re: #327 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the crisp and cool NYC metro area. As a Giants fan, I’ve got to love the fact that Manning beat the Patriots again in a key spot. Big win for a team that’s got tons of injuries and wasn’t given much of a chance. Real nice to see.

What isn’t nice to see? The Penn State sex abuse scandal and how college officials knew of the abuse, but didn’t report it to law enforcement. Two have stepped down, and are facing charges of their own.

I think that’s just the start.

And this will definitely put a stain on Paterno’s legacy there. He hasn’t been implicated, but could he have done more? I think so.

The discussion on Philly sports talk radio yesterday while I was driving was about that subject. (Philly sports talk is a sewer, but occasionally they do cover something effectively.)

My take is that Paterno covered his butt legally by saying something about it (at least once.) Beyond that he appears to have looked the other way. Which may have been legally permissable, but was not the ethical or moral way to handle the situation. And given how much of the reputation he has given the football program there is based on supposedly ethical and moral behavior I think considerable damage has been done to his legacy and their program there.

I also think anyone on the management/command chain above Sandusky (as of when the incidents took place) should step down. They were either complicit in the cover-up or negligent in their duties.

And I see that a few administrators are being arraigned for perjury. When you’re valuing your football program over the safety of children you deserve the book to be thrown at you.