in these programs is as thin as a piece of hair.

 

Agreed, there is no difference.

 

Appreciate the post.

Always glad to see stuff from people who actually attended the school in question. Little bit deeper than just sports fans.

 

Paterno enabled Sandusky. Fuck him and his statue.

 

Let's think about this alternate-universe scenario:

In 1998, the PSU athletic administration is made privy to allegations that Jerry Sandusky is engaged in inappropriate behavior around young boys.

Paterno calls Sandusky into his office for a private meeting. Details of this meeting are never released but Sandusky immediately announces his retirement at the conclusion of the upcoming season. Following the season Sandusky is removed from 'formal' association with the football program, but allowed to keep an office at the PSU football building.

In Feb. 2001, McQueary witnesses the shower scene and reports his observations to Paterno.

Shortly thereafter, Sandusky disappears without a trace. It is a mystery much commented upon in the media, but after a few months the story fades. Paterno is quoted several times that he "cannot imagine" what might have happened but "hopes eventually the true story comes out."

Paterno coaches out the remainder of his career until 2011 when he is forced from the sidelines by illness. He retires with 409 career wins, tops among BCS-level coaches.

Paterno dies in 2012 and shortly thereafter a convicted felon serving time in a federal prison on unrelated charges reveals he was hired by persons under the direction of Paterno to eliminate Sandusky in 2001.

Sandusky's bullet-riddled body is discovered in a shallow grave deep in the Nittany Mountains, along with documented evidence that he had been carrying on systematic abuse of children since the 1960s.

A signed confession by Paterno is released from a sealed safe-deposit box in which he claims to have had no knowledge whatsoever of Sandusky's activities prior to 1998. When he did becomce aware of them in 1998, he contends, he immediately threatened Sandusky with firing and exposure to the police and fierily berated him for sexually abusing children.

Sandusky tearfully promised to never engage in child abuse again and appealed to Paterno's loyalty after 30 years of friendship, but then threatened to falsely implicate Paterno and his coaching regime with being aware of his activities 'back to the beginning' unless he was allowed to 'retire' and retain an office on campus.

Paterno reluctantly agrees but tells Sandusky if he gets any more reports of abuse, 'the deal is off.'

In 2001, Paterno becomes aware after McQueary's report that Sandusky's abusive activities are continuing. Paterno calls Sandusky into his office and tells him the deal is off and he will be turned over to the police. Sandusky reiterates the threats against Paterno, claiming that since the 1960s he has accumulated a storehouse of circumstantial evidence which, while fabricated, does appear to indicate Paterno's knowledge and approval of Sandusky's activities.

The discussion reaches an impasse. "You're going to have to decide what to do," Sandusky says. "You can call the cops on me and all that evidence goes to them along with me."
"It's all bullshit, it'll never hold up in court," Paterno says.

"Maybe not," says Sandusky, "but you'll have to spend months or years scrubbing your ass clean in court, and by the time that's over your public image and legacy as a patron saint of college football will be in the shitter. So what are you going to do?"

Paterno sits silently for several minutes. "Go home," he says to Sandusky. "I'll let you know in the morning."

Sandusky is never seen alive again.


So ... What do you think would be the prevailing opinion of Paterno now?



On balance ... I think it would be better.

 

I'm concerned how this alternate universe might affect mom and pop coffee shops in Happy Valley.

 

The writer who likens a ballplayer to Hercules or Grendel's mother is displaying the ultimate contempt- the ballplayer no longer exists as a person or a performer, but as an object, a piece of matter to be used, in this case, for the furtherance of the sportswriter's career by pandering to the emotional titillation of the reader/fan.
-Robert Lipsyte

 

If Paterno's supporters could credibly assert:

1) He had no indications whatsoever of Samdusky's activities prior to 1998;

2) When he became aware of those activities, he attempted to take significant action;

3) He was only dissuaded from more decisive action by blackmail on the part of Sandusky;

4) When he found out the sexual abuse had continued until 2001, he was so incensed at the crimes against children (and his program of course) he had ordered the murder of Sandusky;

.... I bet his enduring public image/legacy would be much more positive.

As it stands now, it appears Paterno either allowed through willful ignorance or actual knowledge, the continuing abuse of dozens of children over the course of 13 years; in the alternate-universe scenario, he orders the murder of one serial pedophile (and a decade of Sandusky's assaults never take place.)

 

Original creators of Paterno statue now making two new statues in secret location. One goes to the family, the other goes on a world tour apparently.

Replacement Joe Paterno statues being built in secret Lancaster County locale: report