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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
It is rather difficult to fathom how one could think that the football program covering up the child rape orchestrated by a football coach is a non-football related scandal.
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Who else in the football program aside from Paterno knew about the cover-up? It was a Penn St. cover-up - not a football program cover-up. Pretty big difference there. A football cover-up basically insinuates that staff, coaches, players, etc. all knew what was happening and all the evidence points that it was just the AD, Paterno, and university high-ups.
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The football program is the heart of Penn State, and the privledged position the football program enjoyed in that school is precisely why Sandusky got away with it for so long. It is this very attitude that enables the abusers. Everything the school did to protect Sandusky at the expense of his victims was done to protect the football program. It is only fitting that that very malevolence is what destroyed Penn State football in the end.
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And, again, what does this achieve? Why does an athletic governing body make a football team lose games make a university cover-up any better? The university and football program have cleaned house of everyone involved and yet the NCAA comes in on it's white-horse and stomps on all the people who had nothing to do with the cover-up.