Post by bob quarteroni on Nov 8, 2011 11:13:16 GMT -5
The Sandusky case is a sorrid, ugly one, and I hope everyone from the U. president to Paterno to Curley and Schultz go down.
There are SO many people to blame. Who, for the love of Pete, wouldn't rush in to stop it if they saw a grown man anally raping a 10-year-old boy in a shower?
So my first thought was why didn't the graduate assistant, a former football player, rush in to stop it when he saw it?
Then I thought about the culture of Penn State, where football and Paterno are the unquestioned gods. You attack them at your own peril. So the grad assistant might have thought well, I'm just a little peon here and Sandusky is one step from the sun-king so I'd better just report through the channels.
That could also be why everyone else just shrugged their shoulders. Paternoville rules and I'll be pummeled if I out any card-carrying member of the fraternity.
I saw this in action when I was a sports writer for the Centre Daily Times, back in the 80s. I started doing a long article (or a series, I don't remember) on the "Great Experiment," PSU's label for their incredibly high graduation rate for "scholar-athletes" and all the squeakier-than-clean claims.
I had wanted to do this for years since, sitting around the newsroom, you'd hear people, esp. the sports editor, talk about this football player who got caught drunk or that one who got caught doing something else but didn't report anything, espousing a "we've got to take care of the boys" attitude.
It didn't escape him that if the only paper in town decided to say anything negative about PSU football, the shit would hit the fan and it would come back to him.
Anyhow, in doing the great experiment story I was pretty much stonewalled all along by PSU sports people. I remember endless phone calls with the SID trying to pry loose the information.
Anyhow, it finally got done and there were no bombshells but there were also some findings that PSU did manage to if not cook, then massage its numbers.
And here's where it got weird. Right BEFORE publication I found out that the sports editor had called PSU's SID and READ the article (or parts of it) to him so that PSU would know what was coming.
So beyond the Valley of Unethhical I couldn't, and still can't, believe it.
But just another example of the kind of thinking that makes something like the Sandusky story possible in an inbred culture that is Penn State football, and that starts to believe its own bullshit about how great and clean it is.
Probably why Sandusky was told he wouldn't be Paterno's successor. They knew back then he was molesting kids and didn't want to make him the coach....but besides that they didn't do anything, and how many kids have suffered as a result.
Roar Lions Roar.
There are SO many people to blame. Who, for the love of Pete, wouldn't rush in to stop it if they saw a grown man anally raping a 10-year-old boy in a shower?
So my first thought was why didn't the graduate assistant, a former football player, rush in to stop it when he saw it?
Then I thought about the culture of Penn State, where football and Paterno are the unquestioned gods. You attack them at your own peril. So the grad assistant might have thought well, I'm just a little peon here and Sandusky is one step from the sun-king so I'd better just report through the channels.
That could also be why everyone else just shrugged their shoulders. Paternoville rules and I'll be pummeled if I out any card-carrying member of the fraternity.
I saw this in action when I was a sports writer for the Centre Daily Times, back in the 80s. I started doing a long article (or a series, I don't remember) on the "Great Experiment," PSU's label for their incredibly high graduation rate for "scholar-athletes" and all the squeakier-than-clean claims.
I had wanted to do this for years since, sitting around the newsroom, you'd hear people, esp. the sports editor, talk about this football player who got caught drunk or that one who got caught doing something else but didn't report anything, espousing a "we've got to take care of the boys" attitude.
It didn't escape him that if the only paper in town decided to say anything negative about PSU football, the shit would hit the fan and it would come back to him.
Anyhow, in doing the great experiment story I was pretty much stonewalled all along by PSU sports people. I remember endless phone calls with the SID trying to pry loose the information.
Anyhow, it finally got done and there were no bombshells but there were also some findings that PSU did manage to if not cook, then massage its numbers.
And here's where it got weird. Right BEFORE publication I found out that the sports editor had called PSU's SID and READ the article (or parts of it) to him so that PSU would know what was coming.
So beyond the Valley of Unethhical I couldn't, and still can't, believe it.
But just another example of the kind of thinking that makes something like the Sandusky story possible in an inbred culture that is Penn State football, and that starts to believe its own bullshit about how great and clean it is.
Probably why Sandusky was told he wouldn't be Paterno's successor. They knew back then he was molesting kids and didn't want to make him the coach....but besides that they didn't do anything, and how many kids have suffered as a result.
Roar Lions Roar.