costalpilot
Active Member
This is getting uglier and uglier as Paterno's last dealings with the University and the BOTs are being revealed. when you factor in that 3 Paterno supporters have just been added to the BOT's, including an outspoken advocate of forcing the board to APOLOGIZE to Paterno for his firing, it has the potential to get worse and worse.
What is becomming clear that, is that, far from putting this behind them, the University and the bot have still been unable to overcome the cult of the individual and the power of football in insular Happy Valley and that the great Penn State University is in for a protracted seige of sorts, rather than honestly attempting to put this sordid mess behind them.
in retrospect it is somewhat surprising that the bot was even able to commission an independent investigation of the affair, but they did.
I have wondered as this unfolded about the lack of comment from the leaders of the University at levels other than the administration and the BOT. Where are the nationally respected professional leaders of the academic community? Where is even one comment from them about all this? Penn State has produced leading professionals across the years, Doctors, lawyers, historians, social scientists and physical scientists of note and national reputation. Have none of these people anything to say? Have none of them felt the need to comment on the terrible tragedy that has befallen their University?
Where are they?
as for the Paterno family, they are clearly demonstrating what he and they are made of, and that his reputation, so carefully crafted and nutured over the years (by HIM), was a lie. If there was ever any doubt about who or what he was, they are in the process of clearing it up finally and completely. and the irony is, they don't have a clue. Armed with their Lawyers legalistic arguments against the Freeh report, Jay Paterno spent the entire day on ESPN attacking the report and attempting to diminish its impact in the community at large.
what the Paternos are going to find out, in short order, is that the world is a LOT bigger than Happy Valley, and that the TRUTH cannot be hidden forever nowadays, not outside the confines of Paterno's lost kingdom.
this is increasingly becoming a sad affair made even sadded but clearer by their pathetic and futile attempts to control it.
the same is true for the bot and the administration. no doubt they feel empowered to make statements like "a contract is a contract" as regards their final pathetic acquiesance to Paterno with his obscence retirement contract, but as the details emerge it is clear that the last word has not been spoken: judgements of them, him and that insular culture will be the final word.
The ncaa may be forced in the final analysis to do what they really dont want to do, kill the football program at penn state.
kill it in order to save the university itself. For anything less may not be enough.
What is becomming clear that, is that, far from putting this behind them, the University and the bot have still been unable to overcome the cult of the individual and the power of football in insular Happy Valley and that the great Penn State University is in for a protracted seige of sorts, rather than honestly attempting to put this sordid mess behind them.
in retrospect it is somewhat surprising that the bot was even able to commission an independent investigation of the affair, but they did.
I have wondered as this unfolded about the lack of comment from the leaders of the University at levels other than the administration and the BOT. Where are the nationally respected professional leaders of the academic community? Where is even one comment from them about all this? Penn State has produced leading professionals across the years, Doctors, lawyers, historians, social scientists and physical scientists of note and national reputation. Have none of these people anything to say? Have none of them felt the need to comment on the terrible tragedy that has befallen their University?
Where are they?
as for the Paterno family, they are clearly demonstrating what he and they are made of, and that his reputation, so carefully crafted and nutured over the years (by HIM), was a lie. If there was ever any doubt about who or what he was, they are in the process of clearing it up finally and completely. and the irony is, they don't have a clue. Armed with their Lawyers legalistic arguments against the Freeh report, Jay Paterno spent the entire day on ESPN attacking the report and attempting to diminish its impact in the community at large.
what the Paternos are going to find out, in short order, is that the world is a LOT bigger than Happy Valley, and that the TRUTH cannot be hidden forever nowadays, not outside the confines of Paterno's lost kingdom.
this is increasingly becoming a sad affair made even sadded but clearer by their pathetic and futile attempts to control it.
the same is true for the bot and the administration. no doubt they feel empowered to make statements like "a contract is a contract" as regards their final pathetic acquiesance to Paterno with his obscence retirement contract, but as the details emerge it is clear that the last word has not been spoken: judgements of them, him and that insular culture will be the final word.
The ncaa may be forced in the final analysis to do what they really dont want to do, kill the football program at penn state.
kill it in order to save the university itself. For anything less may not be enough.
