RIP Joe Paterno

Some guy from PSU, a historian who was a guest, just hung up on Fox Sports Radio when the host challenged him after the historian said all people know about the Sandusky case is what they read and hear, they don't know it all, he said, Paterno never got his chance to defend himself.
Paterno had 10 years.

 

Sandusky's forced retirement in 1998 was the last time it was even remotely feasible Paterno could have been aware of his activities.

The common-sense suspicion is much much earlier, but 1998 is the date after which any proposition Paterno didn't know what was going on becomes preposterous.


It is too bad. I think for the most part of his career Paterno was very much what he appeared to be -- a good man running a good program.

But at one point he was confronted with evil, which he had the power to cut down with one terrible swing of his own axe blade. Instead, in order to prevent an embarrassing smudge on his legacy, he decided to protect an old buddy, and ended up losing it all.

 

That is utter bullshit which proves you didn't read the grand jury presentment.

 

If you thinK there is any way in the goddamn world Paterno didn't know what was going on in 1998 you're a goddamn idiot. Of course in the real world he probably knew long long before that.

 

Sorry I misread that. I thought you were saying you didn't think he was aware of anything after 1998.

 

Holy shit@The Onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/joe-paterno-dies-in-hospital-doctors-promise-to-te,27125/

 

I love it.

 

Well, that's a possibility too.

Ironic after the roughly 20 years in which an increasingly-doddering Paterno was continually described by his supporters as unfailingly sharp, alert, with-it, lucid, incisive, etc etc., part of their defense for him allowing terrible stuff to go on in his program turns out to be "the infirmities of age."

Again it is truly sad. Paterno had a great legacy and probably for the most part it was truly earned, but in a misplaced sense of "loyalty" and fear of what could have been a containable scandal, he allowed it to all go down in flames.

 

Way. Too. Soon.

 

Or, not soon enough. It's not like a good person died.

 

Dude. It's a fucking RIP thread. I didn't even like the guy and you are disgusting me. Crawl back in your hole already.

 

Would you have taken such offense in an RIP Osama thread?