The Paterno Family Report, The Freeh Report and OUR Opinion Here at Coaches Hot Seat on Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno and the “Leadership” at Penn State Has Not Changed On Iota In the Last 16 Months – A Penn State Opinion On Joe Paterno and A TRUTH About the Greatest Head Football Coaches In the History of Football In America…..They Were or Are ALL Very….
There has been a lot written in the last couple of days about the Paternos’ report which was released on Sunday and which was a response to the Freeh report…..
Dueling Penn State reports forge degrading tie in court of public opinion, Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports
Paterno report will only make true Joe believers feel better, Gregg Doyel, CBS Sports
….but after reading the Freeh report and the Paternos report our opinion on the “leadership” at Penn State University and Joe Paterno has not changed one iota:
The Coaches Hot Seat opinion on the former “leadership” at Penn State is the same as it was in November 2011…
….and that opinion is that former Penn State University president Graham Spanier is one of the Sorriest Human Beings to ever draw a breath of air in the history of the American Republic and the rest of the “leadership” at Penn State were a combination of Idiots, Morons, Fools and Very Sorry Damn People and that goes for most of the Penn State Trustees as well which in our opinion allowed Spanier and Paterno to walk all over them for years.
The Coaches Hot Seat opinion on Joe Paterno is very muddled as we have written on in the past…
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…BUT there is no doubt in our minds that if Joe Paterno did not know about the EVIL actions of Jerry Sandusky then he SHOULD HAVE KNOWN about the EVIL actions of Jerry Sandusky because from reading many news stories and reports in the last couple of years about Sandusky’s activities it is our opinion here at Coaches Hot Seat that dozens if not hundreds of people around State College, Pennsylvania knew about or suspected Jerry Sandusky and ALL of those people did NOTHING to stop Jerry Sandusky who was given a free hand to do his EVIL actions for years right under the noses of hundreds of people in and around Penn State University.
The Bottom-Line on Joe Paterno for us here at Coaches Hot Seat is that we still admire the man for his incredible accomplishments during his life both on and off the football field but we are very troubled about his actions or rather non-action around the entire Jerry Sandusky disaster that has caused a lot of self-inflicted damage to Penn State University and the Penn State football program and more importantly to the dozens of innocent and young victims of Jerry Sandusky.
We happen to have a very good friend that played football at Penn State for Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky about three decades ago and after the death of Joe Paterno and the Freeh report came out we asked him his opinion on Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky and his response to that inquiry was (which is his opinion):
“I have no comment about Jerry Sandusky, but Joe Paterno was one of the best men I have come into contact with in my life.”
Coaches Hot Seat: “Any idea if Paterno would have covered up for or not fully reported things about Jerry Sandusky in order to hold onto power and his job as the head coach Penn State?”
Penn State Friend: “I can’t imagine it…..but Coach Paterno was one of the smartest men I ever knew and you can take that for what it’s worth.”
The above is something that a lot of people forget about Joe Paterno…
Joe Paterno was Very Damn Smart.
Joe Paterno was a 1949 graduate of Brown University
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Like ALL of the greatest college and NFL coaches in the history of football in America….Bryant, Lombardi, Walsh, Brown, Bowden, Osborne, Royal, Johnson, Parcells, Noll, Landry, McKay, Wilkinson, Halas, Shula, Spurrier, Saban, Meyer, Belichick, Hayes, Schembechler, etc….
Joe Paterno was Very Damn Smart.
Take that for what it’s worth and on that point if you have a MORON as your head football coach then you….
Have the Wrong Head Football Coach!
The last comment above was for Rhodes Scholar and USC AD Pat Haden!
