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thedailywhat:
End Of An Era of the Day: Joe Paterno is out as Penn State’s head football coach effective immediately.
The Board of Trustees announced the decision at a press conference a short while ago. Earlier today, Paterno said that he would retire at the end of his 46th season.
Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will take over as interim coach. “Right now, I’m not the football coach, and that’s something I have to get used to,” Paterno told the AP shortly after his ouster.
Paterno had come under fire after it was revealed that he was made aware in 2002 of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s alleged sexual assault of pre-teen boys, but decided merely to inform his superiors and take no further action.
University president Graham Spanier also resigned tonight; executive VP Rodney Erickson will act as interim president.
Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Senior Vice President Gary Schultz have previously resigned after being charged with with perjury and failure to report suspected child abuse. Neither Spanier nor Paterno have been charged.
According to reports, a large crowd of JoePa supporters has gathered outside Old Main to voice their dismay at the board’s decision. The Daily Collegian says students are heading toward Beaver Canyon, where a demonstration will likely take place.
[pennlive / wtae.]
This upsets me a great deal. We all make mistakes; it’s a tough way to see such an icon, and really what makes Penn State, go. I have an enormous amount of respect for this man. He is truly a football legend.
I know it has been awhile since this (okay, so like a week), but I need to vent about this.
NO it is NOT upsetting that he was fired with one phone call.
Once he knew that his higher-ups weren’t taking it to police, HE should have done it himSELF.
We’re not talking a shady area where the kid was 17 and it was consensual. We’re talking HORRIFIC RAPE of a TEN YEAR OLD. Several, in fact.
Have any of you read the court transcripts? The testimonies? The reading of charges or whatever? They are GRAPHIC and they are HORRIFYING. I don’t care if he’s a beloved coach or a wonderful actor or the president of a fucking country. HE DID SOMETHING WRONG.
This man, pictured above, heard disturbing sounds that he described as the sounds of sex, then walked in to see a grown man, a coach to underprivileged youth, shoving a 10 year old boy up against a locker room wall, RAPING HIM, while the child was crying and protesting. This grown man, who was, I’m guessing, quite a bit larger in stature than this child, was PINNING HIM TO A CONCRETE WALL.
And this man, pictured above, told… who? The sports program leaders at the university? And when no action was taken against this horrible man who raped children, what did he then do? NOTHING? Okay, that’s fine then. He told one person, so he did all he could do.
HE SURE AS HELL SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT.
The coach who performed such heinous crimes needed to be immediately locked away and retribution paid to the underprivileged children he abused—and in some cases, their families, though I understand many of them didn’t have much for family—but this man, pictured above, should have done all he could to get his horrible friend to pay for his crimes.
This is horrific.
Awful.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luffdy62jP1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
End Of An Era of the Day: Joe Paterno is out as Penn State’s head football coach effective immediately.
The Board of Trustees announced the decision at a press conference a short while ago. Earlier today, Paterno said that he would retire at the end of his 46th season.
Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will take over as interim coach. “Right now, I’m not the football coach, and that’s something I have to get used to,” Paterno told the AP shortly after his ouster.
Paterno had come under fire after it was revealed that he was made aware in 2002 of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s alleged sexual assault of pre-teen boys, but decided merely to inform his superiors and take no further action.
University president Graham Spanier also resigned tonight; executive VP Rodney Erickson will act as interim president.
Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Senior Vice President Gary Schultz have previously resigned after being charged with with perjury and failure to report suspected child abuse. Neither Spanier nor Paterno have been charged.
According to reports, a large crowd of JoePa supporters has gathered outside Old Main to voice their dismay at the board’s decision. The Daily Collegian says students are heading toward Beaver Canyon, where a demonstration will likely take place.
This upsets me a great deal. We all make mistakes; it’s a tough way to see such an icon, and really what makes Penn State, go. I have an enormous amount of respect for this man. He is truly a football legend.
I know it has been awhile since this (okay, so like a week), but I need to vent about this.
NO it is NOT upsetting that he was fired with one phone call.
Once he knew that his higher-ups weren’t taking it to police, HE should have done it himSELF.
We’re not talking a shady area where the kid was 17 and it was consensual. We’re talking HORRIFIC RAPE of a TEN YEAR OLD. Several, in fact.
Have any of you read the court transcripts? The testimonies? The reading of charges or whatever? They are GRAPHIC and they are HORRIFYING. I don’t care if he’s a beloved coach or a wonderful actor or the president of a fucking country. HE DID SOMETHING WRONG.
This man, pictured above, heard disturbing sounds that he described as the sounds of sex, then walked in to see a grown man, a coach to underprivileged youth, shoving a 10 year old boy up against a locker room wall, RAPING HIM, while the child was crying and protesting. This grown man, who was, I’m guessing, quite a bit larger in stature than this child, was PINNING HIM TO A CONCRETE WALL.
And this man, pictured above, told… who? The sports program leaders at the university? And when no action was taken against this horrible man who raped children, what did he then do? NOTHING? Okay, that’s fine then. He told one person, so he did all he could do.
HE SURE AS HELL SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT.
The coach who performed such heinous crimes needed to be immediately locked away and retribution paid to the underprivileged children he abused—and in some cases, their families, though I understand many of them didn’t have much for family—but this man, pictured above, should have done all he could to get his horrible friend to pay for his crimes.
This is horrific.
Awful.
