INDIANAPOLIS — The family of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno said the NCAA’s sanctions defame his legacy and were a panicked response to the scandal that led to them.
The statement was released Monday by Paterno’s family. It said school 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.
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These are the last people that should be saying anything about anything. Granted,Joe Paterno was one of the greatest coaches in NCAA history,but,when he along with others conspired to cover up these atrocities that fame was flushed down the toilet taking his legacy with it.
The Paterno Family needs to pull a General MacArthur - Fade, fade away. Nobody cares what they think anyway.
I agree with the previous two posters. The Paterno clan should just take the obscene amount of money that they have reaped from the Penn State program and walk away. Your party and exalted lifestyle is over. I have no patience for more lies. Hopefully no one in the Paterno family knew what the old man knew, but now it's out. They need to deal with the shame as best they can, but they should just be quiet. Have they no decency? But it's all in the past now, money changes everything.
I basically agree with you, but I can't abide seeing "greatest" in the same sentence as "Paterno".
Wouldn't it have been nice if the Church had taken similar action towards Bernard Law instead of allowing him to hide out at the Vatican? A well deserved raking over the coals for the legacy of the late Joe Pa.