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(CBS/AP) INDIANAPOLIS - The family of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno says the NCAA's sanctions defame his legacy and are a panicked response to the scandal that led to them.
The statement was released Monday by Paterno's family. It says 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.
The family also says that punishing "past, present and future" students because of former assistant Jerry Sandusky's crimes did not serve justice.
The NCAA imposed a harsh set of sanctions on Penn State Monday, less than two weeks after an independent investigation found that football coach Joe Paterno and other senior school leaders failed to stop former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky from sexually abusing children on campus.
NCAA President Mark Emmert announced that the association was banning the football team from all post-season play and bowl games for four years, reducing the program's number of scholarships from 25 to 15 per year for four years, and fining the program $60 million. The association also vacated all of the program's wins between 1998 and 2011.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57478163/paterno-family-sanctions-over-sandusky-defame-legacy/
yellerpup
(12,262 posts)when he made his career more important than the lives of little boys. He deserves NO respect.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)with the punishment.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Time for the Paterno family to STFU.
petronius
(26,653 posts)Meg_Griffin_1
(49 posts)rfranklin
(13,200 posts)now STFU.
mzteris
(16,232 posts)He defamed his own legacy when he did NOTHING.
Though sometimes I have a sneaking suspicion he did not do "nothing", but maybe something much worse than said out loud.
Who else thinks his "sudden death" was awfully timely to avoid questioning. Granted he had terminal cancer and he was old, but . . . something about the timing just makes me a tad suspicious, ya know?
Iggo
(48,190 posts)These sanctions are about what Joe Paterno did (cover for a kid-fucker) and what Joe Paterno didn't do (call the police).
Keep swingin'...
Skittles
(157,695 posts)you STILL care more about football than about the welfare of CHILDREN. GO AWAY.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)defames his legacy.
Check that. It IS his legacy.
randome
(34,845 posts)Get over yourselves and live the rest of your lives in shame.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)He defamed his own legacy when he sat there in silence and let his good buddy rape kids. That's what he did ya know. He raped kids. Kids! And Joe Pa knew it and did nothing. He doesn't deserve a legacy.
And I can't see where this decision punishes any student. past present or future.
These people need to shut the fuck up right now. Before somebody gets pissed enough to make the sanctions as severe as they really should have been.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)They need to STFU and go away. It's Joe Paterno's fault his legacy is defamed.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,746 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)and deal with the fact their dad was part and parcel of the whole thing.
EastTennesseeDem
(2,675 posts)As shot as Paterno's legacy is, they are somehow making it worse every time they make these misguided, pompous "statements," which they do about every day.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)the sanctions don't defame your "legacy," you did that when you enabled the rape of little boys.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)is being raped.
isnt it really fuckin sad, we all need that lesson?
too harsh? not even
muriel_volestrangler
(102,283 posts)and that's saying something.
fishwax
(29,299 posts)SDjack
(1,448 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)obamanut2012
(27,698 posts)They need to STFU.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)They need to STFU. The sanctions are not because of Sandusky. The sanctions are because of what wasn't done ABOUT Sandusky. Paterno is the central figure in that lack of leadership.
Texasgal
(17,138 posts)will have to pay in the way of fines and sanctions because of people like Paterno!
Fuck the Paterno family! He should have done the right thing. His legacy is TRASH now.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)They weren't part of any coverup. Paterno was. Losing his "legacy" for putting football over human decency is a fact flowing from his decisions, not something the NCAA did.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)and in the long run, the memories will outweigh the W-L records.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)eShirl
(18,722 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Robinson_(American_football_coach)
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/07/23/grambling-weighs-in-on-robinson-paterno/
he deserves it more than you joe .....
rocktivity
(44,813 posts)had he lived.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/120416776
rocktivity
shanti
(21,706 posts)defaming paterno's legacy is exactly what should happen!
gollygee
(22,336 posts)He did it. It can't be erased because of other parts of his legacy.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)he would have saved their beloved football program.
He didn't.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)with perjury, obstruction of justice, and a few other things. Shut up you teabagging fools.
Initech
(101,471 posts)His "legacy" will now forever be remembered as he looked the other while a sick fucking asshole raped boys in his office and the locker room and all they were concerned about was a winning football program.