Tag: Paterno

  • No excuses for Paterno: legacy forever ruined

    This morning, the highly anticpated Freeh Report was released pertaining to Penn State University’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. For people who have followed this story, the findings were about as bad as they could have been. They were also not very surprising.

  • Death of Paterno; why it seemed like fate

    There was always a sense of fatalism. Not that he would one day die, that’s an inevitably we all face. But for the serious fan of college football, I think that there was a thought that he was never really meant to live apart from the game. Even before the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke, I…

  • Rant – Penn State needs to stop criticizing and start supporting new coach

    As Penn State has searched for a successor for interim head football coach Tom Bradley, they faced an uphill battle from the beginning. The program is marred in one of the biggest scandals in the history of sports and the new coach was going to have the unappealing task of replacing the winningest coach in…