Ex PSU hooper from England. I don't remember, but I think he came out as gay. Very well spoken with that English accent obviously, but insightful and funny. Intelligent guy with alot of insight.
He was on the Dan LeBatard show on ESPN today, and they asked him about honoring Paterno and the who scandal mess.
I am paraphrasing but........Amaechi said that when he was there the football players always remarked if they cut a class in the AM, Paterno would call them into his office before practice and asked them why? How did he know? They also said on breaks or during the summer, even outside of State College, if they did something stupid, when they got back on campus that Paterno would summon them into his office and JoePa and knew about the incident. Somehow, he had a network, he had an idea of what was going on with anyone associated with the program. And that ALL of the PSU players always said that and actually admired him for that.
So...to think that same network was completely oblivious to Jerry Sandusky and those instances of where kids came forward or others saw, it is naive and foolish to think that JoePa had no clue.
When pressed, Amaechi brought up a somewhat rational explanation, in the fact you see this type of circle the wagons with Fraternity's, Club's, Family's, Politics and Sport's teams where they decide the greater good is worth preserving over these incidents. Now before you hammer this statement, just think about it, and what PSU football meant and means to Penn State and obviously it does not justify covering it up and not taking action, it is explainable on that level.
He does feel that PSU should not be doing this right now. It is hard to separate the football success from the crimes, and even though JoePa did not commit those crimes, he had the ability to stop them at some point.
He was on the Dan LeBatard show on ESPN today, and they asked him about honoring Paterno and the who scandal mess.
I am paraphrasing but........Amaechi said that when he was there the football players always remarked if they cut a class in the AM, Paterno would call them into his office before practice and asked them why? How did he know? They also said on breaks or during the summer, even outside of State College, if they did something stupid, when they got back on campus that Paterno would summon them into his office and JoePa and knew about the incident. Somehow, he had a network, he had an idea of what was going on with anyone associated with the program. And that ALL of the PSU players always said that and actually admired him for that.
So...to think that same network was completely oblivious to Jerry Sandusky and those instances of where kids came forward or others saw, it is naive and foolish to think that JoePa had no clue.
When pressed, Amaechi brought up a somewhat rational explanation, in the fact you see this type of circle the wagons with Fraternity's, Club's, Family's, Politics and Sport's teams where they decide the greater good is worth preserving over these incidents. Now before you hammer this statement, just think about it, and what PSU football meant and means to Penn State and obviously it does not justify covering it up and not taking action, it is explainable on that level.
He does feel that PSU should not be doing this right now. It is hard to separate the football success from the crimes, and even though JoePa did not commit those crimes, he had the ability to stop them at some point.
