Jay Paterno was quoted on GMA as saying that JoePa
can't wait to tell his side of the story. Jay said everybody should wait until the trial and when everybody can speak.
He also said that he couldn't condemn Sandusky because as Americans, people are innocent until proven guilty. He continued in an aggrieved tone about the unfairness and sacrifice his father and others have had to make.
First of all, they apparently think the grand jury transcript is fiction. JoePa said he knew something of a sexual nature had happened after he talked to McQueary. He didn't tell anyone right away because he didn't want to ruin their weekends. I have read that JoePa is claiming that the transcript is wrong.
As far as Sandusky goes, he was caught on tape telling a mother that he had done something wrong to her son. Then there is what McQueary testified he saw. Regardless of all his different stories, his testimony under oath has never wavered.
I have no idea of the legal ramifications for JoePa. There may not be any, but he is morally culpable. Once he talked to McQueary he should have taken action immediately. In addition, he should have followed up to make sure something was done because of the egregious nature of the allegations. JoePa certainly never let up when a player was accused of something.
Sandusky should be in jail. In SC, there is a former coach who was given over 1 million dollars bail for 5 charges. He has gotten off lightly compared to many.
They seem to have forgotten that they are not the victims! Those kids have had to live with this for a long time, and it never goes away. The damage that was done to them cannot be fixed. It can only be moderated if they are lucky.
I suggest they all STFU! I think everybody has heard enough until the trial.
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be a "lady" but WHAT THE FUCK could JoePa say? Little children were being serially raped on HIS WATCH and more than one of his staff KNEW what was happening and nobody fucking bothered to go to the police. What I want to know is why McQueary didn't pull that pervert off that little boy, rip his d#ck off with his bare hands and stomped it into mush? My husband told me that had he walked in on Sandusky doing what he was doing, the police would have been notified and would have had to send a "meat wagon", because there's no way that man would have walked away from raping that boy in one piece.
E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E failed those boys from the misguided rioting students to the Boardmembers, who all were more concerned about the sports program and the money that it brought in. I'll tell you what, if my child were one of those sweet young men, I would soon own Penn State. Rape my CHILD? Fuck, Sandusky would come up missing. I was raped as a child and I am just now realising the LASTING damage it does.
I don't give a good G-d damn, (I don't mean to disrespect anyone with my comment), but damn? REALLY?? What the fuck could ANYONE involved in this mess say that would excuse their part in ENABLING this perverted sumbitch that would assuage their culpability? I know that given the chance, I would slap the shit out of each one of them. What could they say? 
And yes, Grits ARE Serious GROCERIES for alot of people 
Especially, if they're accompanied by scrambeld eggs, with cheese & scallions, linguica and buttermilk biscuits! Oh yeah, butter and sugar on the grits...(My mom was from Tulsa, Oklahoma)
I hold no distinction between JoePa or anyone else in this criminal enterprise. If they knew that Sandusky was messing around with boys...ON UNIVERSITY PROPERTY...no less...and did nothing, they're complicit in his crimes. I don't care how many games JoePa won or how 'great' a coach he was or how 'clean' the program was...the fact he allowed this predator to operate and have known so for more than a decade his hands are dirty. Even moreso...was a director of Sundusky's predatory "charity"!
EVERYONE involved with that football program cover-up...administrators, coaches, tutors et all who knew that this went on should be immediately fired and, if warranted, brought up on criminal charges. And where the fuck is the NCAA...the "overseers" of college "sports" 
. If they had a scant amount of decency, they'd suspend this program pending a complete investigation. Yes...suspend the program and allow any athlete who wants to transfer to do so without losing any elligibility. There should be ZERO tollerance to pedophilia...especially in this context. Shame on all of them for putting money and ego ahead of moral decency and the law.
Disgusting...
Things like:
"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."
or
"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."
Former Athletic Director Ed Czekaj - Joe Pa’s philosophy is that, “If you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves.”
Paterno wielded more influence in Happy Valley than the school's entire leadership team. Penn State football made more than $53 million in profit in the year before the scandal broke. $$$ = turn a blind eye towards Sandusky's crimes. Despite years of accusations about Sandusky, the Penn State's leadership team (including Paterno, who hypocritically preached an entirely different message to his "Happy Valley"
stayed silent for fear of damaging the too-big-to-fail brand that football built.
He set himself up as THE model of All-American do-right, ethics in the manly art of football. And he reveled in his role as leader, not just of a football team, but of an entire "HAPPY VALLEY". He was a throwback to the 1950's everybody wanted to remember. What came along with that was the 1950's nobody wanted to remember. When poverty, social status and race made you a piece of meat for an influential white man's consumption. And white man's cronyism got you a pass, even if you were a monster of the highest order.
University leaders never denied they were in it for the money. They never promoted themselves as anything other than bean counters. They never purposefully built a level of trust with every person who came to the school -either as a student or as an employee. Only to use that trust as a wall to hide horrific deeds.
"...successful coverups need powerful people for them to work" Exactly. Joe Paterno literally and figuratively had more power than any person at that school. The greater the power, the greater the culpability. And that is why he is getting the lion's share of the blame.
