All week, the Freeh Report has been the talk of the town on the sports blogs. And with good reason as it basically confirmed what most anyone with the ability to think critically has suspected- Joe Paterno knew about Sandusky and put “his” University first.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it now. The great irony of the situation is that if Paterno had<\/em> followed through and made sure that Sandusky was dealt with, he would have truly lived up to the lofty ideals he had come to personify. Penn State’s and Paterno’s stature would have increased immeasurably because they’d have done the right thing, when it counted.<\/p>\n In fact, if I really think about it, it’s hard to understand why<\/em> they didn’t follow through. It seems to me like there was nothing to lose. Sure, there would have been flurry of activity, but they’d always be able to say “Look, people like Sandusky are masters of hiding in plain sight. We fell for it, but when we found out about we did the right thing.” Sure, you’d rather not have to deal with it at all but that wasn’t the hand they were dealt.<\/p>\n So instead, we end up where we are now. It’s almost surreal, to think of the position and stature he held and how it’s all gone now. A college football tragedy, if you will.<\/p>\n One of the final questions swirling at this point is whether or not Penn State should receive the death penalty. There was a time not long ago where I’d have said “No, it’s time to move on.” But I’ve reconsidered. The fact is there are a bunch of kids who were victimized by Sandusky, needlessly<\/em> because of the inaction by Penn State. How can a football program possibly weigh against that? Also, gutting them should serve as a cautionary example to other programs so that, hopefully, something like this doesn’t happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All week, the Freeh Report has been the talk of the town on the sports blogs. And with good reason as it basically confirmed what most anyone with the ability to think critically has suspected- Joe Paterno knew about Sandusky and put “his” University first. I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but I’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}