Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno Fired After 46 Seasons

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Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno Fired After 46 Seasons

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Joe Paterno's football coaching career at Penn State ended Wednesday night, at the end of an extraordinary day, in the middle of an emotionally wrenching week, with a telephone call from the heads of the school’s Board of Trustees.

They informed Paterno, the iconic face of this storied football program, that he was being dismissed three games shy of the end of his 46th season.

“Joe Paterno,” Surma said, “is no longer the head football coach, effective immediately.” With that, the child sex-abuse scandal surrounding a longtime Paterno lieutenant reached its emotional peak on this badly shaken campus of 40,000 undergraduates, in a village known as Happy Valley.

“Right now, I'm not the football coach,” Paterno said in a brief statement released after the board’s decision, “and that's something I have to get used to.” The board also voted to oust university president Graham B. Spanier, bringing to four the number of administrators, including Paterno, who have lost their jobs over the burgeoning scandal — in which Jerry Sandusky, Penn State’s longtime defensive coordinator, was arrested oncharges of molesting at least eight boys between 1994 and 2009.

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anyone have any feelings on the matter?

if you saw any news, a number of people were rioting in the streets around the Penn State campus last night flipping cars, breaking window etc.
 
:yeahthat: but the right thing to due....I guess. Just sad that he didn't go above and beyond what he is required to do.
 
Sad way to end a 60yr career. Doesn't matter who you root for everyone respects JoPa. I hope nothing else is tied to him but makes me wonder b/c of how fast the State College Board gave him a unanimous boot. He was in his 70's at the time of the incidents and did report it to the Athletic Director but morally should have called the cops. Pretty sad how Sandusky was allowed around there and what he did to those children.
 
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Fifteen Adults at Penn State Knew About Child Sexual Assaults, Rapes and Did Not Act


I am still processing and still in shock from the revelations coming out of Penn State this week. And the more I learn, the more revolted I become.

Consider for example, that 15 adults at Penn State--15 individual adults, all men--either witnessed directly or had knowledge of rape, sodomy, and assault of children by Jerry Sandusky and either did not act or whose actions were for naught. These include 12 adult men who were in positions of power,some of them members of law enforcement, who did not do anything to protect children raped and abused or to prevent other children from being raped and abused. I am trying to wrap my head around this. I am not sure I ever will. The Daily has a listof the 15 men, what they knew and when they knew it.

They also have a timeline which indicates that reports were being made and investigations into Sandusky conducted as early as 1998 (perhaps earlier). In 1998, for example,police listened in on a conversationbetween the mother of a victim of sexual assault, a boy with whom Sandusky took a shower, whom Sandusky "lathered up" and who then was "bear-hugged" by Sandusky. In the conversation, he admits to having assaulted this child. What do the police do? They tell Sandusky not to shower with boys. He says he can not promise not to do so.

It only gets worse--far worse--from there. The list follows.

15 ADULTS WHO KNEW ABOUT ALLEGATIONS OF SANDUSKY’S BEHAVIOR BEFORE THE ARREST:

Joe Paterno, the legendary Penn State University football coach who was in his 46th season, was fired by the school’s board of trustees Wednesday.

Graham B. Spanier, Penn State’s president since 1995, also was fired by the board of trustees Wednesday. He was told of the 2002 shower incident but did not report the matter to police.

Tim Curley, Penn State’s athletic director, is charged by the state attorney general with perjury and failing to report to authorities what he knew of the allegations.

Gary Schultz, Penn State’s senior vice president for finance and business, is charged by the attorney general with perjury and failing to report to authorities what he knew of the allegations.

Mike McQueary, Penn State assistant football coach, says he witnessed Sandusky having anal sex with a boy in the shower in 2002 and reported the incident to his higher-ups.

Jim Calhoun, a janitor who saw Sandusky performing oral sex on a boy in 2000, suffers from dementia and is not competent to testify.

Ronald Petrosky, another janitor, was approached by a shaking and crying Calhoun in 2000. He testified that the janitors were afraid they’d lose their jobs if they told on Sandusky.

Jay Witherite, the janitors’ immediate supervisor, was told of the 2000 incident and left it up to Calhoun to report it.

Ray Gricar, formerly Centre County district attorney, investigated a 1998 claim about Sandusky acting inappropriately with a boy in the shower. He disappeared in 2005.

Ronald Schreffler, a campus detective, was told in 1998 to close the case on Sandusky.

Jerry Lauro, an investigator with the state Department of Child Welfare, interviewed Sandusky on the 1998 incident.

Thomas Harmonwas director of campus police in 1998, when Sandusky was investigated.

Ralph Ralston, another campus police officer, worked on the Sandusky case in 1998.

Dr. Jack Raykovitz, executive director of The Second Mile, allegedly was notified of the anal sex incident in 2002.

Wendell Courtneywas university counsel during the 1998 investigation and remains counsel for The Second Mile.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/artic...sexual-assaults-at-penn-state-and-did-not-act
 
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It's incredible to imagine how many people did nothing.

So sad and horrible.
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Insane. I guess they were trying to maintain a clean reputation at Penn State b/c they knew there would be a lot of negative attention. Well.............looks like Karma got'em in the end. Should have reported something this horrendous.
 
I heard a bad joke yesterday - When an older woman likes young men they call her a cougar, so if an older man likes young men is he called a Nittany Lion?

Too Soon?:think: Sorry
 
he pled not guilty to 52 counts of sexual assault today
 
Sandusky jurors pause to re-hear testimony about boy in shower
 
Sandusky found guilty on 45 of 48 sex abuse charges

News reported that he faces a minimum of 60 years in prison, and a maximum penalty of over 400 years. Sentencing is scheduled to take place in the next 90 days.
 
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