VIDEO BY JOE HERMITT/THE PATRIOT-NEWS - Penn State Coach Joe Paterno's speech at his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame on December 4, 2007 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
Observant people will note that not one word of this is about himself. It's all about the greatness of college football, and its higher meaning. I miss Coach Paterno every day.
PSU season ticket holder here and from a Penn State family my Grandpap was PSU class of 1950 JoePas first year as an assistant coach to the late great Rip Engle, and we love ya JoePa, the classiest coach to ever walk the sidelines. WE ARE!!!!
Sadly, the people who have posted hate and lies have not only failed to take the time to get facts, but have so little good in their lives they have time to write all these terrible things. RIP Joe, We Know and We Are.
As the facts come out Joe will be vindicated. He did exactly what he should have done. The question is, the people above him who he gave this information to - what did they do with it?
Paterno is not a pedophile. Shut the hell up. It disgusts me to see such comments. Joe paterno is not just a Coach, he is a LEGENDARY Individual that means so much to the people of Pennsylvania and elsewhere throughout College Football. I've looked up to him as a child, and I'm proud to say that I lived in the days when Joe paterno was the head coach of PSU.
Joe Paterno Has graduated more Athletes than any other coach in history and the NCAA with their Stalinist revisions can not change that. JoePa has raised huge amounts of money to support scholarship at Pennsylvania State University. However he was not a saint he was just a man.
I believe he knew his career was in jeopardy either way after this. He just would have to live with the results. So after all this, he took more of a perspective on looking at how great the years were, and not how "good" or even "hard" the upcoming years would become. He was honestly just stuck between a rock and a hard place. So he took the option that would give him ten more years. But something about me just said he did really hope administration would pursue this. LOVE YOU JOE-PA
I can agree with most here. However, if he would've pursued more action (after the administration did nothing) he would get the hard end of the bone from them sooner than he actually did. He should've pursued it but that would've put his coaching career in more jeopardy. He just watched everyone sweep it under the covers. He did his job telling the higher power. But it's their responsibility to take action. He didnt pursue with it cuz at the end of the day he has to answer to the administration.
@dclid69 At the end of the day he has to answer to a higher authority, and by higher authority I mean God up above. He and the rest of the scumbags failed in their Christian duty to protect those kids. He'll be held accountable for his actions, if not in this life then certainly in whatever comes next.
@ktherock7 WE ARE...angry that innocents would be violated under our care. WE ARE...in support of appropriate punishment for every person involved. WE ARE...demanding change to a system that would allow this. WE ARE...not concerned if you do not understand our love and devotion. WE ARE...PENN STATE proud and we will rise again.
Sorry Rich. "Objectively," you don't understand anything about law enforcement, shield laws, or anything really. In this incident, Joe was someone who was told something vague about a FORMER employee by a current employee. Legally, it is heresay. He was not involved, he had no direct knowledge, and he did not witness anything. He reported it to his superiors as he was supposed to do. After that, BY LAW, he had no right or ability to know anything. There is quite literally, nothing else he could have done, let alone "should" have done. If you don't accept that, then quit with the generalizations and say, specifically, what he "Should" have done.
For his football coaching achievements, he deserves to be in the HOF. But for his morality and ethics, he deserves a place in the Hall of SHAME! People can argue about the separation of sporting achievements from life, but, imo, they are NOT mutually exclusive from one another in all respects....
Sadly, If only he could have had the same drive to speak to Actual Police and Child Care Authorities and recognize Sandusky's Victims, the way he's speaking at this HOF Banquet, he'd be better Respected. SHAMEFUL, IGNORANT, NEGLIGENT AND CRIMMINAL on All Levels. 😔😡👎
He is respected by those who know what he did, and everything he is responsible for at Penn State. If he lost your respect he doesn’t need anything from you, nor would you be worthy of any respect if you don’t objectively see everything he did good and what he is 100% proven to do wrong. “Sadly”, your opinion doesn’t mean much, and for you to look up this video and hate on a dead man is your personal issue. The only shame belongs on you. Ps- if you’re a Michigan, MSU, or Ohio State fan go look at your sex abuse scandals first.
@@johnvillella1087 People like you, that never think of the victims of sexual abuse when you defend people like Paterno, who DID know and DID keep quite about Sandusky's abuse, make me sick.
