REST IN PEACE Joe PA... NEPA Will Miss you (Berwick: high school, live)

[Riverside4ever]

Originally Posted by 2nd trick op

As usual, the so-called "liberals" who seem to infest all sites like this one, are showing just how much understanding and compassion they really have.

No one, it seems, has been willing to take a closer look at the "lynch mob" mentality which arose within a few hours of the first revalations of abuse, and immediately turned the focus of investigation to Paterno.

And no one is willling to recognize that, as with the Duke lacrosse case some five years ago, there is a wel-organized, and very vicious clique within the Leftist-Radical Axis that hates all college athletics, and will do everything they can to destroy it.

Paterno's legacy is going to take a long time to unfold; and as with all those who fall from a lofty position quickly due to the parrot cries of a handful of loudmouths and malcontents, I expect the judgement of time to be kinder.

But tho those who quickly and eagerly joined the lynch mob, I can only hope that the spotlight sends you scurrying for cover like the vermin you are.

Well said ......

[NEPA-x-pat]

Wow...nothing like tragedy to bring out the trolls!

There are many tragedies associated with this horrible event. The most prevalent was that SOB Sandusky's actions and the effect this sick excuse for a human had on those poor kids. There needs to be a special hot seat waiting for him in hell. What a horrible excuse for a human. What I see is another tragedy is the linking of Sandusky's heinous crimes with Coach Paterno. He acknowledged he should have done more. But it was Sandusky that is responsible for this.

What I really find so disheartening is the way the PS board of trustees cowardly dismissed a man who gave his life for the university by a phone message. They needed to grow a pair and communicate face to face. They too should be dismissed (and as a recent alum of PSU I would encourage all alum to push to that end).

Now the same media outlets that were broadcasting 24 hours a day, making tons of money off the total misfortunes of those poor kids, the Penn State nation, and most importantly off the demise of Coach Paterno, are now going to lionize him (and make more money - ghouls!!!!!).

As far as this being a left or right issue...please! This a a human issue. It is easy for anyone to post such vitriole annonomously. Again, when I visit this site I should be used to the constant b@$#*&ng but come on.

[toobusytoday]

Originally Posted by Riverside4ever

We all Knew it was bound to happen.. Too bad he was served a injustice before he died ... RIP...

I'll miss him...

Please report off topic or rude posts. Do not respond to them or your posts will most likely be deleted also.

I think it would be best that we don't stray into the Sandusky controversy. That is not an NEPA topic and remarks about that would be considered off topic for this forum. As it is, this one is borderline for here.

[ChosenReject]

This article pretty much sums up how great of a man Joe Pa was: Rick Reilly - Paterno's True Legacy - ESPN

[GroovyPA]

I can't stand Reilly, but he got it right here.

[2nd trick op]

I've posted some of this before on another thread, but please bear with me.

I have two principal personal connections to Penn State; one was the late Joe "Bells" Colone '48, running back and kicker on the famous "Cotton Bowl" squad. Mr, Colone went back to Berwick and taught Junior High "Civics" (what we now usually call "Citizenship") for the rest off his days. And I will never forget an impromptu lecture on Constitutional issues he gave to all his classes on Tuesdsy, November 26, 1963 --- the morning after we buried a fallen President.

The other was Mike Lynch '45. Mike spent his career attached to the College of Agriculture and the Eztension Services to the various counties, and since he often spoke at local functions, he developed a beautiful slide show, later entitled "For the Glory". which he gave hundreds of times, including one at the old Moses Van Campen Hotel in Benton. He "made a sale" (to me) that night, though neither of us knew that at the time.

Mike also befriended a struggling independent fraternity then known as Pi Sigma Upsilon, and helped to nurture it until it was merged into a better-establised national order. I happed to have found my way into that organization as well; my personal "pledge project" was a tribute to Mike that now rests in our trophy case.

That is the sort of thing Penn State was really about. And while I'm sure that instances of the sort mentioned here aren't unique to PSU, I believe that the nature of the University and its student body made them more common, and possibly more meaningful.

That tradition has now been badly defcaced, largely through the incredible foolhardiness of one individual. And speaking as a person who grew up dealing with a relatively minor, but noticeable physical deformity, one I goe the most help in dealing with during swimming instruction as a PSU freshman, I find it particularly galling that this issue (the feminization and over-sensitization of our young men) was apparently hijacked by tis individual for his own base purposes.

But I find the hijacking of that issue by a clique of high-placed, self-appointed moralists, mostly from outside the area, to be only slightly less revolting. Among those of us who have reaon to believe that the entire issue has been slanted, I would suggest that no stone be left unturned if evidence exists of a commection between the Duke incident and the Paterno lynch mob.

As has been said befoore, the truth will out,

[Summering]

62 wonderful years from Joe Paterno. He turned things in, and it should have gone forward from there.....
The wonderful things you did for Penn State will never be forgotten.

[tntweir]

The facts are the facts Joe Pa did the bare mininum ,according to his own words.He told his boss...Period! many others share the blame also for not doing enough.
If that was your child would you have been satisfied with what Paterno did or didnt do...I would hope not!

[ChosenReject]

Originally Posted by tntweir

The facts are the facts Joe Pa did the bare mininum ,according to his own words.He told his boss...Period! many others share the blame also for not doing enough.
If that was your child would you have been satisfied with what Paterno did or didnt do...I would hope not!

Paterno happened to tell the head of campus police if you want to get into that... Also, you do understand that Coach Paterno didn't SEE anything, don't you? He was TOLD by someone else (McQueary) what THEY claimed to have seen. So JoePa couldn't tell the police anything but unsubstantiated hearsay. Once again hindsight is 20/20. There are like 8 people in this chain of command that i would blame for this before Paterno. But judging on other comments you left here that were deleted: haters are gonna hate

[Mr Yuk]

Personally, I'm tired of all the Paterno news. He was a football coach...and a football coach who looked the other way while he had knowledge that a pedophile was on the loose, a pedophile that continued to hang out at the PSU campus, and even run kids football camps at PSU campuses. How did Paterno (and not just Paterno, other PSU officials and coaches as well) live with himself whenever he would see Sandusky on campus, especially when he brought children around and ran childrens camps? I don't care how many wins he had, or how many tax-deductible donations he made to PSU to have buildings named after him, he enabled a child predator, in my opinion. But you can't tell that to the football-worshipping knuckle-draggers in this state.

And flying flags at half-staff for a football coach....a sign of screwed up priorities here in PA. How about we fly the flag at half-staff for all service members who have died at war? Or police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty? Or for children who die of cancer and other diseases/injuries? Or children who are molested?? All would be better people to salute than a football coach....a football coach who chose to save his cash cow football program rather than victimized children. What a state this is.