But like many old institutions, they tend to have skeletons.
From the sounds of the Jerry Sandusky grand jury indictment...Penn State football had a morgue full of skeletons buried under Beaver Stadium.
Let's cut to the chase, Mike McQueary is a pussy. He was an eye witness to a rape/assault and went home and called his dad. Seriously Mike? How about you go in there and ask, "Coach Sandusky, why are you having sex with this boy against his will?" Or do what I would have done...just stood there long enough and made the situation uncomfortable enough to the point they would have stopped. There are stronger jellyfish than you Mike. Now the real reason he is a pussy is because in 2002, he witnessed a rape by a now ex-coach who officed in the facility he worked. At the time of this incident, he was a Grad Assistant, but then mysteriously became an Assistant coach the next year. Coincidence? No, that is not a coincidence.
Here is how it went down in the Fall of 2002.
Joe Pa: Mike, we want you to join our staff next year full time.
Mike: That's awesome.
Joe Pa: You work hard as an Administrative Assistant (2003), we'll get you on the field the year after (2004).
Mike: That's awesome.
Joe Pa: You're now part of the family.
Mike: (bewildered) Okaaaaaay????
The rest is history. McQueary went on to coach and work at PSU from 2004 to today as a Full Time Assistant (WR coach).
The next set of Pussies are the people getting there jobs taken away, the President and AD. By all accounts there only job was to save the institution of Joe Paterno and Penn State football. Obviously they failed and deserved to be fired for not doing a better job of covering it up (tongue in cheek). They were doomed either way. Firing Joe Paterno would hold the same course for an Administrator as Myles Brand did by firing Bob Knight....but imagine Joe coached at PSU for 61 years compared to Knight's paltry 29 at Indiana.
But the biggest Pussy in this whole thing (besides Sandusky of course) is Joe Pa. I know, I know tearing down Joe Pa is easy right now. But the guy is guilty of being loyal. And guilty of being stubborn to get rid of Sandusky all together. He is not guilty of a crime. But you can fill in the blanks of all the other stuff he is guilty of.
When the dust settles on this thing there will be 3 camps:
- Joe Paterno is God. Those worshippers came out in droves last night in State College
- Penn State Football was ruined by Mike McQueary and Jerry Sandusky.
- Joe Paterno controlled everything in State College...he should be fired, and not allowed to continue to coach, even this Saturday. If you go to the game and cheer for this mess of a football program you should take a hard look in the mirror.
I feel sad for college football today, but mostly I feel sad for these kids and their families because the nasty underbelly that is the power and the greed of college football was so great that it denied them their basic rights they deserved.
Shaking my head.
