Paterno out as PSU coach

[jacksonianmarch]

Sad end to a great career. But he deserved to be fired and should be prosecuted. How he did what he did is morally reprehensible

[a700hitter]

Shame on him. You call the cops when you learn that a child is being sexually abused. You don't report it to your employer. Sorry Joe Pa, but you messed up huge and disgraced yourself and the University.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Can someone explain to me what happened in this Penn State scandel?

[jacksonianmarch]

His asst coach and heir apparent was caught raping a child in the shower by one of his graduate assistants. The grad assistant talked to his father and subsequently talked to Paterno the next day. This was in 1998, they effectively buried it. Paterno told the AD who effectively squashed the investigation.

[italstallianion]

Of all the ways that his career ends, I can't believe that this was how it ended.

[Youk Of The Nation]

That has to be one of the worst things I have heard in a long time.

 

I don't follow college sports, but I know that in the past championships and awards have been retroactively taken away from schools and players.

 

Is there any chance any awards given to this guy specifically can be taken away?

 

It's terrible that everyone involved in this isn't facing the possibility of jail time. Covering something like this up is nearly as bad as committing this crime yourself.

 

Actually, scratch that. It's worse, in a way. You are a person who would never do something like this, (hopefully), mainly because like most people you find it disgusting and despicable.

 

Instead of doing the legally and ethically correct thing and reporting this guy to the police (or even the slightly incorrect thing by beating this person to within an inch of death with the nearest blunt object), you assist in 'making it go away' for the safety of...what? Your school? Your sports program? Your own reputation?

 

College sports programs get away with a lot in this country, it's one of the many reasons why I don't follow them on an entertainment level.

 

Every single individual who has the unmitigated gall to call themselves a person involved in this cover up deserves to be vilified every second of every day for the rest of their lives.

 

Arguably the only thing as bad as a crime like the one that occured is endorsing it, whether by action or indifference.

[a700hitter]

Of all the ways that his career ends' date=' I can't believe that this was how it ended.[/quote']I know. It was much more likely that he would have died on the sideline.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I just read a timeline article on the scandal.

 

They took his locker room keys away.

 

This is like finding out a guy dismembers prostitutes in his basement and locking him out of his house.

 

"Ha! Try doing your dirty deeds now, you son of a bitch! We took the key in the fake rock by the front bushes too!"

[a700hitter]

I just read a timeline article on the scandal.

 

They took his locker room keys away.

 

This is like finding out a guy dismembers prostitutes in his basement and locking him out of his house.

 

"Ha! Try doing your dirty deeds now, you son of a bitch! We took the key in the fake rock by the front bushes too!"

They took away his keys? Wow!! That's some tough love. Please pardon the tasteless pun.

[Youk Of The Nation]

They took away his keys? Wow!! That's some tough love. Please pardon the tasteless pun.

 

Watch it. Child molestation is nothing to kid about.

[a700hitter]

Watch it. Child molestation is nothing to kid about.

I'm not joking. I'm mocking Joe Pa and Penn State.

[Youk Of The Nation]

:dunno: Too subtle, I guess.

[a700hitter]

:dunno: Too subtle' date=' I guess.[/quote']:lol:No, I'm just falling asleep at the keyboard so my wits are duller than usual.

[WhiskeyBreath]

Why has McQueary not been axed as well? What he did was worse than Paterno.

[Keeper]

Long time, no post.

 

Win at all costs, eh JoePa? This grandfatherly figure, this kindly old man, this legendary college coach... bottom line he is a piece of s***. Anyone who says differently is wearing blinders.

[Laser Show]

Joe Pa actually did the right thing by reporting it to his superiors. We all probably would've called the cops, but he didn't technically do anything wrong. In his contract, it states, if he suspects anything like this, to report it to his higher ups at PSU.

 

Now when he invited the douche bag back? Completely different story.

[Cask N Flagon 76]

Paterno should be brought back to the showers and gangbanged with a dirty rusty metal broomhandle if

you ask me that filthy old F***.

[Laser Show]

Paterno should be brought back to the showers and gangbanged with a dirty rusty metal broomhandle if

you ask me that filthy old F***.

 

Paterno didn't rape anyone.

[Cask N Flagon 76]

Paterno didn't rape anyone.

 

 

He knew about it for years and since who he is it gets swept under the rug he's guilty

for even knowing and not doing a damn thing. Paterno should be held accountable just

as much as everyone else plain and simple.

[Laser Show]

He knew about it for years and since who he is it gets swept under the rug he's guilty

for even knowing and not doing a damn thing. Paterno should be held accountable just

as much as everyone else plain and simple.

 

He did do something though, he told his boss. I agree he didn't do enough, but at least he did something.