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Football: Penn State to formally honor Joe Paterno on Sept. 17 UPDATE: STADIUM NAMED AFTER HIM!

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Penn State to formally honor Joe Paterno on Sept. 17

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State said Thursday it will formally honor former head coach Joe Paterno, who was fired in 2011 amid the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, during the team's game Sept. 17 against Temple.

The school will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Paterno's first game as head coach, which came against Maryland on Sept. 17, 1966, and resulted in a 15-7 win.

A spokesperson declined to comment on the specifics of the commemoration, saying only that more details will be released on the Thursday prior to the game.

Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour also declined to comment. As did Nittany Lions coach James Franklin, who also was not asked about the decision on his weekly radio show Thursday night.

Paterno finished his career as the winningest coach in FBS history (409 victories), but he was fired in November 2011, shortly after Sandusky, who was his defensive coordinator, was arrested for child sexual abuse.


Testimony revealed in unsealed court documents alleges that Joe Paterno was told of Jerry Sandusky child abuse as far back as 1976 and that former PSU assistant Greg Schiano witnessed abuse.



Paterno died in January 2012 of lung cancer.

In May, unsealed court documents said an alleged Sandusky victim said he complained to Paterno about Sandusky in 1976 and was rebuffed. The university's president has said the allegation was not substantiated in court or tested by any other process.

Paterno was never charged with a crime related to the scandal.

Sandusky was convicted on 45 of 48 charges in June 2012 and is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence.

Moving forward from the scandal has proved a difficult challenge for Penn State, requiring leaders to balance distancing the university from the scandal while juggling the wishes of ardent Penn State supporters who credit Paterno for giving the university an identity to be proud of.

The statue of Paterno was removed from outside Beaver Stadium on July 22, 2012, and highly visible, university-sponsored signs of him are mostly hard to find. Paterno's name is still on the campus library, which was built in part by his donations.

The Paterno Foundation already had scheduled a private celebration of the 50th anniversary of Paterno's first game as head coach with a Football Lettermen's reunion on Sept. 16 at Lubrano Park in State College. Penn State alum and university trustee Anthony Lubrano has been part of a group of Paterno supporters who have been pushing for the school to officially recognize the anniversary.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...aterno-50th-anniversary-first-game-head-coach
 
playahaitian said:
Let see how these cacs try to justify this...
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You guys are sometimes too gullible. Folks have you explaining why you're not gleefully singing odes to people who love slavery, and you're concerned that they're treasuring a guy who harbored a monster. You're not in a position to do anything.
 
He made penn st, they can't ignore him, his/their history coincide, with that said, if cats knew half the shit boards/administration of big universities ignored, it would blow peoples mind, but what's funny, niggas will hop in this thread, and point fingers but cheer for teams like bama, lsu and ole miss, schools notorious for bigotry against us.

Look I'm not saying paterno deserves sainthood, but if they want to honor him fuck it why not, either way it doesn't move me, and we got bigger fish to fry
 
Race Harley said:
A disgraced bigot will be honor by the school that fired him... sounds right if you're white. :hmm:
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and I wonder will they protest and be JUST as angry as they are with Kaep?

Cause this ain't a PRIVATE school.

So what all the victims of sexual abuse?

I waiting to hear them spin this...
 
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I think a moment of silence would be appropriate since he stayed silence all these years.
 
Jay-Vill said:
He went to penn state
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I know but still.

Joe Paterno was a party to a crime against dozens of children, in a foundation, in a sex ring, on the team itself, players and non players alike for decades. His legacy is a fallacy, Penn State failed to bring any of these bastards to justice and protected their own interests while profiting off these same sexually abused kids. Paterno personally sheltered the molester, turned a blind eye and put football over the integrity of himself, as a man and a parent and the trust of hundreds, if not thousands of people who looked up to him as a God. And then lied about it after he was found out and Sandusky was wearing handcuffs.

Nate Parker got head from a fully sober white girl then a day later did some foul wannabe porno shit on this same - now drunk white girl with his roommate, faced charges, went to court, got acquitted, his boy got time and tried to move on from it.


Both deeds are bad but... is this a dig at Penn State culture in general?



oNE
 
They just wait until the coast is clear. They never actually get punished. Coast is clear now they say "Well that was in the past" and then they honor a dude who enabled a pedo to rape fucking children for decades.
Stay Classy Penn State.
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
They just wait until the coast is clear. They never actually get punished. Coast is clear now they say "Well that was in the past" and then they honor a dude who enabled a pedo to rape fucking children for decades.
Stay Classy Penn State.
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notice how ALL of sudden

when THIS happens and the white rapist swimmer gets released?

not as much Kaep talk huh?
 
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/09/penn_state_announces_plans_to.html

Penn State announces plans to commemorate 50th anniversary of Joe Paterno's first game

Penn State has announced its plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of former coach Joe Paterno's first game / win / season as head football coach, and they include a mix of video and personal tributes.

But, to date, there is still no confirmed, on-the-field participation by any members of the Paterno family.

The PSU athletic department announced the "Golden Anniversary" celebration will be celebrated throughout Saturday's Temple game with a series of videos looking squarely at the highlights of the late Paterno's career.

The activities, Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said, "will focus on the commitment he (Paterno) had to student-athletes and academics."

A set of video presentations will focus on:

* The program Paterno inherited, as seen through the window of the first game, a Sept. 17, 1966, 15-7 win over the University of Maryland.

* The pillars Paterno tried to build his 409-win program on over the next 45 years - namely a highly-celebrated marriage of high football and academic standards that had Penn State at or near the top of player graduation rates throughout his tenure.

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Personally, the tribute will also include some in-stadium tributes to members of that 1966 team, a rare curtain call for a squad that went 5-5, but that also marked the dawn of Penn State's glory years.

What the Beaver Stadium crowd won't see, of course, is any reference to the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal that led to Paterno's abrupt firing in November 2011, and the removal of a statue outside Beaver Stadium the following summer.

That final chapter of Paterno's career, of course, has caused deep rifts between Paterno loyalists who believe the legendary coach was made a fall guy for Sandusky's sins, and others who believe Paterno was among a group of core leaders at Penn State who had chances to stop Sandusky but failed to act.

It doesn't appear that this weekend's celebrations - including a Friday night former-players-only event at Medlar Field that Paterno's wife, Sue, helped organize - will resolve all of those fights.

But it does at least appear to mark a weekend truce in which lawsuits, demands for apologies and debates over statues can be set aside, and Penn Staters can take a breath to remember what was best about one of their legends.

University leaders, while aware of the condemnations that is bringing from some both outside and within the university family, appeared resolute Thursday in their determination that - for their family - this was right.

Here's what Barbour said in a statement issued about Saturday's events:

"This year marks the 50th anniversary of Joe Paterno's first game and first victory as head coach. On September 17, commemorative activities will focus on the commitment he had to student athletes and academics, as well as highlights of the 1966 game.

"This Saturday at Beaver Stadium as we face Temple University, we will highlight the student athletes he impacted. Members of the 1966 team, co-captains Mike Irwin and John Runnells, will be participating in the on-field coin toss. Further in-game introductions of players will take place, along with video presentations on the impact to student athletes.

"Paterno wanted academic success not only for his players but also for every student who came through Penn State. Together with his wife, Sue, they helped countless students become leaders and earn a Penn State diploma. Our plans are consistent with the wishes of the Paterno family as well, with a focus on the players and their accomplishments at Penn State and beyond."
 
What is Penn State thinking in honoring Joe Paterno?

This Saturday, in what is believed to be a first in the history of college football, a university will hold a game-day ceremony to honor the enabler of a child rapist.

Penn State, what in the world are you doing?

At some point before, during or after its game with Temple, the university plans to publicly commemorate the late Joe Paterno for the first time since he was fired in November 2011 in the midst of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Details about what exactly Penn State plans to do to honor Paterno on the 50th anniversary of his first game as head coach are being kept under wraps by athletic department officials until Thursday afternoon, university spokesman Jeff Nelson said in an email Wednesday.

If the people who run Penn State could step outside their lives for just a moment, if they could see how the Sandusky scandal and Paterno’s clear involvement in not stopping it still horrify so many of us around the country, if they had any sense of decency toward the numerous victims of Sandusky’s crimes, they would announce on Thursday that they are canceling the Paterno ceremony.

They would say that they finally get it, that they understand how dreadful their myopia about this issue has been, that it’s time to move on, that it’s both painful and pathetic to allow old wounds to resurface. And they would say that they are sorry.

Letting go of this repugnant and appalling chapter in the history of a proud and respected university should be the easiest decision Penn State officials have ever made. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, those officials just don’t have it in them to stop bringing up Paterno, which brings up Sandusky, which brings up all those young boys and what Sandusky did to them while he was coaching defense at Penn State.

For nearly five years now, school officials have consistently made the worst public-relations decisions about the scandal and its aftermath, ensuring that instead of making it go away, they've kept it front and center in our national consciousness.

I’ve been hoping for several years that officials from the Big Ten Conference might swoop in and help Penn State figure out how to do the right thing. In 2013, after Wisconsin track legend and three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton admitted she had worked as a prostitute, the Big Ten took her name off its female athlete of the year award.

If it could do that, why not step in, even behind the scenes, and demand Penn State stop worshipping someone involved in something that was so much worse? In fact, the league did remove Paterno's name from its football championship trophy in Nov. 2011.

The so-called adults obviously are failing here. But there is a group at Penn State that gets it.

A college newspaper usually provides a fairly accurate portrait of the mood of a student body. On Sept. 2, the day after Penn State announced the Paterno ceremony, the school’s paper, The Daily Collegian, wrote this in an editorial:

“Penn State needs a reality check. This is not 2011. We need to move on.”

There was more.

“Paterno has not been a member of this university’s staff since 2011. He is no longer a community hero. Paterno was a remarkable part of this university for numerous years, and for that we have the right to be thankful. … But in light of these past years — even these past few weeks — this is in no way the right time or manner to ‘commemorate’ him, if he even deserves to be so. …

And this:

“Currently, the only associations these (current) classes of students have with Paterno is reading and hearing his name tied with Jerry Sandusky’s and lawsuits or coming from the mouths of Penn State alumni who can’t accept that their time here is no longer.

“This is our Penn State. It is a Penn State without Joe Paterno. It is a Penn State that is still trying to rebuild, make amends and propel forward.”

So who exactly are the mature adults at Penn State? And who are the ones who still need to learn?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ceremony-joe-paterno-jerry-sandusky/90372540/
 

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