I posted on a recruits thread a simple response. The issue was the long term impact on PSU. I stated two different thoughts. First: This will not go away quickly. There is a US Attorney and FBI agents all over this case. Here is the point PSU accepted Federal monies and agreed to an early reporting program for any kind of abuses. Good****inluck! The real "justice" in this is if Penn State gets crushed. Not just punished. Not an NCAA sanction. Crushed. So people see that institutional sociopathology is not going to be tolerated. And it could be severe. Every admin, and many were shown through this trial to have knowledge (enough), could do serious Federal time. The institution could be barred from Federal monies that are its life blood. It could be brutal; on a level way beyond what the NCAA could do.
I had an autographed copy of a book written by Joe Paterno, and I trashed it the day I decided he knew. They all knew. And now someone should bring hell down on them.
As far as Jerry Sandusky: His trial has little grounds for appeal and conviction on too many grounds. Maybe one of you lawyers could run with this but I would believe Jeffrey Toobin. He was pretty clear that Sandusky would spend the rest of his life in prison; that he was an evil, evil man; and that this was just the beginning of the problems Penn State would face. He thinks they are going to get and should get trashed.
The other point of the recruit thread was that this thing was so big (institutionally) that McQuery was afraid to do the right thing. The right thing wasn't to just report it. It was to violently stop it. That was the smart, honorable, and morally right thing to do. I think I used terms like hit him over the back of the head to incapacitate him, and beat him until he knocked all the teeth out of his mouth. I think I said I could use my pliers on my utility knife for any stragglers. I mean this. The outrageousness of this attack was the only way to counteract the institutional disregard, and sociopathology. The proof of rape would have been locked in to crime scene evidence. If the police had tried to cover that up, the risk to them would have been too great. I doubt McQuery would have been charged with a crime.
Finally, when you talk about victims, my heart so goes out to all those individuals that were raped and thrown aside. But there are a lot of other victims.
Was Ray Frank Gricar (born October 9, 1945, missing April 15, 2005, declared legally dead July 25, 2011) the final one?