Joepa should go straight to hell!

[NCLee]

Movie could have dug much deeper but in my honest opinion and from what I’ve been told just scratched the surface of the corruption of old Joepa.

Like when his boy was drunk and crashed his car into the furniture store! Never reported!

Gricar dead Gricar dead, sad!

Mafioso hit?

 

[HOF Coach]

Movie could have dug much deeper but in my ho est opinion and what I’ve been told just scratched the surface of the corruption of old joepa.

Like when his boy was drunk and crashed his car into the furniture store!

Never reported! Gricar dead Gricar dead sad Mafioso hit

 

[Saboteur]

One thing MOST people forget or ignore is that Paterno was not the feeble 84 year old corpse in waiting for the overwhelming majority of time Sandusky raped boys.
A gaggle of cowards.

 

[gbgpanther]

One thing MOST people forget it ignore is that Paterno was not the feeble 84 year old corpse in waiting for the overwhelming majority of time Sandusky raped boys.
A gaggle of cowards.

The judge said it all after sentencing the 3 amegois. Joe could of stoped this very easily. Ugh

 

[omega]

Pretty sure he has been sitting in a very warm afterlife for years now. He earned that afterlife.

 

[Big Marty1]

So Disturbing. What a cesspool Penn State is.

 

[HailtoPitt]

It doesn't make sense that Joe wouldn't have done something over a period of decades when the issue was a threat to him. There is still more to this story and we may never know.

 

[Pitt-Chains]

Movie could have dug much deeper but in my honest opinion and from what I’ve been told just scratched the surface of the corruption of old Joepa.

Like when his boy was drunk and crashed his car into the furniture store! Never reported!

Gricar dead Gricar dead, sad!

Mafioso hit?

It was a straight line.. defenders... same way..

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I really don't understand the rancor towards Mr. Paterno. Afterall, he did what he had to do.

 

[revampedpanthers]

It doesn't make sense that Joe wouldn't have done something over a period of decades when the issue was a threat to him. There is still more to this story and we may never know.

Its certainly possible, but I have always felt that this is your typical bad decision which lead to covering up the bad decision with more bad decisions. What I mean by that is they probably heard about the first incident and blew it off thinking it was nothing. Then when the next one came they thought "shit if he is really doing this we are liable for anything that happened after the first one" so they didn't do anything about it. This is likely what happened when they found out about the 98 incident, they had already known about one or two before hand and figured they could wash their hands of the hole thing by pushing Sandusky out. But Sandusky kept coming around and bringing kids around emboldened by the fact that they didn't do anything with the first couple of times.

 

[cashisking884]

Its certainly possible, but I have always felt that this is your typical bad decision which lead to covering up the bad decision with more bad decisions. What I mean by that is they probably heard about the first incident and blew it off thinking it was nothing. Then when the next one came they thought "shit if he is really doing this we are liable for anything that happened after the first one" so they didn't do anything about it. This is likely what happened when they found out about the 98 incident, they had already known about one or two before hand and figured they could wash their hands of the hole thing by pushing Sandusky out. But Sandusky kept coming around and bringing kids around emboldened by the fact that they didn't do anything with the first couple of times.

Yep. To some extent (although to a lot less of a moral extent), it's like what happened at SMU. At some point as a coach and/or program, you have a tiger by the tail. You either fall on the sword or just keep doubling down. Holding on and hoping for the best.
There really is no next level conspiracy needed. Not doing the right thing at Step 1, almost requires not doing the right thing at Step 2. Then Step 3. Etc.

 

[Gary77]

It doesn't make sense that Joe wouldn't have done something over a period of decades when the issue was a threat to him. There is still more to this story and we may never know.

Makes sense if you consider how valuable his DC-pervert was to Paterno's success.

 

[Farnox]

Movie could have dug much deeper but in my honest opinion and from what I’ve been told just scratched the surface of the corruption of old Joepa.

Like when his boy was drunk and crashed his car into the furniture store! Never reported!

Gricar dead Gricar dead, sad!

Mafioso hit?

We will never know the level of corruption that JoePa was involved in. There are so many second hand stories of behind the scene deals for payoffs and cash that while not conclusive, all point to some level of corruption. It would make sense that if JoePa and others were making backdoor profits from the football program, they would go to any length to protect it.

 

[PittMan 72]

Makes sense if you consider how valuable his DC-pervert was to Paterno's success.

Agree. And with Joe's MASSIVE ego and extreme vanity, he was never going to let it be known that he was using a serial pedophile as his top defensive lieutenant for so many of the wins he collected. Especially while he was preaching: "the grand experiment" and "the Paterno way". Way too much for Joe to lose by notifying the authorities about JS.

So he kept it all quiet and covered it up for decades - and used his immense power and control over PSU and the isolated community to intimidate others to do the same - in hopes that it would never be discovered and become public. At least as long as he was alive. He came close to pulling it off, too. But then it all unraveled in 2011.