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Billy Beck: Why didn’t Mike McQueary just punch Jerry Sandusky’s lights out, on the spot?
I can’t quite put my finger on what it is but I think it’s the same thing that causes adult human beings to flee in terror and lock themselves in a car because they’re being chased by a turkey.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Why didn’t Paterno tell the Administration “He’s gone or I am”?
November 8th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
What did you expect from an athletic coach? I don’t think one in ten is free from fantasies of this kind of power relationship.
November 8th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Paterno was duty bound to report to the police. Reporting to a Penn State administrator is not enough.
November 8th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Ellen, I’m not sure I have seen a more bigoted remark in a long time! 99+% of coaches are wonderful individuals who give many hours for next to no pay. The top .01% of coaches make 99% of the income made by coaches in the US. The vast majority do everything in their power to make sure this kind of thing never happens, and the reason it appears so monstrous is because it is so uncommon. Compare it to what happens in Hollywood, (Roman Polanski, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen) and we just brush the Hollywood stuff away.
Actually, Paterno WASN’T duty bound, or he would have been charged as well. SHOULD he have made sure it was reported, I believe so. But don’t get the two confused. He did what was legally required.
AG Holder, on the other hand, has done absolutely NOTHING that was required or that he should have done, and the liberal press is all over a football coach, when it should be all over Holder!
This is a travesty.
November 8th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
I’m with Honey Badger on this one. As a former Cub and Boy Scout leader, I can assure you, their is no reason NOT to have less than TWO adults in the room with any child. That was the rule when my kid was in the scouts, and stupid, discus-sting things like this, seem to make it more important to me. There are some really SICK people in this world.
As for Mr. Paterno, I respect him as a FOOTBALL COACH, but not as a leader. He should have made better choices, in this regard. Heads should have rolled. They did not. I think he could have made a difference. He did not.
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Jerry
November 8th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Congratulation, Ellen!! You win the most ridiculous comment of the day on the all of the interwebs!
But Beck is correct. What man with his grapes intact slithers away to report the incident to the authorities?? I don’t care if the guy is 6’10” and solid muscle. Grab something and bash his skull in.
November 8th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Jerry, you do realize that this guy was not on the staff at Penn State when the incident occurred, right?
Who was Paterno supposed to fire, the guy the reported it?
It was taken to the next step, which was Paterno’s legal responsibility. I personally would have made sure it was reported to the authorities as well, but Paterno had no legal responsibility to do that.
November 9th, 2011 at 8:23 am
Ironically, the University Administration that tried so hard to keep this whole thing quite – is going to scapegoat and fire Paterno to cover their own worthless asses.
Plenty of blame to go around.
November 9th, 2011 at 11:59 am
“there is no reason NOT to have less than TWO adults in the room with any child.” College football is not played by children!! Keep treating them like it and that’s what you end up with. See the current occupy wall street crap.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
“What did you expect from an athletic coach?”
That’s just sad, Ellen. Let me try to explain something to you:
My father coached all of my organized baseball for six years or so. He coached my three brothers, too, and then local kids after that. And it is from that man that I got the ethical outrage to ask the question that I did.
You really don’t know what you’re talking about and you should be ashamed of yourself.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
One side-note: the University may have its own police force, so Paterno may be able to claim that he notified authorities by telling his supervisor.
But if I were in his shoes, I might have talked to people up and down the chain of authority until either the City Police or the Uni-Police took a statement.
November 10th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Whatever. You haven’t had the coaches I have.