Joe Paterno Is Catching Too Much Heat.

stand up guy or not, doesn't matter...this just makes it easier on the University to FINALLY get rid of the old bastard...

If that was a child of yours im sure you would be upset he did not go to the police.

With that said, they say that state students are planning a protest and going to walk out of the game. The players, themselves dont deserve that. They only have a few years at school and having a great season such a shame for them to have to deal with this distraction.

Is thread a fucking joke?

Paterno  knew children were being sexually abused and he did next to nothing about it.  He knew there was a cover up and he did nothing about it.

He put the good name of his football program ahead of stopping his longtime friend from sexually abusing young boys.

How many more young boys had their lives destroyed because that old fuck kept his mouth shut?

Paterno and anyone else who knew about this and did nothing to stop it is a piece of shit.

Could have denied this at his news conference...............

Oh, that's right. Mr. StandUp cancelled it..........................

Besides giving Sandusky the thorough pummeling he deserved, Paterno should have drove that assistant to the police department and demanded that he tell them what he saw.

No follow up, no nothing.  I don't know how he could sleep at night knowing that nothing had been done and that this predator continued to be allowed to hang out with a bunch of boys RIGHT IN FRONT OF PATERNO'S face.

Doing nothing about it was akin to condoning it.  I couldn't live with myself if I did that. 

everyone sits around and critizes Joe Pa, but put yourself in his shoes, one of your good friends/colleagues is accused of fondling a little boy, you are telling me you woulnd't want to be damn certain that the allegation is true before turning one of your good friends/colleagues in.

i think Sandusky is guilty as sin, I am just saying that people are criticizing Paterno for doing the "minimum", all I am saying is if one of my employees came to me and told me one of my good friends/colleagues was fondling a little boy, I would probably do exatly what Paterno did, advise my supervisor that something may be up, Paterno didn't know if the claim was factual or baseless, if nothing happened I would have just assumed the claim was baseless and moved on.

Most people don't understand how delicate of a situation that is, it is the same with rape, you are going to virtually end someone's life with a claim like that, you better be damn certain it is true before you go running to the police to turn someone in.

I am strictly talking about Paterno, Paterno was only told and had knowledge of the one instance, where a GA came and said he saw something, this is as far as Paterno's knowledge goes. Even the PA police will confirm and agree with that. Now as far as the AD and others who knew it was going on and had multiple compliants, I would agree they deserve to go to jail for protecting that asshole.

This is true, but the cops are trained in this sort of thing.  They wouldn't just take the GA's word for it and run out and arrest Sandusky. 

I will add one thing.  There are many others besides Paterno that were in the know (and maybe even knew MORE).  They deserve plenty of heat as well.

So am I.  Sandusky had already been accused of sexually abusing little boys BEFORE Paterno was told of the shower incident.

Bottom line: Paterno is a piece of shit who, at the very least, put protecting the name of his program ahead of protecting young boys who were getting raped by his friend.

How many young boys could have been saved if Paterno acted like a decent human being and did something about it?

Assuming Paterno has a soul, I have no idea how that old fuck sleeps at night knowing what he allowed to go on.  

Should the Pope be responsible for all those pedaphile priests as well?

IMO JoePa did enough to escape any prosecution by reporting it to his superior. He played the part of the snitch already, the onus falls on the AD here.  Granted he'll definitely get some heat, but in the grand scheme of things, he'll be fine.