http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sports...-exit.html?_r=1

Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno’s Exit Amid Scandal

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.

The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about how to manage his departure have begun, according to the two people.

Paterno was to have held a news conference Tuesday but the university canceled it less than an hour before it was scheduled to start.

At age 84 and with 46 seasons as the Penn State head coach behind him, Paterno’s extraordinary run of success — one that produced tens of millions of dollars for the school and two national championships, and that established him as one of the nation’s most revered leaders, will end with a stunning and humiliating final chapter.

Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator under Paterno, has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys across a 15-year period, and Paterno has been widely criticized for failing to involve the police when he learned of an allegation of one assault of a young boy in 2002.

Additionally, two top university officials — Gary Schultz, the senior vice president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the athletic director — were charged with perjury and failure to report to authorities what they knew of the allegations, as required by state law.

Since Sandusky’s arrest Saturday, Penn State — notably its president, Graham Spanier, and Paterno — have come under withering criticism for a failure to act adequately after learning, at different points over the years, that Sandusky might have been abusing children. Newspapers have called for their resignations; prosecutors have suggested their inaction led to more children being harmed by Sandusky; and students and faculty at the university have expressed a mix of disgust and confusion, and a hope that much of what prosecutors have charged is not true.

On Monday law enforcement officials said that Paterno had met his legal obligation in alerting his superiors at the university when he learned of the 2002 allegation against Sandusky. But they suggested he might well have failed a moral test for what to do when confronted with such a disturbing allegation involving a child not even in his teens.

Paterno has not been charged in the matter, but his failure to report to authorities what he knew about the 2002 incident, in which Sandusky allegedly sexually assaulted a young boy at Penn State’s football complex, has become a flashpoint, stirring anger among the board members and an outpouring of public criticism about his handling of the matter.

In recent days Paterno has lost the support of many board members, and their conversations illustrate a decisive shift in the power structure at the university. In 2004, for instance, Paterno brushed off a request by the university president that he step down.

Paterno came to Penn State in 1950 as a 23-year-old assistant coach making $3,600 a year. He planned to stay for two seasons, to pay off his student loans from Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature.

He became the head coach in 1966, and he has been widely credited with helping spearhead the Penn State football program and the rest of the university from a local enterprise into a national brand. Along the way, Beaver Stadium grew to 108,000 seats from 29,000 and Penn State’s endowment grew from virtually nothing to more than $1 billion.

What separated Paterno from many of his coaching peers until this week was that he did this with few questions about how he grew the program. Penn State’s lofty graduation rates and education-first ideals, known as Paterno’s Grand Experiment, became as synonymous with the program as its plain uniforms and dominating defenses.

Paterno led Penn State to national titles in the 1982 and 1986 seasons, and he complemented the on-field success with the reputation of a throwback sideline professor, whose tie, thick glasses and black Nike coaching shoes became as predictable in Northeast autumns as the changing foliage.

Paterno’s reach on campus extended well beyond the football program. He and his wife, Sue, have donated more than $4 million to the university. On campus, everything from an ice cream flavor at the Creamery to a library now bears his name.

“There’s no individual in the entire 120- or 130-year history of the university that has had a greater impact on the institution than Joe Paterno,” Larry Foster, a former trustee and a president of the alumni association, told The New York Times in 2004. “He’s just reached into so many areas.”



that's a shitty way to go out and the whole situation seems a function of him being too old to properly manage anymore.
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"that's a shitty way to go out and the whole situation seems a function of him being too old to properly manage anymore."

Nah, Paterno don't get that excuse. After someone saw they guy blowing a little kid on campus, and the guy was "retired", he would bring little kids to watch the team practice, and he had open access to the campus until last week. If I saw that old guinea walking the street tomorrow, I'd spit in his fucking face.

Whole thing gets even shadier that the arrests are made the week after JoPa breaks the record for career wins. And the current PA gov was the attorney general that lead the investigation. Also, a caller on the show I was listening to said the prosecutor heading up one of the prior investigations has been missing for 7 years.

The night he got caught by a janitor, blowing a kid, the Sandusky guy kept driving past the building, trying to intimidate the guy. Sandusky isn't just a kid toucher, he as a high level sociopath. He didn't just get off fuckin kids, he got off FLAUNTING the fact that he was fucking kids and could get away with it. Scumbag even wrote a book called "Touched."

Oh, and the citizens of Pennsylvania are going to be footing the bill when Penn State gets sued for turning a blind eye.

For what its worth:

When I was an undergrad I was walking from the psych building to the bookstore behind a pack of girls talking about how some professor or grad student/assistant was always flirting with them (I don't know which it was). They weren't exactly being secretive with the conversation and I wasn't trying to listen in on a private conversation since anybody within about a 30 yard radius who didn't have earplugs in heard the same thing as they laughed and joked about it all the way there. I ran into a grad student who was helping in one of my psych classes while eating lunch and very casually mentioned the conversation I had just heard on the walk over.

A couple of days later one of my professors asked to talk to me and told me that he heard about what I had mentioned and asked me to tell him exactly what I had overheard. I told him I didn't think it was a big deal, that they were mostly making jokes about it, didn't seem upset at all, and I wasn't sure who they were referring to. He was concerned when he heard that they were coming out of the psych building at lunch time because it was the summer session and they had several group therapy sessions with local teens and there was a good chance these weren't just students. I told him it seemed like a pretty tame conversation, repeated what I could remember and left it at that.

A few days later I was stopped leaving a class by my professor and told that the dean wanted to see me immediately. I was completely freaked out (having forgotten all about the earlier conversation) and then found out that it was about this same conversation I had overheard. By this time I had forgotten much of the dialogue, but tried to repeat what I could remember as best I could.

A couple of weeks later I got a message on my phone from the campus police telling me that they needed to set up a time to talk to me, but the woman calling didn't say what it was about. Assuming it had to do with one the hundreds of parking tickets I had accumulated, I went to the nearby satellite office with my checkbook and after a blank stare and a few phone calls by the receptionist I was told that I was in the wrong place and I needed to report to their main building. On the way there I was shitting myself wondering what this was all about and, after arriving, was taken to a private office with a couple of campus police and sat around for about an hour until a guy in a suit busted in flashing a badge and handing me his card saying he was city police detective. When I found out it was about some conversation I overheard that I had forgotten all about I was obviously relieved at first, but started to get a bit freaked out again by how overly serious everybody was acting. All I remember is that the detective was sort of a dick and didn't like that I had forgotten just about everything that was said.

I don't know if this all came about because I made a comment about overhearing a conversation or if something inappropriate had coincidentally actually occurred, but after about an hour of questions and promising to make a written statement I finally left. I never wrote the statement and I never heard anything else about it, so I guess I'll never know.

Anyway, I would hate to imagine what would have happened if I had told somebody I had seen a 10 year old kid getting buttfucked in the team locker room instead of just overhearing a couple of loudmouth chicks talking about somebody flirting with them.

Only 2 reasons I can think of for people caring about college sports are gambling and no pro teams close by to attend games.

"This is a tragedy," Paterno said in the statement. "It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."

Listen, maybe I've missed something, but isn't there a little thing called "innocent until proven guilty"?

Don't get me wrong, I'd kill any pedo that came within a mile of me, but JoePa has been an absolute honorable man his whole life. Look at his record, and I don't mean the football record.

If JoePa did something wrong, let that be determined in a court of law, not in the court of whiney Liberals.

Too bad. Penn State has always sucked and they want him out to fit the bracelets on him in private.
Good bye Joe-Pa!

normally this^ poster is a bigoted hate-bot(love the hate btw..the racist stuff is weak) but he does have a point. i'm no penn state fan but my first instinct was to question the geriatrics management skills and then the organization as a whole.

YES.

The whole hindsight and wishing he had done something is straight from him.

Tyler: "but I can't help if some of the "victims" that have come out recently, are looking to win the nigger lottery."

Yes, some of the 12 that have called a hotline in the past couple days may have jumped the band wagon, but at the least, there are 2 cases where people witnessed the abuse. One is enough.

Bob Knight's legacy is the angry guy that threw chairs and choked a kid. Sweeping pedophilia under the rug is a little worse than that. JoePa is tainted, now and for ever. Him and the other ousted Pedo State higher up had the chance to help put his guy away years ago, and they didn't. Now they pay the price.

Bob Knight's legacy is the angry guy that threw chairs and choked a kid. Sweeping pedophilia under the rug is a little worse than that. JoePa is tainted, now and for ever. Him and the other ousted Pedo State higher up had the chance to help put his guy away years ago, and they didn't. Now they pay the price.

I don't disagree with a word you have said, but I also believe in due process. JoePa should be tried in a court of law, not the court of opinion.

I want to know all the details about what happened before I label JoePa guilty, or before I down grade his reputation.

getting fired doesn't entitle you to a court trial. not in the States anyways.

Fuck Stephen A Smith. Fuck that little nigger race baiting fucktard. I could give a rat's ass what this monkey fuck has to say. Start looking at all the harm you have done you fucking spook.

I could give a rat's ass what this monkey fuck has to say.