Penn State Scandal

Penn State Scandal
The first thing that I want to say about this whole debacle is that I feel terrible for the victims. These are not even teenage boys who were taken advantage of by a sick, disgusting man. The riots and everything that has been going on is all about JoePa and it seems that a lot of people have forgotten about these kids who are the true victims of this whole thing.
Now our school has been all over every single news station including ESPN since Saturday or Sunday, I don’t even remember when the news broke. My opinion of the whole thing is as follows: Spanier is a piece of poop and JoePa was unnecessarily forced out. Spanier was the one who called the New York Times in the first place so that they could be notified of the possible exit of JoePa. Spanier was trying to use JoePa as a scapegoat and svae his own ass. He definitely needed to go because he is the President and when he was informed, it’s his job to call the police and get an investigation going. Now, according to the rules, JoePa did what he was supposed to do. He notified the AD and that’s it. According to the rules, he didn’t do anything wrong. My problem and everyone else’s problem is that he didn’t follow through. Morally as a human being, when you find out about something so terrible as this, you have to go to the police or something. Simply telling your superior and leaving it is pretty f*cked up. I mean, I heard an argument on the radio today that if someone told you your best friend was doing something terrible, you wouldn’t believe it right away. That’s true, and JoePa and Santouchsky were really close friends. So it’s understandable that he didn’t want to rat out his good friend immediately. One scenario that I can think of is JoePa going to the dude and asking what happened, finding out the truth and covering his back. That’s really messed up. Hopefully that isn’t what happened though.
As for McQueary, he really needs to grow a pair. I’m sorry for the vulgar language but it’s the best way I can put it. You walk into a shower and see the stuff that’s going on and you don’t have the balls to call 911? He definitely needs to go, too. I just don’t see how that’s possible.
The riots that have happened the last two nights have progressively gotten worse. Last night plenty of people were throwing beer cans at cops, screaming and yelling, knocking down lamp posts and a news van was knocked over. If we lose this weekend, the amount of damage that will be done is going to be ridiculous.
In the end of all this stuff, I think everyone really got what they deserved. Obviously Santouchsky needs to be locked up and never released, I’m not really one for the death penalty, I think a life sentence is basically the same thing. JoePa should have done more. He did what he was “supposed” to do but that’s not enough. I think that the Board of Trustees should have let him finish out the season and let him go at the end of it. He’s meant too much to this place so be basically thrown out on his @$$.