I'd be interested in seeing the official citation on that one :biggrin: Just more media bullshit. Joe and Jerry hadn't gotten along in years. After Joe canned him they barely ever spoke again.
I'd be interested in seeing the official citation on that one :biggrin: Just more media bullshit. Joe and Jerry hadn't gotten along in years. After Joe canned him they barely ever spoke again.
zinfamous
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*Raises hand*
Ooo oh ooo! Me Me Me! I certainly haven't forgotten about it!
see: my contributions to every FelixDKat/MeowKat thread of the last ~half-year.
^_^
by the way, go ahead and create another thread about catholic priests and the pope raping and covering for rapists. I'll gladly participate. I tend to get infractioned for it but, whatever. This one is about PSU covering up rape, though.
In other words: this strawman servers you little purpose.
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I believe this one too. I heard that story back in 2004(?) where Spanier wanted to oust him and he kicked him out of the house (or whatever the actual detail was, this is probably exaggerated). Clearly Spanier is in a much weaker position than Joe that's why he wasn't able to do anything with it.
Curley though clearly was Joe's whipping boy, and would do whatever his God asked him to do. I'm anxiously waiting if he would finally flip on Paterno in his criminal proceedings (and do a great tell-all story) now that he's facing some serious prison time and Paterno is dead. His loyalty will be tested!
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There are numerous articles that say that - http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2012/07/coach-joe-paterno-not-to-blame-for-sandusky
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They WERE friends for decades. After paterno canned him they barely ever spoke again.
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You can see that this article is taking the stance as Paterno's apologist, bringing up 'loyalty' as the reason behind everything he did to cover up Jerry's crime. I for one refuse to believe that 'loyalty' is behind this cover up, especially that there are three other people involved in it as well. I mean, they can't *all* be super best buddies and so loyal to each other and conspire.
Unless you are one of those Paterno's apologist, I think you should take this article with a whole sack of salt
This cover up was never about personal loyalty or strong personal feelings toward each other, it's all about the Penn State's name and how everyone involved will do everything they could (regardless of whether they even liked each other) to protect it so it's always perfect.
I'm just pointing out the hyprocrocy of all those who claim that this is a PSU problem and a problem that resulted from PSU culture.
In reality this is a problem with human nature and the culture of our entire society. To think, like many of the people in this thread, that by eliminating Penn State football that this problem will somehow dissapear is ridiculous.
You aren't going to solve child abuse by punishing students, players, and residents who had nothing to do with them problem. Even some of the victims have come out and said they think it's stupid.
People in power will always try to maintain that power by any means necessary. That has been and always will be human nature. This could have happened at any University, charity, organization, company, church, etc., anywhere in the world. Thinking anything different is a dangerous path and just shows how little you know and/or care about child abuse.
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Unfortunately for you and your beloved idol, a lot of people - including those whose opinions actually matter - disagree with you.
Enjoy your descent into football irrelevance.
You're so blinded by your ignorance that you actually think that this won't ever, hasn't ever, or isn't currently happening anywhere else in the world? LOL. I'm sure victims of child abuse love that mentality.
You really are a fucking dolt.
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It may be happening; but why tolerate/encourage it.
Make the statement that such will not be tolerate when discovered.
The point of the restrictions/punishments was to deter from this happening in the future, and not just the pedophilia but rather any criminal activity and schools' covering such actions up.
Are you really that thick? It happens everywhere, so fuck it? Why not just let it be? What exactly are you arguing? I'm confused here. Because regardless of the prevalence (or not, really) of pedophilia, the NCAA still has to act because the school clearly didn't. Penn State decided that it's football program was more important than Sandusky paying for his crimes. That's why the NCAA got involved and if you ask me, Penn State got off light.
Nobody said anything about tolerating it. There are people in this thread and all over the media who have said outright that this is a Penn State problem and wouldn't have happened anywhere else.
That's fucking absurd, and is an insult to victims of child abuse everywhere.
No. My point is that people like Gigantopithecus who think that "Hey, we got Penn State, now we've solved child abuse" are being completely ignorant.
...In that case, what shit for luck that in the history of college athletics, only PSU has had such an issue with it. There's nothing at all about the institution itself that contributed to what happened - it was just bad luck.
Like I said, it's obvious that the powers that be don't think so. But keep talking, your talk of others' dull lives on an internet message board must be making you feel better than the realization that your beloved football program is done, and its history is shit.
What makes you think that no other university has ever covered up child abuse? Almost immediately after the Penn State scandal broke the Syracuse scandal came to light. You really think that this has never happened before at any other university?
That was a rhetorical question. Of course you do, because you're an idiot.
LOL. You might want to step away from the keyboard and go for a walk, because now you're just inventing strawmen and red herrings in your febrile attempts to save face.
I said: "This could have happened at any University, charity, organization, company, church, etc., anywhere in the world."
You said:
"Unfortunately for you and your beloved idol, a lot of people - including those whose opinions actually matter - disagree with you. "
Translation: You're an idiot.
He's not saying that at all. Nor is he saying that other schools/institutions haven't been involved in such behavior. He's saying it's unlikely that they are, and you know what? He's right. (other than Notre Dame, I guess. That many priests on campus and you're almost certainly going to have a few pedophiles).
In fact, what do you think will happen if another school is caught in such an act where the football's program takes precedence over the school's integrity and covers up a criminal act? It'll probably be even worse than the penalties Penn State faces now.
If you don't understand that there are specific factors that exist in various institutions, from churches to football programs, that lead to attempted and successful cover ups of reprehensible behavior, and that PSU football is a textbook case of those factors aligning, then good luck. I've read life is difficult for people who can't understand patterns.
The "conditions" that exist at Penn State exist at just about every major university. If you really want to solve the problem then shut down college football.
What do you think the NCAA was doing when it handed down this punishment?
They sent a very clear message to ALL the schools: If football takes precedent over your school's integrity then we will come down hard. If you want to be a football school then you have that right, but if you cover up criminal activity or engage in any sort of behavior that affects your entire institution negatively in order to protect your football program, you're going to get fucked.
Don't bother with the semi-literate Joestown Kool-aid sipper. His, and others', breathtaking inability to recognize what happened when everybody not from State College, Pennsylvania is telling them how their beloved idols were loathsome hypocrites just shows how truly enamored with a fantasy they are.
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