Penn State Fires Joe Paterno As Coach: MyFoxPHILLY.com
Penn State Board of Trustees Fired president Graham Spanier and football coach Joe Paterno effective immediately! Rodney Erickson will be interim president and Tom Bradley takes over as coach. The crowd was extremely shocked and upset when Paterno's firing was announced. The board would not comment on Paterno's reaction but he was told earlier told evening. Due to the crowd out cry riot police have been deployed in State College.
Paterno, who is 84,announced earlier that he would retire at the end of the football season after serving as head coach at Penn State since 1966. hours later it was announced that his retirement was changed into an immediate release. The Education Department will investigate Penn State for violating a crime-reporting act, with the loss of federal funding a possible punishment.
Its highly likely that the federal investigation will focus on school employees Paterno, Spanier, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, who all knew about an alleged sexual assault or incident involving a 10-year-old boy and former coach Jerry Sandusky which was witnessed by a graduate assistant in 2002. The incident wasn’t reported to University police or federal investigators when the witness reported it to the school.
Penn State and Paterno could face a slew of civil lawsuits in the coming months due to his role covering up the incident. There could also be concerns about how the school presents Paterno’s appearance at his final home game on Saturday. CNBC put a price tag of $100 million on the potential civil suit liability. In a statement today now former coach Paterno said.. "I have decided to announce my retirement effective at the end of this season, At this moment the Board of Trustees should not spend a single minute discussing my status. They have far more important matters to address. I want to make this as easy for them as I possibly can."
We all wish he would have had the same concern for that 10 yr old boy.
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