Sad day for the B1G and Penn State, AD, Ex-football coach and more arrest warrants!!!

[jaws]

I see that OSU doesn't have the worst PR department in the Big10. They are #2 now.

[NoKoolAidForME]

Penn State Said to be Planning Paterno's Exit Amid Scandal

 

 

 

 

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.

 

The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about how to manage his departure have begun, according to the two people.

 

Paterno was to have held a news conference Tuesday but the university canceled it less than an hour before it was scheduled to start.

If and when they do part ways with Paterno, I would think it will be a complete staff overhaul. There is no way anyone can remain with all this stuff that is coming up. I mean even the then GA ,now coach Mike McQueary still was around and knew of both the scandal as well as whatever cover up happened. It didn't bother him to stick around even as Sandusky remained heavily a part of the Penn State program.

[knapplc]

I mean even the then GA ,now coach Mike McQueary still was around and knew of both the scandal as well as whatever cover up happened. It didn't bother him to stick around even as Sandusky remained heavily a part of the Penn State program.

 

That is a great point. What was he thinking/saying whenever he saw Sandusky on campus? How could you not be shouting from the rooftops about this guy if you're McQueary?

[Omaha-Husker]

Sandusky ran an over night football camp for kids on Penn St's campus in 2009. I don't under stand how they let that happen...

[Woody Tressel]

I see that OSU doesn't have the worst PR department in the Big10. They are #2 now.

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

It sounds like he thought his duty was done by reporting it to law enforcement once. I think that ends his criminal law enforcement duty, but civilly he may still be liable to the victims.

[EbylHusker]

It's not going to be a legal issue that gets him fired and tarnishes his reputation. It's the moral and image issue of, apparently, just reporting it to the police and then seemingly doing nothing else while the guy was still on campus, etc. And regarding that, innocent until proven guilty has absolutely nothing to do with it. His image is tarnished and shattered already, hence he's being fired (not to mention some have wanted him to go for a while and this is a good opportunity).

[illnino]

Just turned on the tv and saw Matt Millen on ESPN talking about the whole PSU scandal, and while I just caught the end of his segment, he was visible shaken. I think he was even crying.

[nowhereman]

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.

[nowhereman]

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.

 

The Second Mile, a program for at-risk youth, said in a statement that it immediately acted in 2008 to ban Mr. Sandusky from programs involving children when he told them he was under investigation for sexual contact with a juvenile but had denied any wrongdoing. However, the organization knew as early as 1998 that Mr. Sandusky was under investigation for similar sexual misconduct in a Penn State shower involving a different boy from the program, according to a presentment by a statewide investigating grand jury. The Second Mile also knew about a 2002 sex abuse investigation into Sandusky. Again, the organization made no move to keep Sandusky away from kids. Not for another six years.

 

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.

[NUpolo8]

Pattern speaking outside his house tonight...

 

"I think the victims.....we should all say a prayer for them."

 

 

Yep. That should about cover it Joe. Years of mental torture and abuse, all absolved because the benevolent JoePa deigned a prayer for you.

 

It's about time his head rolled.

[nowhereman]

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.

[bushy]

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.

 

The Second Mile, a program for at-risk youth, said in a statement that it immediately acted in 2008 to ban Mr. Sandusky from programs involving children when he told them he was under investigation for sexual contact with a juvenile but had denied any wrongdoing. However, the organization knew as early as 1998 that Mr. Sandusky was under investigation for similar sexual misconduct in a Penn State shower involving a different boy from the program, according to a presentment by a statewide investigating grand jury. The Second Mile also knew about a 2002 sex abuse investigation into Sandusky. Again, the organization made no move to keep Sandusky away from kids. Not for another six years.

 

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.

 

 

Some pretty big names on their board or directors. Apparently they, too, turned a blind eye.

 

 

 

John R. Cappelletti - Retired PSU & NFL Football Player, Heisman Trophy Winner

 

R. R. M. Carpenter, III - Former Owner, Philadelphia Phillies

 

James E. Ford - Retired Vice President, Kmart

 

William A. Gettig - President, Gettig Technologies, Inc.

 

Jack Ham - Retired NFL Player, Pittsburgh Steelers, Hall of Fame

 

Franco Harris - Retired NFL Player, Pittsburgh Steelers, Hall of Fame

 

Lou Holtz - Retired Football Coach, Sportscaster, and Motivational Speaker

 

Dr. Bryce Jordan - Retired, Penn State University President

 

Willi Maier - President, Omni Plastics, Inc.

 

Matt Millen - ESPN Football Analyst

 

Arnold D. Palmer - President, Arnold Palmer Enterprises

 

Joseph V. Paterno - Head Football Coach, Penn State University

 

Andy Reid - Head Football Coach, Philadelphia Eagles

 

Dr. John Reidell - General Surgeon, Past Second Mile Board President

 

Cal Ripken, Jr. - Former ML Baseball Shortstop, President & CEO of Ripken Baseball, Inc.

 

Dominic Toscani - Owner & President, Paris Business Forms

 

Richard Vermeil - Retired NFL Head Coach, (Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles)

 

Mark Wahlberg - Actor, Rapper, and Film & TV Producer

 

Verne Willaman - Retired Chairman and President, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.

 

Quentin Wood - Retired Chairman and CEO, Quaker State Oil Refining Corp.

 

Richard A. Zimmerman - Retired Chairman of the Board, Hershey Foods

[beanman]

http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/view/5881996

 

Well, apparently some of the fans still think Paterno's the sh#t.

[Alamo City Husker]

I finished reading the 23 page indictment, and I am so heartbroken as a father for those children. My first intuition is how Joe Pa gets off on not getting arrested, sickening. All I can say is my heart tells me that there are higher ups orchestrating this whole thing to try to salvage the institution of Penn State. Read all 23 pages make your own determination, but Penn State brings alot of money to an already cash strapped state, coincidentally that doesn't have a whole lot of other institutions. The connections to this college go all around the states. The only reason I see as why Joe Pa didn't retire sooner is because without him all the other guys above him don't have the power to quiet things down and keep it hush hush.

 

"the graduate assistant was never questioned by university police AND NO OTHER ENTITY CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION UNTIL HE TESTIFIED IN GRAND JURY..." pg.7-8 INDICTMENT

 

I am not going to quote pages 8-9 here read them for yourself, how does the graduate assistant not tell Joe Pa the details when he first tells him of the incident, but tells Joe pa's boss's the details. This stinks to high heaven! Couple that with a missing DA declared dead who was investigating earlier incidents, an inept prosecution picked by who knows WHAT DA, (Because there is no way that you can convince me that the perpetrator didn't have kiddie porn on his computer and NO SEARCH WARRANTS WERE PERFORMED ON HIS HOUSE, OR THAT NO JUDGE WOULD SIGN A SEARCH WARRANT AFTER THE INITIAL EVIDENCE). Then the two administration officials ( who coincidentally look more like pedophiles than the perpetrator) who get arrested were supposedly told them that it was "inappropriate wrestling" WHICH WAS THE EXACT PHRASING THAT THE OTHER 8 VICTIMS SAID THE MOLESTING STARTED,( by wrestling, laying on top of them with a erection, then saying they needed to take a shower, and raping them when in the shower, THEN TAKING ONE TO CHURCH AFTERWARDS)?????

 

This has been planned for awhile now ALL the testimonies in the indictment sound like rehearsed lawyer speak, except for the assistant. I can hear the lawyers calling him now to offer him big Oprah interview money. I believe that a Federal appointed overseer will step in to give the University the credibility it needs to not go belly up. Read that indictment, after reading it they will have to change the name of the college, think I am joking read all the pages...if you can stomach it. I tell you it deeply wounds my spirit. Remember these ain't NYC, LA, or Chicago prosecutors. In Texas the would have called for the Texas Rangers and EVERYONE would have been rounded up rightfully so. I think within a week the perp commits suicide, this ain't going to be good for Joe Pa's health, and the college athletic landscape will be forever changed. I see legislators calling for limits on the amount colleges can receive from profits, new $2,000 stipend rescinded, and new regulations. I am telling you folks it is sick. The crime isn't what gets people its the coverup and this whole thing sounds like a script right off an episode of the Soprano's!!!

 

 

Lord God comfort, cover, and heal those boys, In Jesus Name. AMEN.