This is ****ed up if true.

I just don't get it. Why would people in power be attracted to stuff like this? Who looks at a kid and says "I want to bang that."?

This is all just so sick and disturbing.

You're night, needle.

Great, we have Moron McGee trolling now.

what if he already knows that sandusky is a suspected pedophile and that's well-known in penn state circles? what if he knows that the police there are basically beholden to penn state?

How was it supposed to end? With him retiring on his own terms to much praise and applause, before we all found out about this huge cover-up?

That little meme ran its course and was likely funny or used as a "FU" towards us mods or whatever. I just...no more of it.

On Topic: That dude in the tree that they keep showing on ESPNEws...wtf...

Kids, teens, young people are sold into sex slavery all the time. Some magazine wrote a good piece about it a couple of years ago.

frankly, as much blame as there should be/is on mcqueary, he tells paterno and paterno doesn't call the cops. if mcqueary then decides to call the cops in spite of paterno not doing it maybe it's seen by the PSU community as mcqueary betraying paterno and the school. we've already seen the lengths the university and community goes to protect the legacy of the almighty joepa, and we're even hearing rumors that a DA was killed because of this. mebbe mcqueary just didn't want a part of that

don't get me wrong, i'm not defending him at all, but it's probably not that simple to just say burn in hell mcqueary

then you call the fbi and explain youve got dirty cops covering up a pedophilia ring?

and if that doenst work you call the national press, and if that doesnt work you buy a shotgun.

we call him that because he called an nfl player a nig

No ****. It's over. No more of that.

I disagree with this. I mean, halloween on franklin street was a situation that couldve turned into a riot at any time if there was a spark to cause it. If this **** happened during the dean's tenure all hell would have broken loose.

I understand listening to Madden, he's definitely aware of the journalistic and investigative scene in PA.

But it's not as if he's a prophet for uncovering the case back in April. His article was merely a response to this:

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind..._penn_sta.html

not if your tweets are protected

His actions are consistent with someone who himself was molested as a child. idk for sure obviously, but up to 15% of boys in this country are, so it's possible and consistent with what he did in all this. An abuse victim walking in on this might run away, ignore it and forget it asap so that he didn't have to deal with his own painful, internalized trauma.

It was a FU mods in that you guys didn't infract him, so ev1 went to town on it.

if it comes out that paterno, mcqueary, etc. DID go to the police with this info and nothing was done from there what will be the fallout from that?

No clue outside the state/federal government getting involved really quickly. The chaos will be unreal if this is the case.

Interesting thought. Sounds plausible.

As much as I like when people call out triumph for triumphing, I see his point here. Literally 1000s of people could have done more to uncover the catholic church scandals. A poster just admitted some weird stuff went on with a hockey coach. Hitchens wrote about the bizarre sexual habits and hierarchies that go on in British boarding schools that borders on sexual abuse, albeit amongst teens (I have a friend from the UK who confirms that goes on). Communities are just weird with this stuff.

Having said that, in this case, it doesn't quite jive. He was a firsthand witness and he did report to paterno, supposedly explicit in details. If he's willing to go that far, he should be willing to call bigger authorities. If he truly just felt helpless after seeing nothing get done after telling paterno, I agree with triumph that he shows complete lack of moral fiber by hanging around.

of course (i already said earlier itt that all hell would have broke loose had this happened while Dean was head coach), what i was saying is it is less likely that this sort of behavior could've been covered up for 13 years b/c RTP has a more sophisticated media presence and CH isn't as isolated or cocoon like.

Madden did a better job connecting the dots than this article, which is focused on Sandusky.

Madden has credibility.

He was talking about this in April when everyone was calling him a crazy "conspiracy theorist".

It would be worse if Paterno went to the Police and told them to do nothing, ie "we'll take care of it in house."

The timeline of 1998-99 is consistent with this wild scenario.

ok oh. Then I guess I agree, but man I didnt think this many people could keep a secret for this long about anything, much less something this serious. I mean, all it takes is one person mentioning it to a mom, dad, wife, gf, or anything else and them taking the ball and rolling with it.

Apparently it was not a secret. Rumors were flying around throughout the community.