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much more at link above, w/link to the CNN story---
Paterno's statue outside Beaver Stadium has to come down, because otherwise Penn State would be celebrating a man who helped talk school officials into leaving Jerry Sandusky alone in 2001, letting an alleged pedophile escape detection for another decade, giving that alleged pedophile -- and it's not "alleged" anymore -- unfettered access to campus for another decade.
After the statue comes down, then what? Well, then his statue would be disposed of, possibly melted down into prison bars -- maybe the bars that will hold Sandusky. Or maybe someone could just toss Paterno's statue into a landfill, throw it away as easily as Paterno and his underlings threw away the lives of so many boys in their community.
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Vitriolic piece by CBS Sports's Gregg Doyel following the CNN report:
Emails show Paterno legacy, Penn State officials should face reckoning
much more at link above, w/link to the CNN story
Interesting two paragraphs at the very end of this article BBM:
Freehs investigators are also exploring the circumstances surrounding Paternos decision to eventually hire McQueary as an assistant coach, the person familiar with the investigation said. McQueary, a former quarterback for Paterno at Penn State, has testified under oath that when he first contacted Paterno to inform him of what he had seen in the showers, Paterno assumed he was calling to ask for a job, and that Paterno brusquely told him he would not be hired.
McQueary was ultimately hired over another, more experienced candidate, and investigators are curious about whether that development came as a consequence of what he told Paterno that morning in 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/s...sandusky-e-mails-indicate.html?pagewanted=all
Vitriolic piece by CBS Sports's Gregg Doyel following the CNN report:
Emails show Paterno legacy, Penn State officials should face reckoning
much more at link above, w/link to the CNN story
Vitriolic piece by CBS Sports's Gregg Doyel following the CNN report:
Emails show Paterno legacy, Penn State officials should face reckoning
much more at link above, w/link to the CNN story
Can anyone help me with this? How do you research how many people have the same name?
I'm trying to find out how many people have the name Gerald Arthur Sandusky.
And to find out where they live/have lived.
Many thanks for any help.
the rest at the link aboveSo now the NCAA is officially engaged in the Jerry Sandusky scandal. More than seven months after the sickening news broke, the central figure himself is in jail. There are civil suits still to be tried. And Penn State seems willing and ready to pay, lots.
But it's only now, today, that the NCAA becomes a central figure in the proceedings. In fact, the association is suddenly up to its Oxford-shirted armpits in the mess. The NCAA didn't have to get involved. Many were more than surprised when president Mark Emmert sent a sternly worded letter to Penn State's acting president on Nov. 17, 2011.
The letter seemed incredibly self-aggrandizing. The head of the country's most powerful amateur athletic body injected himself and his association into the story. But he did and now this rocket ride to hell has a whole new path, and the NCAA is carving it.
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Interesting two paragraphs at the very end of this article BBM:
Freehs investigators are also exploring the circumstances surrounding Paternos decision to eventually hire McQueary as an assistant coach, the person familiar with the investigation said. McQueary, a former quarterback for Paterno at Penn State, has testified under oath that when he first contacted Paterno to inform him of what he had seen in the showers, Paterno assumed he was calling to ask for a job, and that Paterno brusquely told him he would not be hired.
McQueary was ultimately hired over another, more experienced candidate, and investigators are curious about whether that development came as a consequence of what he told Paterno that morning in 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/s...sandusky-e-mails-indicate.html?pagewanted=all
It is now perfectly reasonable to postulate that Joe Paterno protected Jerry Sandusky, who had been a Penn State assistant coach from 1969 until retiring in 1999. Sandusky went right along with his business of showering with boys in the locker room, of bringing kids to the sidelines during games, of sitting in the press/luxury box area of home games. Sandusky used the program's allure like a lollipop to draw kids into his van.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--joe-paterno-role-jerry-sandusky-coverup-grows.html
Here's another interesting tidbit from that same article:
"To that end, Freehs investigation has identified previously undisclosed billing records showing that officials of the university, when deciding what to do in 2001, consulted with the law firm that served as its outside counsel on their legal obligation to report the assault, the person familiar with the inquiry said. It is unclear from the billing records whether the officials disclosed the nature of the accusations against Sandusky or simply made a general inquiry. Several hours were billed, beginning on a Sunday night, the person said. The lawyer who represented the university at the time did not return a phone call requesting comment."
A poster on a PSU football message board passed along the above information earlier in the week, scooping the New York Times, which leads me to further suspect these leaks are coming from Freeh or persons within the university.
The question I have is -- did Curley and Schultz contact an attorney on the Sunday night after their initial meeting with Paterno?
If they were in CYA mode from the beginning, that might explain why it took them 10 days to meet with MM.
JMO
And then we have 1998.
Here's the latest column from Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports:
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It is now perfectly reasonable to postulate that Joe Paterno protected Jerry Sandusky......
The simile in the last sentence is perfect.
Another CBS Sports story, this one by Dennis Dodd, discussing the NCAA's role in days to come:
Emmert, NCAA in position to send important message: Make Penn State pay
the rest at the link above
Penn State must pay. Take your pick: TV ban, postseason ban, shutting down the program. I don't know if I'd go so far on that last one, but I have turned 180 degrees since November.........
Now that letter, an investigation and the possibility of NCAA sanction don't seem so outrageous. Based on the CNN report alone, Emmert has his proof that -- in his words -- "individuals with present or former administrative or coaching responsibilities may have been aware of this behavior." He has proof that Penn State as a living, breathing, enabling institution -- an administrative monster itself -- violated NCAA Bylaw 10.1, which deals with ethical conduct. ...........
Think of that clause at the front of the manual as the association's Book of Genesis. Before anything else happens, you believe with all your heart in the beginning. In this case, Constitution, Article 2, Bylaw 2.1.2:
An institution's responsibility in rules compliance includes "the actions of its staff members." The president is specifically mentioned.
Victims have suffered. Those in power are culpable. Now it's time for the NCAA to do the right thing, to go to a place we never thought it would: Penalize an institution for gross moral misconduct. It would send the most important message in the NCAA's 107-year history.
Football can't be that important. Ever.