[Husker] In defense of JoePa

[Andy Knipp]

JoePa did not see anything.  The GA did.  You can argue that person (who I
think is now an assistant coach) should have called the police.  I think
what JoePa did was reasonable, because he assumed his boss would make
certain if there was any basis, the authorities would be contacted. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
RJ Wessel
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:55 PM
To: Tommy Thompson; Huskers List
Subject: Re: [Husker] In defense of JoePa

Sorry, I have to disagree here.

Someone, anyone comes to me and says that they saw something inappropriate
between and adult and a minor. I would feel obligated to ask at least what
you saw.  JoePa is making it sound like he did not ask a darn thing about
what was saw. was it sex, drinking what was it. Come On Man.

For some reason this crime seems to be reported to superiors first and not
to the police?  if you saw a person getting robbed or assualted or rape -
would you call your dad? no you call the police. 

Yet in child sexual assault cases it seems the police are the last to be
called by any institute. 


---- Tommy Thompson <huskertt at charter.net> wrote: 
> I don't have all of the facts on the Sandusky scandal, but I wonder if Joe
Paterno isn't getting wrongly vilified.  From what I have read, the grad
student informed JoePa of what he had seen, and JoePa reported it to his
superiors.  After his superiors "investigated" the incident, including
speaking with the grad student, they cleared Sandusky of any wrong doing.
Following that trail of logic, JoePa would have assumed it was a false
allegation and would have (rightly) done nothing further.
> 
> Again, I don't know all of the facts, so JoePa may have known: 1) that the
allegations were not really investigated; 2) that the university was
covering it up; and/or 3) that the grad student have given him specific
information that should have led him to contact the police (or at least
instructed the grad student to do that)
> 
> Bottom line is that I'm not going to judge anyone in this until all of the
facts come out.  It's very possible that JoePa did due diligence, which is
why he is not under investigation.
> 
> Tommy Thompson (Pa)
> "GO BIG RED"
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