reclegend22;964072 wrote:Despite what some here are alleging, Paterno has repeatedly denied that he was ever aware of anything sexual happening between Sandusky and anyone, and reiterated that message during an emotional meeting with his players on Monday.
What do you suppose the motivation of McQueary was to lie about what he told Paterno? He hung himself out to dry MORE by doing so.
What does the police chief have to gain by lying about Paterno's negligence?
When so many others knew, the most powerful man at the school and close friend of the accused was kept in the dark?
Let's use SOME logic when talking about this, even if you are inexplicably still a Paterno fan.
Why would a man who has coached and taught for over six decades at a school he so dearly loves and whose legacy he basically built, an institution in which he has served for well over half a century carving a legacy of achievement, strong moral principal and a demand for doing things the right way, all-of-a-sudden throw all of that away in order to allow his linebacker coach to use the Penn State shower room as his lair to have intercourse with prepubescent children? Give me a damn break.
Why do people do stupid/bad things ever? Very few people are entirely/obviously evil. You could say the same about Sandusky, why would a respected football coach, charitable contributor, and family man rape a bunch of little kids in the shower? Why would any of the multiple other people who covered this thing up do what they did?
Paterno isn't some deity. He never was and after this, he certainly never will be.
His best case scenario was that he told the AD and thought nothing more of it when he knew Sandusky was still using PSU facilities and working with kids for over a decade later. When the BEST case scenario is that he didn't even seem to take strong allegations of child rape seriously, and the worst case is he was a part of the seemingly extensive cover up for said rapist, it's time to give up the hero worship.
