Out of Bounds 4

4 comments

1. George

   November 8, 2011 at 2:14 pm

   Yeah, I thought highly of him. This changes all that. He needs to quickly step down.

    
2. Frank

   November 8, 2011 at 5:53 pm

   Judging by today’s news, particularly the postponement of his press conference, I think he’s done.  Collateral damage of the Boys Will Be Boys Club.

    
3. Bill

   November 9, 2011 at 8:48 am

   The more I read and hear, the worse it gets.  The grand jury report is so disgusting it’s almost impossible to read.  There isn’t anything bad enough they can do to Sandusky.  I have to conclude that those “in charge” and making decisions were more concerned with protecting PSU’s image (and perhaps Sandusky?) than doing the right thing.  This is a case where “the right thing” should be obvious.

   This was not an NCAA violation.  It was not a football player caught with some marijuana or charged with DUI.  I’ve heard people say you can’t judge Paterno until you know what he knew.  How much did he need to know?  All he (or anyone) needed to know was: adult male, 10 year old child, naked, shower.  Anyone who had any knowledge of what happened and failed to call the authorities must go.  Even if their actions were “legal,” their failure to do anything and everything they could to stop Sandusky is inexcusable.  Did anyone of them think that this was a one-time assault?  Anyone with half a brain knows that child molesters don’t just do it once.  None of them thought about the victim and possible other victims of Sandusky?

   I feel for those in the Penn State community.  Being a Virginia Tech grad, I’m sickened whenever I hear the media characterize some kind of mass shooting as a “Virginia Tech-style shooting.”  The reputation of Virginia Tech will be tarnished by the terrible events that occurred there on April 16, 2007.  Penn State’s reputation will forever suffer the same fate because of this terrible situation.  That is unfair to the 99.99999% of the Penn State community who had no knowledge and nothing to do with this.  And it all could have been avoided if any one of several adults had stood up to protect the most vulnerable among us.

    
4. Frank

   November 9, 2011 at 9:24 am

   Yeah, I saw more details in this morning’s Philly dot com, where Karen Heller also recounted a litany of sexual misconduct by coaches, both professional and volunteer.  

   Predators go to where they can find victims.

   It’s the Boys Will Be Boys Club and certainly not unique to Penn State (or the Catholic Church, though the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy puts that case on a different level).  

   The overall rottenness of the NCAA might have exacerbated the tendency to a cover up, but it did not create it.  Privileged insiders banding together to protect their fellows is a much older game than football.