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发帖数: 222 | 1 Very sad!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/penn-stat
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State
football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake
of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according
to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.
The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s
exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other
coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious
national brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about
how to manage his departure have begun, according to the two people.
Paterno was to have held a news conference Tuesday but the university
canceled it less than an hour before it was scheduled to start.
At age 84 and with 46 seasons as the Penn State head coach behind him,
Paterno’s extraordinary run of success — one that produced tens of
millions of dollars for the school and two national championships, and that
established him as one of the nation’s most revered leaders, will end with
a stunning and humiliating final chapter.
Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator under Paterno, has been
charged with sexually abusing eight boys across a 15-year period, and
Paterno has been widely criticized for failing to involve the police when he
learned of an allegation of one assault of a young boy in 2002.
Additionally, two top university officials — Gary Schultz, the senior vice
president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the athletic director —
were charged with perjury and failure to report to authorities what they
knew of the allegations, as required by state law.
Since Sandusky’s arrest Saturday, Penn State — notably its president,
Graham Spanier, and Paterno — have come under withering criticism for a
failure to act adequately after learning, at different points over the years
, that Sandusky might have been abusing children. Newspapers have called for
their resignations; prosecutors have suggested their inaction led to more
children being harmed by Sandusky; and students and faculty at the
university have expressed a mix of disgust and confusion, and a hope that
much of what prosecutors have charged is not true.
On Monday law enforcement officials said that Paterno had met his legal
obligation in alerting his superiors at the university when he learned of
the 2002 allegation against Sandusky. But they suggested he might well have
failed a moral test for what to do when confronted with such a disturbing
allegation involving a child not even in his teens. No one at the university
alerted the police or pursued the matter to determine the well-being of the
child involved. The identity of that child remains unknown, according to
the Attorney General.
Paterno has not been charged in the matter, but his failure to report to
authorities what he knew about the 2002 incident, in which Sandusky
allegedly sexually assaulted a young boy at Penn State’s football complex,
has become a flashpoint, stirring anger among the board members and an
outpouring of public criticism about his handling of the matter.
In recent days Paterno has lost the support of many board members, and their
conversations illustrate a decisive shift in the power structure at the
university. In 2004, for instance, Paterno brushed off a request by the
university president that he step down.
Paterno came to Penn State in 1950 as a 23-year-old assistant coach making $
3,600 a year. He planned to stay for two seasons, to pay off his student
loans from Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature.
He became the head coach in 1966, and he has been widely credited with
helping spearhead the Penn State football program and the rest of the
university from a local enterprise into a national brand. Along the way,
Beaver Stadium grew to 108,000 seats from 29,000 and Penn State’s endowment
grew from virtually nothing to more than $1 billion.
What separated Paterno from many of his coaching peers until this week was
that he did this with few questions about how he grew the program. Penn
State’s lofty graduation rates and education-first ideals, known as Paterno
’s Grand Experiment, became as synonymous with the program as its plain
uniforms and dominating defenses.
Paterno led Penn State to national titles in the 1982 and 1986 seasons, and
he complemented the on-field success with the reputation of a throwback
sideline professor, whose tie, thick glasses and black Nike coaching shoes
became as predictable in Northeast autumns as the changing foliage.
Paterno’s reach on campus extended well beyond the football program. He and
his wife, Sue, have donated more than $4 million to the university. On
campus, everything from an ice cream flavor at the Creamery to a library now
bears his name.
“There’s no individual in the entire 120- or 130-year history of the
university that has had a greater impact on the institution than Joe Paterno
,” Larry Foster, a former trustee and a president of the alumni association
, told The New York Times in 2004. “He’s just reached into so many areas.
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发帖数: 9426 | 2 PSU的转机来了
本来就想着换老爷子了，一直找不到理由？
officials.
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prestigious
about
【在 p**t 的大作中提到】
: Very sad!
: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/penn-stat
: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State
: football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake
: of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according
: to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.
: The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s
: exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other
: coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious
: national brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about
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发帖数: 2887 | 3 我觉得就是不出事，下个赛季他也不会干了，都已经赢最多了，没有奔头了。
officials.
s
prestigious
about
【在 p**t 的大作中提到】
: Very sad!
: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/penn-stat
: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State
: football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake
: of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according
: to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.
: The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s
: exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other
: coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious
: national brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about
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