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Originally Posted by McLovin
Well, these were your specific questions:
The obvious question is why would Joe Paterno risk everything by not bringing the cops into this whole hideous turn of events?
What possible benefit could Joe Paterno have by keeping this mess under the protective wraps of the Penn State organization which has worshipped him for decades?
Let's break it down.
You are the $1 million/yr coach of a high profile, big business college football team.
The entire school is basically named after you ("The House that Joe Built").
You need to keep recruiting to keep on top.
Now you find out that your long time assistant coach has been taking showers with 10 year old boys in the locker rooms of The House That Joe Built. (Undisputed fact that he knew, and Sandusky admitted to).
After knowing that, 2 more years pass and you find out that that same coach has just anally raped a 10 year old boy in those showers.
Now, think hard, is this information:
1. Good for The House that Joe Built?
or
2. Bad for The House that Joe Built?
Now, would you rather:
1. No one ever find out about it, and the story just goes away?
or
2. Everyone find out about it, it becomes national news, your blue chip recruits go away, you get implicated in it big time (b/c at the time he found out about the anal raping, he already knew Sandusky had been doing improper things with kids in the showers, b/c Sandusky admitted to it 2 years prior).
Does that help paint a picture of why Paterno would prefer that this whole thing be kept under wraps? Can you see it now?
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And you've just done a wonderful job of detailing EXACTLY why Joe Paterno needs to be fired. Not why he was, but why he SHOULD be fired.
-He put the future of his team, and more importantly, the MONEY involved in front of his
integrity. Integrity not as a man, but as a simple human being.
I cannot imagine what the last 9 years has been like for the boy raped in the shower. I wonder where he is now. Many rape victims have self esteem issues the rest of their lives, and many turn to drugs and alcohol. Many commit suicide. Some go on, but they are haunted by the instance the rest of their lives, and many actually turn into molesters later on. The damage done to that kid is at Nazi level. Remember the picture of the tiny jewish boy at the concentration camp in WWII Poland with his scrawny hands in the air? Joe Paterno knew this level of thing happened in HIS building, perpetrated by HIS staffer and he decided, for the better of....of all things, a college FOOTBALL TEAM to put away his humanity and attempt to sweep this rape under the rug.
-Up to this morning, I thought Joe Paterno was probably the greatest college football coach in history. Funny- I still do. The reason for this is that I suspect that MOST if not ALL of the major college football coaches in this country would do the same damn thing. This is a symptom folks; Something is BADLY wrong!
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