LFN: Sandusky/Paterno Timeline Keeps Getting More Difficult To Ignore

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I came up with a timeline of the Sandusky scandal and Joe Paterno, with every possible fact stuffed in there that I could imagine.

http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2016/05/sanduskypaterno-timeline-keeps-getting.html


The crimes committed by Gerald Sandusky continue to be a band-aid that is re-applied, and continuously ripped off, the arms of those of love Penn State.

Already convicted by a court of law, Sandusky has what is effectively a life sentence, while others who were in power at Penn State during the 1998 period where sex crimes were reported internally, Graham Spanier, Gary Schulz and Tim Curley, have still not faced any sort of trial and are still at-large today (http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-tone-deafness-of-penn-state.html).

Last week, with an interesting sentence appearing deep in an insurance lawsuit involving a Sandusky victim settlement, the band-aid was once again ripped off.

The details of the lawsuit claim (http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/05/court_filing_says_joe_paterno.html) that Joe Paterno chose not to act in 1976 when one victim reported abuse by Sandusky, while Sarah Ganim, the hero reporter who broke the Sandusky story wide-open five years ago, added a second story of abuse (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/06/us/jerry-sandusky-victims-paterno-penn-state/index.html) in the 1970s where Paterno pressured one of Sandusky's victims over the phone in the 1971 to not press charges against him

Penn State folks doggedly and consistently appear to deny that Paterno had anything to do with Sandusky, with the Paterno family themselves on the leading edge of of the denials.

As you'll discover below, these denials are becoming less and less plausible by the second.


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Whole place in its entirety should be pushed off into a big hole and burned

Makes the NCAA look REALLY REALLY bad for essentially letting them off the hook on this

[MR. CHICKEN]

......ALONG WHIFF ALL....RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS....THEN.....xconfusedx.....SICKNESS LURKS.....ON DIS ORB......LAD.........AWK!

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I still can't believe Spanier, Schultz, and Curley are free men right now.

Here's something else I'm going to add to my timeline: JoePa himself was the AD of Penn State from 1980-1982.

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Lots of opinion pieces on Penn State reaction to new allegations out there on the interwebs. I feel like this piece, written more than a year ago, has aged extremely well. Very proud of it.


Penn State president Eric Barron certainly made an impression yesterday.

A few months ago, Barron said he would review the Freeh report, (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24811107/penn-state-president-eric-barron-will-review-freeh-report) the one requested by Penn State's board of Trustees in the wake of the revelations against Gerald Sandusky and was used by the NCAA as a justification for unprecedented sanctions against the university.

Evidently, his report is in (http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-penn-state-president-barron-20150128-story.html).

Today, he said that the Freeh report "very clearly paints a picture about every student, every faculty member, every staff member and every alum. And it's absurd. It's unwarranted. So from my viewpoint, the Freeh Report is not useful to make decisions."

His tone deaf comments continued.

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One more:


In the news last week came, essentially, four new claims of abuse that happened at the hands of Gerald Sandusky while he employed as a linebackers coach at Penn State.

All are, at a bare minimum, troubling, and they invite the question "who knew what, and when" in terms of these allegations.

Three of the allegations, however, are worthy of further examination because they could demonstrate that the administrators at the time, which would include former athletic directors Ed Czekaj and Jim Tarman, violated the law.

It also could eventually - though nothing has surfaced yet - implicate Joe Paterno.

With the very important caveat being we don't know everything, we do seem to have enough to bring some context to the goings-on inside Penn State's athletic department during the last 40 years. The only clear fact was that child sex allegations weren't handled with the respect they deserved.

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