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[QUOTE="SarasotaPaul, post: 314833, member: 985"]
No. I don't think you get it.
 
I for one am not defending anybody.
 
My point is that the notion that this was a "football program issue" that should prompt severe penalites on the football program is misguided.
 
This was an institutional problem that had some connection to the football program but was actually much bigger than that.
 
The individuals who decided not to report the 2001 incident were not members of the football program. They were administrators who apparently took into consideration what Joe Paterno had to say if one reads the reports of the e-mails that way.
 
My only point is that the real culprits in 2001 were the AD, the VP and the President of the school who at best deferred to the football coach and who at worst shirked their ultimate responsibilities.
 
They had the authority and the responsibility.
 
The entire Athletic Department and the school should be subject to some form of discipine perhaps but the football program should not be singled out or given the death penalty.[/quote]
Some connection? An amazing analysis. Paterno, ok some connection I guess. Coach, then ex-coach of what sport you tell me. What sports facilities? What sports assistant coaches? What sports bowl games. How the hell do you come up with only fringe connections? The damn football program was the heart of the entire matter that spilled out to infest everything else in Happy Valley. That is the Point!!!!
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