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[camay2327]

He was a great coach.

To bad his career ended the way it did but he brought that on himself.




Truly great leaders are measured by the lives they reached, the people they motivated and the legacy of their lesson that can extend for years to come, like ripples from a skipped stone across an endless lake.

For Joe Paterno, the impact is incalculable, the people he connected with extending far beyond the players he coached for 62 years at Penn State, the last 46 as head football coach. Paterno always tried to be the giant who walked among the everyman both in the school’s greatest moments and, it turns out, in its worst.

Paterno died Sunday at a State College, Pa., hospital, suffering in his final days from lung cancer, broken bones and the fallout of a horrific scandal that not only cost him his job, but also his trademark vigor and a portion of his good name. He was 85 years old.

This is a complicated passing. What was once the most consistent and basic of messages – honor, ethics and education – seemingly lived out as close to its ideal as possible was rocked Nov. 5, 2011, when a grand jury indicted Paterno’s former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, of multiple counts of sexual abuse of children.


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[momof1]

He was a great coach.

To bad his career ended the way it did but he brought that on himself.




Truly great leaders are measured by the lives they reached, the people they motivated and the legacy of their lesson that can extend for years to come, like ripples from a skipped stone across an endless lake.

For Joe Paterno, the impact is incalculable, the people he connected with extending far beyond the players he coached for 62 years at Penn State, the last 46 as head football coach. Paterno always tried to be the giant who walked among the everyman both in the school’s greatest moments and, it turns out, in its worst.

Paterno died Sunday at a State College, Pa., hospital, suffering in his final days from lung cancer, broken bones and the fallout of a horrific scandal that not only cost him his job, but also his trademark vigor and a portion of his good name. He was 85 years old.

This is a complicated passing. What was once the most consistent and basic of messages – honor, ethics and education – seemingly lived out as close to its ideal as possible was rocked Nov. 5, 2011, when a grand jury indicted Paterno’s former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, of multiple counts of sexual abuse of children.


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No tears. He enabled a molester, the affected children surely won't miss him, neither will I.

[john]

His coaching legacy is second to none...


I think it's sad that it will forever be tarnished by the sex scandal. Even though technically he passed on the info to his superior, I cannot understand how he'd continue to work with a guy who he knew did such a thing and not eventually question why the guy wasn't fired and arrested!

If one bright light comes from this scandal, it's that crimes against children are everyone's business, and hopefully it is understood that looking the other way is simply unaccesptable.

[Carl G]

I do not follow college football.

The first I heard of Joe Paterno is in relationship to this case. To me he will always be the person to whom winning a college football game was more important than stopping the rape of young boys.

[Darth Lefty]

His coaching legacy is second to none...

College football is a disgusting leech on places of higher learning. It marginalizes faculty and turns students into drunks. If we could get rid of all the rest of them too, that would be great.

[nomad]

College football is a disgusting leech on places of higher learning. It marginalizes faculty and turns students into drunks. If we could get rid of all the rest of them too, that would be great.

Football isn't what turns college kids into drunks, going to college does.

[Harold]

Football isn't what turns college kids into drunks, going to college does.

I was a drunk before I went to college.

College just made me an educated drunk.

[old soldier]

its no surprise to the old soldier that he died so quick after being fired. it would have been better for the admin folks to censure him rather than let political correctness call for action against an old man...he didn't sit on the allegation and passed it up the line

lots of times old folks die cause of sadness, you see it when a spouse dies and a short time later the other one dies. for old Joe, football was his life and the outright firing was just like the death of a spouse for him.

hope the decision makers don't show up at the service

[supermom]

its no surprise to the old soldier that he died so quick after being fired. it would have been better for the admin folks to censure him rather than let political correctness call for action against an old man...he didn't sit on the allegation and passed it up the line

lots of times old folks die cause of sadness, you see it when a spouse dies and a short time later the other one dies. for old Joe, football was his life and the outright firing was just like the death of a spouse for him.

hope the decision makers don't show up at the service

This pervading thought process is what allows abuse to slickly infiltrate our society and places a harness upon the blinders that many people so willingly and equally claim as protective and cumbersome. I am infuriated that any one single human being could possibly think that a man is tarnished because his superiors did not report a crime that he noted in passing. That is the slimiest, nastiest way for a sick pervert to jump out of the frying pan when the butter is added to the heat.

Let's be honest here. Absolutely no one with a reasonable understanding of american laws could possibly think that they do not have a duty to go to the police and report such allegations. Claiming that he went to his superiors and oh, my, how sad it didn't go any further is just sick.

I wonder if he got his rocks off by watching those little boys play on the field then get in the car of their abuser after practices? What do you think? You think he liked seeing little boys get placed into a high risk situation with a pervert, all alone, and then he walked out to his car and whistled Dixie on the way home?

Sick, sick, sick.

I hope the devil drives up through the soil and buckles his coffin right there in front of all the bystanders who would dare shed a tear for a man who single handedly could have stopped these horrific things from happening if he had had just an ounce of ethics in his blame-free delusional, pass the buck- world.

I do blame him. I bet he had his wonderful heart attack when he was informed that he would have to be investigated for conspiracy to commit abuse against a child after the fact.... He was a sick "blank" for staying silent until he was cornered into giving up those dirty little secrets...

[giasmom]

Football isn't what turns college kids into drunks, going to college does.

My husband and I both went to college, we were not drunks. My husband went to college full time during the day, studied science, worked full time graveyard shift at Costco, came home worked to improve our little home at the time (worst home in the very best neighborhood), put on a new roof and added a kitchen. . . I worked, went to college and kept up the house/yard, I wasnt a drunk either. . .

[john]

He had cancer, had been ill for some time before the scandal...

[old soldier]

This pervading thought process is what allows abuse to slickly infiltrate our society and places a harness upon the blinders that many people so willingly and equally claim as protective and cumbersome. I am infuriated that any one single human being could possibly think that a man is tarnished because his superiors did not report a crime that he noted in passing. That is the slimiest, nastiest way for a sick pervert to jump out of the frying pan when the butter is added to the heat.

Let's be honest here. Absolutely no one with a reasonable understanding of american laws could possibly think that they do not have a duty to go to the police and report such allegations. Claiming that he went to his superiors and oh, my, how sad it didn't go any further is just sick.

I wonder if he got his rocks off by watching those little boys play on the field then get in the car of their abuser after practices? What do you think? You think he liked seeing little boys get placed into a high risk situation with a pervert, all alone, and then he walked out to his car and whistled Dixie on the way home?

Sick, sick, sick.

I hope the devil drives up through the soil and buckles his coffin right there in front of all the bystanders who would dare shed a tear for a man who single handedly could have stopped these horrific things from happening if he had had just an ounce of ethics in his blame-free delusional, pass the buck- world.

I do blame him. I bet he had his wonderful heart attack when he was informed that he would have to be investigated for conspiracy to commit abuse against a child after the fact.... He was a sick "blank" for staying silent until he was cornered into giving up those dirty little secrets...

I guess it would go unsaid that you are not a Penn State fan.

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

I guess it would go unsaid that you are not a Penn State fan.

Did you really just say that? Abuse is abuse and someone not doing enough to protect a child is someone not doing enough to protect a child. It is sad to me that the standard for personal responsibility and morality is a sliding scale that depends on what someone does for a living or what other good he may have done. What Paterno did for Penn State should have no bearing whatsoever on whether he should have done more to protect children.