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so knowing of it's existence = "thinking about it every day"?

A "mistake" is coloring outside the lines. Or spilling your beer. What Paterno did is allow a child rapist to continue to prey on young boys for 9 more years and ruin god knows how many lives.

That one mistake was kid rape, idiot

It's a pretty big mistake and he should be ashamed of himself for his lack of action.

So if you find out someone who works for you is raping children you would simply tell your boss?

And then after nothing happens but a forced retirement and you continue to see this individual around your program/school with children you think "I did my part" and let it be?

And JoePa didn't not do anything to help kids, he coached young adults and clearly did not care about kids based on his handling of this whole Sandusky situation. So he gave money to the university to build a library, does that give him a pass to not reporting atrocious acts on children to someone who would do something about it? I mean, if you don't want the police involved, don't you give the guy a "Don't ever come back or we will call the cops" ultimatum? (which would still be the wrong solution to the problem, but I could see this happening due to their friendship) I used to be a JoePa guy. When this happened, I lost all respect for the man.

This Spartan8Ball better be a schtick

You're either a 10 year old or really, really stupid...

Say you just drop your kid off at daycare and when you leave the guy working there fucks your kid. Another worker sees and tells his boss who then sweeps it under the rug. You continue going there while your kid has to blow the worker and slowly become more reserved and introverted. As an adult, your kid is now psychologically damaged.

What would you think about the workers that didn't do anything? Still innocent?

Spartan8ball, you're likely an 18 year old punk ass. Just look at your Family Guy avatar. Your opinion is dog shit and it's that toxic thinking that has infected this great nation. You are part of the problem.

He looked the other way and allowed it to continue. He did it only to protect himself and the program - nothing more. Now he is trying to keep the only thing he has left (his legacy) from being flushed down the toilet, where it belongs. The idiot actually thinks we are supposed to believe he didn't know what child rape was. Like it's some kind of new fangled phenomenon like the internet.

You're like one of those imbeciles that went to his house when he got canned. You don't seem to fully grasp how despicable his "one mistake" was, and the deplorable acts his "one mistake" directly lead to.

Very disappointed in JoePa's explanation.

I had held out some hope through his 2 months of silence that when he finally spoke we might hear something about how he followed up with the AD and VP about what they were doing following their meeting with McQueary and was told by them that it was being investigated, but they couldn't talk about it, etc.

Instead, when finally given the chance, he plays dumb and confused.

So, for 20-some years since Paterno reached retirement age, we've heard constant stories about how in touch and in control he has been of his program, what a tight ship he runs, he doesn't let anything get past him, he runs the cleanest program in college football, etc., "despite his age".

And now he wants us to believe he was just a confused elderly man who didn't know how to handle a difficult situation he stumbled into.

So it is now clear that all this time his PR (and PSU's PR, which he was in control over) was just total, made-up, feel-good BS. He was little more than a cardboard cutout that visitors to his amusement park could pose in front of for their keepsake picture.

That completely fails to answer his question.

Face it, you're just wrong here. Best to walk away before you do something stupid and the comes down.

Sounds like a man who's speaking from experience. NTTAWWT.

The lies just won't stop coming from him.

Your closest assistant coach is under investigation a few months in 1998 for raping a boy a in a shower and he never caught wind of it?

I'm thinking a player wouldn't get a speeding ticket without his knowledge, yet I'm suppose to believe him not knowing about 98??

Paterno speaks about this situation as if he were only speaking to the Penn State community. For decades, he's been the grandfather to the students and alumni of Penn State, and what he's saying in this article resonates for them. It add to their vision of Paterno, Sandusky, their board, etc. But what happened is not just being viewed in that bubble of State College. And what's clear is that the bubble isn't just a physical one as we see more of this "if you're not Penn State, you wouldn't understand."

Paterno lives, and will die, within that bubble. If you're outside of that group, it's clear that Paterno only added to the problem through a lack of leadership in what's easily the most disturbing story we've seen in college athletics. For Penn Staters, they want to see Paterno as the fall guy, fired by an incompetent board for the failings of Sandusky. This can be talked to death, but whether you're in the bubble or not completely changers how this story is viewed. The word "cult" is too extreme, but it gets close to the point.......