11-09-2011, 09:03 AM | #1 |
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Joe Paterno to resign at end of season
Unconfirmed, but got an AP text
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11-09-2011, 09:42 AM | #2 |
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11-09-2011, 11:23 AM | #3 |
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He could be forced out sooner if the Penn State Board of Trustees decides to do so. Leaving a t the end of this season was his decision. They could decide that his leaving immediately would be better. Time will tell.
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11-09-2011, 09:47 PM | #4 |
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They won't.
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11-09-2011, 10:56 PM | #6 |
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OK, they've decided to fired everybody to cover their ass, including the president. Cowards.
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11-10-2011, 02:19 AM | #7 |
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XO, Why not give the Board a small break.
As I understand it, Paterno was obligated to report the offenses of the other coach. If so, they fired those that did not do their job properly. If Paterno were kept on til the end of the year, couldn't the Board have been criticized for caring more about their football season than the improper conduct of their faculty. . |
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11-10-2011, 08:44 AM | #9 |
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Penn State students riot to protest Paterno's firing. This is going to make people respect them even more....
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...-unrest/44792/
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11-10-2011, 08:52 AM | #10 |
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If you sexaully abuse a child, gasoline should be pour on your head and you should be set on fire and burned to death. If you know about it and do nothing, you should be made to watch the burning and then go to prison for the rest of your life. If you protest the decision to fire those who did nothing, you should be made to explain to the children that were raped why you think football is more important than the child.
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11-10-2011, 10:58 AM | #12 |
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He did half of nothing... he had a responsibility to go to the police and he did not.
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11-10-2011, 11:23 AM | #14 |
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I heard two guys speculating that he used knowledge of this incident to hang on to his job long after he should have been let go. 5 years ago there was talk of his retirement being forced upon him. Supposedly the higher ups visited him at home to talk about it, and he talked them out of it.
this is hearsay. i know nothing.
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11-10-2011, 11:52 AM | #15 |
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Fuck Joe Paterno.
He served at the pleasure of the university. If he feels his discharge was unjust: he can sue. The meat of the matter is NOT Paterno. From Wikipedia: "Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant, told Paterno in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky performing a sex act on a 10-year-old boy in Penn State football's shower facilities..." McQueary, as I understand it, walked in on Sandusky and the boy and did squat to intervene. Why isn't someone horsewhipping McQueary? "Well, he followed procedure and reported what he saw to a superior." Er, fuck procedure, fuck the law: If someone walks in on an adult using my five-year old nephew in such a way, I expect that someone to STOP the event, right then and there. If *I walk in on an adult using a child in such a way, someone will be hurt. Let the police sort out the details AFTER you horsewhip the pervert. 'Poor Joe Paterno', indeed... *This, by the way, is not a 'moral' issue, but simply 'my' distaste for the predatory use of innocents...distaste in no small way fueled by my own love of my nephew...I don't give a shit what the law (civil or religious) has to say on the matter.
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