I have been in a state of near constant rage since the story broke of Sandusky and Penn State's complicity in covering for a monstrous pedophile. I am a Penn State Alum. I have friends that have worked at Second Mile and thought they were doing a good thing. Although I went to the school, I don't exactly "bleed blue and white." I am my own person, and I was never sucked into football. I have some pretty mixed feelings about Paterno's firing, but my biggest feeling is that it's the biggest sop of all time because his firing is being used to cover for something even worse...
The Board of Trustees met last night and decided to fire Paterno and Spanier. To which I say fine on JoePa and great on Spanier. I've read the 23-page indictment, and I have the strongest feeling we are not done with Spanier. That guy knew, and no one can prove anything different to me. But here's the real rub: what didn't the Trustees do last night?
Curley and Schultz, the athletic director and VP of Finance are still having their legal defense paid for by Penn State. Yes, that's right. Our alumni donations and student tuition are going into a fund that is helping the two men who knowingly participated in a coverup of the rape of a child. A coverup that kept Sandusky free and able to rape more children for years. So the Trustees sacrificed Paterno to the publicity gods to keep their unconditional support of these two men quiet.
Look, in 2002, Schultz oversaw the entire police department at PSU. In fact, Penn State is it's own city, so the police are real police and not security guards on campus. McQueary testified to the head of the police department that he saw Sandusky rape a child. If I saw what he saw, and reported it to the head of police in any town, wouldn't it logically follow that I did the most I possibly could? (What if Paterno knew it was reported to the head of police too? I'm not sure he did, but the jury is (literally) out on that.) Which makes Schultz another monster. Who hears all that, and doesn't have his own police force investigate?
They all failed that child, no doubt, but the second biggest monster in my mind is Schultz. Who is still being given "unconditional" support. And Tim Curley, another one that actively participated in the coverup, is still on staff at Penn State. The students and alumni are still paying his goddamn salary and defense fund.
I will tell you this: I will not give one cent to Penn State or lend one iota of help until they cut those two assholes loose. And let's keep that in mind as we celebrate "victories" like Paterno and Spanier. This isn't even the tip of the pus-infested boil that is this scandal. And I beg those who are writing letters and those that are outraged: don't stop until all justice is served and only take this for what it is, a crude gesture to the media.