WSR Gridiron Report

A pretty good rant if you ask me, and some good writing.

Everytime I go to Arizona Stadium I always have my guard up for pedophiles. They just seem to be everywhere there.

In fact, this year I'm considering wearing a pair of steel lederhosen.....just to be safe.

I report every Lil Forker I see on campus already. It doesn't get much more suspicious than a Lil Forker let out in public from the landfill.

Not to mention the cuts in the media booth following the LSU and Miami? thing a year or so ago.

Reading the fresh report and other reports of unethical behavior makes me feel confident Paternoster knew and the whole program was just about protecting their players that intentionally injured fellow students and assisting a child rapist in his crimes by allowing him to walk free since the second incident allowing him to still take children into the showers of the school to create more victims personally I hope the NCAA does allow the appeal do an investigation and give them the death penatly for five years for obviously not getting it that the people that were controlling the program harbored and assisted in several violent crimes against kids. The you are not punishing the people involved is a joke. I wish Paternoster was alive I would love to see him in chains and in jail right now. I hope he likes burning in he'll and hope he is being sodimized like the kids that he allowed to be. If the entire leadership of a university fails that institution must suffer. CEOs run companies into the ground steal peoples money and the businesses that they run take the bulk of the punishment and it is the employees that pay it. Joe Pa was an evil human being Sandusky is a monster and the leadership looked the other way.

The signs are the result of a new UA policy set forth by the facilities and risk management people.

The signs aren't pointed at the Penn State mess at all, but are driven by a combination of factors and newly identified risk areas for universities around the country. Homeland Security and other agencies have been involved in identifying these risks.

Think ....shootings at several universities like Virginia Tech, more recently a movie theater; threats of bombings; the Giffords shooting, foreign and domestic terrorism, and a whole long list. So if signs remind one person who would otherwise be oblivious, then maybe that person will be the one to save several others.

Like it or not, it's just a fact of modern life. We have to watch out for each other or as a society, we are nothing.

I'd rather be offended by a sign than be hit by shrapnel.

Well now if Homeland Security is involved, even remotely, then I'm worried. How long till we get flashlights up the kazoo before entering a stadium?

...and you got all of that from the 'Fresh' report? Spell check error aside, it is clear you did not read the Freh report or did not understand it.

I read every single word and it was not fun and I agree that there is absolutely no question that Jo Paterno should have done more. But that is the worst thing you can say, at least based on the report.

But, in fact, the report clearly shows he was the one of the three people most involved who wanted there to be more done. But his superiors sat on their hands and told him not to worry about it despite his repeated efforts to get them to 'have Jerry talk to some one', and that was over an incident where nothing actually happened, so I don't think any of them, at that point, realized how bad it was.

That's the most incriminating item about Paterno in the entire report.

That's what the Freh report says. Now granted, it is specious and unreliable because it has not been vetted or challenged (or apparently even read by key decision makers at the NCAA) or in any way validated, corroborated but the NCAA, ESPN and Congress seem to accept it as gospel (another largely unsubstantiated document). The court cases should expose more information and validate or debunk various points in the report.

It does not say, anywhere, that Paterno is guilty of anything, it does not even hint that he knew the extent of Sandusky's activities, nor does it suggest that he had any direct part in helping Sandusky or protecting Sandusky in any way. It notes that his testimony was consistent with other testimony and it identifies the culture at Penn State as the culprit. Obviously he was, in part, the architect of that culture, but the fact that it protected Sandusky was not intentional or by design. Lute had the exact same status at Arizona... no one would have ever questioned him. Had Rosborough been a child rapist, we'd be in the same situation. That's not because Lute is evil or would want children harmed, it's an unfortunate byproduct of a program's success.

From the report it is entirely unclear how much he knew or suspected - and when you look at a man's life and what he stood for and what he accomplished - it is totally incongruent with who he was to say that he knew, even remotely, what was going on and decided to protect his program over the safety and well being of children. In fact, protecting his program would have dictated that he turn Sandusky in, not protect him and in fact he brought it to his bosses' attention and asked repeatedly for an answer on the matter.

All this shit about Paterno being guilty of anything is purely the interpretation of the media desperate for a story, feeding a lynch mob mentality comprised mostly of ignorant people who can't think for themselves and hide their zealous fervor behind the guise of caring about the victims.

Odds of him being in jail right now if he were alive: zero. Odds that 20 years from now the Penn State case study will be a benchmark of one of the worst miscarriages of justice in NCAA history: 100%. The Freh report acted as whistle blower, investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner. How can that be anything but wrong? Oh yea I forgot... 'concern' for the victims dictates revenge, not justice.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but technically, is it not true that any talks with Miller and Maryland never got to an interview stage?

Someone with some inside information, can't remember who right now told me that.

Anyway, it may be simply how one would categorize the episode, but what I gathered was that the MD AD may have done the pursuit, but it wasn't as much an interest on Millers part as it was on Marylands part. Also, I had heard that Byrne was on top of the situation from the get go, and that the agreements that were finalized on paper for extra money for assistants etc., had been in the works and agreed upon months earlier.

Correct.

A bunch of hypercritics jumped the gun. Miller was contacted by Maryland, the MD AD "assumed" that Miller would interview, but when Miller talked to him, Miller showed no interest. The MD AD then acted like a jerk and trashed Miller to try covering his tracks for not bringing home the Sean.

Much ado about very little.

Beat ou... you got that right.... we always find a way to work ourselves back to what really matters.....

BTW... phuk ou... my ex in-laws were big daisy duck fans and they were fing insufferable... to make things worse the duck butter shits moved to Phx to be closer to their daughter and went out of their way to root for asu, just to piss me off... What really proves that they were idiots is that this all took place when we had the ducks number (Daryl Lewis/musgrave at the goal line bring back memories???)... and to drive home the point that the excessive eugene rain rotted their skulls to much, we were in the the midst of the streak against aswipeu (Helix High grad Cecil for 106 yards ring a bell???).... But all in all I got the best of it as I ****** their daughter and moved on without shedding a tear....

a true Wildcat til I die......

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