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re: Just Watched "Happy Valley" on Netflix
Posted on 6/10/15 at 8:27 pm to sms151t
Posted on 6/10/15 at 8:27 pm to sms151t
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Paterno did what he was expected to do. He reported it. Did he do enough? That's a moral judgement you have to make.
There is a serious problem if anyone thinks there is a judgement to be made. To be told that someone you work with closely every day was having sex with a little boy in the shower, every person with knowledge of it should be held accountable. "Doing my job" is not enough when there is extremely serious criminal activity occurring in your department with your knowledge. This is why I am fine with how harsh the NCAA was initially on them. It showed that the administration "protected" (even if that was by no action) the football program thus the football program deserved punishment.
As great of a coach he was, he could have helped save many kids from absoulte trauma and he didn't . Many things are more important than football.
ETA: What you said with what I am trying to explain is exactly why they should hvae been nailed to the wail. It was the football and school administration that failed to a serious degree.
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The NCAA went too far, they knew it. Their job is to regulate athletics and academics. Not be administering penalties for crimes. Baylor wasn't punished for teammates killing each other. They were punished for scholarship violations. UK wasn't punished for mail fraud, but for sending money to a recruit and taking tests for recruits.
All these examples show them hitting the schools for the failure of the football programs. Not the criminal behaviour of the players that the program had no knowledge of or had anything to do with.
This post was edited on 6/10/15 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 6/10/15 at 9:25 pm to flyAU
I don't understand how anyone thinks the thing to do is call your coach or call the president of the university.
you catch someone fricking a kid, you call the police.
you catch someone fricking a kid, you call the police.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 9:37 pm to flyAU
You're forgetting 1 big thing. Paterno didn't see anything. It was reported to him by McQueary. McQueary should have reported it immediately, not 12 to 24 hours later. I'm not the morality police. As a mandated reporter though I'm required to report anything. I'm not sure Paterno was, thereby common sense says yes do something. But if you're wrong and ruined a mans life for something you heard from someone who thought he saw. It's trickier than you think. We have luxury of knowing some of the facts after.
What jurisdiction does the NCAA have over a tenured employee that is doing nothing that violates NCAA regulations? That is why I stated the examples I did.
What jurisdiction does the NCAA have over a tenured employee that is doing nothing that violates NCAA regulations? That is why I stated the examples I did.
This post was edited on 6/10/15 at 9:39 pm
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