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| Joe Pa's legacy Posted by EWE TIGER Interesting read.  on 6/23 at 12:44 pmLINK quote: Reply • Back to Top |
| Sadly, I agree.... Reply • Back to Top |
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quote:as a mid-to-late 20s male, this is how i will remember him Reply • Back to Top |
| There are other ways to have a dirty program other than paying players. Covering this up is FAR worse than what SMU did IMO. Joe Pa was once my favorite sports figure, now he's just a dead, enabling coward. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: sadly I think in about 10 years I'll have forgotten Sandusky and I'll mostly remember JoePa in the ridiculous B1G Network commercial Reply • Back to Top |
| He was too old to handle this. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Don't give me that shite. He was too old to make a phone call to police? Too old to tell Sandusky to GTFO? He might as well have held the kids head to Sandusky's pants. He knew what as happening and let it happen. I'm mad he died and is spared from the prosecution and humiliation he deserves This post was edited on 6/23 at 1:08 pm Reply • Back to Top |
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| It will be hard to ever separate Paterno from thinking of a defenseless child in a shower. Years from now everything said or written of his career will mention this in some form or fashion. Sandusky may be written off as mentally disturbed or deviant. Paterno will be judged harsher, the "sane" one who chose to ignore the obvious. A lifetime of work thrown away, a reputation forever destroyed with any explanation, if there was one, taken with him to the grave. Reply • Back to Top |
| Do we know for sure exactly what Paterno was told? Paterno is certainly guilty of neglecting the situation but enabling is too strong a word in my opinion Reply • Back to Top |
| McQueary told him what he witnessed the day after he saw it. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Told him what? "Sandusky was abusing someone in the locker room" or "Sandusky was assfricking a kid in the shower"? Big difference. Was Paterno ever told that the situation had been resolved by the people he reported it to? Was Paterno aware that Sandusky was still hanging around campus running his "charity". To many things still unclear for me to judge if Paterno neglected a bad situation(a horrible thing to do) or enabled a monster(deserves to rot in hell) or something in between. This post was edited on 6/23 at 1:25 pm Reply • Back to Top |
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quote: frick.  As a guy that has followed College football for over 45 years, I am ANGRY. Joe Pa was an institution. Happy Valley. I would rather factor on the memories of how great A coach he was than anything else. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: A story that has changed and was not immediately brought to him? Paterno did nothing wrong legally. We do not know what was said, what Paterno did or did not do, and who ultimately allowed Sandusky to keep a locker. People are hammering him based on speculation. Reply • Back to Top |
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| C'mon. Look at Sandusky's "retirement". JoePa knew what was going on and was covering it up for years. Reply • Back to Top |
| Cool, he did the bare legal minimum. Good for him. Had he done to morally right thing to do and call the actual cops to investigate, he'd still be seen as a great man. But he didn't. He did the least he could do and wiped his hands of it. That's enabling IMO. Reply • Back to Top |
| He allowed Sandusky to use the facilities after that incident. More enabling. Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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