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

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

You're troubled by the blood lust directed at pedophiles? A pedophile is the lowest of the low. You being troubled by this makes me really wonder abut you.

 

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Just checked in and saw that their were exactly 666 responses on this thread. Yep, sounds about right.

 

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Oh, I agree they have done a nice job on this story. Now State College has 150 or more reporters in town and the scandal will only grow exponentially. At least by letting Joe and Spanier make an appearance it saves some face. I think by canceling they look like cowards and even more suspicious.

This is the longest tenured coach with the most wins of any major college coach who had run what almost was universally thought to be a squeaky clean program. Hollywood could not have written a more dubious ending for this school and its legendary coach.

 

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I am. I'm troubled by blood lust, period.

And I guess where we diverge is that I don't think they are necessarily the "lowest of the low." Maybe the "sickest of the sick."

 

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Generally, absent some statute, there is no common law duty to rescue, except in the case of emergency workers or if the putative rescuer has created the hazardous situation.

In those limited situations, there is likely a duty to act reasonably in the rescue, but a lot of states have even limited liability for rescuers in those situations.

 

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From that outstanding story in the Harrisburg paper about the victims -- and btw this may be indelicate to point out now but we are seeing a reporting star grow before our eyes in Sara Ganim:

The only semblance of comfort their family has had in the last three days is from community support.

“At last, my family and I are believed,” she said. “Because they tried to make my son and the other boy out to be liars.”

Penn State Proud. Wear it high, TeamBud.

 

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That's about their only way out.

They have to nuke the whole football program, the whole athletic department, the president and half the administration.

The replacements can't come from the "Penn State Family" -- nobody who has been part of Paterno's program in the last 50 years. It will have to be people who have barely ever set foot on campus.

 

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That's exactly what they should do.

In 1991 Warren Buffett stepped in and served as Chairman of Salomon Brothers for a brief period. The move saved the firm, and possibly the entire market.

The Board should go to someone like Dungy and beg him to step in and coach the rest of the season.

Everybody else goes. Everybody.

If you just fire Joe, who coaches on Saturday, McQueary? That would be great.

They've all got to go, and you need someone with the stature of Dungy to save them.

 

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I was referring more to any lawsuits from victims post-2002. If Paterno says he should have and could have done more to end it then, there's a reasonable case to be made that he's partially at fault for what happened afterward.

 

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What a load of typical lawyer horseshit.

 

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Again, Paterno and Spanier are part of the collateral damage from this.

How can they possible stay? How can Joe possible even be a figurehead coach even if he never sets foot on the sideline and stays in the pressbox the rest of the season?

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Morally, yes.

But probably not legally, unless there is Pennsylvania statutory or case law that indicates otherwise. The logic is that the law does not want to force people to put themselves in danger.