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Re: In retrospect what do you now think about Joe Paterno and the PSU scandal?
« Reply #120 on: February 15, 2015, 03:22:24 PM »

Offline Eja117

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Saw this on a PSU facebook thing. I'm not 100% sure what all of it refers to. My best guess is that the way this thing is seen in the state of PA is really different than a lot of the rest of the country.

I think the best case scenario at the exact moment for the JoeBots and PSU diehards is to get to a place where PSU's position and the position of these administrators and Joe isn't really believed or trusted, but neither is the Freeh Report....which would then put us in a position of waiting for trials and lawsuits, which in a perfect world should have happened in the first place, but the media has a strong interest in wanting to be perceived as a court room and as investigators/prosecutors. I think we in New England got a sense of that with deflategate


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http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/05/jerry_sandusky_cover-up_charge.html

So conspiracy charges have been dropped and a perjury charge.

The theory in PSU circles is that these guys are just neeeeevvvverrr going to go to trial. They think the whole case was based on these guys ratting each other out but they never did so now they have no case against them. 

To be fair to Spanier he's suing PSU so he doesn't seem to mind going through discovery.

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Just like the church. Lot of people getting away free . Evil stuff.

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http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/jerry-sandusky/article108012672.html


another charge has been dropped. Not sure if you would hear about it in the main stream media.

Not sure what is taking so long to actually put these guys on trial. I've never heard of a 4 year wait.

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For decades PSU & their football coach knowingly allowed countless children to be raped under their watch b/c of a big $$$ game. Their punishment is nothing compared to their crimes.

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For decades PSU & their football coach knowingly allowed countless children to be raped under their watch b/c of a big $$$ game. Their punishment is nothing compared to their crimes.

Mk
Why do you believe this? Because of what Louis Freeh says? What if they drop all charges for everyone involved except Sandusky?

Also....in regards to the football coach....going to the campus police within 36 hours of being told of a vague incident (that didn't even happen) seems an odd way to knowingly allow children to be hurt

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For decades PSU & their football coach knowingly allowed countless children to be raped under their watch b/c of a big $$$ game. Their punishment is nothing compared to their crimes.

Mk
Why do you believe this? Because of what Louis Freeh says? What if they drop all charges for everyone involved except Sandusky?

Also....in regards to the football coach....going to the campus police within 36 hours of being told of a vague incident (that didn't even happen) seems an odd way to knowingly allow children to be hurt

Yeah, I admit that I haven't followed the story as close as you, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that people like mkogav are even less versed on it than I am. To think that Paterno knowingly covered up countless molestations so that he could protect Penn State football seems a bit short sighted to say the least. Besides, he was the big name in the program, not Sandusky, why protect that piece of trash?

I am on record as saying that Paterno got a bad wrap in this case and I am standing by that. It is a real shame how quickly he went from hero to villain to dead.


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I am on record as saying that Paterno got a bad wrap in this case and I am standing by that. It is a real shame how quickly he went from hero to villain to dead.

I am going to guess that it is not a shame how quickly he went to dead.
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Eff Paterno.  He's a scumbag.

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Just like the church. Lot of people getting away free . Evil stuff.

TP.  Paterno is the equivalent of the pope.  Evil mf'ers.

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For decades PSU & their football coach knowingly allowed countless children to be raped under their watch b/c of a big $$$ game. Their punishment is nothing compared to their crimes.

Mk
Why do you believe this? Because of what Louis Freeh says? What if they drop all charges for everyone involved except Sandusky?

Also....in regards to the football coach....going to the campus police within 36 hours of being told of a vague incident (that didn't even happen) seems an odd way to knowingly allow children to be hurt

Yeah, I admit that I haven't followed the story as close as you, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that people like mkogav are even less versed on it than I am. To think that Paterno knowingly covered up countless molestations so that he could protect Penn State football seems a bit short sighted to say the least. Besides, he was the big name in the program, not Sandusky, why protect that piece of trash?

I am on record as saying that Paterno got a bad wrap in this case and I am standing by that. It is a real shame how quickly he went from hero to villain to dead.
Personally I wish he were still alive to testify if needed.

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Time to move on from this garbage...put Sandusky in the Electric Chair, pull the switch...bury him in a ditch...wipe your hands and get on with life.
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"Short sighted"... wow.

Go ahead and do not stand by that post.
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For decades PSU & their football coach knowingly allowed countless children to be raped under their watch b/c of a big $$$ game. Their punishment is nothing compared to their crimes.

Mk
Why do you believe this? Because of what Louis Freeh says? What if they drop all charges for everyone involved except Sandusky?

Also....in regards to the football coach....going to the campus police within 36 hours of being told of a vague incident (that didn't even happen) seems an odd way to knowingly allow children to be hurt

I find it very hard to believe they didn't know.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17015181/testimony-unsealed-documents-alleges-joe-paterno-knew-jerry-sandusky-abuse-1976

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Guy was a sick individual. .....old man Parerno should have investigated and fired him soon as he knew . 

To turn his head on something like this was criminal to your fellow humans .

He failed an important test in life.