Fire Everybody

Kids, I was wrong. I had hoped, struggling to understand just what the hell happened at Penn State that there was something, some crucial piece of information out there that might have given credence to Joe Paterno's claim of 'misunderstanding' exactly what the graduate assistant was trying to tell him, but that doesn't appear to be the case. What he was told was that 'something of a sexual nature' had occurred.

Color me crazy, but even that is pretty clear. In fact, if someone told me, hey there's the 60 year old guy showering with a 10 year old boy, I'd be calling the police to make a report. At that point, the dignified thing to do was not issue some statement announcing your retirement, magnanimously trying 'to make things as easy as possible' for the Board of Trustees. The dignified thing to do was resign right then and there.

Turns out the Board of Trustees at Penn State didn't need the help from JoePa to make things easier. They fired him. Over the phone.

And then, there was a riot.

Yes, 2,000 plus students took to the streets of Happy Valley last night expressing their outrage over Paterno's ouster and flipped a news van, took down a light pole, gave ludicrously idiotic interviews to national media and got pepper spray fired at them for their troubles. The Post Paterno Era at Penn State began this morning with rumors swirling that Sandusky and his charity pimped young boys out to rich donors.

Jesus.

First of all: Fire everybody. Tom Bradley's first act as Interim Head Coach should have been to relieve Mike McQueary of his job. If you witness a rape and do nothing- I don't want you within ten feet of me much less working for me. Schultz and Curley, the Vice President and AD that covered this crap up? I believe they've been placed on administrative leave. Let's step up and up that to firing, shall we?

Second of all: students, you need to get some perspective... if you're going to have a riot, please, have a riot for the right reasons. After all, various officials at your university covered up child rape. Are your tuition dollars going to be used for legal fees? Are any of these scum drawing pensions from the University? Two crucial questions worth getting answers too and protesting about. But props to the students that held the candlelight vigils for the victims- it'd be nice if y'all would remember that this is about more than football. It's about the rape of children...

I have this ugly feeling that this is going to get worse. The Board of Trustees at Penn State might not even survive this- and one thing is for certain, they need to make the right hires at the top of the food chains so that the whole house has to be scrubbed shiny and clean.

Fire everybody and try not to drag this out. The Catholic Church has been trying obfuscation and shuffling and quiet 'putting out to pastures' for years and despite what you might read in the news, instead of tackling their scandal head on, they reduced it to death by a thousand cuts. A death that's still going on... again, kids, I'm not a Penn State fan. I'm not even from Pennsylvania- I'm just saying, proactive house cleaning is in order. Steam cleaning. Sand blasting. Whatever it takes and quickly.