Hide Yo Kids. Paterno/Sandusky Trial/Penn State Megathread

[shag773]

That's a bad move my him. However, I guess he ignored it for 9 years, so why not do it some more. However, people don't care about Nebraska, but instead little boys in PSU showers.
The media is going to dig up more facts, so he might as well just come out and say something.

If he doesn't address it today then I'm on board with everyone that says he must step down.

Damn, Joe Pa....

 

[FedEx227]

Did you honestly expect someone in college football (or football in general) to actually face controversy head on? C'mon.

Of course this is the route they'd take. "We just wanna talk about the game this week!"

 

[shag773]

Did you honestly expect someone in college football (or football in general) to actually face controversy head on? C'mon.

Of course this is the route they'd take. "We just wanna talk about the game this week!"

You know what man, yes, I thought he would. I thought Joe was a guy would would never put himself, his career, or some sick scumbag who worked for him before doing the right thing.

I am one the biggest PSU fans out there, but to be honest I couldn't give 2 fucks about the game this weekend, and quite frankly neither does anyone else. Address the issue. If he doesn't, I hope every reporter who shows up to his presser walks the fuck outta the room.

 

[ralaw]

If he doesn't address it today then I'm on board with everyone that says he must step down.

Damn, Joe Pa....

Yeah, I really don't understand why he wouldn't say anything. Its already been determined that he did what he was legally supposed to do (assuming he told the truth to the Grand Jury), which seems to be the case. He'd be better off just saying something to how he regrets what happened, didn't use good judgement and is sorry. These days people (the media) just want an explanation and if you refuse to do that it can get really, really ugly.

 

[nflman2033]

thats todays society.. guilty until proven innocent..

Does that make it right? Our system is supposed to be the other way around, its easy to cop out and say everyone else is doing it, I for one would like to give people the benefits of doubt. It's that system that system which separates us from fascists. Our system maybe flawed but as an individual I choose to use that philosophy of innocent until proven guilty.

 

[mgoblue2290]

You know what man, yes, I thought he would. I thought Joe was a guy would would never put himself, his career, or some sick scumbag who worked for him before doing the right thing.

I am one the biggest PSU fans out there, but to be honest I couldn't give 2 fucks about the game this weekend, and quite frankly neither does anyone else. Address the issue. If he doesn't, I hope every reporter who shows up to his presser walks the fuck outta the room.

He did it for 9 years. Why change that now?

 

[jeffx]

Kim Jones on YES pointed out that the Grad Assitant was a former football player and at the time was a big enough guy that if he had been moved to knock the fuck out of Sandusky, could have. Can't blame the guy for not doing it, but physically...shit.

I do blame him. Hey, if you see that shit going on in front of you, you put a stop to it and rescue the kid.

 

[FedEx227]

Naturally, PSU has cancelled their press conference today.

Learned from the Catholic church obviously on how to handle these types of things.

 

[shag773]

Naturally, PSU has cancelled their press conference today.

Learned from the Catholic church obviously on how to handle these types of things.

Well, I'm officially on board. He has to go. This is a disgrace.

 

[mgoblue2290]

Naturally, PSU has cancelled their press conference today.

Learned from the Catholic church obviously on how to handle these types of things.

They are handling this terribly. The longer they wait to act, the worse it gets. PSU needs to start getting rid of people immediately. How Spanier, Paterno, and the GA now assistant McQueary are even still employed by Penn State is a mystery to me.

 

[NAHSTE]

Funny that people still need "facts" ... Here are the facts ... Penn State officials knew an employee/former employee was raping children, there were three witnessed cases of this in fact within four years, all inside Penn State football facilities, and not only did they not stop him, they continued to let him use his prominence in the university to "work with" children through overnight camps which were held on Penn State satellite campuses for the next decade.

LOL at "waiting for more facts" ... It's child rape, anything not done to stop it by ALL PARTIES is a massive cover up. But Penn State didn't just neglect to stop Sandusky, they continued to sanction his overnight camps, allow him to remain a friend of the program, etc.

What other facts do we need?

 

[EmpireWF]

Taken from the NY Daily news...

UPDATE: Joe Paterno's weekly press conference has been canceled.

Here is the statement read to the assembled media by sports information director Jeff Nelson:

"Due to the ongoing legal circumstances centered around the recent allegations and charges, we have determined that today's press conference cannot be held and will not be rescheduled."

Nelson did not take questions before leaving the podium, but when asked if Paterno would resign he simply said: "No."

:facepalm:

Slimy fucks. How do you cancel it 40 minutes beforehand and then blame an ongoing investigation?

Now it just looks like they're either hiding or trying to protect their own ass from further shit. Ugly.

And from the AP...

Paterno’s son Scott told The Associated Press that the decision was made by President Graham Spanier’s office.

Scott said that his father was disappointed and was prepared to take questions about the scandal as well as the upcoming game against Nebraska.

Spanier is another guy who should step down. He was as ridiculous in this debacle of non-decisions as the rest of the cast of characters.

 

[NAHSTE]

Forgot that the Big10 championship game trophy is named after Joe Paterno.

Oooff.

 

[FedEx227]

Is he a leader or a legend? I forgot.

 

[NAHSTE]

In the words of Ken Harrelson ... HE GONE.


http://t.co/mjgux7Pq

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.

 

[EmpireWF]

President of PSU should be out on his ass, too.

Trustees need to clean house.

 

[ralaw]

Latest reports have Penn State planning Paterno’s exit.

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.

At age 84 and with 46 seasons as the Penn State head coach behind him, Paterno’s extraordinary run of success — one that produced tens of millions of dollars for the school and two national championships, and that established him as one of the nation’s most revered leaders, will end with a stunning and humiliating final chapter.

Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator under Paterno, has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys across a 15-year period, and Paterno has been widely criticized for failing to involve the police when he learned of an allegation of one assault of a young boy in 2002.

Additionally, two top university officials — Gary Schultz, the senior vice president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the athletic director — were charged with perjury and failure to report to authorities what they knew of the allegations, as required by state law.

Since Sandusky’s arrest Saturday, Penn State — notably its president, Graham Spanier, and Paterno — have come under withering criticism for a failure to act adequately after learning, at different points over the years, that Sandusky might have been abusing children. Newspapers have called for their resignations; prosecutors have suggested their inaction led to more children being harmed by Sandusky; and students and faculty at the university have expressed a mix of disgust and confusion, and a hope that much of what prosecutors have charged is not true.

On Monday law enforcement officials said that Paterno had met his legal obligation in alerting his superiors at the university when he learned of the 2002 allegation against Sandusky. But they suggested he might well have failed a moral test for what to do when confronted with such a disturbing allegation involving a child not even in his teens.

Paterno has not been charged in the matter, but his failure to report to authorities what he knew about the 2002 incident, in which Sandusky allegedly sexually assaulted a young boy at Penn State’s football complex, has become a flashpoint, stirring anger among the board members and an outpouring of public criticism about his handling of the matter.

In recent days Paterno has lost the support of many board members, and their conversations illustrate a decisive shift in the power structure at the university. In 2004, for instance, Paterno brushed off a request by the university president that he step down.

Paterno came to Penn State in 1950 as a 23-year-old assistant coach making $3,600 a year. He planned to stay for two seasons, to pay off his student loans from Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature.

He became the head coach in 1966, and he has been widely credited with helping spearhead the Penn State football program and the rest of the university from a local enterprise into a national brand. Along the way, Beaver Stadium grew to 108,000 seats from 29,000 and Penn State’s endowment grew from virtually nothing to more than $1 billion.

What separated Paterno from many of his coaching peers until this week was that he did this with few questions about how he grew the program. Penn State’s lofty graduation rates and education-first ideals, known as Paterno’s Grand Experiment, became as synonymous with the program as its plain uniforms and dominating defenses.

Paterno led Penn State to national titles in the 1982 and 1986 seasons, and he complemented the on-field success with the reputation of a throwback sideline professor, whose tie, thick glasses and black Nike coaching shoes became as predictable in Northeast autumns as the changing foliage.

Paterno’s reach on campus extended well beyond the football program. He and his wife, Sue, have donated more than $4 million to the university. On campus, everything from an ice cream flavor at the Creamery to a library now bears his name.

“There’s no individual in the entire 120- or 130-year history of the university that has had a greater impact on the institution than Joe Paterno,” Larry Foster, a former trustee and a president of the alumni association, told The New York Times in 2004. “He’s just reached into so many areas.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/s...-state-said-to-be-planning-paternos-exit.html

 

[shag773]

Paterno was leaving at the end of this year as soon as this came out...however, I think the shit storm that has ensued will speed things up some..

 

[mgoblue2290]

In the words of Ken Harrelson ... HE GONE.


http://t.co/mjgux7Pq

Their should not be a need for discussion. He should be out tomorrow. He does not deserve to finish out the year. The Big Ten better take his name off that damn trophy too.

 

[FirstTimer]

PSU to this board:

:hemad: