Anyone turning over a truck, tearing down a light pole, or threatening Mike McQueary back in Pennsylvania is an idiot and doesn't really understand what just happened back there.
Joe Paterno should rot in Hell. This right wing, Republican, Christian, family values guy who was not at all shy about his support for the most right wing, law and order, Republicans let a pedophile prey on Pennsylvania's children for an extra ten years (and how many before? Just asking...) to protect the reputation of his football team! This is an outrage.
And the people of, "Happy Valley" who are rioting, and expressing their love for the coach who they think is the victim in this whole thing, are out of their minds!
One of the players told ESPN tonight, "On Saturday, we're playing for Joe!" Really? Who's playing for, or thinking about the victims?
Yeah, I know, "JoPa" didn't screw any kids himself. But, as they say at the Police Academy, he knew or should have known, about the problem, and he did nothing about it for 10 years! How do you do that and expect to keep you job? Or as he said in his statement, "the board shouldn't waste even a minute worrying about me". I wanted to finish that sentence for him. It would have read, "because I'm hoping they let me bail out of this by retiring at the end of the season, the winningest coach in D1 history, and not fire my ass for being an incompetent enabler who allowed a bunch of kids to get sexually abused."
And all these talking heads from Penn State who hope he'll be remembered for his long service, 409 victory's and his outstanding graduation rate? Fuck you. That's the college football equivalent of, "Hitler gave us the Autobahn, so what's you problem?"
And the latest revelation in this whole thing, assistant coach, Mike McQueary, who witnessed the rape of a young boy in 2002 and reported it to his head coach is getting threats! WTF? Kill the whistle blower? Really?
Yeah, he was a 28 year old, former college football player at the time. He could have beaten the offender into the tile and held him on the shower floor until the Cops showed up. Why didn't he?
I'll tell you why. He was scared to freaking death!
He was a 28 year old, former college football player, who was working as a graduate assistant. Hoping to become a college football coach himself one day, and he just witnessed the guy who had been, "JoPa's" right hand man when HE was playing for Paterno, screwing a kid in the shower. And I'm sure he knew it was wrong, but I'm just as sure that at that moment? He didn't know whether to shit or wind his watch.
So by all accounts, he called his father, told him what he had witnessed and asked for advice. And his dad told him to go to Paterno with the information. As he should have.
This is a crime committed in a work place, by a coworker. He didn't witness this on the street where calling the Cops is the default option.
He went to his boss with the information, and keep in mind, his boss was the most respected coach in ALL of college football at the time. I'm pretty sure this young, graduate assistant would have sought out the advice of his mentor no matter what he had just witnessed.
And I'm also pretty sure that when he told Paterno what he saw, it was not the first time Paterno had heard a story like this. And even if it was? I'm betting what McQueary heard was, "Thanks for letting me know, son. I'll take care of this. You did the right thing. Don't tell anyone else about this. Let me handle it."
And how did Paterno handle it? He told his boss, as he should have. But, at 74 years old, when no Cops show up to speak to the former defensive coordinator, or the young graduate assistant who gave you the information within a few days, aren't you old enough to know that the guys you told about this haven't done the right thing? And that you should have?
After all, YOU are not a 28 year old graduate assistant to the greatest college football coach ever, hoping for a future in the business. You're old enough to know, not only better, but that the right thing was not going to be done.
No one is responsible for Paterno's ruined legacy but, Paterno.
So rioters? Knock it off! JoPa got what he deserved. He covered your University's reputation in shit and scandal. And lay off Mike McQueary. He did what he thought was the right thing ten years ago and I bet if you ask him? He'd have done it differently if he had it to do over again. JoPa sat on the information for ten years, and how many MORE victims?
McQueary can no longer coach at Penn State. That's pretty obvious. But he should NOT be fired! He did nothing wrong, except trust Joe Paterno to the do the right thing. And any one associated with that University who will say they wouldn't have done the same thing in the same situation is a lying son of a bitch.
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well, that's one way to put it. there is no doubt
ReplyDeletethat St. Joe's stain glass window just got stained through the slaughter of the innocents.
Now, he will have to spend the remainder of his life as a sinner thinking morally and ethically about about his inaction. That ought to keep him up against the one yard line for some time.