This one is for you folks just itching to give a thumbs down

Jul 12, 2012, 4:36 PM

--"Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State."

--"The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."

--"failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade."

I said this on here once and got TD'd enough that I finally deleted the post. Now I feel the need to rant and the TDs just don't matter. Reading this report takes me right back to my inital thought:

Joe Paterno should always be remembered as a man in power who willingly chose to turn his back to the rape of young vulnerable boys in favor of his own self important image and that of his program. I will never consider him to have been one of the greatest coaches, but instead another example of human failure.

Arguments that attempt to refer to him as a good Christian man, an older guy who didn't understand these things, or a man whose done more good than bad are just ignorant and blind to any logic of what any decent human being would have done. Does "coaching up" some student athletes outweigh the condoning of 10+ years of child rape? Can't imagaine anyone truly feels that way, including his former players and most certainly Sandusky's victims who just needed somebody to stand up for them nad give the voice they didn't have... not someone to help cover it up.

Whatever penalty Penn St faces seems irrelevant. As angry and sad as it makes me there really is nothing that can be done at this point to make up for the damage done... damage that could have been avoided.

--(Paterno) "was an integral part of this active decision to conceal."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8159195/report-says-penn-state-nittany-lions-senior-officials-disregarded-children-welfare