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Bubba Army Listening thread 11/7-11/11 - where were you wednesday edition
From Peter King's MMQB today, regarding the Sandusky case:
I think there's so much that makes me sick about the Jerry Sandusky story, but the timing of the case troubles me greatly. It took 13 years from the time it first became known to authorities that there was credible evidence that Sandusky was a sexual predator for the man to be indicted. Thirteen years! When I read the grand jury report Saturday, with the mountain of evidence against Sandusky, including a monitored 1998 conversation with an angry mother of a son who he all but admitted to abusing, I just kept thinking, How many boys had their lives changed forever because this case somehow didn't get on the front burner of law enforcement?
The benign neglect of it should haunt authority figures at Penn State and in law enforcement in the area forever. And if his position as a football coach in a powerful program is found to have had anything to do with the power over young boys that he allegedly exercised, then shame on the football culture that holds too much influence over our lives. As for the future of Joe Paterno, the status of a football coach who should have retired long ago is not foremost on my mind with this story. But if he in any way attempted to either look the other way or influence the outcome of any investigation in Sandusky's behavior (and there is no evidence he did), he'll deserve his day in court too. What a sad day for America.
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