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[RTR91]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

I asked the students' reasoning because I can see them TRYING to show support of him (if that is what they're doing, they've failed). I can also see some being so naive that they think he did nothing wrong and should stay. Most of the ones that want him to stay also have some major blinders on, too.

A friend of mine from little league baseball posted on Facebook: "If all men where judged only by their mistakes then we'd all be failures. I really cant believed they fired joe pa. Id play for him." My response to him was that I would hope his dad (who coached me in LL one year) would have reported another coach/dad to the police for doing the same actions.

 

[gmart74]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno says that he has decided to retire at the end of the season

That press conference was bizarre... namely in regards to the blatant homerism being shown by the local media in Happy Valley.

how many of you noticed that the very first question was: who is going to coach the team this weekend?

i think that is very telling

 

[RJ YellowHammer]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno says that he has decided to retire at the end of the season

how many of you noticed that the very first question was: who is going to coach the team this weekend?

i think that is very telling

Perfect example of out-of-whack priorities. Focus on the fact that, if one child was harmed so that a football coach could keep his job, an irredeemable tragedy has occurred...

How sad?

 

[Crimson Surfer]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

Edmund Burke had no clue of the wisdom of his words..."All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Lots of evil has occurred, and is occurring now. All because "good" men did nothing. Literally.

Good post and strangely appropriate.

The weird thing to me was the content of the Paterno video statement about the situation. It was like he had no clue of the severity of the situation. He seemed detached from dispictable reality of this scandal, especially his own culpability. Look at what he said about the kids and how he told the PSU BOT in his retirement statement that he would retire and that they had better things to deal with.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/joe-paterno-s-retirement-statement-1.3307856

 

[92tide]

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Good post and strangely appropriate.

The weird thing to me was the content of the Paterno video statement about the situation. It was like he had no clue of the severity of the situation. He seemed detached from dispictable reality of this scandal, especially his own culpability. Look at what he said about the kids and how he told the PSU BOT in his retirement statement that he would retire and that they had better things to deal with.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/joe-paterno-s-retirement-statement-1.3307856

after all of these years at the top, i would imagine that joe has created quite a persuasive inner cheerleader to support his ego.

 

[OreBama]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno says that he has decided to retire at the end of the season

I certainly hope you are being sarcastic, cbi.

 

[OreBama]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

after all of these years at the top, i would imagine that joe has created quite a persuasive inner cheerleader to support his ego.

That's what happens when you are surrounded by "yes-men".

 

[jdatide]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno says that he has decided to retire at the end of the season

Perfect example of out-of-whack priorities. Focus on the fact that, if one child was harmed so that a football coach could keep his job, an irredeemable tragedy has occurred...

How sad?

Exactly what I was thinking. The Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of one of the most prestigious universities in our nation was painfully addressing the fact that they reached the conclusion to fire the President of the University and their legendary football coach for covering up the serial molestation of children...and I would not have been surprised if the third question from the local press had been "So what do you think our first play from scrimmage will be on Saturday? Run or pass?"

 

[Ldlane]

That's what happens when you are surrounded by "yes-men".

Yes!

 

[Crimson Surfer]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...buse-scandal-board-of-trustees-meeting-110911

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)
Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.

But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.

One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn't go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower.

 

[cbi1972]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno says that he has decided to retire at the end of the season

I certainly hope you are being sarcastic, cbi.

Nope, just real tired of the pitchforks and torches.

 

[jthomas666]

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I guess they don't understand that the institution is more important than the man.

The problem is that they don't understand that the two are, in fact, separate entities.

 

[south78]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno says that he has decided to retire at the end of the season

good riddance.

 

[Bad Pony]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

They are focused on it being unfair that he was fired via phone call and not allowed to finish the season. Several were quoted as saying
"We all make mistakes" and that Joe had earned the right to go out with dignity.

IMO he lost his dignity years ago when he didn't follow up on the incident. What do you think JP would've done if it was his kid involved in this?

 

[CrimsonBleedRed]

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SPORTSbyBROOKSSPORTSbyBROOKSIf what I was told tonight about the details of the new allegation in Sandusky child sex case is true, it will horrify the public.

http://twitter.com/#!/SPORTSBYBROOKS

If he is right (I know he has been dubious in the past), this situation is about to explode. I mean he is talking about a new major allegation that "will horrify the public". I hope he is nothing more then stirring the pot, but he isn't, it's about to get uglier at Penn State.

 

[Crimson Surfer]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

ESPN is reporting heavy student rioting at PSU.

 

[CrimsonBleedRed]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

Some guy name Dr. Saturday is reporting that the Seniors on Penn State will not play on Saturday as a protest to the firing. Don't know if these seniors will go through with it, but man...........it's beyond ugly at PSU.

 

[BAMA1979]

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Paterno has brainwashed these people at PSU.

 

[RollTideMang]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

Paterno has brainwashed these people at PSU.

or they just really like/love the man. He has been there practically forever. It would probably be equivalent to what would have happened if something like this had come out close to the end of Bryant's tenure, with Alabama firing him after all that he did for the school. I understand that what he did was wrong, but a lot of people grew up watching him on the sidelines, and they can't...or won't accept that he was fired like this.

 

[BAMA1979]

Re: PSU Coach Joe Paterno fired!

Some guy name Dr. Saturday is reporting that the Seniors on Penn State will not play on Saturday as a protest to the firing. Don't know if these seniors will go through with it, but man...........it's beyond ugly at PSU.

The players have it backwards. They should only not play if Paterno was going to coach.