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The other serial Penn State sexual predator.

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Disgusting. No surprise they hired Franklin, since he had experience calling victims and trying to smooth things over. Must be a head coaching requirement there.

 
Here's an excerpt to the end. The comment from the ex PSU player is pretty telling:

"I remember being in a group for dinner and people were discussing this," Ann Sailor says. "Here, [where she lives in Pennsylvania], it's very pro Penn State. You know, there are an awful lot of Penn State graduates. And I piped up and said, 'There were incidents that happened at Penn State where they kept it under the rug, and it was not talked about.' They just looked at me.' I know for sure. It was just to be kept quiet. And it was kept quiet.'"

Cliff "Clyde" Corbin, who played for Joe Paterno, and who knew Karen and what happened to her, remembers debating with his Nittany Lion teammates Paterno's involvement - or lack of involvement - in the Sandusky scandal. "When the whole thing happened, people were reacting like, 'he couldn't have known,'" he says.
"I was like, 'Come on - stop.' I love the man. But the buck stopped with him for 50 years. The president of the university was the president in name only when it came to football. The man handled everything."

This is exactly what I said all during those debates and trial back in 2010-12. You can't say how wonderful Joe was, that he knew if a player cut class or jaywalked and disciplined his players accordingly, then act like he was senile old buffoon, incapable of understanding the gravity of the Sandusky's actions. You cannot have both of these, so one of these two is a lie.
 
But give paturdo another dapper dan. Pittsburgh media especially cook makes me sick.
 
Here's an excerpt to the end. The comment from the ex PSU player is pretty telling:

"I remember being in a group for dinner and people were discussing this," Ann Sailor says. "Here, [where she lives in Pennsylvania], it's very pro Penn State. You know, there are an awful lot of Penn State graduates. And I piped up and said, 'There were incidents that happened at Penn State where they kept it under the rug, and it was not talked about.' They just looked at me.' I know for sure. It was just to be kept quiet. And it was kept quiet.'"

Cliff "Clyde" Corbin, who played for Joe Paterno, and who knew Karen and what happened to her, remembers debating with his Nittany Lion teammates Paterno's involvement - or lack of involvement - in the Sandusky scandal. "When the whole thing happened, people were reacting like, 'he couldn't have known,'" he says.
"I was like, 'Come on - stop.' I love the man. But the buck stopped with him for 50 years. The president of the university was the president in name only when it came to football. The man handled everything."

This is exactly what I said all during those debates and trial back in 2010-12. You can't say how wonderful Joe was, that he knew if a player cut class or jaywalked and disciplined his players accordingly, then act like he was senile old buffoon, incapable of understanding the gravity of the Sandusky's actions. You cannot have both of these, so one of these two is a lie.

Yeah, you'd have to believe that Joe was incompetent to not be aware of these things.
 
No surprise, Paterno was famous for having the local cops in speed dial. Interesting our own Ralph Willard is mentioned in the story.

the money line from the story when interviewing a PSU coach:

""If he wasn't a good kid, we wouldn't have brought him to Penn State.""

What's funny about that is that this "good kid" threw a knife at a player while at a Penn State football camp before he was ever offered. Penn State was the perfect place for that dude to get away with his horrendous behavior for as long as he did. Not sure anywhere else would have allowed it.
 
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This is how the article ends....

We initially contacted all of these coaches by phone. One coach, however, was contacted, as a matter of necessity, by a letter sent in the U.S. mail to inmate No. KT2386 in a prison in Pennsylvania.

"I received your letter and must say I feel bad about my lack of recollection. I only vaguely remember [Todd Hodne's] name," he replied in a handwritten note. "I may have been the contact person because of my founding of the Second Mile in '77. It's possible I made some attempt to help him. My guess is that I didn't become heavily involved for some reason. It sounds as though he had problems well beyond what I was capable of helping. Sorry!—Jerry."
 
This is how the article ends....

We initially contacted all of these coaches by phone. One coach, however, was contacted, as a matter of necessity, by a letter sent in the U.S. mail to inmate No. KT2386 in a prison in Pennsylvania.

"I received your letter and must say I feel bad about my lack of recollection. I only vaguely remember [Todd Hodne's] name," he replied in a handwritten note. "I may have been the contact person because of my founding of the Second Mile in '77. It's possible I made some attempt to help him. My guess is that I didn't become heavily involved for some reason. It sounds as though he had problems well beyond what I was capable of helping. Sorry!—Jerry."

so many quotable things from this article, this relates to a player who didn't go along with what Paterno wanted him to say during the trial:

Paterno's longtime offensive line coach Dick Anderson remembers Capozzoli's dismissal differently, saying: "I think he's making excuses for the fact that he was never good enough to play at this level." Capozzoli counters, "Why would I lie?" and adds, "To a fault, [Paterno] put the program ahead of everything else."
 
The part of the story that bothered me is when the victim was testifying for the 1st time, all of the football players showed up in their football jackets to support this rapist and to intimidate the girl as she testified.

The one part of the story that at least had some redeeming qualities was the one black football player taking the one victim under his wings to protect her and his comments about being black at Penn state were isolating like this girl was isolated for being a victim.

The entire culture of theirs is one of vile and filth and absolute lies. Disgusting
 
he was Hernandez before there was a Hernandez. And Paterno was every bit as slimy as Urban. Maybe the only difference was Paterno wasn't a philanderer.

quoting myself here, but this is worth a separate post. Similar to Urban, having the fixer on staff...

The next day, a lawyer in State College gave them a call. Bob Mitinger was a fixture around Penn State's athletic department. He had been an All-American end for Paterno when Paterno was an assistant and had gone on to play for the San Diego Chargers in the AFL. Mitinger had returned to State College after he retired and helped players headed for the pros with their contracts. He worked out in the gym with the team, one of the few civilians with that privilege. He taught a business law class popular with athletes, one of whom remembers walking into his class for the first time and being told that all he would have to do was sign his name. Now Mitinger was telling Hodne's freshman roommate and a few other players that he was going to be their lawyer. When they asked how much it was going to cost, he said not to worry about that. A few days later, they met him in court and paid a fine, and the charges went away.
 
What's also interesting, is that the PG (to my knowledge) never uncovered any of this. It's the top story on ESPN.com but I doubt the PG will find it even newsworthy.

Or maybe it's all made up to make Penn State and Paterno look bad. Yep! That's it. All made up! 🙄

Here is a quote from one of the cult members over there:

"However, I take objection to them trying to link this to PSU or to Paterno. This has almost nothing to do with PSU and almost nothing to do with Paterno."

To think the level of denial someone has to be in to write the above.
 
And it will probably take another 10 years before we get a story about what really happened to that Centre County DA.
What's also interesting, is that the PG (to my knowledge) never uncovered any of this. It's the top story on ESPN.com but I doubt the PG will find it even newsworthy.

Or maybe it's all made up to make Penn State and Paterno look bad. Yep! That's it. All made up! 🙄

Here is a quote from one of the cult members over there:

"However, I take objection to them trying to link this to PSU or to Paterno. This has almost nothing to do with PSU and almost nothing to do with Paterno."

To think the level of denial someone has to be in to write the above.
It’s not a local school to the local media when there’s negative news (and in this case “negative news” would be like saying the Holocaust was “an unfortunate misunderstanding”).

But their 100,000 attendees at Spring Game or next 4 star recruit from a different state will be front and top of the web page.
 
Like I said, how ironic it was hearing how wonderful Penn State football was. That their football program was the model and all others, especially Pitt was full of thugs and cheaters. All of this was going on concurrently with Pitt always being looked down on by PSU and their media lackeys.

"I don't want to leave football to the Barry Switzer's and Jackie Sherrill's." Yeah, I don't want to leave jurisprudence up to Joe Paterno.
 
Let’s see how long it takes for OnlyNumbers to take the bait and post….. He can’t help himself…. He’s obsessed with what Pitt fans are thinking and posting….. 😂
 

Imagine that. I lived in State College and worked in the media in the late 90's. Having access to various people associated with the university, it was no secret that Joe ran things. He would say that nothing goes on in the program or with his players that he doesn't know about or find out. That went for his staff also.

The entire program was a public facade of self righteous bullcrap. The entire town revolves around the university. The university revolves around the football program for the most part. JoePa was God to them and he acted the part. My work required me to tailgate the football games for an entire season. They have the most obnoxious self absorbed fan base. As we see from the nitter visitors to this site...nobody does it better than them. They believe it because that is the environment surrounding the university and the team.

Instead of being humbled and embarrassed by what happened there they went on the offensive. The Freeh Report was the most intensive investigation ever, and scorched the program and JoePa and of course to the fan base it was all lies. The victims were troubled young men looking for a money settlement. It had nothing to do with their beloved football program that delivers nothing but impressive victories and ego driven excellence. It truly is a cult.

I have to stop. I am getting nauseous from discussing this.
 
What's funny about that is that this "good kid" threw a knife at a player while at a Penn State football camp before he was ever offered. Penn State was the perfect place for that dude to get away with his horrendous behavior for as long as he did. Not sure anywhere else would have allowed it.
Seems like this Hodne person (if he can be called that) benefited from a sense of entitlement from the time he emerged from the womb.
 
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My favorite PSU fan comment of the day said something to the effect of how convenient it was that ESPN waited until after Hodne died to do this piece so that he didn’t have a chance to defend himself.

I guess his many theft, rape and murder trials left some doubt about his character.
 
WELL.. dismissing (and hiding) anything negative about their program as "false" IS the nitter way.. Joe did it best...
their fan base now is just continuing the legacy...
truly, NOTHING was learned...
Oh, no. They learned that if you fight back, you can get away with, well, anything.
 
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