I was fortunate enough to be watching Sportcenter when the Board announced that Paterno was fired, instead of him retiring at the end of the year like he said himself earlier. Pretty intense/wild/huge sports story. Guy is a legend and this is obviously how he's gonna be remembered, especially by anyone in my generation. I feel bad for him, but then I realize that someone told him there was a kid getting raped by his assistant and he did the absolute BARE minimum to do anything to help the kid or further prevent it. Fuck that. Shit is gross and if the school let him keep coaching, they'd have to drag this story with the football team the next six weeks while the season ended. It'll be bad now, but it sure won't be like the shit storm that would have happened with him around.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure the only people who are up in arms about why they fired Paterno are students and a few alumni. And Rece Davis who thinks that JoPa should get a pass for looking the other way on child sex abuse, so he can be on the field for senior day. Look at the (not very clear) picture above. You think this kid is smoking his cig in deep thought about the morals of the situation and how it reflects on the school? No chance. He's probably looking for some chick to smash or if he knows anyone in the crowd who's holding. Kids just trying to cause chaos. Classic college
Oh and I just saw a tweet from
Ashton Kutcher saying "how do you fire JoPa? #insult #noclass"...Uhh how do you fire him? You find out he knew kids were getting molested in football facilities by the former d-coordinator and then just not follow up on it. Fucking idiot