OT: yet more depravity; new Sandusky allegations

Submitted by Hotel Putingrad on October 31st, 2019 at 8:23 PM

It never ends...

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1190032007948099586?s=19

 

goblue234

October 31st, 2019 at 8:33 PM ^

I mean, the guy fucked like 50 little boys. I'm not sure anything new is going to really make people think he's even more of a shithead than they already do.....

ckersh74

October 31st, 2019 at 10:59 PM ^

Well, figure that the school paid an claims alleging...uh..."activity" going back to 1971. He got caught bungholing a kid in the locker room shower in 2002. 31 years, at least that we know of, plus whatever else....500 might be too much, but I suspect that 50 is pretty light, too. 

https://www.si.com/college-football/2016/05/09/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-settlements-abuse-1971

old98blue

October 31st, 2019 at 9:52 PM ^

I can't believe fans continue to support the program. What happened there was institution wide from campus police to the president to the athletic director to the senile head coach to the assistant coaches. I know the NCAA never wants to give the death penalty again after the SMU Scandal but if anyone deserved it that group of asshats did

DJMich23

October 31st, 2019 at 8:37 PM ^

Honestly still can't believe the NCAA "lifted" PSU's sanctions. I knew from then on that if Penn State didn't get the death penalty, no one would. 

Somehow PSU turned it into an "us against the world mentality" and "overcoming adversity" and it actually worked lol pathetic.

Cruzcontrol75

November 1st, 2019 at 12:29 AM ^

An overwhelming majority of the athletes tested between 2004 and 2012 were diagnosed with ADD, LD or ADHD for the first time at Chapel Hill.

When Tatos dug deeper into the UNC documents, he found that not only were the high LD/ADHD rates not an anomaly and not specific to one year but that a high percentage of athletes were also being prescribed ADHD medication. While the total number of UNC football players receiving ADHD medication is unclear, a 2009-2010 end-of-year report showed that 16 of 23 freshman football players (70 percent) were prescribed medication.

Mary Willingham was a learning specialist inside the athletic department between 2003 and 2010, working with the neuropsychologists responsible for LD or ADHD testing at UNC. She says there was pressure from coaches to keep players academically eligible to compete, and that diagnosing football players with a learning disability or ADHD was helpful in those efforts.

https://theathletic.com/1261858/2019/10/08/failure-to-disclose-the-mysterious-absence-of-critical-data-from-uncs-renowned-concussion-research/?source=theleadpodcast

rfinny

November 1st, 2019 at 8:31 AM ^

Holy Shit, I never knew that side of the UNC story. If you extrapolate a little more you could make the supposition that a kid without ADHD, who now has an unneeded source of highly sought after drugs, just got gifted both an academic exemption and a pretty significant new revenue stream.  

WFNY_DP

November 1st, 2019 at 9:10 AM ^

Or that the assistant coach who all the wrestlers claimed not only knew about it but did nothing to stop it is currently a Congressman basically doing the exact same thing* at the governmental level.

 

*[edit] By "exact same thing" I mean he clearly knows all the crimes that have been committed and is waving his hands and denying everything.

Robbie Moore

October 31st, 2019 at 11:13 PM ^

Sympathetic to whom? I'm sure you have sympathy for Sandusky's victims, or Nassar's victims, or the women raped at Baylor or all the victims we don't know about. As for the perps, they are worthy of no sympathy. No forgiveness. No understanding whatsoever.

And I am getting well and fully disgusted that this scum sits in prison being fed and getting medical care. Why?? Let's find a remote and deserted island in the middle a the ocean, drop them off with no supplies or communication and let them fend for themselves.

old98blue

October 31st, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^

One said he doesn't believe JoPa knew anything more than the one time and he reported it what else was he supposed to do. I said for starters how about not allowing the asshole to have an office there even after he retired. All JoPa cared about was that coaching record he hung on at the end sitting in the booth collecting wins when he wasn't even coaching that team. 

saveferris

November 1st, 2019 at 8:19 AM ^

It should surprise nobody because if you're a Penn State fan you can't expunge Paterno from your consciousness, because he is the history of Penn State football.  Without Paterno's legacy, what is PSU?  Nothing.  If a big part of your personal identity is Penn State football and the patron saint of that football legacy turns out to be an unethical, compromising, child-rape enabler; what choice do you have but to bury your head in the sand and pretend that it's not true and that your school is just the victim of a witch hunt.

The Penn State fanbase reaction to his whole thing over past decade is pretty predictable; disgraceful, but predictable.