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If these rumors about prominent donors being involved in a pedophile ring turn out to have merit, expect the Ray Gricar disappearance case to be looked-at again. He's the DA who was investigating Sandusky who mysteriously disappeared and his laptop was found with the hard drive ripped-out. Most people assumed before now that the Youngstown mob got him for his prosecutions of them years earlier, but this could make authorities look at the case anew.

Where's the NCAA jurisdiction in this matter? It's not an NCAA investigation, so the NCAA should have nothing to do with it... At least that's my understanding of it. But the federal Department of Education is, and they if they find systematic coverup and negligence, they could bring punishments that would devastate the school from top-to-bottom, not just the athletic department. Penn State could return to it's original form of a sleepy state U in central Pennsylvania before the arrival of JoePa.

For fairness sake, it should be noted that nothing official has been acknowledged regarding the new allegations, other than CBS' Gregg Doyle noting that he was told the issue was on the Pennsylvania attorney general's "radar." That said, Mark Madden was the guy who broke the Sandusky story way back in March and was largely ignored and denied by PSU officials. He's one guy with some credibility in this, so if he's pushing the story I'm inclined to believe there's something to it.

I know it's Brooks, but several other reporters have been hinting that something major - and terrible- is about to drop regarding the Second Mile charity Sandusky ran. Can you elaborate more on this? Curious what you have heard. Last night, there were hints from Dan Bernstein (Chicago radio guy) that authorities were zeroing-in on several people associated with the Second Mile charity that may have suspicious relationships with kids in the program. That would imply there could be a pedophile ring operating, using the charity as a front and tool to procure kids.

I know it's Brooks, but several other reporters have been hinting that something major - and terrible- is about to drop regarding the Second Mile charity Sandusky ran. I don't want to think about it.

So when everyone went to bed around here, hundreds of Penn State students had themselves a mini-riot in support of a coach who helped cover up child rapes. And word coming from the Sandusky investigation that there are other men associated with the Second Mile charity who may have had "suspicious" relationships with boys in the program. Not just one pedophile, it seems, but a pedophile ring. There is a district attorney who investigated Sandusky several years ago who mysteriously went missing and was declared dead. His computer was found with the hard-drive ripped out. We are down the rabbit hole and there is no way out. This is the biggest scandal to hit college sports ever. Anyone who doesn't think so is delusional and in denial themselves. The ramifications will stretch way beyond Penn State. This is bad, folks, really bad. There should not be a game played this weekend.

There's nothing slow about it. It's actually unfolding very fast as the scope of the horror of this hits the public and anger sets in. The time-frame of Sandusky's trial does not equate to administrative punishment of the athletic department. The trustees are meeting tonight and tomorrow, and there are a number of indicators that Spanier is out. I don't think JoePa survives the week. He will probably be asked to resign, but if he refuses he will be removed.

There's a really disturbing cult of personality around Paterno that I was not fully aware of. It's not just the 1000+ students chanting fight songs and "Beat Nebraska!" outside his house in support of him, there are even more people rallying as we speak on Main, with State Police apparently on the way to contain it. I never thought I would root for police brutality, but maybe it's the only way to beat sense into them. He was a great college football coach, but MY GOD PEOPLE, he knew his defensive coordinator was involved in a molestation incident in 1998. Then again in 2002 that was witnessed by one of his GA's. Yet he did NOTHING but the minimum reporting to his immediate superior, already knowing nothing would likely be done about it. He allowed more children to be brutalized by washing his hands of the matter. I don't care how many f**king wins he has. You don't cheer someone who looked the other way to children being raped. What the hell is wrong with people? I want off this damn planet.

The Second Mile charity Sandusky used as some sort of damn supermarket to find victims knew about the 1998 and 2002 incidents, yet did not ban him from direct contact with children until 2008. So many people knew about Sandusky, yet nobody made any real effort to stop him. Rumors were swirling about him in and around State College for years, yet he was still allowed to work unsupervised with dozens of children. Nobody lifted a finger to stop him. There are no innocent bystanders here. Not JoePa, not the athletic department, not the school president, not even Happy Valley itself. They all need to burn.

There are a number of rumors swirling that he will resign (or be asked to resign) before the end of the week. So help me, if Penn State players use that as some sort of "win one for the gipper" motivation, I will cease to feel sorry for them. Turn Caveman loose on their asses.

You need to read the grand jury report to understand this. Warning, though, it is horrifying and many people can't get through it completely. There's a lot more here than "an incident." There was a direct witness to a boy being forcibly raped in a Penn State shower. That witness told Paterno, and he relayed the info to his superiors. You need to understand the magnitude of these allegations to understand why JoePa (and everyone else who knew what Sandusky was doing) abdicated his responsibility so thoroughly by not making sure the police were contacted. Even worse, as recently as 2007 Sandusky was still coming to closed practices with young boys - AFTER Paterno and the school knew about the 1999 and 2002 incidents. In 2009, Sandusky was allowed to run an overnight football camp for youngsters on the Penn State campus. Sandusky was still allowed to use workout facilities as recently as last week. This is huge, and I don't think it's quite hit most of the public how ugly it is. That will sink in over the coming days and weeks.

The Penn State student newspaper will probably win some sort of award for their special edition that came out today. The response from residents of Happy Valley: stealing all the copies in newsstands - as if that's going to stop the fire from spreading.

The Pennsylvania attorney general just had a news conference. JoePa is apparently shielded from future charges, but when the press asked about PSU President Graham Spanier - former Nebraska chancellor - he said "no comment." This case is still opening up. It could get much bigger. The authorities are searching for more victims. Give Sandusky's access to kids, there are probably many more out there. Ugh.

They are responsible. The GA in question is Mike McQueary, currently on the coaching staff. He probably won't survive the purge from this. His father and the janitor are morally wrong for not exposing the matter, even if they technically can't be charged with anything. Curley and Schultz are being charged with crimes because they lied to a grand jury investigation about their roles in the matter. Anyone who knew about this and did not get the police involved effectively let it continue. McQueary told JoePa that he witnessed Sandusky fondling and committing sexual acts on what he estimated was a ten-year-old boy - in the Penn State showers. There's no gray area there. You go to the damn police about something like that. Paterno did not, even after the issue died in the chain of command. That is a failure of the highest order on his part.

Paterno is responsible because after he notified his superior and it was clear it was being swept under the rug, he let it lie rather than press the matter or go to the police himself. Everyone in the chain of command had the obligation to make sure the law got involved, and everyone in the chain of command abdicated their moral and legal responsibility to do so.

Okay, sure...there are things that have been done by people at Nebraska that we are not proud of. But puh-leeeze! You can in no way compare what Chistian Peter was accused of to this. This is the worst thing I can think of. Not even Barnett at Colorado suggesting it was okay to rape their kicker because she wasn't a good kicker, is not as bad as this. If you have not already done so, go read the Grand Jury release that spells out the actual facts of the charges against Sandusky. It is sickening and discusting, and the worst thing I have ever heard associated with sports...(even including OJ cutting off two people's heads). I'm talking about the way it was handled by the coaches and the school. Nothing was done when it was brought to the coaching staff's attention. The accused crimes might not be comparable to you - although rape is pretty damn serious the last time I checked - but there is similarity in the way the issue was not addressed when it came to light. The point being, lets try to not discuss this issue seated atop a high horse.

This is absolutely horrifying and should be condemned universally, but I do think we as Nebraska fans should avoid taking swipes or cheap shots at PSU about this. We have our own skeletons that still haunt us. Particularly the Christian Peter situation as it relates to this. That was handled shamefully, and TO admitted as such years later.

There are plenty of people around here and other places perfectly happy to be like Iowa. And that scares the living hell out of me.

We know every play will be a run, yet we can't do a damn thing to stop it. Can someone enlighten me why we're THAT bad here?

He wants to win. He's seemed at times like the ONLY one who wants to win today.

Did anyone figure out what happened to Andrew Green? Did he look at Bo funny in practice and get benched?

I'm done. I'm done, Bo.

Their 3rd stringer is clowning us, too.

This coaching staff is never going to be able to keep a team focused for four quarters, much less an entire season.

The coaches have to have the proper focus and attitude about preparation. Remember when Bo made bonehead comments about playing FCS teams last year before SDSU, then the Huskers played like hot garbage? Yeah. It starts at the top.