I’m going to need a shower after this. These are PDF documents if you want to read them yourself.
Press Release on the Freeh Report
I’m still reading, digesting and then retching. The most damning thing so far is that Paterno, Spanier, Schultz and Curley all knew of the 1998 police investigation into Sandusky showering with the boy.
Annoyingly the Freeh report is encoded so you can’t copy from the document. It won’t stop anyone. Just wasteful. You can print it. Scan it and then you have an un-encoded copy to do individual pages.
UPDATE: Here. I scanned in the summary pages from a couple chapters.
I guess I’m just thinking along the lines of the Bible verse, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. Hopefully no one on this blog is surpressing such a magnitude of guilt such as knowledge of child molestation, but I would withold my personal condemnation of those accused until they have their own day in court to express their side of the issues.
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
I wonder how would I react if this were PITT?
First and foremost I would be pissed! Very disappointed in the lack of good common decency that was not exhibited. I would want everyone removed (Chancellor on down). I would DEMAND that a full transparent process WITH ANSWERS be undertaken to investigate how this occurred. I would take a real close look at the culture of the institution. It is clear that they took that “Penn Stater” thing was too far. “Cult like” to far. A clear demonstration of business 101 – “GROUP THINK”
The BOT and Administration indeed are guilty of Lack of Institutional Control because they virtually had NO control. What’s ironic is that ‘Absolute Institutional Control’ by Paterno allowed this to continue. Joe, Gary and Curley (Moe, Larry and Curley anyone? Spanier can be Shemp) and Spanier conspired to cover up this horrible situation and allow Sandusky to continue stalking prey.
Do they get the Death Penalty? I don’t know. But the football team probably did benefit from the story being squashed by the Stooges. I would suspect at least a few recruits at that time might have went elsewhere if it was made public.
Millan asked,”I guess I want to know who ‘Penn State’ is?”
WE ARE is the answer you fool.
My God, they just don’t get it…they just don’t. It isn’t about Penn State, it is about kids;protecting them, loving them, showing them the respect that men with the combined ages of 2,000 could not and still do not fathom.
WE ARE….STILL CLUELESS!
WE ARE …. ready to flock to Beaver Stadium on fall Saturdays and have a jolly good time like nothing has happened (and vicitims be damned)
WE ARE … ready to once again pull in $70 million in revenue like nothing has happened (and vicitims be damned)
What a low life.
Its about time for the State Penn cult to stop worshiping at the idol of Joe.
Part of the justification for SMU receiving the death penalty was that the problems ran so deep that they were cultural in nature (e.g., win at all costs), and that the only way to eliminate the problems was to eliminate the culture and start over. A strong argument can be made that the issues at PSU are even more embedded in the culture, and that because of its isolation, that culture will only be changed by shutting it down.
That being said, I bet the NCAA really just wants this to go away at this point.
Leaders create the culture. New leadership is needed.
However, this could have happened at any of the elite programs where football is placed first. Pedo State was unique since one guy called all the shots (after nearly 50 years at the same school, one accumulates much power…2 national titles also helps elevate oneself to god-like status), and that one guy claimed to have graduated more players than any other school.
Many other programs were just football factories but Penn State was thought to be different and special.
Unfortunately, many Nitters won’t learn until football is taken away from them for a long time. That won’t happen given the economics. But, I do think the program will be severely sanctioned by the NCAA. Some Nitters are gradually recognizing JoePa as a fraud and the Grand Experiment as an epic failure. So there is hope for a cultural change.
Now if only the media can stop idolizing the man and admit that all the good he did cannot make up for the bad.
Child of Light and Bride of Truth,
Over fate and foe victorious,
Dowered with eternal youth,
Crowned with love of son and daughter,
Thou shalt conquer as of yore,
Dear old Pittsburgh, Alma Mater,
God preserve Thee evermore. Hail to Pitt!!!
“Some say NCAA won’t act because there are no rules for this. Well, hell, who knew they had to make a rule about covering up a child molester?”
It would have been Sandusky as opposed to Gricar who ended up missing.
So, was JoePa’s ego that big and was he that worried about his legacy when he instructed his ‘superiors’ to forget about it?
I’m in central PA and way outnumbered by the PSU sheep, and nothing brings me joy like mentioning the last time we played (12-0!) I want nothing to do with their rebuilding efforts. Let them sit isolated and shunned in the big 10.
Pitt should be calling Pedo State today and cancelling the future series. I don’t want Pitt associated with a university like that. We don’t need them.
My late dad, also a Pitt man, said he knew a son of a bitch when he saw one, and this was in the late 60′s.
You were right Dad.
Comment by Pantherman13 07.12.12 @ 11:23 am
Here, here I 2nd the motion. The ONLY THING PITT can do that says it doesn’t condone the Creeps in Creepy Valley is by canceling these scheduled games with Ped State.
(actually I’ve been advocating this since last Winter, the big 10 stiffs HAVE TO PLAY THEM,,,,,,,
WE DON’T !!)
Once upon a time in America, college students actually thought about important things and changed the direction of an entire nation. Forced one sitting President(LBJ) to not even seek re-election and brought the whole Military-Industrial complex to a grinding halt. Perhaps we should reinstate the draft so that these Zombies think about something else other than Football, the next Jackass movie or what the Kardashians are doing.
Just saying !
You can almost hear the announcement in your head,
“Today, the University of Pittsburgh has cancelled it’s upcoming football series with
Penn State”.
Talk about a slap down!!
Please, Pitt, please do it.
I’d rather play Gardner-Webb.
National Fox Radio just ripped PSU for the first 10 minutes. This whole things sickens me about the institution but more so the football program. How will this be remembered 20 years from now?
Psu would be smart to take some SIGNIFICANT preemptive action and self discipline.
To Dorian, we all make mistakes. Pitt will give you a second chance. And, do you really want associated with Pedo State for the rest of your life after this?
I dont think that will happen but they could sanction them selves like ohio state did give up some thing they would if they had any decency.
The most blatant example of money being more important than the little guy.
How many times a day are decisions made to protect the institution and screw the little guy?
Whistleblowers don’t survive in corporate America.
Even the Janitor was smart enough to know that.
Does your diploma count if it is signed by a felon?
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It is a shame that Barry Switzer and Jackie Sherrill retired and left college football to the likes of Joe Paterno.
I fully expect Cook to spin his Joepology once again and his boss Micco, a State Penn alumnus, will support his trash.
The Nitter cult is at least indirectly responsible for all of this with their hero worship and self righteousness.
I’ve already e-mailed Stevie P and asked him to cancel the upcoming series. I will personally contribute to the buyout if needed.
What remains will be gone as O’Brien quickly proves he’s not Joe Paterno.
And what about coaches and others still on staff who are leftover from the Paterno regime?
A major blunder out of the gate for O’Brien.
What respect I had for Joe Paterno is gone. I hope the statue at Beaver Stadium is removed.
I do feel sympathy for the Penn Stater’s who believed that the sky is blue and white because God loved Penn State. I guess we all get a reality check. It’s just a tragedy that boys lives were destroyed because of a few people more concerned about a sport that human lives.
I never liked the We Are… If I was a Penn State alumni I’d cringe at the though of We Are…
As for WE ARE: well, I always felt like that chant should be accompanied by a Nazi salute. Turns out I am right.
PSU will not shut down the football program and if the NCAA does not tender serious sanctions, it will lose what little credibility it has left.
Right now, Curly, Spanier and Schultz are three worried hombres. They are all going to pin it on Paterno and each other.
Paterno was a creep, but he had plenty of company.
I read the report summary early and oddly enough spent most of my business day in Harrisburg. The talk shows were just amazing as PSU fan after fan said the report “wasn;t all that bad” in so many words. Talk about needing a shower when I got home!
Nothing short of the death penalty for 5 years, should be the NCAA response. All the money PSU will pay in suits is not enough. Pitt will not have to cancel it’s series with Ped State. The NCAA will do it for them.
My father, his brother, my grandfather and his 7 brothers, all PSU Grads are rolling over in their graves today. And so I ask all of you, has their ever been a more tragic abuse of power in sports?
I am just not sure what they may due; but am leaning toward believing it will be major sanctions so that they avoid criticism. I suspect they will wait 6-12 months, and then decide (with the help of opinion surveys) whether they can get away with doing little or nothing without being severely criticized before deciding what to do or not to do.
