A three-year investigation at Penn State University has led a grand jury to charge the university's (now former) Athletic Director and (now former) head of Business -- who was also the head of the Campus Police Department at the time -- with perjury and obstruction of justice.
That's bad enough. When it's compounded with what they were covering up, you've got probably the single most sordid example (of many I've found) as to why the sports culture in this country is diseased beyond repair.
This all stems from the case of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, who was indicted on November 6 of 40 counts stemming from a years-long habit of pedophilia.
This guy is accused of fucking kids under the color of the Penn State football program under Joe Paterno.
Just a couple days ago, they added perjury and obstruction charges to then-AD Tim Curley and vice president for business and finance Gary Schultz (who was the head of the campus police, at the time). Both have since stepped down from their posts, Curley to administrative leave, Schultz to retirement.
The worst part of this is that Paterno was not touched.
How in the Hell he could have an assistant coach under his employment who had been fucking kids for a period of 15 years and that Paterno could not have known about it is INCONCEIVABLE to me.
And then, to openly have the university's head of police AND the Athletic Director LIE to authorities over this is just stupid beyond all sense of description.
This clearly extended back to when Sandusky was on the staff. At least one incident is reported to have surrounded a kid near the team at the 1999 Alamo Bowl.
That ALONE should end JoePa's career. That single statement should put to rest the feasible ability of Joe Paterno to be able to successfully discern good character to bed.
Sandusky is being accused of fucking kids for FIFTEEN YEARS. There is ZERO CHANCE that I believe that people at Penn State didn't know, and that the aura around the Penn State Nittany Lion football program was going to cover this up, not unlike the Holy Roman Catholic Church and the "Holy Scepter of God" many of these pedophilic male priests believe is between their legs.
Joe Paterno should be arrested on the same charges that the other two guys just got: Perjury and obstruction, because to handle this in-house (which is what Paterno did) is basically begging for this to die. Of course, had this come out earlier, his career probably was over anyway.
This is probably fatal to the football program at Penn State, in one way or another. Maybe not this year, but soon...
But I had the following to say to the President of Penn State University, Graham Spanier, whom you can contact at the e-mail address: president@psu.edu
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Subject: Act Now on Paterno, or Join Him
To the President of Penn State University, Graham Spanier:
I can understand this is a difficult time for you.
But you are completely and utterly negligent in your duties as a University President if you do not do one thing, right now -- and it's the last thing that you would ever want to do at Penn State University:
Joe Paterno either retires immediately, or he is fired.
You basically, for the foreseeable future, are going to be seen as "Pedophile State University". Paterno's reputation as a college football legend -- GONE. Your university's positive reputation -- DESTROYED.
If, hypothetically speaking, I were a student at Penn State, I'd be looking into transferring out, as soon as I could.
You've got two choices:
You either rid the athletic program of Joe Paterno, and every person who may have been involved in this (and if you think I believe this is just Curley, Sandusky, and that vice president of business, you're fooling yourself!)
or
You quit as the President of Penn State University, and a successor is named that has half an ounce of integrity.
The only reason I would not call for you guys to decline any bowl bid you would receive this year is that I am not clear at all that (beyond that Paterno has no business coaching this team whatsoever now) it involves this team on the player level in any respect. But what punishments could be put against your university that would be sufficient, I cannot say because I do not know.
Michael Falkner
And people wonder why I am so disgusted with sports these days. There's more of this going on -- LOTS more...
And there's lots more to this story too.
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5 PM PST: Unscientific philly.com poll:
4-to-1 that Paterno needs to go.
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