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We now take you (one again) to State College, Pennsylvania.

My opinion is that the NCAA should have never even touched the Sandusky case. That should have been handled exclusively by the Penn. Atty. Gen. and the district attorney. If there was any kind of cover-up involving the administration, it should have been handled as a criminal manner. The NCAA governs conduct of athletes, coaches, and institutions as related to fairness of competition. The Sandusky case goes beyond what the NCAA is designed and capable of handling. What happened did not directly affect any student athlete or the fairness of competition. It did directly involve the institution and coaching staff, but the crimes were not related to their duties as coaches as covered by NCAA rules.

The Baylor case is also a bit of a stretch, but because it involves current student athletes, there is a lot more impact on competition. Colluding with local law enforcement to cover up crimes by athletes in order to maintain their competition eligibility is a bit more under the NCAA umbrella. Still the Baylor case should be investigated by the State of Texas as a criminal matter. Could also be investigated by the Feds as a Title IX case.

The NCAA does more harm to itself when it fails to be consistent in its enforcement and when it seeks to go beyond the scope of what it was intended for. The actions they took in the PSU case provide evidence for future lawsuits that the NCAA does not follow its own guidelines and selectively punishes schools based on public opinion and perception and not based on any evidence of violations of its by-laws.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...1976-per-testimony-in-newly-unsealed-records/

Damn.

“Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, ‘I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?'” the man’s lawyer asked.

“Specifically. Yes … I was shocked, disappointed, offended. I was insulted… I said, is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?”

Paterno, the man testified, just walked away.
 
So much for bringing the JoePa statue out of storage.

Anyone who wants the Paterno statue back up . . . please, just stop.

To claim that Joe Paterno can't rebut any of these decades-old allegations, with more just unsealed Tuesday, is true and so obviously beside the point. The allegations create dark questions, and those dark questions will never go away.

Stand with Paterno if you must, but understand you're now standing against a man who claimed he went to Penn State's head coach at a Penn State football camp in 1976, stating in a 2014 deposition - yes, almost four decades later - that he told Paterno as a 14-year-old how Jerry Sandusky, a member of Paterno's staff, had inserted his finger into the teenager's anus. Yes, that teenager is a John Doe, but he exists.
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To the former football players who recently organized trying to get the statue back up, your bedrock belief in Joe Paterno won't make allegations against him disappear. You know this, of course. The unsealed testimony doesn't just indict Paterno. There was a 2015 deposition in which former assistant Mike McQueary testified that two more former Penn State assistants, Tom Bradley and Greg Schiano, seemed to claim some knowledge of Sandusky doing improper things, although the details aren't clear.

This is tough stuff for these men - good luck refuting allegations that don't have all the specifics attached. Just the simple act of having their name in the testimony is enough to remind everyone why Penn State needed to hire someone completely from the outside to replace Paterno, and why that still needs to be.
 
My opinion is that the NCAA should have never even touched the Sandusky case. That should have been handled exclusively by the Penn. Atty. Gen. and the district attorney. If there was any kind of cover-up involving the administration, it should have been handled as a criminal manner. The NCAA governs conduct of athletes, coaches, and institutions as related to fairness of competition. The Sandusky case goes beyond what the NCAA is designed and capable of handling. What happened did not directly affect any student athlete or the fairness of competition. It did directly involve the institution and coaching staff, but the crimes were not related to their duties as coaches as covered by NCAA rules.

The Baylor case is also a bit of a stretch, but because it involves current student athletes, there is a lot more impact on competition. Colluding with local law enforcement to cover up crimes by athletes in order to maintain their competition eligibility is a bit more under the NCAA umbrella. Still the Baylor case should be investigated by the State of Texas as a criminal matter. Could also be investigated by the Feds as a Title IX case.

The NCAA does more harm to itself when it fails to be consistent in its enforcement and when it seeks to go beyond the scope of what it was intended for. The actions they took in the PSU case provide evidence for future lawsuits that the NCAA does not follow its own guidelines and selectively punishes schools based on public opinion and perception and not based on any evidence of violations of its by-laws.

Why would you think elected Pennsylvania officials would be any better? look at how often the cops give passes to athletes after they are accused. the best has to be the picture of Big Ben R, after he was accused of sexual assault, doing a group pose with his arms around the "investigating" officers. We have a 2-tiered (at least) justice system. the rich and famous have one, the rest get the rest. How about Michael Jackson having a treasure trove of illegal kiddy porn and the cops ignoring it (and what he did at his ranch)?

The interesting thing about this is, if you bend justice to help those you like, it is that much easier to bend it in order to hurt those you don't. Is that part of why black people get screwed so often by law enforcement?
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...1976-per-testimony-in-newly-unsealed-records/

Damn.

“Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, ‘I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?'” the man’s lawyer asked.

“Specifically. Yes … I was shocked, disappointed, offended. I was insulted… I said, is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?”

Paterno, the man testified, just walked away.

It wasn't his job to worry about one of his employees molesting children on company property?

There's really nothing to say to that. It stands on its own. No one with any sense will defend or support. I'm simply dumbfounded that anyone can be that single-minded that anything outside of it, no matter what that "it" might be, is a distraction he can't clutter his mind with.
 
The thing that keeps getting mixed here is that Paterno was an employee of a publicly funded educational institution. I don't know what the laws of Pennsylvania say about it but in many states that makes him a mandatory reporter.

Regardless of the law morally he had no choice but to report. Those of us in education have no higher responsibility than the safety of kids, and not just our students or our players but all kids. If I had reason to believe that someone at my school, at my church, at my grocery store, or anywhere else was abusing I am on the phone to the appropriate authorities. If it turns out I was wrong I apologize but I don't ever want to be wrong in not reporting.

The simple fact is that Paterno chose to place the public image of his football program above the safety of children. That is inexcusable. The fact is also that the administrators at Penn State when the issue came up instead of doing the right thing deferred to their football coach.

The NCAA is an organization made up of educational institutions. They state in their promotional materials and have publicly stated many times that they are about protecting the student-athlete. Again as an educational organization they should be about protecting any student who comes in contact with an intercollegiate athletic program and since Sandusky was actively and with their consent using his connections to Penn State football to promote his camps and charity and have contact with kids it became NCAA business.

If the NCAA doesn't want to make it their business then I am simply waiting for somebody in congress to use the issue as their personal issue and impose federal control over intercollegiate athletics in a way that is much more intrusive than Title IX has ever been.

Between Pedo State and Florida State and Miami and Baylor and others I'm not sure that this isn't what is going to eventually have to happen to protect the safety of persons on and around those campuses. I have two daughters who have college intentions, why should they face a higher than necessary risk of becoming victims just so an athletic program can win some games. I have a young and very trusting son. If he goes to a sports camp on a college campus why should I have to worry about the school facilitating something that could scar him for life?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...1976-per-testimony-in-newly-unsealed-records/

Damn.

“Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, ‘I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?'” the man’s lawyer asked.

“Specifically. Yes … I was shocked, disappointed, offended. I was insulted… I said, is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?”

Paterno, the man testified, just walked away.

This article makes it even clearer that there was widespread knowledge of what Sandusky was doing and that Penn State allowed it to keep happening. Disgusting and scary to think that they allowed winning football games to be more important.
 
My opinion is that the NCAA should have never even touched the Sandusky case. That should have been handled exclusively by the Penn. Atty. Gen. and the district attorney. If there was any kind of cover-up involving the administration, it should have been handled as a criminal manner.

Why would you think elected Pennsylvania officials would be any better? look at how often the cops give passes to athletes after they are accused.

Well ... here's what happened when local law enforcement, including the DA at the time, were first confronted with public allegations of the abuse.

A part-time job when he was first elected, Gricar successfully campaigned to make the Centre County DA job a full-time one in 1996.[4][5] He was re-elected as DA in 1989, 1993, 1997 and 2001.[4] During his tenure as DA, Gricar prosecuted the perpetrator of the 1996 Hetzel Union Building shooting at Penn State.[5][6] In 1998, Gricar declined to press charges against longtime Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky following allegations of sexual abuse.[7] In 1999 Gricar appeared on episode five of season two of the Discovery Channel show The FBI Files. Thirteen years later, in 2011, Sandusky was arrested and charged by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office on multiple counts of child sexual abuse. In 2004, Gricar announced he would not run for re-election and would retire from both the DA job and as a practicing attorney in December 2005, shortly after his 60th birthday.[4][5]


And then something really weird happened:

Gricar was reported missing to authorities after failing to return home from a road trip. His car was found in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, with his cell phone inside, and his laptop computer was found in the adjacent Susquehanna River; other than that, no trace of Gricar has been found. When he had been missing for over six years with no trace of his whereabouts, Centre County authorities declared Gricar legally dead on July 25, 2011.

While I agree with Aero that the NCAA overstepped its jurisdiction in this matter, I would have no confidence in local authorities or the PA AG handling the case(s). Almost all had close ties to Pedo State, and could hardly be objective. This should have been a federal case to begin with (if the jurisdictional barriers could be traversed) ... or at the very least a special prosecutor with no ties to the university should have been appointed.
 
Penn State to formally honor Joe Paterno on Sept. 17

Wow. Just wow.

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.
 
This one is hard to believe especially after the reports that came out from testimony this last year. He knew and looked the other way and was a scumbag sucking piece of ****. Cannot believe they would honor this piece of garbage.
 
I used to like and respect Penn State. Now I hope they do nothing but lose to whoever they play ... even ND and Texass if and when they get to play them. And I really really hate ND and UT.
 
I used to like and respect Penn State. Now I hope they do nothing but lose to whoever they play ... even ND and Texass if and when they get to play them. And I really really hate ND and UT.
I used to respect them, but never liked them. I still think they normally got a higher ranking than they were due.
 
Will charges against the Pedo State administrators who willfully ignored the Sandusky allegations be dismissed? Could be.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The new judge overseeing the long-delayed criminal proceedings against three former high-ranking Penn State administrators heard arguments Thursday about whether the remaining charges should be thrown out.

The hearing in Harrisburg before Judge John Boccabella could be the prelude to trial or lead to the dismissal of charges in the case that began almost five years ago. Boccabella didn't indicate when he will rule but did drop a perjury charge against former athletic director Tim Curley.

All three defendants were in court: Curley, who is now retired; the school's former president Graham Spanier, still a faculty member; and former vice president Gary Schultz, retired.

They are accused of not responding properly to a 2001 complaint by an assistant coach that Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing a boy in a team shower and also are accused of putting children in danger.
 
Penn State has a potential 4 losses left on their schedule which could leave them with a 6-6 record. I certainly hope we don't get paired with that.
 
Penn State has a potential 4 losses left on their schedule which could leave them with a 6-6 record. I certainly hope we don't get paired with that.
The Big 10 has weird bowl contracts that say 5 different teams have to be invited to your bowl game every 6 years (except, obviously, the Rose Bowl) inevitably leads to teams playing in games both above and below what their records would indicate.
 
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