Horror in Happy Valley: Paterno must go
updated 12:20 PM EST, Tue November 8, 2011
Penn State coach Joe Paterno heard of sexual abuse allegations in 2002, according to a grand jury report.
(CNN) -- We are ... Penn State.
I cannot recount the thousands of times that I have proudly proclaimed that chant throughout the years. I belted it out as a Penn State cheerleader, later as a proud alum standing in Beaver Stadium among nearly 100,000 raucous fans, and more recently on Saturday afternoons sitting solo in my TV room watching my Nittany Lions roar in those classic no-name jerseys.
Those words still give me goosebumps nearly 20 years after I left State College, Pennsylvania, lovingly called Happy Valley. Looking down from my perch on other colleges over the past decade, I've watched major programs crumble as their dirty little secrets were revealed. And through all those college scandal headlines -- paying players, inflating SAT scores, falsifying classroom grades -- I have held Penn State up as a shining example of all that is good and right and pure about college sports.
We are the good guys.
But today, I'm putting my pompoms down. I'm done covering up Happy Valley's secrets. And it's time for others in the program, starting with Coach Paterno, to do the same thing. And then, Joe has got to go, immediately.
That is the only real alternative after the shocking allegations that Jerry Sandusky, 67 -- a former assistant coach who worked with the program for more than 30 years and who was viewed by many as Paterno's heir before he retired in 1999 -- has been charged with multiple felonies in the alleged sexual abuse of eight boys during a 15-year period. Prosecutors now expect that more boys will come forward with abuse claims.
(My thoughts about Coach P) COME ON MANNN!!!!! this is sick in my eyes. Coach paterno was the man in my eyes I respected him an even looked up to him and for me to see these allegations about him rapeing little boys pisses me off. I use to want to go to penn satae because coach paterno is a good coach but what he has done has shamed not only himself but penn state as a whole.I dont think that paterno could be my coach after these allegations i\cause I wouldn't respect him at all.
(CNN) -- We are ... Penn State.
I cannot recount the thousands of times that I have proudly proclaimed that chant throughout the years. I belted it out as a Penn State cheerleader, later as a proud alum standing in Beaver Stadium among nearly 100,000 raucous fans, and more recently on Saturday afternoons sitting solo in my TV room watching my Nittany Lions roar in those classic no-name jerseys.
Those words still give me goosebumps nearly 20 years after I left State College, Pennsylvania, lovingly called Happy Valley. Looking down from my perch on other colleges over the past decade, I've watched major programs crumble as their dirty little secrets were revealed. And through all those college scandal headlines -- paying players, inflating SAT scores, falsifying classroom grades -- I have held Penn State up as a shining example of all that is good and right and pure about college sports.
We are the good guys.
But today, I'm putting my pompoms down. I'm done covering up Happy Valley's secrets. And it's time for others in the program, starting with Coach Paterno, to do the same thing. And then, Joe has got to go, immediately.
That is the only real alternative after the shocking allegations that Jerry Sandusky, 67 -- a former assistant coach who worked with the program for more than 30 years and who was viewed by many as Paterno's heir before he retired in 1999 -- has been charged with multiple felonies in the alleged sexual abuse of eight boys during a 15-year period. Prosecutors now expect that more boys will come forward with abuse claims.
(My thoughts about Coach P) COME ON MANNN!!!!! this is sick in my eyes. Coach paterno was the man in my eyes I respected him an even looked up to him and for me to see these allegations about him rapeing little boys pisses me off. I use to want to go to penn satae because coach paterno is a good coach but what he has done has shamed not only himself but penn state as a whole.I dont think that paterno could be my coach after these allegations i\cause I wouldn't respect him at all.
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