Le scandale a déjà fait de trop nombreuses victimes, les enfants abusés, et il risque d'entraîner des retombées graves pour des dirigeants et des entraîneurs. S'il y a peu de prise au plan légal pour chasser une légende comme le coach Paterno, au plan moral les il y a place pour l'indignation. L'abuseur, l'ancien assistant Sanduski, a été vu s'entraînant à l'université pas plus tard que la semaine dernière... Il serait resté assez proche de l'université après son départ.
Le New York Times, dans différentes sections, fait paraître cinq articles sur le sujet! J'en partage trois avec vous.
Le premier, Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno Exit Amid Scandal, mentionne le départ de Paterno dans les prochains jours:
" Joe Paterno’s tenure as the coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.
The Board of Trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Mr. Paterno’s exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious national brand will not coach another season.
Discussions about how to manage his departure have begun, according to the two people. The board is scheduled to meet on Friday, and Gov. Tom Corbett will attend.
Penn State is scheduled to play its last home contest of the season — its traditional senior day game — one day later, against Nebraska."
Le second article, Paterno, the King of Pennsylvania, Until Now, effectue un retour sur la brillante carrière de "Jo Pa":
"You can start with the numbers: 409 victories at Penn State, more than any other major college football coach; 2 national titles; 62 years, the most of any head coach at one institution; $53 million, the profit of the Penn State football team last year; more than $5 million personally donated by Paterno, enough to build a university library and a spiritual center; and hundreds of millions of dollars generated so the once agriculture-centric university could grow into a major research institution, a place whose greatest symbol was a bookish-looking, Ivy League-educated coach with thick eyeglasses who roamed the sideline in a windbreaker and tie.
But in Pennsylvania and beyond, in a country where football reigns supreme but where the taint of college sports is ugly and everywhere, Paterno seemed to be much more than numbers. He preached and stood for integrity, family and principle. And, unlike other football powerhouses — Alabama or Michigan, for example, where there are always wins but also frequent turnover in recent years among the coaches who engineer them — Paterno represented absolute stability. He, quite close to literally, was Penn State."
Enfin dans le troisième, Personal Foul at Penn State, insiste sur la responsabilité morale de divers intervenants dont Paterno lui-même. Sa réputation et son programme passeraient avant un enfant de dix ans violé dans le vestiaire?
"Paterno was told about it the day after it happened by Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant coach who testified that he went into the locker room one Friday night and heard rhythmic slapping noises. He looked into the showers and saw a naked boy about 10 years old “with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky,” according to the grand jury report.
It would appear to be the rare case of a pedophile caught in the act, and you’d think a graduate student would know enough to stop the rape and call the police. But McQueary, who was 28 years old at the time, was a serf in the powerfully paternal Paternoland. According to the report, he called his dad, went home and then the next day went to the coach’s house to tell him.
“I don’t even have words to talk about the betrayal that I feel,” the mother of one of Sandusky’s alleged victims told The Harrisburg Patriot-News, adding about McQueary: “He ran and called his daddy?”
Paterno, who has cast himself for 46 years as a moral compass teaching his “kids” values, testified that he did not call the police at the time either. The family man who had faced difficult moments at Brown University as a poor Italian with a Brooklyn accent must have decided that his reputation was more important than justice.
The iconic coach waited another day, according to the report, and summoned Tim Curley, the Penn State athletic director who had been a quarterback for Paterno in the ’70s.
Curley did not call the university police, who had investigated an episode in 1998 in which Sandusky admitted he was wrong to shower with an 11-year-old boy and promised not to do it again. (Two years later, according to the grand jury report, a janitor saw Sandusky performing oral sex on a boy in the showers and told his supervisor, who did not report it.)"
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