Joe Paterno (merged threads)

[devoted2ru]

Paterno was one of the most powerful individuals, if not the most powerful individual, at PSU for decades. -And when it came to anything, and I mean anything, that might have remotely impacted the football program, it's extremely hard to believe that someone with that kind of clout wouldn't have known about it. To think anything else really kind of borders on the ludicrous.

Whatever the situation involved might have been, the decision to act on the information available to him or ignore it was undoubtedly always Joe Pa.'s call. And in this case it appears he decided to look the other way, and to do that for years and years, in order to protect what was apparently the most important thing of all to him..."The Brand".

 

[RU-AGK]

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hope this is sarcasm.....

His post is sarcasm but that is exactly how they feel.

 

[cicero grimes]

Maybe they can put back Joe Pa's statute facing a statute of Jerry molesting a child with the inscription "But Really, He Did Not Know"

 

[Kbee3]

I'll just say that while the BWI boards are despicable, I'm certain that there are others who represent their community more positively. Don't judge the whole school by the people on those boards.

Exactly. My wife's family lives out in central Pa. and a number of them are Pedd St. grads.
They all want nothing to do with PSU football..... since this story came out.
Not everyone out there places winning football games above child rape.

 

[srru86]

1976 > 409

 

[Abro1975]

Ped St will never shake it's name.

 

[kjb32812]

 

[PatrickRU92]

P.O.S.
I'm sure Joe has "walked away" from lots of crap like this over the years.

He did. Nothing as serious as covering up child molestation. But don't forget his teams rap sheets. He didn't give a crap--"Boys will be boys".

He wanted NOTHING to disrupt the program. It was obvious this is the way he was long before the Sandusky crap came out.

 

[Rutgers85]

Is that paterno turning his back on a victim?

 

[newell138]

P.O.S.
I'm sure Joe has "walked away" from lots of crap like this over the years.

as a matter of fact he did just that

 

[srru86]

NY Daily News
Joe Paterno was told Jerry Sandusky abused a 14-year-old boy in 1976, according to testimony in newly unsealed documents

"Penn State president Eric Barron said in a statement the university doesn't plan to provide additional comment on the unsealed documents but said, "It is important to reiterate that the alleged knowledge of former Penn State employees is not proven, and should not be treated as such."​

Yes, because you pay out tens of millions of dollars in settlements over decades for stuff that didn't happen. Right.

 

[krup]

This timeline makes a lot more sense because there is no way Sandusky started doing this at 50 years old in the late 90's.

 

[MADHAT1]

FWIW, Schiano's name is specifically there. Mike McQueary in a deposition claims Schiano knew.

The difference between Penn St fans and Rutgers fans is:
We don't proclaim Schiano innocent of knowing and refuse to look at the evidence that makes him look guilty like Penn St fans do when the facts showing Paterno was part ( maybe the leader) of Penn St covering up Sandusky molesting children as their coach and Coach Emeritus

Rutgers fans are more than likely to proclaim Schiano guilty before all the the facts are known and only claim him innocent if the facts prove he is.
Rutgers doesn't put its FB program ahead of the truth and RU fans aren't going to excuse Schaino for anything just because he made the RU FB program respectable.

We Are Not Penn St.

 

[jubaaltman]

Whole thread = imbecilic.

 

[newell138]

Whole thread = imbecilic.

Said by no one but a PSU fan

 

[MADHAT1]

Said by no one but a PSU fan

Checked the Nit board to see what was being said, not worth discussing except:
The BWI mods are asking its members to report posts so they can be deleted.
Probably want all the posts agreeing Paterno was told about Sandusky ,by the victims ,
be taken down and only those posts blindly defending Joe " The Enabler" Paterno left up.

 

[fg7321]

Well that ends Greg's hopes of ever coaching PSU and probably why it did not happen when they went to Franklin. They all knew.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

From reddit..."That statue is the only 11 year old thing Penn State has ever wanted to protect." Ouch...

 

[Knight Ed]

Bradley was also named in the trial as hanging out outside the shower when Sandusky was in there with another kid. Seems strange that Bradley is claiming that everyone seems to be lying about where he was and what he said when all this was going on.

 

[NotInRHouse]

The irony of them blaming Schiano, so basically every assistant knew but Joe didn't...

Still they cannot explain the desperate silence for over a decade from 2001 after he waited the weekend and told his boss and nothing happened.

The 1976 incident jives perfectly with what we know. Joe knew for decades and decades, and did nothing.

And the school President (who also defended Winston and the criminal culture at FSU)...um....you just paid settlements on made up claims? It it isn't true, why did you pay?

That school is a blight on humanity. Yes, a small minority of their fans admit Joe was wrong but the culture there is against them.

 

[czxqa]

From Mike McQuery's deposition about what he saw in the Lasch building:

Q. Did you discuss with your father whether the police should be contacted?
A. Yes.
Q. And did you do that that evening?
A. No.
Q. Why not?
A. We just thought it best that Coach Paterno knew about it first and foremost.
Q. Why Coach Paterno?
A. There is background to it, but...
Q. Well, give me whatever background you feel I should have to understand.
A. Okay. Coach Paterno has always made it clear that anything that happens in the football office, the football program, on the facilities, he know about it first if it's of a nature that is -- I don't know how to word -- high level or extreme or that he should be aware of. And so after much debate, again, with my father and Dr. Dranov, that's what we decided to do.

Standing rule, always go to Coach Paterno first. Exactly the way everyone always knew him to be the last 50 years. Joe took care of everything in house. Always did. How anyone can now plead ignorance on his behalf with a straight face boggles the mind.

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

Paterno was one of the most powerful individuals, if not the most powerful individual, at PSU for decades. -And when it came to anything, and I mean anything, that might have remotely impacted the football program, it's extremely hard to believe that someone with that kind of clout wouldn't have known about it. To think anything else really kind of borders on the ludicrous.

Whatever the situation involved might have been, the decision to act on the information available to him or ignore it was undoubtedly always Joe Pa.'s call. And in this case it appears he decided to look the other way, and to do that for years and years, in order to protect what was apparently the most important thing of all to him..."The Brand".

Correction: Joe was the most powerful person in the STATE of Pennsylvania

 

[RutgersUnion]

Checked the Nit board to see what was being said, not worth discussing except:
The BWI mods are asking its members to report posts so they can be deleted.
Probably want all the posts agreeing Paterno was told about Sandusky ,by the victims ,
be taken down and only those posts blindly defending Joe " The Enabler" Paterno left up.

I had a look over there and I get the impression it's really only a handful of guys in every thread. The thing that took me by surprise is the extent of some of the conspiracy theories.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Creepy state penn gonna creepy!

 

[DJ Spanky]

I had a look over there and I get the impression it's really only a handful of guys in every thread. The thing that took me by surprise is the extent of some of the conspiracy theories.

It's them against the college football world!