Joe Paterno is dead.

lithy

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"I'm not quite dead yet!"
 
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I can't think of anything nice to say about the man.
 
lithy

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He's apparently quite dead now.
 
Arcademan

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He's dead, Jim!

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday. He was 85.

His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: "His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled."

"He died as he lived," the statement said. "He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community."

Paterno built his program on the credo "Success with Honor," and he found both. The man known as "JoePa" won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL.

"He will go down as the greatest football coach in the history of the game," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after his former team, the Florida Gators, beat Penn State 37-24 in the 2011 Outback Bowl.

Paterno's son Scott said on Nov. 18 that his father was being treated for lung cancer. The cancer was diagnosed during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness. A few weeks after that revelation, Paterno also broke his pelvis after a fall but did not need surgery.

Paterno had been in the hospital since Jan. 13 for observation for what his family had called minor complications from his cancer treatments. Not long before that, he conducted his only interview since losing his job, with The Washington Post. Paterno was described as frail then, speaking mostly in a whisper and wearing a wig. The second half of the two-day interview was conducted at his bedside.
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Just like Michael Jackson, it appears being the enabler of child rape is excusable if you die while doing other great things in life.

His fans are a testament to our depraved failing culture.
 
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Abasuto said:
Just like Michael Jackson, it appears being the enabler of child rape is excusable if you die while doing other great things in life.

His fans are a testament to our depraved failing culture.
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I thought it said in the bible you could get penance by doing "Hail Mary"s, I think he made up for it with all those years of football play.

I have nothing positive to say of the man and will leave it at that.
 
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Phyeir said:
I thought it said in the bible you could get penance by doing "Hail Mary"s, I think he made up for it with all those years of football play.

I have nothing positive to say of the man and will leave it at that.
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Ask the boys that pooped cum if Hail Marrys helped them recover from not being saved sooner.
 
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It's hard not to laugh at the people comparing him to an actual child molester. It makes it easy to tell the people who follow college football from those who read one headline one time in the past few months.

He wasn't the child molester. He reported the child molester based on what is now conflicting information (he said/she said from 10 years ago). In retrospect, people blame him for not reporting it to enough people when the people who are in legal trouble are the molester and the people at the University who actually covered it up. Yeah, I agree he did the wrong thing by not following up (as someone else noted, probably because he was uncomfortable with the situation of his good friend being accused) and ended up acting old school in the one area where it catastrophically didn't work. Again, the Woody Hayes comparison is interesting here.

Instead, we have a guy who was probably the only coach in major college football who made sure kids not only graduated from Penn State but went on to make better lives as doctors, lawyers, etc.

What's weird in all of this is Paterno is blamed by the public more than Sandusky or the University higher-ups who swept it under the rug, and that's absurd.
 
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Did Joe do his due diligence as a Mandated Reporter?

I know it varies state by state.
 
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R.I.P. Joe,
Great guy, great coach.
It's a shame some people will only remember him bc of his involvement w/ Sandusky.
Joe did nothing wrong imo.
 
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I'm still unfamiliar/confused with the story (mainly because I don't watch football and had never heard of Paterno before), but reading the story in the link, it says he reported it? So what went wrong? Who was the molestor? He was Paterno's assistant and I guess Paterno never confronted him about it?

Paterno could have done more but what about the guy who actually witnessed the molestation? Did he go to the cops?

I can't help but feel he got a bum rap. If you see someone getting molested, man the fuck up, go to the cops yourself.
 
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A legendary college football coach whose career and accolades will be forever tainted by his lack of follow up in reporting an act of sexual abuse...
 
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