Joe Paterno to resign at end of season

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

These are the incompetent assholes who are more responsible than everyone but Sandusky. If they'd done they're job,....

Understand what the trustees are doing. They are staying ahead of the scandal. Otherwise they would, in mass, be also found responsible.

For example, they rushed through the Freeh report that blamed Paterno only by implication. Without any explicit facts. Then they negotiated a deal with the NCAA so that the NCAA would not investigate. Meanwhile they are castigating Paterno (who cannot defend himself) and other obviously guilty people so that nobody will look any farther. Nobody will notice a board of trustees that need all investigations and facts to end before more is discovered. My god. The brother of the assisant Chairman lived in Sandusky's basement. And he still did not know?

This is a perfect example of a controlled avalanche so that nobody can get organized and learn the whole story. Exactly what any good PR person would have them do.

Penalties on the innocent are massive. But the trustees with their well protected 15 year terms will remain untainted. If we were to apply the same penalty to the Catholic Church (that openly protected and all but condoned pedophilia), then the fines would be on the order of something less than $1 trillion. And no church services for four years.

Sandusky was dismissed from the Penn State atheltic program in 1998. But trustees and management permitted him access to campus facilities after 1998. So all Penn State accomplishments after 1998 (by other innocent people) must now be quashed from the record.

Meanwhile, Sandusky's wife who also apparently knew of the pedophilia, is also getting off without charges.

What kind of deal did the trustees rush through? One that punishes everyone except the trustees. Does that not sound suspicious? 85% of all problems are directly traceable to who? Or is that whom?