College Football 2013 Season

[-Jrabbit]

A hard rain is gonna fall.



It had better.

[Tupac Shakur]

I've heard a bit about the details, and, wow. I'm trying to think of a situation where joking about it would be acceptable, and I'm coming up with nothing.

That **** is bad.

The game in State College this weekend is going to be awkward.

Also, this better be JoePa's last season. It's a shame he's going to go out like this.

[Boris Godunov]

I don't see how he'll survive this, no. He might not even finish this season.

And if you think this weekend will be awkward, imagine what the Ohio State game is going to be like...

[Tupac Shakur]

Sweater Vest doesn't seem so bad now.

[H Tower]

It seems like the AD and the campus cop are the sacraficial lambs for PSU, I think Paterno finishes the year. Whether he retires or not at the end of the season I won't even begin to bet on.

[Boris Godunov]

OK, this is probably a complete coincidence, but it certainly is eyebrow-raising:

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2011/11/7/2545027/-jerry-sandusky-ray-gricar-prosecutor-1998-penn-state-missing

Ray Gricar Opted Not To Prosecute Sandusky In 1998, Went Missing In 2005

Nov073:40p

by Sean Keeley
Centre County prosecutor Ray Gricar decided not to prosecute then-Penn St. Nittany Lions DC Jerry Sandusky in 1998 after charges of child molestation were made. He never fully explained his decision.


Seven years later, then-district attorney Gricar went missing. His car was found abandoned in a parking lot and his laptop was found in the Susquehanna River, damaged beyond repair. He was declared dead this past July after a fruitless search never turned up his body.
Now, it is very early in the prosecution of Sandusky and it might be a bit of a leap to assume all of this is connected. The one thing that is true, however, is that Gricar's reasons for choosing not to prosecute will almost never be known.
That's not to say Gricar didn't try to find out everything he could about Sandusky. Gricar was said to have led the investigation into the coach himself and even had a police officer hide in the house of an alleged victim while the mother confronted Sandusky. That confrontation allegedly led to Sandusky's admission that he showered with a child.
There is no proof as to whether or not Gricar ever heard about the 2002 shower incident years later.
Whether Gricar decided to disappear and likely kill himself over the Sandusky allegations or something completely unrelated, we'll probably know. That said, police revealed that Gricar's home computer had saved searches for "how to wreck a hard drive" and "water damage to a notebook computer," meaning that he clearly wanted to make sure somethingnever saw the light of day.

[Guynemer]

[Guynemer]

My last word (I hope) on the Michigan-Iowa game:

I just learned that's Iowa's star RB, sophomore Marcus Coker, who tore us up for somewhere around 130 yds IIRC, is a goddamned astrophysics major.

I ain't even mad anymore.

[DanS]

The Penn State situation is very sad. If Paterno didn't report to the authorities after knowing some details, he should go post-haste.

[H Tower]

Is it just me, or is everyone overreacting to Paterno's part of this story?

When notified of an incident, he reported it to the Administration and campus police. At the time he didn't know about the other alleged incidents. It remains unclear exactly how much information was told to Paterno according to some news sources. Was it in bad taste to allow Sandusky to maintain privileges at the team facility? Absolutely.

[Guynemer]

It was a complete moral failing, on every level. Sandusky was still using school facilities as of a week ago. Campus police is a ****ing joke.

[H Tower]

It was a complete moral failing, on every level. Sandusky was still using school facilities as of a week ago. Campus police is a ****ing joke.

I'm not going to defend the campus police. But I'm not going to fault Paterno for notifying the authorities and then not performing his own investigation. He's a football coach, not a cop.

[Guynemer]

You are a VP in a big company.

An underling comes to you and says that he saw one of your chief lieutenants ****ing a ten-year-old boy.

You tell the CEO. You hear nothing else about it, and the accused continues as if nothing has happened.


You do nothing else? Seriously?

[rah]

In all fairness, EX chief Lieutenant
but to me that might make it a little different but not enough to just sit there and not follow up on it. Especially after whatever happened that he resigned in the first place. Sorry "realizing that I would never be his successor" just isn't doing it for me. And if there was something funky going on back then and Paterno know about it, I would consider his later actions criminal.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It was a complete moral failing on Paterno's part. You can't just wish child molestation goes away.

Also Penn State likes to hold itself up as a more than just, well, an Ohio State.