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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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MililaniBuckeye said:
I believe that staff members actually "jokingly" told either families or coaches of recruits, "Keep your kids away from Jerry."
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That came out in the NYT article. Those around him knew what was going on for years and thought it OK some how because it was outside the "family". They valued their football program more than those kids. That came from the top. The whole athletic department including Paterno.
That's the definition of "morally bankrupt".
 
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AJHawkfan said:
By "retired" you mean that Joesus decided that Sandusky posed too much of a threat to his reputation, so he cut him loose, right?
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SloopyHangOn said:
This disturbs me greatly.
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At this point nothing about how Paterno ran that athletic department and university should come
AJHawkfan said:
By "retired" you mean that Joesus decided that Sandusky posed too much of a threat to his reputation, so he cut him loose, right?
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Supposedly wouldn't speak to him at the banquet and left early. This is the guy who coached for him for decades and was responsible for those defenses that won him his national championships. They all fucking new, and none of them had the basic human decency to stand against Paterno and do what was right.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Supposedly wouldn't speak to him at the banquet and left early. This is the guy who coached for him for decades and was responsible for those defenses that won him his national championships. They all fucking new, and none of them had the basic human decency to stand against Paterno and do what was right.
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Is there any chance that Paterno was more like a mob boss? That he had his henchmen who would "take care of" anyone who went against "the family"?
 
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Zurp said:
Is there any chance that Paterno was more like a mob boss? That he had his henchmen who would "take care of" anyone who went against "the family"?
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Funny you should say this that way. I work with a guy whose grandparents had PSU season tickets for over 30 years going back pre-BiG. He said they lived 30 miles from Happy Valley and the way Paterno ran things around there was referred to as the "PSU Mafia" with him as the Godfather. He said that his grandparents got so disgusted with how things were being operated that they cut ties with the university. This was long before all the Sandusky stuff came to light. He also said that because of what they knew they raised him to hate PSU, which he does even though he is from the same area of PA.
 
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