Joe Paterno in grave condition

[Fau Teixeira]

...and Paterno didn't rape any boys.

just turned a blind eye to it at best and helped cover them up at worst.

[Brian Fein]

at the risk of being the local a-hole...

I don't condone raping children, but its not related to football performance.  Even if he raped the boys himself, which he didn't, it didn't affect his performance on the field, and thus shouldn't affect his statistics.  After all, it is merely a thinly-veiled attempt to remove the black mark from the sport as a whole, having their "winningest coach" be tied to such a heinous story.  If Joe Paterno only had 14 wins and ranked 129437th all time, they wouldn't bother removing anything.

I don't like revisionist history for things that are unrelated.  I am also against repealing USC's national title and Reggie Bush's Heisman Trophy.

[MikeO]

...and Paterno didn't rape any boys.

doesn't matter he knew about it!!! Makes him just as guilty cause he did nothing! And he stood by and let hit happen. He let Sandusky use his practice facility and locker-rooms for "coaching clinics with young kids" after he heard and was told what Sandusky was doing makes him just as big a creep as Sandusky!!

The NCAA is a joke. How, in the end,  USC got a worse punishment than Penn St is beyond me. How anyone with a soul or any common sense can defend the NCAA, JoePa, or Penn St's punishment is a joke.

I don't condone raping children, but its not related to football performance. 

Speechless. WOW. Disappointed in you Brian

[Sunstroke]

I don't condone raping children, but its not related to football performance. 

At the risk of joining you on the ultimately righteous MikeO's list of disappointments (Oh, the horror), I agree with you on this.

That said, Paterno should have been open to legal or civil punishments for any crimes he committed...but vacating wins that his football team achieved is ridiculous.

[Dave Gray]

Rape doesn't have anything to do with football, but it does have to do with Paterno's first job: Protecting students.  He's a teacher.  He knowingly allowed anal rape of 10 year old boys on campus.  Holy fucking shit.

So, if you don't think they should vacate win, fine.  But they did.  So, why did they reinstate the wins?  What changed?

[Sunstroke]

So, if you don't think they should vacate win, fine.  But they did.  So, why did they reinstate the wins?  What changed?

My guess would be that they realized how stupid it was to implement a punishment of vacating wins on a football field for criminal activities off of it.

[MikeO]

Rape doesn't have anything to do with football, but it does have to do with Paterno's first job: Protecting students.  He's a teacher.  He knowingly allowed anal rape of 10 year old boys on campus.  Holy fucking shit.

So, if you don't think they should vacate win, fine.  But they did.  So, why did they reinstate the wins?  What changed?

What changed is you have a bunch of morons running the NCAA. And those Ped St. fans who support this criminal of a coach badgered them enough to the point they finally caved just to shut them up. As Dave said when you work for a University as a coach you have a duty to protect the students. Letting a pedophile have full access of your football facilities while knowing what he had done and what he was doing while holding his "youth football camps" is downright criminal. If the old SOB actually lived he would be in a cell next to Sandusky. He got off easy by dying!

Give him back his wins, he ruined his family's name and his poor family has to walk around with shame knowing good ole JoePa aided a pedophile. His family has to live with that embarrassment. I hope he is watching that from hell

[Spider-Dan]

I think it was appropriate to vacate the wins.

A fair argument can be made that (at least part of) Paterno's motivation for protecting Sandusky was Sandusky's impact as a coach on the football program, and later (following Sandusky's retirement) the impact that such a scandal would have on the program's ability to compete (as seen after the sanctions came down).  If that is true, then some of Paterno's wins can reasonably be considered an extension of his complicity in the coverup.

[MikeO]

http://deadspin.com/keith-olbermann-dropkicks-ncaa-and-penn-state-through-f-1680052607?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Keith Olbermann nailed it in regards to this topic.

[miamid45]

His statue should be melted down and made into castration tools.

All wins should be erased from the history books, especially his coaching wins.  This is probably the worst crime imaginable, because most of these kids grow up so fucked up that they end up destroying themselves and the people closest to them.

Paterno turned a blind eye to his buddies crimes and that makes him guilty and deserving of having his life taken away.  His legacy needs to be erased!

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Can we edit the title of the thread to remove the last word....as written the thread title has ceased being accurate when the asswipe in question ceased being.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I am reposting the joke that was previously deleted in violation of TDMMC free speach policy:

The reason why Patrino's cancer got bad so quickly was that rather than going to the doctor he just told hisboss about it.

[Brian Fein]

Lets not forget who the real villain is in this story.  Not the guy who's dead but the guy that's still alive and actually DID the crime?

I don't understand why Paterno seems to get so much more heat for this story than Sandusky.  What's worse, raping kids, or (allegedly) not reporting someone else raping kids?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Sandusky is scum, everyone agrees with that.  And that scumbag is in jail.  Reason why this scumbag gets more hate is there are PA students holding rallies supporting this piece of scum.

[MikeO]

I don't understand why Paterno seems to get so much more heat for this story than Sandusky.  What's worse, raping kids, or (allegedly) not reporting someone else raping kids?

Not more heat...just equal heat. Because he knew about it and did nothing to stop it!

If you know a kid is being raped and you do nothing about it....that says alot about you as a human being and makes you no better than the guy doing the rape.