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Surreal scene at Penn State
It was a surreal scene at Penn State Thursday as Tom Bradley was introduced as the interim head coach of the football team, replacing Joe Paterno, who was fired Wednesday night.
The Inquirer's Joe Juliano was there and provides the latest from State College.
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I have watched Penn State football for many years. For the past several when the camera would zoom to Joe, the blank look on his face made me wonder if he knew where he was and what he was doing. The tragic events now make me believe that the answer was no he didn't.— r2d2u2- I suspect Paterno knew what he was doing, narcissistic enough to safeguard his position as tzar of Penn State and keep the revenue rolling in by not reporting such egregious abuses.
Hope that there are places reserved in hell for all of them.— BraTony - Gee I wonder if the media, including the sanctimonious philly press, even thinks about the cause of the riots. Can't suppose the media fanned these flames can we. What a joke. How many of you sanctimonious writers have thought about donating money for treatment of child abuse victims and prevention. Oh that's right that would actually be doing something besides sending out sensationalistic messages.— retzlaff
- If the game goes on on Saturday you can be sure it won't be pretty.— farhorizons
- They will play Saturday but they should wear alternate jerseys. Maybe black or grey jerseys. If people are going to cheer, cheer the innocent student athlete in his last home game, do not cheer the program or university. I know that is hard to do but a uni change might help.— Nicknm
- The media didn't cause the riots at PSU. Ignorance caused the riots. The ignorance of students who think that when their opinon is not acccepted, they have a right to destroy property of others and cause violence. They embarassed themselves with their blindness. Joe Paterno, however, was not blind. Joe KNEW. That is why Sandusky was forced to resign in '99 and why Joe told him to keep the boys off campus so PSU was implicated for being complicit. JOE KNEW— StevenG
- What is worse, is Bob Ford's pontificating that the game shouldn't be played. That is media grandstanding of the worst kind. You want the game cancelled, Bob? Hell, let's just cancel every football game all across the country. Why not just cancel all college sports forever? That good enough for you, you arrogant jerk? Look, as much as I think PSU has stuck its head in the sand, they are trying to get their house in order. The world must not stop just for you to get your jollies.— MidStaterUXB
- Nothing has changed at Penn State. They are still allowing the coward who didn't stop the rape to be a coach this weekend which shows they are clueless. Penn State is spitting in the face of every child that was raped by doing these kinds of things over and over. This says to the kids that the football program is more important than them. If they let this coward coach I would be in favor of shutting down the whole Penn State football program forever. He should have knocked that guy down and allowed the kid to run away.— RussOCNJ
- Russ-the kid will not be coaching this weekend.
just spoke to a friend of mine who lives up there. once again the media sensationalizes. there were over 5000 kids out there and less than 100 "rioted" you know just because one dog pees on the street doesn't make all dogs bad. just as the media overhyped JoePa and conferred sainthood on him is how they are doing their best to destroy him.he has never ever badmouthed anyone or any school. often times he would praise schools that he knwew they were going to clobber. he would often times play 3rd and 4th stringers when the score got out of hand. this is a man of great integrity who made a bad decesion by standing up for his friend. we all know now what a huge mistake this was and he'll will pay for this for however long he lives. and i believe this will shorten his life. all you vultures can be happy when JoePa dies a few months from now.— benny1 - The Board of Trustees did the right thing. They had to fire Paterno and all the other administrators who did not notify police. Raping children is a serious violent crime. Penn State fans should be proud that the University took action under these horrible circumstances. Just move on— damnels
- To all the "hard nosed" journalists who ignored Joe's half century of good deeds and donating his own money to build the university, please...stop with the sensationalism and blind "Joe Must Go" rhetoric. Here is an old man who admittedly made a mistake. Could he be left with a shred of dignity, and be left to coach the last 3 games of his final career? The answer is no, because constant media pressure caused the $$ minded Board of Trustees to buckle under and fire Joe OVER THE PHONE. Shame on them, and shame on the media who screamed for the lynching of a decent man in the name of ratings.— combine
- I moved here in the mid-80s. They were talking about Joe Pa retiring then. In hindsight, he might wish he had.— Nathan Barry
- I moved here in the mid-80s. They were talking about Joe Pa retiring then. In hindsight, he might wish he had.— Nathan Barry
- joe dimaggio, childhood idol, played baseball during bwwii, joe pa
didnt do enuff, folk heroes shot down— jrsbarfarm - That Paterno guy looks like a Mafia don, shrunken and gone to seed. He also sounds like a autocrat who ran things at this university, so I don't buy his passivity re: not pursuing the sexual abuse claim. It was all about keeping his perch at the top of the power hierarchy at Penn State and keeping the revenue coming in. I think a lot of universities may want to invoke more oversight, in general.
And shame on every person, ALL MALE, who set the groundwork by their inaction for Sandunksky to have a context in which to roam and prey. Shame on everyone in power at Penn State and some of the misguided alumni who think that the powers-that-be did nothing wrong. You'd be singing a different tune were it your 7, 8, 9, 10 year old son.
Sign me,
Glad to be a Stanford alum— BraTony
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Joe Juliano has been a staff writer for The Inquirer for 20 years, covering college sports, golf and the Penn Relays.
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
Joe Juliano
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
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