The report was never going to exonerate the people identified as being involved, i.e. Spanier, Schultz, Curley, and Paterno. I could have told you from the begining that they were going to be harsh on all of these people and the University, but most importantly they were going to put the majority of the blame on these 4 people. Why? because these four people are gone. They could say yeah, there are definitely some things we need to change in our system that we didn't have in place, and we will make this university safer and put in place a better system for reporting crimes. It was very calculated. As you said, they want to be able to take it to NCAA and BIG Ten and say see it was just these people, they are gone and we are going to improve our University with these policies laid out in the report.
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The report was never going to exonerate the people identified as being involved, i.e. Spanier, Schultz, Curley, and Paterno. I could have told you from the begining that they were going to be harsh on all of these people and the University, but most importantly they were going to put the majority of the blame on these 4 people. Why? because these four people are gone. They could say yeah, there are definitely some things we need to change in our system that we didn't have in place, and we will make this university safer and put in place a better system for reporting crimes. It was very calculated. As you said, they want to be able to take it to NCAA and BIG Ten and say see it was just these people, they are gone and we are going to improve our University with these policies laid out in the report.
A very small group of men did this to protect one of their fellow good ol' boys. This had nothing to do with maintaining success in the football program. If a coach, 3 years retired gets, busted for sexual molestation in 2001, you really think that's going to effect their on field results? If this was about maintaining football success why was Sandusky ever asked to stop coaching? The dude was a hell of a defensive coach.
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Wrong. The cover-up was all about protecting the football program from negative publicity and possible money-draining lawsuits. King Joe and his lackeys spanier, curley, and schulz did what they had to do to protect the kingdom and the gold mine.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/07/12/freeh.report.pdf
OH MY GOD
LOL is the opinion of some hack newspaper columinst supposed to change my mind? He also should probably do some fact checking as the charges against Bonds and Clemens were never for using performance enhancing drugs, they were for perjury. And I'm all for bringing charges against the people who were involved, so if the federal government wants to do it, great, they deserve it.
Also, the comparison to SMU is just lazy, these cases aren't related in the slightest.
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Start on page 14 at "FINDINGS" and read carefully and absorb fully. Pay special attention to the language on page 16.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/07/12/freeh.report.pdf
The doc is copy-protected, so I can't paste the section here, but read from pg 14 through 16.
Already read it bud, like I said it was a very small group of good ol' boys trying to look out for another one of them.
What? Are you serious? If this was about protecting Sandusky, like you say, then why did they tell him he was no longer the coach-in-waiting, then pretty much force him out. This was all done to protect PSU football and its brand name. They did everything they could to prevent this from making it to the public which included allowing Sandusky to stick around. They were more worried about themselves and the University, not the victims or Sandusky.
You are, literally, the only person on the planet that thinks this.
But I'm sure the rest of us are wrong
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No, wrong again. They were protecting the goose that laid the golden egg, the football program. Sandusky is virtually irrelevant; if it wasn't him that they covered up, it would have (and might have) been something/someone else.
They were driven by avarice and drunk with power.
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EXACTLY.
The one thing for me I have a hard time wrapping my head around is that it was done to protect football. I know people don't think clearly sometimes in bad situations but wouldn't it be better for the University and the football program to simply turn information over to the authorities in 2001? Any analysis of risk/reward done by these guys would have led them to telling authorities what McQueary told them. It just really doesn't make sense.
Seems like it was more covering their own ***** then covering for football. Just like the Janitors were trying to cover their own ***** as well. None of them wanted to lose their jobs.
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Alright man, we'll see when the punishments come down. When the Penn St football program gets the death penalty you can come back and let me know I'm wrong LOL.
One might think that. But all 4 knew about an incident in 1998, but nothing was done. If not then, then never was their motto.
If it was all about the football program, then wouldn't they have wanted to keep Sandusky on the staff?
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Of course it doesn't make sense, David. Because it's unbelievably corrupt, deviate, illegal, and immoral behavior, conducted over a breathtakingly long period of time. It's unprecedented.
To those who are having difficulty processing this: it happened, and it happened all because of THE ALMIGHTY FOOTBALL PROGRAM and the money and prestige and power that the program awarded to these men and many others.
To those who are having difficulty processing this: it happened, and it happened all because of THE ALMIGHTY FOOTBALL PROGRAM and the money and prestige and power that the program awarded to these men and many others.
Just because they were trying to save their names, the university and its livelihood in football, doesn't necessarily give the NCAA jurisdiction to punish PSU.
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No. They wanted to make him go away quietly and conceal the reason why he "retired". That's why it's called a cover-up.
They wanted NOTHING to ripple the waters of their $acred Cow, the football program...and the riches and fame that came along with it.
