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its all about winning
its sad but that is all Penn St fans want

This couldn't be further from the truth. Paterno wasn't a legend just for his record, but for always putting real life before football. For instance, star running back Curtis Enis was held out of a bowl game voluntarily by JoePa for something about 1/2 as bad as Terrelle Pryor pulled when he was allowed to play the final game of his collegiate career.

The reason Penn Staters are taking this so hard is because JoePa was seen as the last bastion of this attitude. The graduation rates of his players and their future success in life were just as much a source of pride to the old man as his winning record.

He lived a modest lifestyle, and donated millions back to the college, providing the endowment for an epic library.

JoePa was a legend because he was a great man, not just a great coach.

Proof? Where's his quote saying this? Because it wasnt in the grand jury indictment.

This man has it right. People are playing whisper down the lane, and the main culprit of these distortions is ESPN.


Having read the allegations in the indictment, it appears that Paterno heard one vague allegation against his one of his closest friends, and passed it through appropriate channels. When the fallout was mild, he probably assumed the best about his friend just as anybody would. Even if he had gone to the police, all he had was hearsay, and it wouldn't have even been enough for an arrest.

After Curley, Schultz, and Spanier covered this up, the onus to go outside university channels to the police would be on the eyewitness, McQueary, a man who will be standing on the sidelines on Saturday and still collecting a paycheck.