Joe Paterno Was a Selfish Liar

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Flag ... "illegal use of partial truths" Flag ... "illegal procedure of use of statements from Curley to say that there are emails to back it up" Flag ... "Piling on" Three administrators including the head of the campus police don't do their job.  No one says that Paterno knew or did not know of the 1998 rape, but Curley said that Paterno was "anxious about it" in an email when the administrative committee was looking into it, and finding there that it was "not worthy of proceeding, certainly nothing criminal".  Sandusky was not an employee of Paterno's after 1999 and the Administration issued, as part of Sandusky's retirement, a permit to use the facilities for Sandusky's charity.  The abuses took place on the football complex campus, but was not part of Paterno's charge. We all can agree, including Paterno himself, that he "coulda-shoulda" done more, and former coach Bowden is correct, the statue of Paterno now only serves as a reminder of this terrible atrocity, but throwing Paterno in with the Administrators after he thought he had taken it to people whose professional job was to handle such things, is but "piling on".  Paterno deserves derision, but not like the twit that wrote this does here ... no such evidence of such in the Freeh report. Child abuse is so terrible, so repugnant, that everyone wants to cast the widest net, and seek justice and revenge in such an intense way, that the facts get lost.  Freeh's final analysis was that Paterno was culpable, not because of what he DID do, nor because of what he DID NOT DO, but because he had stature on the campus, and at least a tertiary knowledge of the incidents, that HE COULD HAVE stopped it forthright, unlike almost any other coach at any other school ... he was that legendary, but did not use his power or stature to make sure the most vulnerable were protected, be they under his charge or not. The rest of this article is but emotional shrill.

They should do the same to Joe's statue as they did to Saddam Husseins, throw a rope around it and pull it down!

"Sally Jenkins says the football coach cared more about his legacy than kids"  um, yeah.....thats what normally is called reality