Quotes of the day
posted at 10:45 pm on November 10, 2011 by Allahpundit
“Due to multiple threats made against Assistant Coach Mike McQueary, the University has decided it would be in the best interest of all for Assistant Coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday’s Nebraska game.”
“Penn State University students were warned by local police not to take to the streets on Saturday at the football team’s final home game to protest the sacking of legendary coach Joe Paterno amid a sexual abuse scandal.
“State College Police Department Captain John Gardner said he plans to have every officer working at the game against Nebraska, where some fear students may protest the ouster of Paterno after 46 years in charge of the team.
“‘It you truly support Coach Joe or Penn State, this is not the way,’ Gardner told a news conference. ‘Stay off the street. The behavior of last night will not be tolerated.’”
“Multiple sources connected with the Penn State football team tell TMZ … coaches held a meeting with players today and told them their friends and family should show support for ousted coach Joe Paterno by wearing white to the game on Saturday.
“It’s a bold move, considering there is a university-wide move for people in the stands to wear baby blue to support the alleged sexual assault victims of Jerry Sandusky.”
“Joe Paterno has hired a prominent Washington criminal defense lawyer to represent him in the Penn State sex abuse case, a source close to the case told NBC News…
“A source close to Paterno said that in addition to the investigations by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, the former coach is concerned about the likelihood of civil lawsuits by Sandusky’s alleged victims and their families.”
“Pennsylvania’s attorney general has voiced ‘concern’ over Penn State University’s firing of legendary football coach Joe Paterno and the treatment of other witnesses and officials involved in a child sexual abuse case.
“Nils Hagen-Frederiksen, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, noted that the two officials charged with perjury and failure to report the abuse are being defended by the university, while Paterno was fired.
“‘We have a cooperating witness [Paterno], an individual who testified, provided truthful testimony,’ Hagen-Frederiksen told ABCNews.com, ‘but two others who were found by a grand jury to commit perjury whose legal expenses are being paid for university. One is on administrative leave. Very interesting development.’”
“Darren Rovell of CNBC spoke with a “legal insider” who estimated that Penn State’s liability in the civil lawsuits will be “easily $100 million.”
“Another estimate, made by an attorney on the ‘Happy Hour with JP Peterson’ show on 1010 Sports also estimated the cost of civil lawsuits to be at least $100 million, and could reach $250 million.”
“It is conceivable that the process could lead the trustees to consider a total shutdown of the football program as the best way to excise all that is wrong…
“Despite the astonishing revelations of the past several days, it will not be easy for the trustees to do what they must do. They will face Paterno’s legions of fans and his significant influence metastasized through the university, based both on his decades of success and his generosity to the university community. It is difficult to estimate the extent of the role Paterno’s image and presence will have on the effort to change the athletic department culture…
“Consider the cancellation of the football program for a period of at least two years. It might not be possible to establish a new culture without the total elimination of the old one. A two-year hiatus might be the only way to eliminate a systemic problem. How important is football to an institution of higher learning that serves 95,000 students and is supposed to be dedicated to the pursuit of excellence? When Tulane University was caught in a basketball point-shaving scandal in the mid-1980s, the university leadership eliminated the sport for several years to allow a complete renewal of values. When the U.S. Congress discovered a series of abuses in 2008 in its page program, which was designed to offer opportunities to young people, the members of Congress agreed to eliminate it altogether.”
Via Mediaite.
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Because Joe Pa was allowed to reign for so long, PSU football became an incestuous organization and McQueary and everyone else in that football organization is a product of that incest. It became their culture to tolerate Jerry S. the pedophile and who knows how many other deviates. They all gotta go and PSU’s football program stripped down to the bleachers.
And I’m still thinking that there’s more than the District Attorney that’s gone missing from Happy Valley…time to start counting noses.
gracie on November 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM
I’m not sure what punishing the players means at this point.
Penn State clearly has a larger, institutional problem with respect to the signals it gives with respect to the relative importance of football vs pedophilia. They need to fix that, and canceling the remaining season might be a good way to start better guiding these student athletes on what’s really important in life. There has been way too much focus already on whether the football program and the illustrious head coach are sullied. The school needs to accomplish an abrupt realignment of the priorities that it conveys.
Chuckles3 on November 11, 2011 at 9:18 AM
It’s starting. ESPN reported that a four- or five-star high school recruit (lineman from Colorado) has “decommitted.”
PSU is going to have a lousy recruiting class.
If PSU had any character, they’d set aside all net revenue from the football program until all civil suits are settled. Pay off the settlements from other or future sources, and take the set-aside net revenue for some worthy cause–say an enormous contribution to sex-abuse victims or to battle human-trafficking, or both.
BuckeyeSam on November 11, 2011 at 9:18 AM
I agree. For example, look at Ohio State, and that was just for player violations that the coach knew about.
And that whole DA thing has been a mystery for a while. My speculation, he found out that there were possibly more boys involved and felt guilty or he was involved too. I think he skipped or suicide.
Deanna on November 11, 2011 at 9:38 AM
BuckeyeSam on November 11, 2011 at 9:18 AM
Well, you could see that coming. No one who reads that grand jury report would go. That is not one sicko, it is institutional.
ORconservative on November 11, 2011 at 9:38 AM
How in the world does a 28 year old man observe what Mike McQueary saw in the locker room on a Friday evening at 9:00 and not intervene?
While I don’t condone threats, the man has some questions to answer. I can’t imagine any player committing to Penn State as long as they retain McQueary as a coach. Whatever the rest of them did after hearing of what McQueary reported to Paterno, McQueary is the most culpable in my view, aside from Sandusky, of course.
EconomicNeocon on November 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM
I wish I had even a little sympathy for the players caught in this mess but then I think about their futures versus the futures of the victims.
PSU players will get a (worthless) degree, but a degree nonetheless. If they are smart- but then again many are urging people to wear white to cover for this evil so there you go. They have the chance of being drafted, making money, and all the perks of that lifestyle. Even if they don’t get drafted they have the opportunity for good job prospects, families of their own, healthy relationships with others, the future for these guys is limitless and entirely in their own hands.
The future for the boys literally raped by the system? My guess is not so rosy.
Dry your tears, respectfully shut up and consider yourselves blessed if what happened to these boys didn’t happen to you.
For once I’m happy to not watch college football this weekend.
quiz1 on November 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM
I was totally taken aback at the firing of Joe Paterno and the Penn State President. I never, ever thought that would happen. However, it pleases me to see that when dealing with this wanton relaxation of the rules because it’s football, the trustees are ready to exact “sudden and relentless reform”. Getting our country back on track one step at a time. (Thanks Sarah)
BetseyRoss on November 11, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Is it such a problem for young people, these students and athletes, to learn the real lessons of life? You know, that actions have consequences that are so far reaching that they often hurt the people who don’t deserve to be hurt?
Get used to it, you self-absorbed brats.
Disgusting students, shameful parents.
Did you even bother to teach them what really matters?
winoceros on November 11, 2011 at 11:48 AM
The Daily Oklahoman’s lead sports story today interviewed Barry Switzer about Paterno. He said knowing how close coaching staffs are, he knew this was a secret that was intentionally kept secret, that everyone had to know. Reading on Wikipedia about Sand*sky, he had 6 adopted children and also took in foster children. He has two sons involved in pro football. This man had himself all set up really well for his perversion. Maybe his foster kids and adopted children should be questioned. This man is a monster!
I didn’t see the Wendy Murphy interview, but I’ve seen her before on O’Reilly. I can see her going ballistic over this, as she is heavily involved in child abuse cases.
silvernana on November 11, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Yeah. That’s what the bishops did. See how that doesn’t work?
winoceros on November 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Speaking of the Catholic Church, at least they moved the perverts around.
Penn State allowed Jerry to set up his incredibly advantageous situation and operate in it for years and years.
Where is the legitimate outrage? Oh yeah, let’s not overdo it, it could go as high up as the governor. and harm football players. and destroy a football powerhouse…………..this has the poteential to destroy a university all because no one had the balls to do the right thing.
ORconservative on November 11, 2011 at 12:36 PM
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