Penn State JoePa commemoration. Too soon?

[DancingRabbit]

Penn State administration has refused to discuss the event with media. Rumor is several Penn State major donors have shut their checkbooks until JoePa was honored.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17556071/penn-state-nittany-lions-unveil-plans-joe-paterno-commemoration


This guy, who teaches Public Relations and Crisis Communications at Penn State is getting destroyed on twitter for a couple remarks.

https://twitter.com/majorM1996/with_replies

"Seems to be a lot of concern over Paterno commemoration. Those who believe Joe did something wrong will always believe that. Forget them."

"I respect every one of your opinions, but their emotional, baseless and without facts. No rational person supports child rape."

 

[missouridawg]

Too soon? If it happened 5000 years from now it would be too soon. It should never happen.

 

[DancingRabbit]

Ha, that was a rhetorical "too soon". And I agree.

nm

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Penn State is a disgrace.

 

[Sancho Panza]

State Pen. Pederasts

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

He knowingly employed an enabled a child rapat for decades. He is just one small notch below Sandusky as far as being an SOB goes

 

[llmsudawg]

Paterno was a piece of sh*t. That's all he should be remembered for. As long as PSU honors him, they will never come out from under that shadow.

 

[MittRomney]

F*ck Joe Paterno

and f*ck Penn State. KIDS WERE RAPED under his nose and he did NOTHING. Makes my f*cking blood boil thinking about it.

 

[tatedog]

The same mentality that allows this to happen is the same mentality that allowed "it" to happen: Being good at football justifies being a lowlife.

 

[PBRME]

Honoring a man that protected a child molester for 30 years. Provided him with a means to entice the victims. Gave him a safe place to perform his crimes. Way to go PSU. Winning football games is more important than moral obligations.

 

[DerHntr]

If you want to see what kind of people they have following that program, read the comments section below the article written by the editor of their school newspaper. She also stupidly has her university email address listed and other articles are reporting on how much hate mail she has gotten. Of course alumni also want her fired.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinio...526-70c0-11e6-a202-1f38a58c7167.html#comments

 

[JungRebel]

Geezus. And that article is extremely understated. She was very careful about not just outright saying "17 that guy," and still got hammered for it.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Those people are lunatics

 

[Dogariffic]

On hindsight and after thought I don't believe the football program should have received sanctions. Joe P should have gone to jail along with everyone who hid these horrible acts. Crimes were committed by people, but to me ... today..., punishing the team with sanctions is like requiring Apple to reduce the number of phones they produce or reduce their prices because the CEO assaulted someone or robbed a bank.
Two completely separate things.

 

[DancingRabbit]

Nah, the motivation to hide the truth was to protect the image of the FB program

they are honoring Paterno today so some big time boosters will open their checkbooks

On hindsight and after thought I don't believe the football program should have received sanctions. Joe P should have gone to jail along with everyone who hid these horrible acts. Crimes were committed by people, but to me ... today..., punishing the team with sanctions is like requiring Apple to reduce the number of phones they produce or reduce their prices because the CEO assaulted someone or robbed a bank.
Two completely separate things.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

On hindsight and after thought I don't believe the football program should have received sanctions. Joe P should have gone to jail along with everyone who hid these horrible acts. Crimes were committed by people, but to me ... today..., punishing the team with sanctions is like requiring Apple to reduce the number of phones they produce or reduce their prices because the CEO assaulted someone or robbed a bank.
Two completely separate things.

If their coach had just happened to be a child molester and it had no real connection to the football program, and nobody at Penn State had any idea, I would agree.

However, Sandusky used his position as a former Penn State coach to have easy access to young boys. Paterno, assistant coaches, and lots of athletic department officials knew that Sandusky had multiple accusers, from the 1970s to the 2000s, and all this time they saw him keep walking around with a bunch of kids and did nothing. If allowing your football program to be used as a tool for a pedophile to meet victims isn't an NCAA violation, what's the point of having NCAA violations?

 

[boatsandhoes]

Just think of it this way....all those people are also registered voters. That's sobering.

 

[Shmuley]

Better not hear **** out of pedophile staters about folks down here that cling to flag.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I cannot believe in this day and age we are persecuting someone for who they are attracted to. Shocking. They cannot help who they are in love with, they were born that way. It's biology.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Too bad Jackie Sherrill left the NCAA to the Joe Paterno's and Jerry Sandusky's of the world.