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Locked due to no posts in 60 days. Report 1st post if need unlocked How Will You Remember Joe Paterno?
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JoePa was a great football coach. JoePa stood by while children were raped. That's all I have to say about that.
No point. JoePa chose a different path. He chose a path where children were raped under his watch.
Nah, he's too old.
Who?
A man who harbored a kiddy diddler.
I'm more in the Pops and ColoREDo camp here. He was a football coach that could have had a great legacy, perhaps rivaling that of our own Tom Osborne, but instead, stood by and watched things unfold in front of him that he knew were wrong but did nothing. For all the lives he impacted in a positive way, he erased all of that by doing nothing for those boys. I'll also remember him as someone who couldn't walk away from the game when it was time and because of that saw his life go up in flames in only a few months.
Thats not even .0001 of what it was. He was a SERIAL CHILD RAPISTS.
I believe this was his M.O. as things pertained to the football program. He joked about how in the old days a kid would get arrested and they would handle it internally. The Sandusky mess was created years in advance from a culture that let it happen. It wasn't JoPa's decision on that day alone, it was years of influence and control and for that reason he was an Enabler.
I will always wonder if his faculties were so dimmed by age that his judgment was affected 10 years ago, when he clearly ignored the behavior, even beyond simply the one direct report. To me that would probably be the only thing that might lessen his responsibility. But even if that is true, his story would be one of a great man who apparently let stubbornness and pride keep him "on the field" well past his time.
And if that isn't true, what he failed to do is unconscionable. How could he have lived and taught one thing for so long, only to overlook a buddy's transgressions? This isn't on anyone else. He betrayed himself.
And if that isn't true, what he failed to do is unconscionable. How could he have lived and taught one thing for so long, only to overlook a buddy's transgressions? This isn't on anyone else. He betrayed himself.
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I'm having a little trouble hearing ya..... Hung on to long at coaching...
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