gather was one of the people pushing the board for the unanimous vote they ended up making to fire paterno, not to let him as paterno wanted to stay on through the end of the year and retire after coaching a few more games. walking a delicate line, illegally, he is, because there are things he can and cannot say and probably politically as well, joe paterno is still a very popular person in the state of persnnsylvania and i m not se even if you are the governor you want to get too far out there, criticizing his actions or lack of action in this case. jamie: i ve looked at the laws under this, in terms of child protection and even president obama weighed in saying that is the main responsibility, to protect children in situations like this. but, it is said joe paterno did the legal minimum of what they are obligated to do, if they learn information about an act like this, alleged act. should the law be changed and will the governor see to it, no matter what happens with joe patern
people of power. as you point out, the current players didn t have anything to do with this. football is going to go on. the ncaa, yeah, they could step in. they re the most factless organization in america. you make a very good point about the death penalty which they should get. who knows what s going to happen. i think they should be able to play tomorrow. they were right to fire paterno. they were right to fire the president. the handling of mcquery, i have to believe, is for legal reasons. i think they don t want to fire him because if they do fire him, then he becomes a less credible witness in the trial and we don t want that because he is the most credible, most important witness because this and everyone calls him a kid a 28-year-old man. he was 28 when he saw it. an eyewitness. you know how rare it is for an adult to eyewitness this kind of
vandalized property. police in riot gear used tear gas to disburse the crowd. but the controversy remains. spokesman said the decision to fire paterno who hours earlier announced his retirement at the season s end was unanimous. in consideration of all the facts. it was in the trustees view it was in the best long-term interest of our university to make the change. according to the board spokesman, paterno was fired over the telephone. hundreds of students showed up outside his home to demonstrate their support. some students blame the coach for notting hillfying authorities after a graduate assistant in 2002 reported seeing a former member of the coaching staff sandusky in the
vandalized property. police in riot gear used tear gas to disburse the crowd. but the controversy remains. spokesman said the decision to fire paterno who hours earlier announced his retirement at the season s end was unanimous. in consideration of all the facts. it was in the trustees view it was in the best long-term interest of our university to make the change. according to the board spokesman, paterno was fired over the telephone. hundreds of students showed up outside his home to demonstrate their support. some students blame the coach for notting hillfying authorities after a graduate assistant in 2002 reported seeing a former member of the coaching staff sandusky in the
of penn state s board of trustees spoke about the decision. i would hope that everyone would agree that what we re doing is what we believe in our best judgment is in the best long-term interest of the university which is much larger than athletic programs. surma confirmed the decision to fire paterno by the board of trustees was unanimous and in fact done over the telephone. according to reports, paterno received an envelope at his home, 15 minutes before the trustees made their announcement. containing a phone number to call and on the other line he was told by a board member that he was relieved of his duties after 46 years. with his wife by his side, he spoke to a group of students that gathered outside his home. hey, look, get a good night s sleep, all right? study, all right? we still got things to do. all right. i m out of it maybe now. a phone call put me out of it. but we ll go from here, okay? good luck, everybody.