It was slightly less than a year ago (August), and I was talking to a neighborhood friend over the upcoming college football season. The big elephant in the room was Jerry Sandusky and Penn State football. We both agreed: no way should Penn State cancel its season, period.
What Sandusky had done was inexcusable. That it happened, as we had thought at the time, right under the noses of officials, was a sign that they had no control over their athletic program. No one, not PSU's opponents not even PSU's own athletes should have to endure the spotlight of a molester haunting their experiences on the field.
And then last week, when the Freeh Report came out, it was even worse than we thought.
The evil was deeply ingrained up and down the chain with everyone having lied, including Joe Paterno himself. Up until 2011, most everyone who paid attention to college football respected JoePa for all that he accomplished and had done while at PSU. For a while, there were many (not me) who openly questioned the appropriateness of JoePa's fired last November. With the Freeh Report, we found out that not only did he know about Sandusky's molestation of kids, but that he both lied and tried to minimize Sandusky's actions. Astonishingly, some people still think JoePa has been unfairly attacked!
Predictably, those who look bad in the independent report now want to conduct their own review of the facts. I call that BS, and just more proof that Penn State deserves, more than any other program in the history of the NCAA, the multi-year death penalty.
No one should be allowed to downplay what Sandusky did or how the university's employees enabled Sandusky to rape children.
There is only one way out: STFU and take responsibility for your actions, or a lack thereof.
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