[QUOTE="Los9090"]
[QUOTE="Oleg_Huzwog"]
Bullcrap. He did only the absolute bare minimum, which is NOT what he was supposed to do. As a football coach, when you learn of wrongdoing from within the program, yeah, you report it to the Athletic Director. But as a human being, you do not turn a blind eye when an alleged child rapist is wandering around your facilities and showing up to practice with another kid.
CJL13
"bare minimum"... are you echoing a report? Yeah, but Paterno still reported it but the administration obviously failed in its attempt of investigating the matter. But what gets me is that Sandusky ADMITTED to inappropriate conduct and nothing was done for a late 1990s incident. Paterno should've fired Sandusky and the police should have acted on the allegation from the 1998 issue. But we can't assume that Paterno knew everything. I feel that Paterno figured that the case would handle itself when he reported the 2002 incident from his grad assistant.He should've asked his superiors how the investigation was going though, especially considering the accusations.
In hindsight Paterno doing this would've probabaly spared many innocent children from this monster, but it really isn't Paterno's job to do that.
His superiors dropped the ball on this one. I will reserve judgment on Paterno until we find out exactly what the Graduate Assistant told him.
Paterno denies being told the details, and I think we should give JoePa the beenfit of the doubt considering his immaculate track record.
If we find out otherwise, and that he did know the specific details then I dont care what they do to him. Take his wins away, lock him up forever.
But for all we know the graduate assisnatnt could've told Paterno he saw Sandusky and a boy horsing around in the shower innapropriately.
There is a far leap to be made from horsing around, to the allegations that Sandusky is being charged with, but until we have the facts I feel it is
irresponsible to blame Paterno.
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