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The chief of police was involved in the cover up as well.....sad story for those kids. I hop Sandusky, the AD, and everyone else involved rot in hell for such heinous acts. Absolutely disgusting.

Apparently a GA reported Sandusky to Paterno for (well...you know) and Paterno reported it to the AD.

So...he DID know? Why is he not in big trouble over this?

The selfish side of couldn't be happier with the timing of this story. Has to be a major distraction for the team, lets hope they lose a couple.

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They have to fire everyone, because everyone knew. I read the document. He set up the feeder organization in 1977...by 2002 there were 2 separate incidences we know the University was aware of (probably many more). Nothing happens. That's a cover up.

I read a lot of Ish like this in Law School, and its always the same with these long term deals. Pillar of the community/important person, and others knew something was wrong and, for whatever reason, did not act.

As I learned from other boards...everyone was always very confused why he never took jobs at other schools in the 1980s and 90s as a head coach. Well I guess when you already set up the feeder organization, and an untouchable reputation, why mess everything up.

This is a mood point because children will be dealing with this their entire life. Beyond sickening.

That said...

This will likely have an affect on Demetrious Cox and Tommy Schutt (PSU commit)....

One five star kid is already on the way out of his commitment, likely SEC bound. Schutt, being from Illinois (if I remember correctly) will probably rethink his verbal.

All the talk about never having a death penalty again, no one, including myself, ever saw something like this coming. All the people that knew and covered it up, total lack of internal control, if there ever were a situation there deserved it, this would merit the death penalty IMO. It's that inhumane and disgusting. Ruined numerous young boy's lives, you can't erase the damage.

Absolutely. This isn't some recruiting scandal or some booster giving some kid cash, this is on an ENTIRELY different level. If anything could ever warrant the death penalty, this is it.

It is disgusting and Paterno needs to be gone. It would be nice if the NCAA could impose the death penalty. The question I have is does this fall under the jurisdiction of the NCAA in any way. Anyone know?

I don't think there's anything the NCAA can do because none of this had any impact on what happened on the field and no players were involved or effected. Unless there's some clause about morality or something, I'm not sure if they can anything.

Also, as far as the "death penalty," I thought you had to be considered a repeat violator to get that? As in being on probation for something and doing the same thing within five years?

McQueary was supposedly 28 in 2002. Which makes it worse. We don't know what level of detail he shared with Joe Pa but we do know what he shared with the Attorney General. The fact that he didn't resign from Penn State or at minimum have problems with Sandusky at practice is hard to comprehend.

The fact that he called is dad first to learn what to do is a sign that he was more concerned about his job than the kid. It's my own opinion that he likely didn't give Joe Pa many details of the shower incident. Joe was about 73 at the time. Could be difficult to describe such a thing to an elderly man he respected. He probably feared how Joe would react given his long-time relationship with Sandusky.

But the fact that Sandusky was investigated in 1998 was probably reason for Joe to elevate what he knew. At minimum he should have been more suspicious at worse its a cover-up.