Yesterday evening Penn State officials announced the firing of legendary coach, Joe Paterno. Paterno was the escape goat for Penn States huge scandal involving the child molestation charges of Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky is being charged with molesting eight boys over the 15 years of his career from 1994 to 2009.
Paterno stated:
“Right now, I’m not the football coach — and I’ve got to get used to that,” Paterno — who was in his 46th season with the Nittany Lions — told reporters outside his home. “I’ve got to get used to it. Let me think it through.”
Penn States president, Graham Spanier, was also fired for covering up the molestation. The boards vice chairman, John Surma did not want to go into details about Paterno’s firing. He did say this:
“In our view, we thought change now was necessary,” Surma said. “The Penn State board of trustees tonight decided it is in the best interest of the university to have a change in leadership to deal with the difficult issues that we are facing. The past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire Penn State community — but the outrage that we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place.”
The bad thing is Penn State could not even give the respect of firing Joe Paterno to his face. They had to give him a phone call. Real mature PSU.
After the announcement students took to the streets to riot. They flipped over news vans, broke windows, and were fighting with cops.
Two others will be charged with Sandusky, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president of finance Gary Schultz for not turning it into police and covering it up.
I will say this, one I am looking forward to seeing their last home game this weekend. I bet there will be even more riots.
No my opinion on Paterno’s firing, well he was it was due time he was about to leave. It was just sad this was the reason he had to leave. Now remember this Paterno is not the molestor, he was just associated with him. A player did tell Paterno about the incident, Paterno went to higher ups and did inform them. They were suppose to do an internal investigation. All Paterno knows is Sandusky was fired for reasons and that should be it. Well supposedly Paterno should of done more and made sure his bosses turned the guy into the police, and he did not do that.
I try to put myself in people’s situation. Paterno’s case is pretty much stating that me, being in the military, would hear about a molestation accusation. I would go turn it into my Colonel who is my boss. My Colonel should turn it into the military police and they would do their investigation. If they found something, I would believe they would handle it and take care of it, I am all done with what I done. Well, years later I find out that my Colonel just covered it up. I guess that means because I did my part, I should still be fired because my Colonel didn’t do his part.
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