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I don't for one moment think that either Joe or the administration enabled JS in his actions.Failure to report one incident of suspected child abuse does not constitute enabling.

I suspect that in the context of the 1998 incident, the 2001 report constituted an Oh Shit, WTF reaction. They knew the 1998 incident was unfounded and could have rationalized not reporting in that light. It involved a most unsavory subject that nobody ever really wants to face head on. With the passage of time the whole incident fell into an "out of sight out of mind" mode.

There was a serious lapse in judgment; nothing more and nothing less. Speaking for myself, and I suspect for others, we all have at least one, if not more of those lapses throughout our lives. It certainly didn't erase all the great accomplishments of Joe's career.

What was Joe's serious lapse of judgment? He followed procedures and reported it and got out of the way; those he reported it to took it to a mandated reporter at TSM. This seems to be very sound all the way, especially in light of the likely 'Oh Shit, WTF..... another baseless report' reaction by all at the Admin level. I sincerely doubt they knew what they were dealing with. But I bet TSM did.
 
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The answers to your other questions are pretty straight forward. MM was an ant in the football program and he knew his place. Screaming from the rooftops may have effectively ended his stint at Penn State. There are any number of possible reasons why he didn't intervene.

For $8.5 million dollars Louis Freeh was not able to come up with shred of evidence to support your bogus theory.
If Mike really saw Sandusky molesting a kid (doubtful) and he kept his mouth shut of concern for his career he is a despicable human being.
 
Good lord you're an insufferable ass....Joe and MM didn't know the corrupt Corbett OAG misrepresented their GJ testimony via the GJP (which falsely and maliciously stated MM eye witnessed sex and reported it as such to Joe and admins) until the presentment was made public in 11/11. Shortly after that Joe made this press release (I guess you missed this??):

"As my grand jury testimony stated, I was informed in 2002 by an assistant coach that he had witnessed an incident in the shower of our locker room facility. It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the Grand Jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators."

And this when told by his children that the media was saying Joe knew exactly what Sandusky had done and what he was about, and that Joe had been willing to protect Sandusky and let children be harmed in unimaginable ways to protect his legacy........"How could they think that?". "They really think that if I knew someone was hurting kids, I wouldn't have stopped it?". "Don't they know me? Don't they know what my life has been a bout?".
 
Just because "all anybody was told about was horseplay" has been repeated ad nauseum doesn't make it so. The cumulative effect of McQueary's and Joe's testimony put that assertion where it belongs. The "horseplay" exists only in an alternate universe.

The answers to your other questions are pretty straight forward. MM was an ant in the football program and he knew his place. Screaming from the rooftops may have effectively ended his stint at Penn State. There are any number of possible reasons why he didn't intervene.

You are correct, that fact that it is repeated doesn't make it true. The fact that it is true makes it true. Only in your alternate universe does anything more than horseplay exist. You've been told literally hundreds of times the multitude of reasons why Joe's testimony is unreliable. Your agenda simply stops you from listening to the facts. You are the one guy saying the world is flat in spite of the massive evidence to the contrary.

So you buy in to the ridiculous "bad publicity" narrative? JS was an ex-employee that the head coach didn't even like. There is no downside to MM reporting a crime, and to think otherwise is ludicrous. How about you answer the other questions too? So why would they contact TSM with a watered down version, why didn't MM intervene?
 
Joe is believable except when he's not. Got it.

No one is saying that nice strawman though. The problem with you and the rest of your cohorts is you are giving more weight to the parts of Joe's testimony where he's speculating (sexual in nature, fondling--"I'm not sure exactly what it was"--"I don't know what you'd call it") than you are to the parts where he isn't speculating (inappropriate shower that made MM uncomfortable).

Only an imbecile/someone with an agenda would do so.

You and GTA are the one's who love Joe's own words so much (except of course when he says "I'm not sure exactly what it was" you want to discount that part), well, here they are one more time since you conveniently didn't reply the first time I linked them:

From Joe's written statement to the press:

"As my grand jury testimony stated, I was informed in 2002 by an assistant coach that he had witnessed an incident in the shower of our locker room facility. It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the Grand Jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators."

Here's Joe's GJ testimony that essentially says the same thing (page 176 of 12/16/11 prelim it was read into the record by scumbag Corbett crony James Barker)

"I didn't go any further than that except I knew Mike was upset and I knew some kind of inappropriate action was being taken by Jerry Sandusky with a youngster".

After reading the above you tell me...what did Joe KNOW versus what did he speculate on?
 
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Joe never testified against anyone. Joe testified very briefly about an interaction with MM. MM's own testimony contradicts the key portion of Joe's very brief and truncated testimony, to say nothing of Paterno's myriad of qualifiers. If Joe's testimony in its very brief form had ever been stated in a trial, the jury would be stuck trying to figure out who they believed more, Joe or MM.
What the hell are you talking about? MM and Paterno's testimonies agreed with each other.
 
I would not be so quick to swear the the 2001 incident was not brought to Tom Harmon. He is behind the Commonwealth "Guard All" Shield. Frankly, I believe GS had a conversation with him and he testified to his belief that it was reported to the same agency that looked into '98
 
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You are correct, that fact that it is repeated doesn't make it true. The fact that it is true makes it true. Only in your alternate universe does anything more than horseplay exist. You've been told literally hundreds of times the multitude of reasons why Joe's testimony is unreliable. Your agenda simply stops you from listening to the facts. You are the one guy saying the world is flat in spite of the massive evidence to the contrary.

So you buy in to the ridiculous "bad publicity" narrative? JS was an ex-employee that the head coach didn't even like. There is no downside to MM reporting a crime, and to think otherwise is ludicrous. How about you answer the other questions too? So why would they contact TSM with a watered down version, why didn't MM intervene?
You and a band of about 10 idiots on this site are the only ones who believe it was nothing more than horseplay.

As for you last question, MM didn't intervene because he was told it was taken care of. That and he is a massive pussy. That has been established with his conduct during the event that he witnessed.
 
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I would not be so quick to swear the the 2001 incident was not brought to Tom Harmon. He is behind the Commonwealth "Guard All" Shield. Frankly, I believe GS had a conversation with him and he testified to his belief that it was reported to the same agency that looked into '98
If that would be the case, Curley, Spanier and Schuktz would be screaming about it.
 
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FYI, cretins like you never offend me.

I am enjoying reading this thread, but let me interject here for a moment. As I tell kids that I work with, "The fact that you chose to respond says that are offended."
Carry on.
 
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If that would be the case, Curley, Spanier and Schuktz would be screaming about it.
Schultz did speak to Harmon. Harmon's version was that GS asked if 98 was still on file nfqa. Seriously? A career cop wouldn't say why do you ask?Harmon is muted. GS is as well until it goes to court or is dropped. The latter is now a lead pipe cinch. No way on that campus that Harmon did not know there was another incident with JS.
 
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Schultz did speak to Harmon. Harmon's version was that GS asked if 98 was still on file nfqa. Seriously? A career cop wouldn't say why do you ask?Harmon is muted. GS is as well until it goes to court or is dropped. The latter is now a lead pipe cinch. No way on that campus that Harmon did not know there was another incident with JS.
I'm sorry, I don't believe that CSS would have let it go this far without mentioning that they talked to Harmon about it. Not saying that Harmon didn't find out somehow, but if any of those guys spoke to him, that is the first thing they would have said.
 
I'm sorry, I don't believe that CSS would have let it go this far without mentioning that they talked to Harmon about it. Not saying that Harmon didn't find out somehow, but if any of those guys spoke to him, that is the first thing they would have said.
In court you answer the questions you are asked. Who was Gary's attorney when he testified?
He stated he thought it was reported. Interesting that he wasn't asked who was purported to do it.
Harmon's story is unbelievable to me.
 
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I can lay out what I think is the most likely case. When Mike first heard the slapping he thinks sex, it sounds like someone having sex in there. Once he enters the lockerroom expecting to see something sexual he ends up seeing a naked Sandusky behind a boy. Because he expected to see sex & saw Sandusky naked with the boy, he linked the 2. Later when he gets home & Dranov puts him through all that questioning & he realizes he can't say for absolutely sure he saw a sex act, Mike realizes he doesn't have much in regards to proof on Sandusky. I believe Mike's story to Curley & Schultz was careful in making it clear what actually saw & didn't see. Because of this, like Dranov, Curley & Schultz had doubts. When Curley calls Mike after he met with TSM Mike was probably led to assume it was looked into properly. I think it was Curley's conclusion it was horsing around & that idea permeated to the others. I think Mike probably had doubts himself as to what act he actually witnessed but when the OAG called & met with him it was vindication in Mike's mind of his 2001 first impression. So to sum up in Mike's mind it probably started as sex but the then Dranov's questioning laid seeds of doubt & then once OAG came around it was sex again.

And...of course if its true there were "rumors" about Jerry in the past....even tongue in cheek stuff... but nothing ever substantiated...Mike could have heard noise and automatically jumped right to an immediate conclusion...clearly everything happened in a nano second...
 
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Schultz did speak to Harmon. Harmon's version was that GS asked if 98 was still on file nfqa. Seriously? A career cop wouldn't say why do you ask?Harmon is muted. GS is as well until it goes to court or is dropped. The latter is now a lead pipe cinch. No way on that campus that Harmon did not know there was another incident with JS.

Great; if you are correct the whole country now knows that the Chief of Police of the Pennsylvania State University was told of the incident and did nothing. Nice move Marshall.
 
I'm sorry, I don't believe that CSS would have let it go this far without mentioning that they talked to Harmon about it. Not saying that Harmon didn't find out somehow, but if any of those guys spoke to him, that is the first thing they would have said.
Your mental defect - was it a genetic thing, or was there some traumatic accident involved?
 
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Great; if you are correct the whole country now knows that the Chief of Police of the Pennsylvania State University was told of the incident and did nothing. Nice move Marshall.

If it is the truth, so be it. Let the chips fall where they may, but let what happens in the future be based on the truth, not the opinions of hired gun.
 
Great; if you are correct the whole country now knows that the Chief of Police of the Pennsylvania State University was told of the incident and did nothing. Nice move Marshall.
As opposed to the false narrative that it was the university president, vice president and athletic director that conspired to protect JS? You really are an idiot.
 
No one is saying that nice strawman though. The problem with you and the rest of your cohorts is you are giving more weight to the parts of Joe's testimony where he's speculating (sexual in nature, fondling--"I'm not sure exactly what it was"--"I don't know what you'd call it") than you are to the parts where he isn't speculating (inappropriate shower that made MM uncomfortable).

Only an imbecile/someone with an agenda would do so.

You and GTA are the one's who love Joe's own words so much (except of course when he says "I'm not sure exactly what it was" you want to discount that part), well, here they are one more time since you conveniently didn't reply the first time I linked them:

From Joe's written statement to the press:

"As my grand jury testimony stated, I was informed in 2002 by an assistant coach that he had witnessed an incident in the shower of our locker room facility. It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the Grand Jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators."

Here's Joe's GJ testimony that essentially says the same thing (page 176 of 12/16/11 prelim it was read into the record by scumbag Corbett crony James Barker)

"I didn't go any further than that except I knew Mike was upset and I knew some kind of inappropriate action was being taken by Jerry Sandusky with a youngster".

After reading the above you tell me...what did Joe KNOW versus what did he speculate on?

Not only was Joe speculating - he was speculating on MM's speculation as most of what MM said he was upset about was relative to what he HEARD first and then what he saw (just as he confirmed in his testimony in a court of law under oath - when pressed to confine his testimony to ONLY what he ACTUALLY SAW and EYEWITNESSED, he stated that he DID NOT see and eyewitness any sexual act and never told ANYONE that he had. Even in his testimony in court, MM would always QUALIFY his statement that he THOUGHT this is what was going on based on what he previously HEARD despite not actually seeing it and what he did see being limited to the upper bodies of the parties above Sandusky's waist as the taller party.).
 
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No one is saying that nice strawman though. The problem with you and the rest of your cohorts is you are giving more weight to the parts of Joe's testimony where he's speculating (sexual in nature, fondling--"I'm not sure exactly what it was"--"I don't know what you'd call it") than you are to the parts where he isn't speculating (inappropriate shower that made MM uncomfortable).

Only an imbecile/someone with an agenda would do so.

You and GTA are the one's who love Joe's own words so much (except of course when he says "I'm not sure exactly what it was" you want to discount that part), well, here they are one more time since you conveniently didn't reply the first time I linked them:

From Joe's written statement to the press:

"As my grand jury testimony stated, I was informed in 2002 by an assistant coach that he had witnessed an incident in the shower of our locker room facility. It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the Grand Jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators."

Here's Joe's GJ testimony that essentially says the same thing (page 176 of 12/16/11 prelim it was read into the record by scumbag Corbett crony James Barker)

"I didn't go any further than that except I knew Mike was upset and I knew some kind of inappropriate action was being taken by Jerry Sandusky with a youngster".

After reading the above you tell me...what did Joe KNOW versus what did he speculate on?

Go easy on Seth he is a special kinda stupid...
 
....The answers to your other questions are pretty straight forward. MM was an ant in the football program and he knew his place. Screaming from the rooftops may have effectively ended his stint at Penn State. There are any number of possible reasons why he didn't intervene.

Well we know what you would have done and why. Now quit pretending you can speak for anybody else.
 
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In court you answer the questions you are asked. Who was Gary's attorney when he testified?
He stated he thought it was reported. Interesting that he wasn't asked who was purported to do it.
Harmon's story is unbelievable to me.
You would think that Spanier would have said that he or the other guys reported it back when his lawyers had that huge response to Freeh.
 
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You and a band of about 10 idiots on this site are the only ones who believe it was nothing more than horseplay.

As for you last question, MM didn't intervene because he was told it was taken care of. That and he is a massive pussy. That has been established with his conduct during the event that he witnessed.

Just because you believe something doesn't mean EVERYONE else does. Haven't you noticed the non-stop parade of people telling you that you are wrong? You say that only ~10 people on this site believe it was nothing more than horseplay. I say you would be hard pressed to find 10 people on this site that believe it was rape. I guess you are assuming that the jury, and victim #2 aren't on this site?

If it was rape as you believe, why didn't MM intervene (in the actual event genius)? Why would they contact TSM with a watered down version? There is no motivation for C/S/S to water down the story before telling TSM. They either pass it along as they heard it, or don't pass it along.

As if it didn't already look like you were the same person, with your ridiculous beliefs and ignorance of the facts, why did you reply for GTACSA?
 
What was Joe's serious lapse of judgment? There is no evidence that he ever inquired who the boy was and if he was OK for something that was described to him as possible moral turpitude and which he described in his grand jury testimony of "it being of a sexual nature". He followed procedures and reported it and got out of the way; Not good enough. those he reported it to took it to a mandated reporter at TSM. This seems to be very sound all the way, especially in light of the likely 'Oh Shit, WTF..... another baseless report' reaction by all at the Admin level. I sincerely doubt they knew what they were dealing with. But I bet TSM did.
 
And I know you want to be FAIR so you will agree that he very well could have been told that the young man in question was not in distress. I believe MM testified to that. Time to crawl back into the bunker and bite on that cyanide capsule.
 

So Paterno was supposed to go an investigate this on his own? That is counter to NCAA regulations, you know. JS didn't see anything and JS didn't work for Joe. No way Joe should have done anything different than what he did.
 
Just keeping it real. And like the Donald, I have big hands.
Just keeping with THE SCRIPT. Even Louis the Liar is reduced to calling his "independent investigation" nothing but an 8.5 million dollar opinion. You and your misanthrope comrades have been exposed. Perhaps there are more substitute teachings positions like the one One Term has for your buddies?
 
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