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This is a very dissappointing choice made by the Board. Joe Paterno did what every job in America tells you to do when faced with sexual discomfort in the workplace, "report it to your chain of command."
I hope the players of Penn State boycott the remainder of the season in response to this decision.
so...
I'm a sales manager of a radio station...
One of my salespeople tell me they saw another salesperson sodomizing a 10-year old in the bathroom.
I tell the General Manager about it.
Nothing is done.
So, I'm supposed to back towork with this person? And, not report it, and the GM, to the owner, or the Po-Po?
Legally Joe Pa did his part by reporting it through the chain of command. Could he have done more? Absolutely. But think of in regards to WHEN he was informed.
I dont think any person would be in the correct position to ruin a person's life and go straight to the police with the one fact that was given to him.
An allegation of this magnitude requires more in-depth information which SHOULD have been done by school officials. Joe's job was to coach and be a mentor to his players which he did and was great at doing it.
Ok no more ranting from me about it.
Having two little boys and another baby on the way, i'm probably going to have a extremely harsh position concerning this subject. My view point is...Joe was comfortable. Comfortable in a job that have him icon status. Comfortable financially from that job. Comfortable thinking he did enough by just passing the buck to the guy one rung higher on the food chain. Too comfortable. If this involved my boys, they'd all suffer...in this life and the next one i'd be sending them to! Like I said...a little harsh.
not harsh enough, Charles
in my world, they would pass dickless
No sympathy whatsoever for Paterno. He IS (well, WAS) Penn State and had a lot of say in a lot of things. Had he used a little of that to make sure this thing was investigated fully, who knows how the situation would have turned out. Good riddance to a pedophile enabler.
If it's true that Sandusky was pimping out kids to wealthy alumni/donors, there's your reason it wasn't investigated more and possibly why Paterno kept his mouth shut. It really seems like he chose his celebrity status of morality.
Just because he was a good coach, it doesn't mean that he's excused from common human decency. The school did the right thing by firing him immediately. The magnitude of that action speaks for itself - the man is as big as the school at this point and the dropped him like a hot potato instead of letting him go on his own terms - there must be much more to this than we know right now.
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