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

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Or perhaps just arrogance that they thought they might be untouchable and nothing would ever come of it.

 

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Rick, there is no way Paterno is retiring gracefully. One way or another, he's headed for the witness stand, or worse, civil suit discovery, and what happens there will effectively shred his reputation for keeps, whatever the degree of his involvement in this case.
I don't know if any of you have ever been deposed in a bitter lawsuit. I have. It's an unpleasant at best and always legally perilous experience.

 

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Yeah, McQuery is getting beat up pretty bad, but we don't know what he was thinking. I want to wait to hear from him before I pass judgement. It's easy for anyone to say, "Of course I'd stop it," and maybe he thought that in hindsight. But at the time, he's a 28-year-old graduate assistant that is just getting his career started.

Here is the well-regarded defensive coordinator and a trusted friend of the coach. McQuery could be thinking, "This could come down to my word against his, and I could be gone." Maybe he just panicked. And then once he told his dad, his dad urged him to come forward.

Just playing devil's advocate.

Now that being said, how you stay in the program knowing there were no ramifications is disgusting. Having to walk past this guy in the weight room, knowing what he did is pretty troubling.

 

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. . . because it had certainly worked, up to this point.

More than a decade of covering up for this scuzzball.

I may vomit.

 

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Also, for context, by 2002 the Catholic-priest scandal and cover-up was widely known. Any type of old-school thinking on "handling it in-house" to keep it quiet was no longer viable.

 

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Again, Penn State is not going to become Indiana. Yes, they should and likely will usher in a whole new football staff and administration from top to bottom, but quality football players and students will still continue to apply and be accepted at Penn State. It is after all the major university in a state with almost 13 million people.

Some people are acting as if Penn State will become as bad a football program as New Mexico because of this.

Yes, the fallout will be huge but not to the level where Penn State becomes insignificant.

 

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And that's what I'm afraid bothers some more than what happened to these young boys.

It's more important to you that it represents some sort of arrogance.

 

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That's probably the right call. But still hard to believe that all of them could be that delusional.I wonder how many others at Penn State were aware of this. There had to be some folks who wanted Penn State to do damage control well before this week, even an acknowledgement of the grand jury investigation if nothing else. I saw this tweeted earlier today, and it is so true: in crisis PR, there are three rules:

1. Say it all 2. Say it first 3. Say it yourself.

Penn State has done none of this. Unbelievable.

 

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Damn, it's hard to keep up on this thread! I won't try anymore. I agree that there is a lot of smoke, but the wording, "fondling or something of a sexual nature" sounds like someone reporting that they don't really know what they saw. That's when you send him to the people who will investigate further to find out what it was.

I think McQueary should burn and so should anyone he told the details of what he saw, including Paterno if that's what he was told. If McQueary was trying to spare the details to some and just wanted to find out how to report "something of a sexual nature," those people wouldn't know the truth.

 

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Not for nothing, but who gives a fucking shit? We're talking about eight lives destroyed, now possibly nine, and THIS is what's on your mind?

 

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Me being right about one thing, puts me one up one you dude.

Don't let that stop you. I know it won't.

 

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I'm pretty sure it's the child raping that upsets me the most.