Insurance expert: PSU had SIX chances to tell us about Sandusky
http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/insurance_expert_penn_state_ha.html
Penn Live is digging through new court docs released today. Of note, the docs confirm Paterno was told by an alleged victim in 1976 that he was molested by Sandusky.
Penn Live notes only two of the six cases/reports have been tested in court, but all six resulted in settlements from the university.
I'm sure we will get more details throughout the day as news outlets parse through the documents. Another big blow for the #409FOREVER camp.
You should go on wheel of fortune!
And agree with sentiment Fuck Penn State, and Fuck Paterno for putting wins ahead of these kids. That camp can no longer put the old addage of he was too old to understad what was going on. You don't get that much smoke and not yell fire.
The Match Game. Even Fanny Flagg and Charles Nelson Reilly knew the answer to that one.
NUKE Penn State.
.... from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Upvote for the "Aliens" reference.
...100% agree to playing Buttgers & Maryland every season for the rest of recorded time if it meant the B1G would kick Penn State the fuck out.
Buttgers lol
assured destruction. If we launch our nukes they are going to launch theirs and so on and so forth. It won't end well. Haven't you ever seen Crimson Tide or The Day After. I have no problem with a good old fashion air raid but lets keep the nukes out of it.
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People aren't trying to defend Paterno the man, they're trying to defend the idea of Paterno. The "grand experiment", the idea that there was a right way to do things, the thought that people could be better than they were. It was a beautiful idea. Still is.
People want to hold on to that ideal. They believed in it for so long. It must still exist, otherwise what's the point?
In this, they've dissociated completely the man that enabled a child molester and the ideals he espoused. I don't hold with that, but I understand it.
There have been so many cases of this through history. We just can't tolerate the blindness any more.
I appreciate your trying to understand the point of view.
My response to that point of view:
1) Paterno reportedly had several opportunities to truly stand up for those values he espoused, and he failed to do so.
2) Reading today's news, there were several additional coaches and assistants who witnessed or heard of things and could also have lived up to the values.
3) Given 2, there must have been general knowledge of odd behavior (which has been alleged in the court documents) that the very people who want the statue put back themselves knew about.
Too bad for them that Paterno the man absolutely destroyed Paterno the idea.
i saw that movie
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1. melt his statue
2. use the molten metal to form a HE 155mm artillery round.
3. Fire said artillery round at PSU's football stadium when empty.
4.???
5. Kick PSU out of the B1G.
6. Profit
I regret that I have but one upvote to give.
I LOLed at profit
Very nice plan indeed.
If this cannot be achieved for some reason, I propose the alternative of reshaping the statue into a large toilet, free to the use of the public. That way, people can do to Joe Paterno precisely what he did to so many others by saying nothing so that his program could be preserved.
If, during the reshaping process, you need to include any cling-ons, feel free.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
that a gnome would develop...
Please kick this school out of the B1G.
EDIT: Here is an article with the newly released documents attached: LINK
From Washington Post this morning (LINK):
A man testified in court in 2014 that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno ignored his complaints of a sexual assault committed by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in 1976 when the man was a 14-year-old boy, according to new court documents unsealed Tuesday in a Philadelphia court. The victim, who was identified in court records as John Doe 150, said that while he was attending a football camp at Penn State, Sandusky touched him as he showered. Sandusky’s finger penetrated the boy’s rectum, Doe testified in court in 2014, and the victim asked to speak with Paterno about it. Doe testified that he specifically told Paterno that Sandusky had sexually assaulted him, and Paterno ignored it. “Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, ‘I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?'” the man’s lawyer asked him in 2014. “Specifically. Yes … I was shocked, disappointed, offended. I was insulted… I said, is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?” Paterno, the man testified, just walked away.
Here's the link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/12/joe-patern…
Disgusting shit if true.
horrifying. and so many, so very very many, were abused after this asshole could've been stopped.
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Sadly this won't shut up the Joe-bots. Nothing short of a video of paterno sitting on the edge of a bed while Sandusky was molesting boys will convince them otherwise. I just wish they would slink back into their hole and go away
Joe-bots would come up with the excuse that Joe's legendary coke-bottle-for-glasses prescription was out of date and he didn't actually see anything.
Paterno was just a sweet, naive man who didn't understand how this could have ever happened. Certainly his long time friend and collegue wasn't capable of this....... ughhhhhhh
This is actually what they've told me. He was senile, and had no idea what was going on. But that's not an acceptable response, you can't have a senile person running that type of institution. Either he was culpable, or senile, and neither is OK.
It first became evident during our '97 game. When Woodson split out left and PSU did not put a defender out to the slot where he lined up. They had a long time to make the adjustment, and I was getting anxious, wondering why Griese wasn't calling for that ball to be snapped. Well it finally was and Woodson, doing nothing more than running straight to the goal line, caught the ball in stride and marched in untouched. That was ugly.
People will argue his assistants should have notified him, but they probably did. He wasn't listening to anyone then, anymore than he did during this whole ugly scandal. Then when he came out in the second half, with his head set on and took over the play calling, like he was going to lead them back to victory. When they fall, they fall fast and it's embarrassing. His after game actions, chasing down officials and actually putting his hands on them was only tolerated because of who he was. If they would have wanted to be pricks, they could have suspended him from quite a few games.
"They'll clarify that he was only senile off the field. On the field he was "as sharp as ever" and earned those 400 victories, of course."
Should be an interesting day over at BlackShoes Diary. Gonna really have work overtime to come up with plausable denyability for the JoeBots. And I'm sure by this afternoon they will have figured out some way to deny St Joe's involvement AND blame the NCAA for picking on them.
Greg Schiano and Tom Bradley --- for the first time --- have their names in print in relation to this. McQueary called them out in a deposition.
Call me insensitive, but as regards the individual claims, I don't particularly know, or care to try to assess. Some of these claims are likely true, and some of these claims are likely less true. Such is the case when $$$ is involved.
But Schiano & Bradley. They are alive, and of sound mind & body. Whether they like it or not, they have questions to answer, and they can't run and hide.
Right. This just gets deeper and deeper.
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