![]() ![]() Well, now thanks to the Independent Freeh Report we know that Joe Paterno was not some innocent caught up in this mess. Sure, maybe he could've done more but hindsight is 20/20. They stated time and time again that Paterno did nothing legally wrong when graduate assistant Mike McQueary brought him information that Sandusky was witnessed raping a child in the showers at Paterno's Lasch Building on campus-he did what was required of him by law, he told his "superiors." ![]() In the eight months since Sandusky was arrested, Paterno's apologists cautioned we should not rush to judgement. Some right in the building where Paterno's day to day office was located. They were the 10 children that his one time second-hand man, his former defensive coordinator, the man he promised would have a job coaching at Penn State as long as he wanted as long as Joe Paterno was the head coach, Jerry Sandusky brutally and repeatedly raped and molested. Well, there were at least 10 kids in the State College area that good ol' Joseph Vincent Paterno didn't give a damn about. Oh, Joe Pa, always concerned about the kids and their grades, right? Do their homework, not worry about little ol' him. He waved and nodded his head and, in his clownishly high-yet-gruff voice, implored the students out there that it was late. The newly ex-coach, who up until his death in January still did not get it and made an appearance late in the night to allow his faithful to once again bask in some of that old Joe Pa charm. Hundreds of students and supporters showed up on the lawn of the coach's house a quarter mile off campus to cheer and serenade Paterno. In a world where people weren't blindly loyal to football and to an old school crotchety "lovable" grump of a coach who was raised to a disgustingly high status, it may have gone something like this: "WHAT?! We had a pederast who worked in our school's football program for 30 years?! He continued to use his connections to our school's football program to lure little boys into his evil web and then brutally rape them right here on campus?! WHAT?! This has been going on for 13 years and our head coach, university president and two other administrative stooges knew about it 10 years ago and we're just learning about this now?! Why, I'm so angry I'm going to throw a brick through the window of Old Main!"Īt Penn State they flipped cars and news vans because Joe Paterno lost his job because-at the time-it was shown he did not do enough when informed 10 years prior that his former defensive coordinator was witnessed raping a child in Paterno's Lasch football building. On a sane college campus, not one infected with a cult like allegiance to a football program and their, for the past decade at least, figurehead coach, there may have indeed also been riots, but for a different reason. No, they were college students who were angry that an 85-year-old coach was no longer allowed to skulk up and down the sidelines as his assistants coached the game on Saturdays. ![]() It wasn't because of some systemic evil on campus keeping students down, it wasn't because of a governmental violation of civil rights they were not an oppressed people rising up, using violence as the only weapon at their disposal to make their voices heard. I will repeat, these kids-all of whom have obviously graduated high school and therefore should have some idea about how to act in a society-rioted over the firing of a football coach. ![]() These kids were rioting over the firing of a football coach. Some even argued that Paterno should be allowed to finish the season as head coach before a decision was rendered.Īnd still other insanely blind loyalists-and just some good ol' Penn Staters looking for an excuse to get nuts-did what the kids on the campus seem very good at: they rioted. The blind loyalists ranted and raved and blamed the Board of Trustees for rushing to judgment and unfairly treating their beloved "Joe Pa," believing that all facts should have been thoroughly reviewed after a full investigation was made public before a decision was made. ![]()
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