JFC. Banality of evil, it's a thing.

Holy **** didn't they get a lot of the charges lessened as well?

HTF did those 6 assistant coaches not report it? Why did it take a graduate assistant to bring this to light? Sick.

Scary part is that they felt content doing nothing about it and moving on with their careers.

Shameful to see my fellow alums continue to support this mess despite mounting evidence. I mean Penn State is as insidious and cult-like as Scientology.

...it's the only way to be sure.

especially in that era if any of those assistants told, insta fired + career dead. (and it may not have gotten anywhere on top of it, they would've defended him and blasted that assistant coach for making it up probably)
Hell I don't remember if that GA got the same thing.

this shouldn't be "new" did people think that was a one time thing outside of penn state?

how is it even possible that this story is getting worse

It's gonna get even worse. DeadSpin got a hold of the judge's opinion on PSU vs Insurance Company and the judge's opinion on the scandal is rather strong for a mere legal document about insurance coverage.

http://deadspin.com/court-opinion-re...-je-1775014993

The ultimate highlight is bolded:

The footnote associated with this paragraph is what really emphasizes the gravity of it

So it wasn't just a measly line in a document. It was documented across a series of depositions. I guess so many that the judge didn't even bother citing specific depositions.

Most of the rest is legalese regarding insurance clauses and a summary of what is already known about the scandal. It does not focus much on Joe. As a matter of fact, it only mentions him a couple of times in the first few pages of the document. The rest of what is called a cover-up is focused more on Schultz and Spanier.

just horrific. hopefully we can finally bury his legacy now, and the cultists will give up.

scott paterno's twitter right now... just wow.

https://twitter.com/ScottPaterno?ref...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

I have to correct myself a bit here:

The judge couldn't directly cite these depositions because they are sealed documents. We only know of their existence through the judge's opinion on this case.

From orbit...

Dug this gem off of Scott's Twitter. Guy has to give it a rest.



lol @ Paterno knowing about kid ****ing under his watch in 1976 being innocuous.

Also clearly doesn't know anything about why sexual abuse cases go unreported for years (or unreported entirely) and why children don't know what to do when these things happen.

Follow the money defenses are hilarious coming from a family hoping to milk the legacy and the uni for all they're worth so as to never have to work ever.

To be fair, that was a tweet that Scott retweeted with some kind of agreement emoji or something like that.

Most of Scott's comments have implied that the negative articles are merely clickbait and represent the death of journalism.

He either has no idea what clickbait is or is completely unaware of how damning the court opinion is. Everything he says in response to the judge's opinion hangs on his use of the word allegedly in the document.

it's funny* because the story about the ginger coach telling Paterno about the later incident, with JoPa cutting him off asap in order to maintain some level of plausible deniability, only really makes sense if he knew about this kind of stuff for decades.

still can't figure out why he couldn't have cared less to do anything about it though. insane.

* - figure of speech

Wish Olbermann's show was still on. He was the only guy in sports media who came down hard on Penn State when the scandal broke. Guy would have torn PSU another *******.

fyp. from orbit

Just like Scotty Paterno says.... follow the money. Scandal gets buried, recruits keep coming, fans keep showing up, merchandise keeps getting bought, restaurants/bars thrive during football season....

Follow the money

you can do all this by firing him and paying him off. Why keep him around?

just gonna post this over and over again from now on

only way to be sure

It's interesting to compare this ****show with the zulu nation defending bambaataa. Dude was rocking pink spandex in beat street but nobody wants to believe what many knew long ago. Don't accept the group dynamics where everyone agrees to look the other way. Lots of folks is sheep doing what the herder tells them and that's the basic problem. Other folks is getting paid to herd them.

Wat

Jay Paterno is back on Twitter! What could go wrong?

Yeah this. JoePa developed this strategy and used it for decades. It makes a lot of sense. I still don't understand why he didn't fire Sandusky though. What kind of dirt did he have on JoePa that kept him from firing a child molester?

Joe Paterno must have been a delusional idiot, or a diddler himself.