Flags Lowered to Half-Staff for JoePa
January 23, 2012 at 11:18 am Tina Hay 6 comments
Say what you will about Gov. Corbett and whatever role he may or may not have played in the Sandusky scandal, but this is a very nice touch.
Tina Hay, editor
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1. commonsenz11 | January 23, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Too bad Corbett didn’t do more while Joe was alive… like telling the BOT that it was be a mistake to fire someone that was not charged by the Grand Jury. THAT would have meant more. Hopefully, you read the interview with Trustees Dambly and Myers in Friday’s CDT — the hypocrisy is staggering — they admit to being told by PSU Counsel Baldwin last May about the Grand Jury Investigation with Sandusky — and yet the Board allowed Sandusky free reign to the campus. Why didn’t the BOT take a step then? “Failure to lead” indeed. — and then Dambly expressed indignation the way Paterno announced his retirement: in a press conference without first consulting with the Board. Yet Dambly put himself in the group that thinks Paterno should have *independently* contacted someone outside the University when McQueary came to hm with information, rather than just reporting the incident to his superiors.
Talk about inconsistency in Dambly’s thinking. I’m signing up with Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship as of today and hoping for the best. Sorry for the rant here, but this flag thing rings hollow with me — as well as any future events where Paterno is honored… and Corbett and the Board are in attendance.. They had the chance to do the right thing on Nov 9th, and they blew it.
RJ Maher – State College
2. griz | January 23, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Agreed. Not to mention that they were making decisions about a man who was 85 years old and had dedicated his entire life to our university. Too little, way too late!
3. Garnet Nye, '71 | January 23, 2012 at 12:35 pm
JoePa’s passing is a great loss. He will be sorely missed. In Deepest Sympathy, GCNye, Jr., ’71
4. Diana '62 | January 23, 2012 at 1:02 pm
It’s a nice POLITICAL touch! Didn’t come from the heart…..
5. George W. Doherty | January 23, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Joe Paterno made Penn State a better place for all. He was not just a coach. He was also and educator and led by example. How many of us can realistically say that we have done the same? None of us are perfect. Let him/her without sin or mistake throw the first stone!
George W. Doherty, ’64
6. Bob Mooney | January 25, 2012 at 3:11 am
I disagree. Joe Paterno had an opportunity to save this university… and his own legacy… the horrible turn of events that November 2011 brought down on us all. He merely had to exert the considerable force of will he chose to exert on innumerable occasions in the 45 years he was head coach of our football team.
He badly misjudged the situation that Mike McQueary informed him of. And 9 years later it came back to bite us all in the rear end.
As Stephen Wisniewski so eloquently put it at the vigil on Sunday night, no one make all the right calls and all of us make wrong calls.
Joe Paterno made a wrong call in 2002, and it was a beauty.
And when it hit the fan in early November, 2011; he needed to recognize the gravity of that error and resign… effective immediately.
He didn’t recognize the gravity fo the situation…. even then.
The Board of Trustees had no choice but to remove him.
Joe Paterno has been a hero of mine since I was a middle school kid in 1968. He still is. But he screwed up badly in 2002, and there are consequences in life when you screw up badly.
And Joe Paterno would be the first to acknowledge that.