The Texas thing could be good a few ways:

1. Get Feds involved

2. Get him remanded so he has to start being in prison immediately

3. Some added incentive to flip if there is a larger conspiracy

Perhaps it would fall under the Mann Act?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

Applies to athletics and an umbrella involving recruiting and everything about the players. Thats the plus side. Everything else you know is level 10 deathstar mode though. Going to be civil charges against the University, serious internal sanctions, staff and figureheads getting canned, lower enrollment numbers, being known as Pedo U.

Lol Penn State has a whole class called "Paterno and the Media". Wtf?

you just got munsoned

my baseless random ass guesswork of speculation right now:

1. this is clearly much bigger than one man raping children. i think the madden rumor could very well be true and this was a ring of pedophiles acting with sandusky at the center using his leverage with PSU to keep it quiet
2. there was a widespread cover-up throughout PSU extending beyond the football program to the lower levels of the administration (although this isn't really speculation, obviously, im talking about something more systematic and all-involved than what we have heard so far)
3. the charity also acted in covering up sandusky's transgressions and ignored complaints about him. if the rumors were so widespread that local HS football coaches heard them, i dont see how it's possible that the children's charity didn't hear them too
4. it's possible the charity had other people in influential positions working in cahoots with sandusky, but that's probably a bit too speculative at this point
5. the culture of shameless and unrelenting devotion to joepa and PSU football in central PA will finally be shattered. it always seemed odd and annoying, albeit harmless, before, but now it is clearly downright dangerous. it fostered this atmosphere of invulnerability in state college that let this monster run free for so many years.

again, most of this is just baseless speculation/guessing, but there's really no doubt in my mind there's a lot more facts coming out that will change our entire perspective on this now to something even more horrifying than we thought before.

also i predict DoE will drop heavy sanctions on PSU, the NCAA will sanction the football program severely under some ethics/morals clause (no idea if it exists, but i assume there's some best interest of the game type rule), and the feds will likely press charges against at least a small group of the people involved (outside of the DoE sanctions)

Would just like to draw attention, again, to Jerry Sandusky being free on 100k bail. That is just an absurdly low number for someone accused of doing what he almost certainly did. That's like what you get for getting stopped with a bunch of pot in your car. So ridiculous.

I was slightly leaning on the side of Paterno being ousted seems wrong and still think he should have been allowed to finish the season. I was starting to come around to thinking that firing him was right, but now think I'm flipping back. I find this strange since I kind of hated Paterno growing up and recently felt a begrudging respect for him.

I don't know the legal system well enough to know why they can't drop it, but I was aware that they couldn't. I also think that anyone who feels this way needs to be proactive in changing their feelings and removing themselves from the situation.

I would feel sorry for him, but it would not change my opinion of how he handled this situation. Past offenses against him would make it much more difficult for him to handle emotionally, but he still didnt fulfill his moral (and legal?) responsibility.

yea i dont know much about how judges set bail, but years of watching law and order make me think that he should have been remanded

My baseless random-ass evaluation of your speculation in order of truthiness:

5>>>>>>>>>>>>>2>>>>3>>>>>>>>>4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>1

One reason Paterno is not indicted is because they don't believe that they could win the case.

Put it like this even though they may have been, in technical terms, Paterno's superior,or his boss, no one actually believes that to be the case. But technically speaking that is what keeps Paterno legally clean.

I'm just saying that it appears that Paterno initated the cover-up.

Move Penn State to the Legends division imo

Letting him out on bail = Letting him go back to his home 1000 FEET FROM AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Absolutely disgusting and depressing story. I am ****ing angry the way some ESPN guys (like Herbstreit) rallied around Paterno the past couple of days.

Kudos to Mark May for saying it how it is.

IMO PSU should be forfeiting the rest of the season

didnt catch all of that lol

dont even know who he is. is he not credible?

I may be mistaken and if I am you, karak, oski, or any of the other lawyers can correct me, but isn't a large portion of bail set based on some normalized standard and whether or not someone is a flight risk?

yea i think that's possible, but if that were the case, how has the AG not found out by now after a 2 year investigation?

then again, the same could be said for all my speculation too

Yuuup. the NCAA might give Indiana-PA the death penalty over this!

If by "someone" you mean "several people in this thread" and by "off-hand" you mean "running joke" then yeah I agree. Don't see how I'm being on a "high horse" when I've already reported it to mods and they likely aren't going to do anything about it.

Needle gonna blow a gasket over people using the phrase "nig guy" to describe someone who used the word "******" to describe a black guy, but we can call McQuery "redhead" "ginger" and "soulless" all we want.

Sounds really fair and mature of everyone.

But I am talking to the guy who drunk posted itt and was like "this isn't threadworthy" so I don't expect much of anything out of a person like you.

are you seriously comparing ginger with the n-word

this is really tin-foil-hat-ish but the last attorney to look into this ended up dead in a river with his laptop hard drive destroyed

Karak just out of curiosity whered you got high school? I'm from the area as well.

Right - so in my example above - the reason that the woman couldn't make the charges against her abusive husband go away is because once the police take a report, it's not up to her to decide. It's a matter of the law.

(You can see how this must happen a lot in cases of domestic violence - where an abused woman calls the cops, police take her abusive husband away, and she later thinks she made a mistake in getting the police involved, and tries to get them to drop the charges - she can't, and it's for her own damn good.)

My ultimate point is just because the victims think one way, that's not necessarily a great litmus test for what the "right" thing to think is.

phb is confirmed a redhead

I have no idea who he is.

Ok. No more soulless ginger jokes. Don't use racial or homophobic slurs.

Holy ****.