re: Paterno family are in denial

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I find it really hard to believe that JoePa didn't know about the investigation in 98.

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Didn't he can Jerry then because of the investigation (not that he believed he was guilty)?

There are so many inaccuracies between the Freeh report and what was reported in the media its laughable. The truth probably lies somewhere between the conclusion of the Freeh report and the conclusion of the Paterno report.

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Then in 2001, JoePa receives word from the red-haired QB coach that Jerry is humping some kid in the shower.

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That's not what MM told him.

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JoePa should have went right to the police at that point,

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Why? For all he knew, MM could have lied or not seen what he thought he saw. Hell, why didn't MM go to the police?

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but he reported it to the university a day later and then it was swept under the rug.

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I read he called the President that night and told him. Either way, Joe reported it to his superiors and let them handle it. He was given secondhand information that may or may not have even been true. If it was during the season, he probably just wanted someone else to deal with it so he could focus on his job. It's not like he was there to witness it anyways.

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What did he tell him then?

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MM told JoePa that he thought he saw Sandusky fondling/touching a boy inappropriately in the shower.

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Wasn't the most damning evidence in the Freeh report the emails between Joe Pa, the President of Penn State, and the AD telling them to not take action.

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It wasn't Paterno in the emails. They mentioned "the coach". No one ever mentioned Paterno. They just said that JoePa wasn't in the loop on the '98 investigation.

Looks like that media narrative and the Freeh Report are crumbling but no one wants to hear the truth now.

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he kept a guy on staff who made up a crazy serious allegation about a dude Joe had known for over 30 years and never even brought it up to the man in question.

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Jay Paterno just said he was allowed to stay on campus bc it was in his contract. And Joe never even saw him because he was in and out early. man what a joke

So based on what I am reading, did ESPN turn over control of their network to the Paterno family? Will the other side get to go on apparently EVERY SINGLE ESPN PROGRAM to respond?

This sounds more one sided than their whitewash of the Manti Te'o story.

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Jay Paterno was on mike and mike this a.m. Basically, you have to believe that Joe Pa knew absolutely nothing about the '98 investigation into Sandusky to buy the Paterno family's side of the story.

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They have e-mails (backed up by testimony) where they memoralized that all the "key players" had agreed to turn Sandusky over to the authorities. Then another e-mail went out the next day where the President of the University said he and Paterno had met the night before and decided to keep mum and not contact the authorities.

Is everyone lying (including these e-mails) but the Paterno family? And, if the second e-mail wasn't true, why didn't Paterno say something back then since the President was all but blaming Paterno for not going to the authorities -- AS THEY HAD ALL AGREED TO DO.

The "lesson" of Penn State is that no coach should ever be allowed to become THAT powerful on a college campus, i.e., the MOST powerful person on that campus who could override the decisions of the President and the relevant deans.