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

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

I heard an Altoona reporter on the radio yesterday say that everyone had heard rumors about Sandusky for several years. Are all the State College/Altoona/Harrisburg/Pittsburgh/Philadelphia reporters who have been hearing these rumors and not acting on them on the hook too? They are at least supposed to investigate such things - Paterno is supposed to report them to the University, as he did.

How do things work at your place of business? When someone is accused by a co-worker are they let go immediately? Does the editor/supervisor investigate the claims? Or does he contact HR and expect them to do the investigation?

I'm willing to throw Paterno under the bus as soon as I hear that he knew what happened. Not that "something" happened or maybe it was this or that. I just think we should wait until then.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

"I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

So it's OK for McQueary to report it up the chain, but not Paterno?

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Doesn't reporting it to his superior and not to the cops cover him here? The presentment seems to say that, skunky though failing to do so is morally.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Stepping away from the absolute horror of this situation for a moment, I'm trying to wrap my arms around the history we're seeing here...

One of the oldest and best-known land-grant institutions in America and one of college football's most storied programs are about to be brought to their knees by a child molester.

We're looking at a complete turnover in the upper administration at the university and certainly looking at the napalming of the football staff and a significant portion of the athletic department upper administration.

Football aside, Penn State as an institution of higher learning may never recover from this. If you had kids would you want them to attend school at Penn State now? I don't see how applications don't plummet yearly for the foreseeable future.

This isn't a nut running loose killing people on campus at Virginia Tech. A university can put a crisis plan in place to deal with that but you never know if it will work until it HAS to work and you hope you'll never need to find out. People can forgive that and come to terms with the fact you did the best you could.

But this is different. This is several levels of a university administration allegedly covering for a fucking pervert who liked to diddle little boys. How do you recover from that? I'm not sure you can.

And on the football side, how the hell do you find a coach? Hell, to find that guy first you have to hire the guy who hires that guy. Then you have to hire the guy who hires the guy who hires that guy. And even then, do you want your kid playing there?

If you're one of the people who work there who had absolutely no knowledge of this, how are you feeling right now? Can't imagine it would be a lot of fun to have Penn State on your resume right now.

And here's something else to think about. Sandusky is one guy out of millions of university employees at one university out of thousands of schools in this country.

He can't be the only one.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Well said, Armchair.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Holy mother effing God, now you are just being intentionally stupid. Yes, by all means, the reporters who heard a rumor bear as much responsibility as the man who runs the program and heard a firsthand account of behavior of the sort that led him to oust the perpetrator in question from his previous job.

Jesus Christ, I really thought from a distance that you bootlickers at least had some class and some sense of what's important in life. Now I see that isn't going to be the case.

Wave that towel high on Saturday, sycophant.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

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Hear, hear.

I could give a rats ass whether this is Joe Paterno, some high school gym teacher or a guy running a mundane 9-5 office. I think I can safely and honestly say I'm Paterno neutral.

What bothers me most is that an untold number of boys were physically and mentally scarred for life after 2002, or 1998, or whatever date--all that could have been prevented. And the breakdown in the chain of command that failed to do so.

And in terms of the numbers, in no way do I think there's only 8 or 9 boys who were assaulted. I think the number is higher--much higher.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

This is true. I am hanging a lot on this (hoped-for) ambiguity. And you guys are blowing past it and assuming there was none. Once it is shown that you're right, I'll hop on board with you but I'm going to wait to be sure before I do that.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Just to be clear, Bud.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/03/jerry_sandusky_former_penn_sta.html

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Even the best-case scenario at this point makes many people involved in running the PSU football program a terrible, despicable person. You don't have to wait to find out the details to come to that conclusion.