Joe Paterno

"We had to protect the program." - Paterno

Disgusting doesn't begin to describe it

Nice Catholic Joe was?

I hope he's enjoying Hell.

since 1976 ?  Holy Cow, JoPa !!  I wonder if this will mean more lawsuits against the university?

The human wreckage in the wake of that era's denial of pedophiles has shaped so much of the public's perception of great institutions it's unbelievable. Penn State was a great institution now permanently tarnished and forever connected to this horrific tragedy. The Catholic Church the same. If that era taught us anything, it's that the cover up is often worse than the crime. They covered up these POSs and allowed them to destroy young lives for decades... Penn State should get the death penalty for this. It sure is a helluva lot worse than taking some cash from a booster. 

The f**king evil this sh*t represents goes so far beyond... 

The Ref fka Blair Kiel posted:

Nice Catholic Joe was?

I hope he's enjoying Hell.

Exactly and Sandusky can't get to hell fast enough as far as I am concerned.  It does make me wonder how many boys were molested during that whole time he was coaching and it was covered up or they are still too ashamed to come forward.

Having known and talked about this with some high school classmates that were molested by a male teacher, it's clear that the effects of this are lifelong - more divorces, mental health issues, etc. They learn to cope, but for many of them it never "gets better."

No question that the word "Paterno" should have a new meaning  - when people hear this they should think of a hypocrite who presented an artificial public image who was a POS person. He and Cardinal Law (Boston archdiocese) should have a special wing in hell just for them.

This is terrible no matter how you look at it, but this new information is even worse. If you were even to try to remotely defend Paterno (and believe me I'm not), it would be one thing if he heard the allegations and then went to Sandusky and asked him if this had happened and Sandusky denied them and Paterno took his word for it (wrong, but you could see that happening). This shows that Paterno probably knew by then (1976) and just didn't want to lose his defensive coordinator. If Sandusky wouldn't have been a good DC, he'd have been gone by then.

I'm all about due process and giving someone the benefit of the doubt but it's clear to me that Joe Pa had ultimate power and control over not only the program but the school itself and there was no check and balance system. 

This might not be corruption and scandal on the level of an SMU - but from a moral standpoint this is far worse.  You know there were a lot of victims that either didn't come forward or were totally dismissed and there's a 40 year pattern of behavior at work here.

There will always be the rubes that think he's done nothing wrong or want to minimize his role in this matter but IMO this is as bad as it gets. 

Anti-props to the school and NCAA for going easy on those involved and the program itself.  If there was ever a case of ending a program altogether to send a message this is it.