Breaking News out of Penn State tonight

[redmustang]

Posted: 6/29/12 at 11:16pm

Just caught the end of this story on CNN. Emails uncovered between university president, vice-pres. and athletic director from 2001 discussing how to cover-up the Jerry Sandusky problem.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/29/12 at 11:18pm

oooooooooooooo Heads are gonna roll!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 12:01am

Anything that further knocks those self-righteous fans and alumni further down a peg to eat their words that their beloved JoePa was simply misinformed and still infallible.

Now if this were to open an NCAA investigation, although unlikely, against the football program... Get your popcorn ready!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 12:57am

WE ARE PED STATE! WE ARE PED STATE!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 2:06am

Wow, this is about to get intersting. Of course, this will be treated so much differently than when the church just moves pedophile priests around. (With the exception of that very recent finding)

[Kad]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 2:06am

Good.

As if there were any doubt about how far up the chain of command this mess was.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 2:27am

Good-may they all receive justice. BASTARDS!

All those poor traumatized men. I hope more men begin to talk about their abuse and get support, help and healing.

[singtopher]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 6:01am

I don't see this anywhere on CNN's website.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 6:36am

It's a little hearsay-ish at this point, as CNN does not actually have copies of the emails, but the contents as outlined are pretty specific, and certainly damning if true.





CNN 'Justice' post

Updated On: 6/30/12 at 06:36 AM

[Addison D.]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 6:11pm

Freeh and the FBI still have not made the contents of the e-mails public, but the NYT is also reporting the story in slightly greater detail than CNN did Friday night.




"E-Mails Suggest Paterno Role in Silence on Sandusky"

Updated On: 7/1/12 at 06:11 PM

[winston89]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 8:04pm

As much as I'd like to see the NCAA do a full on investigation, I doubt that they are going to. After all, there were two lead players in this whole mess. One's dead, the other one is in jail for life. I feel like should the NCAA look into this mess, they aren't going to find anything that we don't already know at this point.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 8:28pm

There may well be lots more to be learned. I'm inclined to think that the stories of Sandusky pimping boys out to the power elite of the PSU board are apocryphal, but what if they're not? It would be --with due due respect to the victims--an incredible story.

[Yawper]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 9:02pm

The NCAA is already watching this investigation because there's evidence that Paterno's real involvement was helping football players get special treatment and escape standard university disciplinary actions.
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/6/30/3128792/penn-state-scandal-ncaa-investigation

[strummergirl]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 9:57pm

That prostituting rumor came from a Philly radio airhead who said it on a Boston radio program known more for shock than substance.

And Winston, being dead did not stop the investigation of the Fab Five era in Michigan and the dead guy was the smoking gun of the whole operation.

And who is to say nothing new will be found out. Unearthing a paper trail is very possible..

[wexy]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 4:53am

I was at the Yankee game filling up my water bottle yesterday and a little kid came out the bathroom with hid dad wearing a Penn State tee shirt.
It made me queasy.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 5:55am

on purpose??? yikes. Or a very, very black sense of humour - but why oh why??? who won?

[wexy]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 8:54am

^ It was weird... Yanks won,it was too hot though.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:33pm

Freeh's report is out.

Is there anything more anyone would like to say?





NYT Article

Updated On: 7/12/12 at 08:33 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 11:05am

Just a chilling anecdote from ex player LaVar Arrington who like many former players, stood by the program and Paterno. Then he found out he knew victim #4 and that Sandusky used Arrington's relationship with the boy to prey on the boy. Arrington changed his tune, though still coming to grips with the revelation, and wrote an op-Ed in the Washington Post on it.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 11:34am

They have guards around the Joe Paterno statue on the Penn State campus to protect it.

Imagine if the school would have provided the innocent students and young men with such protection...

SHAMEFUL.

That statue needs to come down. Make a statement.

Updated On: 7/13/12 at 11:34 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 11:50am

Of course, Paterno's defenders are still deluded into thinking the man is guileless.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 11:55am

My guess is that the guarding of the statue is more about a visual display of 'Please don't riot here or we'll shoot you.'

But if anything deserved an angry mob, this would be it.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 12:02pm

I'm all for pulling down the statue of Paterno--the thuggish boosterism of those Happy Valley football hooligans could definitely use a little tempering by way of a public backlash.

Having said that, though, I am leery of people's focus on 'football' as the culprit here. Football was the sacred cow this time. At this institution. But people have such a powerful ability to compartmentalize things within a comforting narrative, and then blithely carry on as atrocities repeat themselves. How many American Jews--who sanctimoniously intone "Never Again" at the mention of the Holocaust--lifted a finger to do something about Darfur?

People need to understand that sexual predators can be found anywhere and that childhood sexual abuse is incredibly, sickeningly common. Don't kid yourself that now that the Priests and Sandusky have been exposed we are 'done with this sort of thing'.

The underlying villain in this story, in my opinion, isn't PSU's football program--it's the cowardice and laziness of the innumerable individual people who looked the other way.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 12:08pm

There's also the little problem of the Paterno Library, paid for by you know who.

[Kad]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 12:09pm

While I do agree with you somewhat, Addison, the fact is that the idea of football/major athletics being untouchable and above the rules is widespread at many colleges.

The college athletic system is pretty screwed up in America right now. It's a system that chews kids up and spits them out, with only the college and coaches reaping the benefits.