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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Buckskin86;2341601; said:
Penn State Football 2013: The Next Level - Recruiting - YouTube
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The next level............down

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Zurp;2341439; said:
That didn't stop them from trying to cover it up.

I like how, according to whatever story it was I read on some website I'm sure was linked from this thread, Penn State was arguing just to be allowed to play football for those 4 years. The NCAA was ready to pull the trigger, but Penn State was able to convince Mark Emmert to convince whatever other presidents were involved in the decision to back away from the gun, and fall back to the penalty we see now. A major reason for the sympathy was the community in State College that relies on football Saturdays. Tourism, restaurants, etc. They didn't know what was going on. They didn't do anything wrong (except, maybe, give unhealthy amounts of praise to a single man). But now the pedsters are looking for ways to make games be played overseas. They're LOOKING to play away games, or at least at neutral sites.
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With BTN looking at the east coast market, with Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa looking at the loss of national TV market appearances without a Penn State game to sell ABC/ESPN, without major pay days for Indiana, Northwestern, Minnesota to help make up for their own limited ticket sales appeal, I can easily believe that some presidents and ADs might be inclined to at least consider leaving Penn State alone.

Too big to fail can be applied to much more than banks.
 
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Paterno clan to file official legal action against the NCAA.

Lawsuit against NCAA on behalf of Penn State, Paterno family will be announced on 'Costas Tonight,' spokesman says

Bob Costas said last month he had "some responsibility to follow the story" of the Freeh report and the Paterno family's rebuttal.

He will push that story forward on "Costas Tonight" at 11 p.m. on NBC Sports Network, according to network spokesman Adam Freifeld. The start of the show could be delayed if Game 7 of the NHL's Western Conference semifinals were to run late.

Among the guests on the show are Paterno family attorney Wick Sollers, former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh and Paterno family spokesman Dan McGinn.

The three men will announce on the show a new lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of Penn State and the Paterno family, Freifeld told PennLive today.

The Paternos have praised Gov. Tom Corbett's federal trust lawsuit against the NCAA and has long been rumored to file a suit of its own. The family demanded an appeal of NCAA sanctions against Penn State's football program last summer, which were based on findings from the Freeh report.
The NCAA's disciplinary measures were "handled in a fundamentally inappropriate and unprecedented manner," Sollers wrote in an appeal letter last August.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman also filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, aiming to keep the proceeds of a $60 million fine levied against Penn State for in-state organizations.
Costas has expressed a degree of skepticism about the Freeh report's findings and said the Paterno family had reason to conduct an investigation of its own.

The Freeh report concluded that former coach Joe Paterno and officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz actively concealed information about Jerry Sandusky, who was found guilty of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.
The NCAA then hammered the Penn State football program with sanctions, including a $60 million fine, scholarship reductions and a four-year bowl ban. Penn State opted to not appeal those penalties.
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http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2013/05/lawsuit_against_ncaa_on_behalf.html
 
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Delaware Buck;2341879; said:
Paterno clan to file official legal action against the NCAA.

Lawsuit against NCAA on behalf of Penn State, Paterno family will be announced on 'Costas Tonight,' spokesman says

http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2013/05/lawsuit_against_ncaa_on_behalf.html
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Bob Costas still has a late night talk show? As if the first train wreck didn't happen.

Anyway, good for the Paterno's getting out there for people to see them and their narcissistic ways. It was all about Joe, his FOOTBALL PROGRAM and his legacy, and now even more people will be able to see it
 
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If the Paterno family, who presumably knew Joe better than anyone else, was truly comfortable with what a great, honorable and altruistic man he was, would they really feel the need to "defend his honor/legacy" so publicly?

Logic seems to indicate that quietly honoring the man's legacy within the close knit community of friends and family that knew him best and letting the public disgrace that was the Sandusky tragedy slip quietly away is clearly the best option.

I mean, if it were me, I think quietly knowing what a great man someone in my family was despite what public opinion currently is would be infinitely better than airing the embarrassing family business for the world to see over and over for months and years. Right?

The Paterno family seems utterly incapable of doing that. It smacks very strongly of "the family doth protest too much, me thinks" in my opinion and shows a remarkable amount of insecurity regarding the Paterno "legacy".

But hey, I'm obviously biased and most certainly not a member of the cult. I'm sure their idiotic efforts to clear his name (like that is even possible through legal action) are clear FACTS and EVIDENTS of his innocence.

Also, if the lawsuit does go through, it would only be an indictment of what a terrible organization the NCAA is and their unbelievably inconsistent administration of rules. It would have nothing to do with whether or not Paterno enabled and covered up for a known pedophile for years- which he clearly did.

You report an apparent sexual encounter between Sandusky and a young boy to your superiors. Fine. In the bizzaro world in which that is all that he reasonably needed to do, Sandusky still visited the facilities and went on road trips with the team with boys for a decade after he reported to his superiors. Wouldn't he also be reasonably expected to follow up with that and find out what was going on with his initial report?

The failure to follow up on the initial report by itself is irrefutable evidence that Paterno enabled a pedophile in my opinion, which totally ignores the fact that he almost certainly actively covered up for Sandusky in the first place.

This has been covered a million times over but it truly boggles the mind.
 
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Obviously they are getting support from political sources in Congress and Penn government, that power certainly has the ability to effect what the NCAA does. When we saw the trials delayed we had to know that there was more coming. The NCAA will get pressured to back down and cut a deal with Pedd State.
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Taosman;2341926; said:
Obviously they are getting support from political sources in Congress and Penn government, that power certainly has the ability to effect what the NCAA does. When we saw the trials delayed we had to know that there was more coming. The NCAA will get pressured to back down and cut a deal with Pedd State.
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The NCAA can tell them to fuck off. What is anyone in the Pennsylvania government going to do?
 
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Buckeye86;2341912; said:
If the Paterno family, who presumably knew Joe better than anyone else, was truly comfortable with what a great, honorable and altruistic man he was, would they really feel the need to "defend his honor/legacy" so publicly?

Logic seems to indicate that quietly honoring the man's legacy within the close knit community of friends and family that knew him best and letting the public disgrace that was the Sandusky tragedy slip quietly away is clearly the best option.

I mean, if it were me, I think quietly knowing what a great man someone in my family was despite what public opinion currently is would be infinitely better than airing the embarrassing family business for the world to see over and over for months and years. Right?

The Paterno family seems utterly incapable of doing that. It smacks very strongly of "the family doth protest too much, me thinks" in my opinion and shows a remarkable amount of insecurity regarding the Paterno "legacy".

But hey, I'm obviously biased and most certainly not a member of the cult. I'm sure their idiotic efforts to clear his name (like that is even possible through legal action) are clear FACTS and EVIDENTS of his innocence.

Also, if the lawsuit does go through, it would only be an indictment of what a terrible organization the NCAA is and their unbelievably inconsistent administration of rules. It would have nothing to do with whether or not Paterno enabled and covered up for a known pedophile for years- which he clearly did.

You report an apparent sexual encounter between Sandusky and a young boy to your superiors. Fine. In the bizzaro world in which that is all that he reasonably needed to do, Sandusky still visited the facilities and went on road trips with the team with boys for a decade after he reported to his superiors. Wouldn't he also be reasonably expected to follow up with that and find out what was going on with his initial report?

The failure to follow up on the initial report by itself is irrefutable evidence that Paterno enabled a pedophile in my opinion, which totally ignores the fact that he almost certainly actively covered up for Sandusky in the first place.

This has been covered a million times over but it truly boggles the mind.
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what these assclowns fail to realize, is that if this lawsuit does proceed, all it's going to do is highlight what an abject failure paterno was in this whole situation. every statement paterno made will be sifted over meticulously, from the "not wanting to ruin anyone's weekend", to the "victims, or whatever you call them", to every contradictory statement he made to the grand jury and thereafter. every story of his iron clad grip on the administration in slappy valley, to forcing out people in positions of authority. All of it, on full display, for everyone to see.

how any of these circus chimps can think this lawsuit is a good idea, or will actually serve to vindicate paterno, is absolutely baffling.
 
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