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For All you PSU Alum and "friends" of Penn State...
looks like JoePa doesn't have very long, only a couple more hours I'm hearing. I'm not discounting what he did or did not do during the scandal, but he was very good the university and made generally, a very positive influence. Sad that it had to end this way for him...
Re: For All you PSU Alum and "friends" of Penn State...
um ok
i'm sure those boys feel the same way.
The Journey of Me
Vacation, 2011
Yeah I don't feel so sad. What good he did in sports doesn't really trump turning a blind eye & conscience to blatant sexual abuse for me.
I don't get the love. He was supposed to be good at his job. That's what he got paid for. Great. So he won a lot of games.
Well, it's good to see I'm not alone.
I just said to J, out loud for anyone to hear, "I hope when he gets tohell the devil *** him in theass." I've got nothing for people who allow child molesters to walk around like everyone else. I don't care how many football games you win.
Sad it ended what way? He is elderly and sick..its the natural order of things. Having to be fired instead if being able to retire with honor and respect? Brought it on himself. He, as well as others, did serious, serious harm to PSU. More harm than good I would say. Everything good he did for that university...he wiped out with his cowardly decisions.
Huffington Post is reporting that he has died
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/01/21/joe-paterno-dead-ex-penn-state-football-coach_n_1221289.html
Good to the University how.... by covering up sexual abuse? Come on... yea he won games - at what cost?
well he did make them an asston of money.
Most of you have no idea what you are talking about. Joe donated millions of dollars to the university, and there is a great library that was built with his donations. I'm not talking about football at all. And yes, what he did or didn't do, was horrible. But, he did do some good things as well, and that is how I choose to remember him. Say what you will, everyone is entitled to their opinions.
rich people who donate money are not above judgement when they ruin the lives of children. and FTR, that was a quote from my DH who is a PSU alum.
and i'm LMAO at the fact that no one on here who didn't do to PSU could know what we're talking about.
*always remembering Annaleigh Lucy*
Wow, so a library and some winning football seasons negates turning a blind eye to child molestation?
SO if Jeffery Dahmer or Charles Manson built, say, an orphanage that would make you sad when they die?
only if they did it at Penn state. duh.
Just wait until the pictures of the candlelight vigils/memorials we'll see come out..... for the "hero". THAT'S when I'll really lose my sh*t.
I've already had to hide some people on Facebook because I can't take it anymore.
And then helped to make the University a winning icon and a ton of money.....geez it's not JUST about the building
If one of those boys was your child, would you think it was just an error in judgement? Would you honestly believe that he wasn't just as wrong as the perpetrator? Could you possibly forgive him? Could you ever believe he wasn't sub-human?
We all flip out on this board when someone leaves their kid in the car in a target parking lot but this sickfuck turned his back on CHILD MOLESTATION. I don't care who you are, what you've built or where you donated your money. If you know that someone is hurting children you stop it. You do whatever you have to to stop it. You don't just keep coaching football.
A huge error in judgement is making an illegal u-turn in front of a cop. If it was my kid I'd have a huge problem calling it a huge error in judgement. If it was your kid, is that all you'd be ok with it called?
I completely agree.
I agree. JoePa did not commit the crimes. He reported them. And quite frankly, he reported hearsay. He didn't see anything. Yes, I completely believe he should have done more. But it was the whole system that failed, not just one person. The one guy showed up at his door one night and said Sandusky was molesting boys in the locker room - why didn't that guy do something right then!!!???? He was a big football player and he walked away and went to go tell JoePa? Again, yes, JoePa should have done more. But so should a lot of other people. But we don't really know those people well (we don't even know who a lot of them are) so JoePa is taking all the blame. The man loved Penn State and he loved his players. He had one of the highest graduation rates of any football program. In his last interview, he was so remorseful about the whole situation. I know that doesn't make up for it but I don't believe he deserves to be compared to completely evil people like Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Mason. But then again, I'll leave judgement up to God.
Again, let it be your kid and see how you feel then.