Eating Crow and It Doesn't Taste So Good

A while back I posted a blog regarding the Jerry Sandusky pedophile/molestation situation, and how I felt the media was being unfair to Joe Paterno.

This week some pretty disturbing and serious allegations of a massive university cover-up unfolded to the general public.  A report of hundreds of pages outlined the guilty.  Joe was one of those guilty parties.  I probably should have listened to my husband, he felt from the beginning that Sandusky's scandal was deeper than just a few people and that Joe Paterno knew what was going on and was privy to the decisions that the university made and encouraged such decisions in the cover up these horrific acts.

In defense of myself, I always give people the benefit of the doubt and see the "good" in people before seeing the "bad".  I typically need proof that someone is a "no-gooder" before believing myself that they are a "no-gooder".

I will eat crow today, but won't change the person who I am - believing that people are good before being tainted by other people's views.  Sometimes I find that I am wrong in my first impressions.  I did in this case.

I am highly disappointed in Joe Paterno.  I had hopes that he was a more outstanding man than what is being proven by countless emails and memos of the past.  I was proven that the media crucification done at the onset of this scandal was right and justified.

I am so disturbed that Joe and his colleagues believed that covering up the Sandusky scandals was in the best interest of the university.  That by eliminating any "bad press" the university can go on happily.  Boy, they were wrong.  I've met a lot of alumni from Penn State during my life time.  All good people.  Being an Ohio-ian, I should be pushing OSU for my kids, but I would have been supportive if either of my kids wanted to go to Penn State prior to this scandal. Today, I'm not so sure I would be inclined to allow them to go there.  The administration tainted my thoughts and have proven that they don't have the best interest of the students at hand.  Maybe 13 years from now I'll think differently.

Paterno got off easy here on earth.  Hoping God set him straight upon his entrance to heaven.  That what he did was wrong, horrific and damaging to so many people.  That a "good" person is one that is willing to put his career on the line to save countless young boys from being unjustly ripped of their youth and innocence.