I guess I get to start here. What a fucking shock.
I'm almost certainly going to get, at some point, to the genesis of this series, which has it's basis outside of sports. However, today's revelations concerning the child rape at Penn State and the NCAA's continued coverup of allowing Pennsylvania State University to exist continues to boggle the fucking mind.
WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO EXACT VIGILANTE JUSTICE HERE?
That's a serious question, when you see the next spate of abject horror from court documents unsealed today (as the insurance which covers lawsuit payouts is not wanting to reimburse Penn State, and Penn State is trying to recoup their losses):
- Paterno, through court documents, had the sexual abuse of children reported to him in 1976.
That was one of the victims who testified in 2014 (
Deadspin), anal sexual abuse through penetration.
- Three other new victims were revealed in that first set of documents today. One in 1987 and one in 1988, both witnessed by assistants, and another in 1988, referred to the AD.
You know, one would ask where the police was in all of this, until we are reminded of the investigator who was disappeared and made presumed dead, almost-certainly murdered by either Paterno or someone loyal to him.
- In a statement which would surprise no one, even more assistant coaches were testified to have known of Sandusky's child rapes. (Deadspin) Both have denied the report.
Mike McQueary, who was the one who finally began to blow the whistle, testified in a deposition that Greg Schiano and Tom Bradley knew. Joe Sarra and Kevin O'Dea were the assistants in the 1980's incidents revealed today.
Schiano is now the defensive coordinator at Ohio State. Bradley holds the same position at UCLA.
Sarra died in 2012. O'Dea now is the special teams coordinator for Tampa Bay in the NFL.
Why do I say this?
Because this is a FOOTBALL CRIME. It is a heinous sexual crime against children -- there is absolutely no denying this. But this is done under the color and protection of football, over the course of what now appears to be over THREE DECADES -- only the last part of which encompasses the National Religion Era of the sport.
- Timothy Curley pleaded the Fifth Amendment repeatedly in his deposition, including pleading the Fifth on whether he was the Athletic Director at Penn State between 1993 and 2011. (Deadspin)
I guess this would stand to reason, since the entirety of his duties as AD were probably criminal in nature by that point!
I reiterate my question above: Given the nature of the events which are coming out, especially at Penn State, when is someone going to have a set and basically decide that principle is more important than their own lives and that of the NCAA, who is complicit in this coverup through the ineptitude and perhaps participation of one Mark Allen Emmert?
I said this back when the first allegations were hitting the public table: THERE IS NO SUFFICIENT PENALTY. Yes, the title "There Is No Law" doesn't quite apply here as it applies in other places: Criminal and civil penalties have been sought and received.
But the fact is: Penn State football, the only reason for the life and existence of this sorry-assed "university", needed to be shut down, and by the most violent means legally possible, by the NCAA, by the state and federal government, whoever had the brass nuts to get it done.
Now, the NCAA has NO RIGHT -- NONE! -- to administer college sports in any capacity whatsoever.
In fact, I do have to wonder: Given the scope and time frame of these allegations -- and the fact that it was reported the worst-kept secret in college football that Sandusky was raping kids -- could the NCAA, ESPN, and all other enablers be sued into the ground as well?
Short of that, it may be time to consider less polite options.
