re: JoePa knew about Sandusky in 1976

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What is your endgame with this nonsense?

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For everyone to admit that Paterno was incapable of any more action that would have saved kids from being molested.

He has TJgator, and a dude who has been around Paterno a few times.

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He has TJgator, and a dude who has been around Paterno a few times.

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I'm sure Zamoro is also still lurking in banland wishing he could re-post links "proving" Joe Pa was innocent and screwed over by a media witch hunt.

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The Athletic Director and the Vice President or President granted it not the Head Coach. I am sure you knew that though.

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If the Sainted Joe Pa had fired the man's arse and reported him the FIRST time he caught him diddling with children, he never could have been GRANTED tenure by the AD and VP or Prez.

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Why would JoePa allow Sandusky to do it and cover it up? He hasn't been implicated as joining in, so why would he allow if he knew what was going on?

JoePa had no clue

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Oh, ok. Well that settles that.

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JoePa had no clue.

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Isn't this absolutely false?

A Paterno family-funded investigative report posted on Paterno.com

Seems legit

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Have you read it?

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Yes. Basically all it does is say there is a shortage of direct evidence of Paterno covering things up or being directly involved in improprieties. There is still a wealth of circumstantial evidence to the contrary, though. Anyone with any cursory knowledge of Penn State and how things were/are run there knows JoePa had his finger in everything

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Yes. Basically all it does is say there is a shortage of direct evidence of Paterno covering things up or being directly involved in improprieties.

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And that he didn't know Joe Paterno, had never met Joe Paterno, and he told the Paterno family if it came out looking bad for Paterno he was going to write his report honestly.

I've talked to Jim Clemente on the phone and I can honestly say, when it comes to child sexual abuse, he is one of the smartest people I have ever talked to about the subject.

I was in agreement with everyone who was calling Ped-State and cheered the removal of JoePa's statue. I read the Clemente Report because I felt obligated to form an educated opinion on the subject.

It helped me understand the dynamics of sexual abuse better.

If evidence comes out that JoePa was a pedophile, I'll re-evaluate how I feel about him knowing.

But every parent of a sexual abuse victim who is clueless to their child's abuse is way closer to their own child than JoePa was to Sandusky's victims. How could he have known?

Especially with no one coming out and saying, "Jerry was f-in a kid in the shower."

You still don't seem to grasp what I'm saying. Even assuming the report is 100% unbiased and perfectly executed, its findings do little more than just cast some doubt on the Freeh report's infallibility. It indicates there is a lack of direct evidence of JoePa's involvement, thus raising reasonable doubts. Which would be great for him in a criminal investigation. But my brain isn't a criminal investigation and this isn't about legality to me. The circumstantial evidence is more than enough to show me that JoePa knew some despicable things were going on and did the absolute bare minimum he had to do save his own arse. From there the failure just went up the ladder. Joe was a man of great power and had he done just a little bit more and thought about someone or something other than himself and Penn State football, dozens of kids lives wouldn't have been irreparably harmed.