Former Penn State Def Coord. charged with Sex Abuse, PSU AD charged with Perjury

[Marklar]

http://deadspin.com/5858394/3-reason...ason-not-to-be

So his argument to discount this rumor is that the guy is basically Drew Sharp?

[MoOff24]

So his argument to discount this rumor is that the guy is basically Drew Sharp?

[SportsFromA2]

Barry Switzer knew Joe Paterno's career could end only one way.

Once he saw the footage of the Penn State coach standing on his lawn, talking to reporters and admitting to the world that he should've done more, the former Oklahoma coach realized his fate was sealed. He would be forced out. He would be fired.

“I knew that it would come to this,” Switzer said.

It had to.

“They did the right thing at the university,” he said. “The university had to do this, and it was the right thing to do.”

He paused and sighed.

“It's a tragic, sad story. There are no winners here.”

He paused again.

“There are no winners at all.”

College athletics has never seen anything like what has unfolded this past week at Penn State. Heavens, sports has never seen anything worse. There has been no bigger scandal, no worse indignity. This goes beyond athletes trading memorabilia for tattoos or boosters taking recruits on ritzy harbor cruises or agents paying rent for a superstar's parents. This goes beyond trouble that has rocked Ohio State and Miami and USC and so many others. This even goes beyond the wild west days at Oklahoma.

Yes, those were ugly, awful times in Norman that forced Switzer out the door and embarrassed an entire state. But the details of what happened then don't make your skin crawl like the never ending news stream flowing these days from Happy Valley.

Ironically, it was Paterno who took aim at Switzer nearly three decades ago. He proclaimed that he wouldn't retire and “leave college football to the Jackie Sherrills and Barry Switzers of the world.” He quickly apologized to Switzer, and the two became friends in the years that followed.

Switzer even wrote extensively about Paterno in his book.

But no excuses — Paterno had to go.

“Having been in this profession a long time and knowing how close coaching staffs are, I knew that this was a secret that was kept secret,” Switzer said. “Everyone on that staff had to have known, the ones that had been around a long time.”

Those are chilling words. They are the most disturbing missives, not in a week filled with heinous reports and atrocious news, but read again what Switzer said. Everyone had to have known.

Everyone.

If that doesn't cause a chill to run up your spin, nothing will.

“You think that a 13-year assistant … hasn't told someone else?” Switzer said. “His wife? His father? People knew. The community knew.”

He's right, of course. State College is like many college towns, big enough to have the diversity of a larger city but small enough to have the familiarity of a tinier town. It is an idyllic setting for many folks.

But everybody tends to know everybody's business.

Much like Norman where people knew there were problems with the Sooner program before players started shooting guns off the dorm balcony, people in State College had to know something was amiss with Jerry Sandusky.

“There are more people culpable than just Joe Paterno and the athletic director,” Switzer said via telephone while traveling in Texas. “There are so many other people that have thought, ‘I could've done something about this, too' that didn't come forward. That's the tragedy of it.”

That is the tragedy. The adults who had the power to protect kids from a monster. The adults who passed the buck and expected someone else to take care of the problem. The adults who could've saved at least eight little boys from carrying the scars of sexual abuse for the rest of their lives.

And among those adults is Paterno, the man who'd been seen as one of sports' most honorable coaches at one of college football's most upstanding programs.

“There's no university immune to this,” Switzer said. “No one is immune to what happened at Penn State or what happened at Oklahoma. It happened years ago, and it'll happen years in the future.

“People make poor decisions, poor choices, and this is what can occur.”

But how?

How can such powerful programs and commanding coaches lose control like this?

“I'll tell you how it happens — it's the American sports phenomenon,” Switzer said. “I've seen it happen all my life; we've made coaches and players and athletes more than what we are. It's what happens in American sports. Because of that, they've gotten away with more than they should have.

“These students the other night, I watched ‘em occupy State College, and I thought, ‘They don't understand.' If they stopped and thought about … how many people were involved and knew this and did nothing, they just haven't lived long enough.

“And what they've done is try to support somebody the university can't support.”

No one knows better than Switzer how difficult it is to be forced out of a job that you love from a program that you built at a university that you champion. But he also knows that there was no other conclusion for Paterno.

Read more: http://newsok.com/penn-state-tragedy...#ixzz1dLbnVxdV

[MoOff24]

Uhhhh read this. Eerily similar.

From Another Era And Another Sport, A Sex Abuse Scandal Still Inflicting Pain Today | ThePostGame

[phillyfan]

Brooks now says maqueary won't coach

[phillyfan]

Uhhhh read this. Eerily similar.

From Another Era And Another Sport, A Sex Abuse Scandal Still Inflicting Pain Today | ThePostGame

Wow....probably learned from him

[det2orl]

They just announced that now McQueery won't be at the game. He went from the field to the booth to not even in the stadium. Only one more step to go

[sseelhoff]

Cars.com has pulled its sponsorship for ESPN football for the next two weeks.

This Saturday's featured game: Nebraska at Penn State
Next Saturday's featured game: Penn State at Ohio State.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ska-telecast/1

With Penn State reeling from a child sex abuse scandal,presenting sponsor Cars.com is bailing out of ESPN's Saturday telecast of Nebraska at Penn State from State College, Pa. (12 noon ET).The automotive sponsor doesn't want its brand associated with a telecast featuring Penn State, which fired coach Joe Paterno Wednesday after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was indicted on criminal charges of allegedly sexually abusing young boys.

Cars.com spokesman Ron Hall issued a statement Thursday night confirming the decision. Cars.com will, however, sponsor telecasts featuring "reputable" universities:

Due to the recent allegations surrounding the Penn State Football program, Cars.com has decided to withdraw from this weekend's sponsorship of the Nebraska at Penn State game on Saturday, November 12 at 12:00 PM. As a proud, longtime supporter of ESPN College Football, it's important to us that we're building our brand and raising the visibility of our advertisers in a way that celebrates the sport, the dedication of its student athletes and the many reputable universities that field teams. We will still be sponsoring a game this weekend.

Will other advertisers follow? That remains to be seen. The TV audience should be should be huge for Saturday's game given the media circus in Happy Valley. But the actions of Cars.com could indicate the Penn State brand is becoming radioactive on Madison Avenue, at least temporarily.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz declined to comment on whether other advertisers are dropping out. But ESPN did announce on SportsCenter Thursday night that Cars.com was not only withdrawing its presenting sponsorship of Penn State-Nebraska but also a second game telecast featuring two scandal-plagued schools, Penn State and Ohio State, the following week.

When the money starts going away, people in Happy Valley might finally get it.

[MoOff24]

They just announced that now McQueery won't be at the game. He went from the field to the booth to not even in the stadium. Only one more step to go

they said he has gotten numerous death threats.

[onionpouch]

They used to call the NAMBLA hotline on Stern, the guy who narrated the menus sounded like an effeminate vampire.

Those calls were great, I swear Howard's the only reason I knew what NAMBLA is...

[phillyfan]

they said he has gotten numerous death threats.

From paterno?