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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    we'll agree to disagree (btw, the noise thing was a reference to his latest blog post http://joeposnanski....7/boo-boos.html ). I see a lot of mechanics of good writings in the excerpts you provided but nothing that any professional columnist isn't expected to be able to turn out on a weekly...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I might be missing a legal avenue, but it seems to me that NCAA sanctions ($$$) would do a lot more to scare PSU and other schools into their policing their own culture then anything the DOJ could do.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    Eh, Bill James does neat things with numbers. He was super duper wrong about Pete Rose too. I've never found him to be particularly insightful when it comes to topics that don't revolve around statistics. If you look at his defense of Paterno, it's weirdly centered around specific numbers (6...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    Agreed. If the NCAA finds itself impotent in this case, than it has ceased to be what it was originally designed to be.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I have to agree with this. I was very dismayed at Freeh's statement during the press conference that PSU was now a safe place that he would not hesitate to send his children to. I felt like the hope of any real further action being taken deflated quite a bit with that comment.
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    I agree he should have. That's actually in the report -- the football program habitually excused themselves from such training with no repercussions. I never meant to say anything more than he was not acting uncommonly for someone who grew up in the 1920s. But that generation had many moral...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I can find nothing in anything you just said that I disagree with or that I previously argued against.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I said he was a coward and a man of his generation. I said staying silent was socially acceptable during the time in which he grew up. I didn't say I'd be cool. I didn't say I would think he was a good person. I purposefully refrained from using the words other have used (honorable) because...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    yes. and frankly, that's a stupid thing to say. I gave a historical summary. I didn't say any of it made me happy.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    There's acceptable and there's acceptable. No, pedophilia has never been lauded as a pillar of society, but untill the late 1970s it was not something that was usually talked about publically. The notion that child pornography is illegal wasn't even completely clarified until 1977. Before...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    this is kind of old at this point (from before Paterno died) but has some thoughts in that direction. http://outkickthecoverage.com/ncaa-has-authority-to-give-penn-state-death-penalty.php
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I'm getting an error there. MSN has the pdf version up at http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/REPORTFINAL071212.pdf if anyone feels like ruining their morning. I scanned through it and then decided I really didn't need the nauseua at the moment.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    That's a little bit of hyperbole, don't you think? The reason why it is necessary is in order to make it clear to the school in tangible terms they cannot ignore that it's not ok to actually trample on young people's lives. If your students really feel their lives are that crushed by having to...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I don't think head coach is the kind of job you can ever sue for wrongful termination over.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    One wonders if computer glitch isn't code for someone in the judicial system got sick of people not knowing about this.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    There was legal evidence to clearly indicate Nicole Simpson was murdered, whether or not Simpson was the perpetrator. There is no independent evidence that the victims were abused (unless there are private medical reports or the like) apart from the testimony implicating Sandusky. I think...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    Hey, man. Calm down. I know we are all just lowly lurkers here, but I don't see any call for name-calling in anything Apisith has said.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    Answer: When you are in a leadership role at a major university. Believe me, in the US every public elementary school P.E. coach knows the ins and out of their legal responsibilities. Avoiding lawsuits and write-ups just comes with the territory. These is no way someone in a position like...
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    That word is perfect.
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    Penn State AD and Sandusky Charged

    I don't think "the media" is satisfied (though I disagree with the possible implication in that term that this is a manufactured crisis). The calls for McQueary to be drawn and quartered are getting louder (as IMHO they should be). PSU seems to be losing recruits, and sponsors are going to be...
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