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afc wimbledon · 11-10-2011, 01:45 PM

Just so we are clear, the chances Sandusky didn't molest college kids trying to make the team back in the day are pretty well slim to none as well, I would expect as the whole sordid story comes out we will find it overlapped with the football program completely.

It is also impossible to see how Sandusky 'retired' the year after he is caught and admits to innapropriate behaviour with young boys, this is a guy that turned down head coaching jobs in order to replace Paterno, and yet somehow the rest of the administration and coaching staff weren't aware of the problem. You have to assume pretty well everyone was aware of this and yet turned a blind eye to a peadophile's continued involvement with vunerable children. You also cannot draw any other conclusion to the authorities holding off on an arrest in a case they had been investigating for years until Joe got his winning record, which, in and of itself, should get the program closed.

I think the revulsion and disgust will effectively kill the football program no matter what the college does, fair or not, I just suspect over the next week or so the trustees will realize the program is screwed anyway and so they might as well try and turn it into a chance to distance the school from it.

11-10-2011, 01:45 PM	#163
afc wimbledon Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: east van Exp:	Just so we are clear, the chances Sandusky didn't molest college kids trying to make the team back in the day are pretty well slim to none as well, I would expect as the whole sordid story comes out we will find it overlapped with the football program completely. It is also impossible to see how Sandusky 'retired' the year after he is caught and admits to innapropriate behaviour with young boys, this is a guy that turned down head coaching jobs in order to replace Paterno, and yet somehow the rest of the administration and coaching staff weren't aware of the problem. You have to assume pretty well everyone was aware of this and yet turned a blind eye to a peadophile's continued involvement with vunerable children. You also cannot draw any other conclusion to the authorities holding off on an arrest in a case they had been investigating for years until Joe got his winning record, which, in and of itself, should get the program closed. I think the revulsion and disgust will effectively kill the football program no matter what the college does, fair or not, I just suspect over the next week or so the trustees will realize the program is screwed anyway and so they might as well try and turn it into a chance to distance the school from it. Last edited by afc wimbledon; 11-10-2011 at 01:54 PM.