The Lions' Pride

My only question is ,,where have the parents been? If it was my sone or grandson or nephew, I would of moved heaven and earth to see justice done when it happened. But nothing till now. Didnt like JoePa,, but he is getting grief for doing right. The world is upside down.

Boy, I'm tired of this stupid arguement. Joe Paterno is gone. Driven out by a tidal wave of accusations and innuendo. There is nothing else the BOT could have done but get rid of the lightening rod, Joe Paterno. Yes, they had to do that. What about the pervert Sandusky? What about the other 99 or so nobodies that knew and did nothing. The pervert Sandusky operated for many years with impunity. But now it's all Joe should have done this or Joe should have done that. Where is the outrage for the rest of them? If it ever comes out that Joe thought the police had been notified, I'm going to punch somebody.

Clean up the entire place. Whoever was involved in the 2002 incident should be gone. Maybe the parents of the victims didn't look for justice because these kids had less than idea home lives thus why they were preyed upon

"Did everything right"? He learns his coach is a pedophile and fails to alert the police. After that allows this scumbag to hang around his program until as latest as last week. "Everything right" WRONG!

To say Joe Paterno did everything right is a bit of a stretch with the benefit of hindsight.

But it is kind of crazy in this world that an individual can legally follow the correct SOP and then Grand Jury findings are released stating this very thing. (Mind you there has been no trial and no one has been found guilty of anything). So you have a man that has a previously pristine record of leadership and character and he is found to be involved in a very emotionally riveting scandal in a manner that follows the letter of the law, yet he is fired.

Crazy world we live in.

Yet part of me knows that this was inevitable and probably most necessary.

Sadly.

I agree 100% . I feel like my first swipe would be at Stuart Scott if it could be. I can't keep writing the same things but i don't know what to with the range of emotions I have. People just keeping repeating the same media driven line. Mm saw Sandusky rape a boy in the shower went to paterno he did nothing and despite years of people believing he is a good man just allowed Jerry to remain on campus. Why ? We don't know because Joe is obviously a creep. Or to protect his friend. What they weren't really friends okay. Well to proctect Penn states image. Hmm great job of that Joe you couldn't remain mum when the gj asked if you knew anything. Something is missing that will hopefully come out maybe it exonerates maybe it's worse. For people to act like they have the whole story is absurd.

I don't know how old you are, or if you are a current student at PSU, or even a grad, but its time to take a step back and do some thinking.

Again, I get why people are upset at the way this may have been handled. The phone call relieving him as head coach; the press conference by the BOT, the continued words of the media ripping Joe and not the guy who was the main focus of all this and the one who has ruined the PSU name in Jerry Sandusky, who seems to be the one who is lost in all of this, while Paterno is the main focus. I get it all.

Joe's name is getting run through the mud now and people are saying that his legacy is crushed forever meaning this overrides everything he has done. There is no one in college football today that can claim to have made more of an impact on the game more than Joe. No, not Bo, or Switzer, or Bear, or Bowden, or Lou Holtz, or even Tom Osborne. You add in all his accomplishments, accolades, records, graduation rates - his thoughts on education, his community service and Humanitarian efforts ... you then add in the lives he personally touched as we have heard from Millen, Blackledge, Adam T. and more and this doesn't include the 15-year old kid from NW PA who received an autographed picture of him with a get well card once he found out I was injured with a mangled leg by a BOT member and his support and caring of Adam once that injury happened in Columbus. Then there is his donations and fundraising efforts for PSU and his efforts in the community of State College. There is NO coach in the country - whether it be any legend that ranks up with him (Bo, Woody, Bowden, Bear, Tom O., Lavelle Edwards or whoever) that comes close to what he has done to a respective school and community as far as giving. We can go on with this list for a long long time. Lots of good and lots of lives were touched.

However, you can't help think that for all the good, for all the time and effort and for his soft heart, he will be known as the coach who needed to do more, whereas some of those coaches in similar status did 10-20% of what Joe did and they now become more relevant in the eyes of many.

It goes to show what one lack of judgement event can do for one's legacy as fair or unfair as that comment may be. The one's that will continue to forget all the good that Joe has provided over the years, which will center around the usual suspects of fan bases, and remember him as the guy who didn't do enough are idiots as far as I'm concerned and quite frankly are irrational. Then again, those who forget the fact he needed to make one more call, aren't exactly being fair either.

I still think the BOT made the right decision to not allow him to continue as head coach the rest of the season. Whether it caved to the media's or public opinion regarding this, I have no idea. However, it was best for the University as it tries to return from this horrific scandal. Having him on the sidelines would have sent a wrong message IMO, as much as I highly thought of the man who presided over PSU football for a long, long, long, long time.

correction: He ran Penn State football.

JS was not an employee of the program from 1999 on, GJ testimony says Paterno was never informed of the 1998 investigation funny how the guy you say "ran Penn State" was so peripheral to police matters that they didn't even bother to inform him on this isn't it?

People attack Paterno because of what he is, an example of a man who has strived to live his whole live with integrity and honor. National media can move on to their next victim now, best pray it's not you or someone you care about in this "guilty by association" society in which we live.