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Originally Posted by Rochard
The utter and blind devotion to a sports league and covering up such horrible crimes stuns me. "He's done so much for our football team". I don't care who the fuck he is, or what the fuck he's done, someone should have said something. And everyone who knew what was happening is just as guilty. They knew it was happening and they covered it up.
When I was a kid I was on the high school basketball team. We showered after every game. Not once can I remember a coach in the shower area. Adults don't shower with someone else's kids.
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Exactly. I played sports in grade school and high school. In both cases the locker rooms had offices for the coach and they had their own private shower in that office.
I can understand how at first the guy who saw Sandusky in the shower with that kid was stunned and didn't know how to react. You never expect to see something like that. He then told his boss who told his boss. So far so good. When it became clear that nothing was going to come of this he should have went to the cops. Paterno had so much influence and pull at that school and in that community that he could have gone to the police, explained what he saw and asked them to try to take care of this as quietly as possible. Even if it got messy he was so highly regarded that his reporting it would have only made him look better than he already did. If push came to shove it would have been the athletic directors and school officials that took the heat and not him and yet he still decided to turn a blind eye to it all.