COACH AFTER JOE PATTERNO MOVIE
COACH AFTER JOE PATTERNO TRIAL

'The latest statement is yet another attempt by the Board to deflect criticism of their leadership by trying to focus the blame on Joe Paterno. 'The Paterno family is surprised and saddened that the Board of Trustees believes it is necessary and appropriate to explain вЂ“ for the fourth or fifth time вЂ“ why they fired Joe Paterno so suddenly and unjustifiably on Nov 9, 2011,' they said. Paterno's family released a statement saying they felt the report was an attempt to deflect criticism from the university.

The head coach died in January at the age of 85. 'We determined that his decision to do his minimum legal duty and not to do more to follow up constituted a failure of leadership by Coach Paterno.' 'While Coach Paterno did his legal duty by reporting that information the next day, Sunday, March 3, to his immediate superior, the then Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley, the Board reasonably inferred that he did not call police,' said the report explaining Paterno's firing. The trustees said they based their decision to fire Paterno heavily on testimony he gave to a grand jury about allegations that former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with a minor.Дuring testimony, Paterno said that he was told by aГ‚В graduateГ‚В assistant that Sandusky was in the showers 'fondling orГ‚В doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.'

According to USA Today, McQueary's claim contributed to Sandusky's 2012 conviction, but it wasn't until four years later that CNN reported that Joe Paterno had told McQueary that it 'was the second complaint of this nature he had received.Joe Paterno was fired as head coach of the Penn State football team because the university's board of trustees thought he failed to take his knowledge of a scandal at the school to the appropriate authorities, the board said in a report posted online Monday. Scott and his family maintain that Paterno had no idea about Sandusky's history of committing sexual abuse before 2001, but a 2017 report came out which claimed that a man named Mike McQueary approached the coach in 2001 to report that he witnessed Sandusky acting inappropriately with a boy in the locker room. After asking Paterno repeatedly if he knew anything, the coach's son told Posnanski, 'I had to do everything I could to not cry right then.' As Posnanski's book recalls, Scott learned about the indictment against Sandusky before it officially came out through his legal sources, and he took it upon himself to get the truth from his father. 'Dad, did you know about Jerry?' Scott asks his father in the film. While Sandusky's abhorrent mistreatment of 10 boys, according to USA Today, became the focus of headlines during the 2011 trials, the film focuses on the question of Paterno's involvement and knowledge of his assistant coach's sexual abuse. Through his father's reputation, Scott understood what it meant to be a public figure, and therefore he knew what was at stake when he learned about the accusations against Sandusky. Scott also had a reputation among many as he worked as a lawyer and a lobbyist before running for Congress.

COACH AFTER JOE PATTERNO MOVIE

As HBO's movie portrays, the sexual assault scandal affected everyone in Paterno's family, largely because the coach had been a beloved figure among Penn State football fans for many years. Scott had been correct, as his father was fired as the head football coach after 46 years with Penn State in 2011, according to CNN. 'Dad, you have to face the possibility that you will never coach another game,' Scott reportedly said. According to sports writer Joe Posnanski's biography of the coach, as quoted in GQ, Scott called his father after reading the presentment of Sandusky's trial.

COACH AFTER JOE PATTERNO TRIAL

The trial following Sandusky's 45 counts of child sexual abuse had an effect on Paterno's whole family, with Scott being the first to realize that Sandusky's actions would have a major impact on his father's career. Paterno, played by Al Pacino in the film out April 7, was known as 'The winningest coach in college football history.' He might have co-coached the Pennsylvania State football team with Sandusky, but Paterno also focuses on Scott Paterno, Joe's son who is now working as a consultant in Pennsylvania, according to his LinkedIn profile. HBO's new movie, Paterno, focuses on Joe Paterno's involvement in Jerry Sandusky's Penn State sexual abuse scandal.

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