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He is stretching a lot, IMO.

The problem here is that you are going to have a hard time finding more about Paterno's involvement because of two reasons. One, he is dead. Two, he didn't use email (outside of sending messages through his admin).

With that said, I am comfortable in believing that Paterno was a lynchpin in this.

Oh jfc. How does anyone want MORE?! It was sickening enough.

I don't see any reason to get worked up about posting here. Some people are going to twist things or just consistently slam PSU no matter what, and I understand that. I'd rather say what I have to say in a way I think is rational and have people discuss it respectfully than get worked up and let emotions get in the way. Always clouds judgment, on both sides.

You may have misunderstood me, idk. Honestly the report just restated a ton of s*** that I already knew/assumed. The only thing new was that Joe definitely knew about 98, so that condemns him. But we learned nothing from a bunch of important witnesses, including 3 very important people to this situation (Curley, Shultz, Spanier). Or that crook Corbett for that matter. So much stuff just ignored by this report. I just want it all to come out.

Btw, how did Spanier get a job for the Department of Defense? Frickin Obama administration.

Agreed about the wins.

Wow how embarrassing this must be you PSU students, alums and fans... This has gone from bad to tragic real fast. So many people involved that could (and SHOULD) have done something to stop this and now everyone is pointing fingers at the other person. The whole situation is FUBAR and will need a lot of time, investigations, and firings to get this all straightened out.

To any PSU fan that thinks Joe Pa is innocent...shame on you!

You plan to copy and paste that in every Paterno related thread?

if this had come out in 1998, that their assistant of the year, defensive coordinator, was a child rapist, what would the reaction be? would PSU still be as successful as they are now? would they still have all these fans and alumni?

what if it finally came out in 2001? i wonder how this will effect their future.

i also believe they would have taken a slight hit for a couple years tops, and probably would be where they were at currently (well right before the JS news).

so what exactly did they think they gained by hiding this? i do believe this was a save face move and the NCAA SHOULD hand down some punishment.

I guarantee you they thought they had gotten away with it after a few years.

We will never know the entire story though, all the evidence is there and Spanier is still denying ever knowing anything about it. He's caught and he still won't admit he screwed up. I say prosecute every last one of them, including Wendall Courtney, Baldwin, and the assistant(s) (Schultz's assistant from what I've read so far, could be more) who removed documents pertaining to the case out of the office. They can all rot in a jail cell for all I care. There's no reason good enough to excuse this garbage.

Sandusky molested a kid 50 miles away from Penn State's campus multiple times. The kid outed him and it was actually investigated.

I have no doubt that if Sandusky only molested kids on PSU's campus this would have never come out.

Victim 1's mother contacted the authorities in early 2008, Sandusky was a volunteer coach at the boys school.

You can't prove it was just to protect the football program though and I don't really think that was the case, it was more about protecting the whole university and his image as well as the others guys images. The football team gained no advantage so I don't see why the football program should be punished. Those who are responsible will pay and PSU as a whole is going to pay, leave it at that. Like I said earlier punishing the football program hurts a lot of people who had nothing to do with this and does more harm than good.

Pretty sure a mod or admin needs to do it and some PSU fans have had theirs removed and others want to keep them.