Paterno family: Sanctions over Sandusky "defame legacy"

[RandySF]

(CBS/AP) INDIANAPOLIS - The family of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno says the NCAA's sanctions defame his legacy and are a panicked response to the scandal that led to them.

The statement was released Monday by Paterno's family. It says President Rodney Erickson, acting Athletic Director David Joyner and the entire Board of Trustees failed by not seeking a full hearing before the NCAA's infractions committee.

The family also says that punishing "past, present and future" students because of former assistant Jerry Sandusky's crimes did not serve justice.

The NCAA imposed a harsh set of sanctions on Penn State Monday, less than two weeks after an independent investigation found that football coach Joe Paterno and other senior school leaders failed to stop former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky from sexually abusing children on campus.

NCAA President Mark Emmert announced that the association was banning the football team from all post-season play and bowl games for four years, reducing the program's number of scholarships from 25 to 15 per year for four years, and fining the program $60 million. The association also vacated all of the program's wins between 1998 and 2011.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57478163/paterno-family-sanctions-over-sandusky-defame-legacy/

[yellerpup]

1. He defamed himself

when he made his career more important than the lives of little boys. He deserves NO respect.

[teddy51]

9. Agree, he removed his own statue as far as I am concerned. The University is lucky

with the punishment.

[Scuba]

15. He failed the only test that mattered.

[hifiguy]

37. +1.

Time for the Paterno family to STFU.

[petronius]

2. Can he be expelled from the Hall of Fame?

[Meg_Griffin_1]

20. Joe is headed for hell where he belongs. nt

[rfranklin]

3. Hey folks, this is his legacy...

now STFU.

[mzteris]

4. sorry, family.

He defamed his own legacy when he did NOTHING.

Though sometimes I have a sneaking suspicion he did not do "nothing", but maybe something much worse than said out loud.

Who else thinks his "sudden death" was awfully timely to avoid questioning. Granted he had terminal cancer and he was old, but . . . something about the timing just makes me a tad suspicious, ya know?

[Iggo]

5. Nice try, Paternos.

These sanctions are about what Joe Paterno did (cover for a kid-fucker) and what Joe Paterno didn't do (call the police).

Keep swingin'...

[Skittles]

6. with all due respect Paterno Family - FUCK OFF

you STILL care more about football than about the welfare of CHILDREN. GO AWAY.

[cliffordu]

7. Every child raped by that shithead Sandusky

defames his legacy.

Check that. It IS his legacy.

[randome]

8. Defaming his legacy was kinda the point.

Get over yourselves and live the rest of your lives in shame.

[tularetom]

10. Earth to Paterno family

He defamed his own legacy when he sat there in silence and let his good buddy rape kids. That's what he did ya know. He raped kids. Kids! And Joe Pa knew it and did nothing. He doesn't deserve a legacy.

And I can't see where this decision punishes any student. past present or future.

These people need to shut the fuck up right now. Before somebody gets pissed enough to make the sanctions as severe as they really should have been.

[RiffRandell]

11. Once again the family shows their true colors.

They need to STFU and go away. It's Joe Paterno's fault his legacy is defamed.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. And here I thought covering up all that kid fucking already did that. But what do I know. nt

[maddezmom]

13. The Paterno family needs to get real

and deal with the fact their dad was part and parcel of the whole thing.

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. That family really needs to stop talking.

As shot as Paterno's legacy is, they are somehow making it worse every time they make these misguided, pompous "statements," which they do about every day.

[nashville_brook]

16. what did they expect...to get off with a warning?

the sanctions don't defame your "legacy," you did that when you enabled the rape of little boys.

[seabeyond]

17. across the nation, people will learn, do NOT keep your fuckin mouth shut, when a child

is being raped.

isnt it really fuckin sad, we all need that lesson?

too harsh? not even

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. The Paterno family think they're more entitled than the Romneys do

and that's saying something.

[fishwax]

19. Paterno's actions (and inaction) defame his legacy

[SDjack]

21. The Paternos thought that yielding 2 points and having to punt would be enough. n/t

[Posteritatis]

22. I'm quite liking Olbermann's response to that. (nt)

[obamanut2012]

23. Loathe them so much

They need to STFU.

[HooptieWagon]

24. The Paterno family is just upset the gravy train has stopped.

They need to STFU. The sanctions are not because of Sandusky. The sanctions are because of what wasn't done ABOUT Sandusky. Paterno is the central figure in that lack of leadership.

[Texasgal]

25. I think it's sad that the students

will have to pay in the way of fines and sanctions because of people like Paterno!

Fuck the Paterno family! He should have done the right thing. His legacy is TRASH now.

[DirkGently]

26. I'm sympathetic to the athletes whose wins were stripped.

They weren't part of any coverup. Paterno was. Losing his "legacy" for putting football over human decency is a fact flowing from his decisions, not something the NCAA did.

[HooptieWagon]

27. I'd guess most of them understand the situation...

and in the long run, the memories will outweigh the W-L records.

[Posteritatis]

28. Plus their individual records still stand. (nt)

[eShirl]

29. Maybe he should have thought of that before protecting a child rapist.

[Odin2005]

30. These fuckers have no shame.

[madrchsod]

31. cry me a river....here`s the coach with the most wins....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Robinson_(American_football_coach)


http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/07/23/grambling-weighs-in-on-robinson-paterno/


he deserves it more than you joe .....

[rocktivity]

32. I wonder how Joe himself would be reacting to his legacy being erased

had he lived.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/120416776


rocktivity

[shanti]

33. boo hoo

defaming paterno's legacy is exactly what should happen!

[gollygee]

34. This is a part of his legacy

He did it. It can't be erased because of other parts of his legacy.

[KurtNYC]

35. If Paterno would have turned Sandusky over to authorities years ago

he would have saved their beloved football program.

He didn't.

[joeybee12]

36. They should be thankful they don't dig Joe up and charge him

with perjury, obstruction of justice, and a few other things. Shut up you teabagging fools.

[Initech]

38. He looked the other way on a serial child predator. Fuck him and his "legacy".

His "legacy" will now forever be remembered as he looked the other while a sick fucking asshole raped boys in his office and the locker room and all they were concerned about was a winning football program.