You can watch live footage of the press conference here.

Pointed questions are fine, clearly, but this press conference is heading into the realm of the bizarre, as if Surma were answering questions from season-ticket holders rather than journalists. Many are asking pointed, and obviously-angry, questions, about Joe Paterno’s legacy with Penn State and about, for example, whether the Board of Trustees has been “gunning” for him for years – as if anyone who isn’t connected to Penn State would possibly see these events that way. A legendary coach with the most wins in the history of major college football, Joe was dismissed for not doing more to stop the alleged sexual abuse of children by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Surma says he does not know if the university will still be paying the legal fees of Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, who are accused of perjury and of failing to report allegations of child abuse against Jerry Sandusky.Īs I mentioned in my last post, a number of these journalists sound downright agitated – like angry students, not like journalists. Novem Ken Blanchard The firing of Joe Paterno as coach of Penn State has dominated the news this week. we felt it was necessary to make a change a leadership and set a new course,” Surma said. Here's the nut graph from the Times piece explaining why Paterno was fired: 'To me, it wasn't about guilt or innocence in a legal sense,' the trustee Kenneth C. Police try to control the crowd that filled the streets after Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was fired by the schools board of trustees on Nov. Joe Paterno met Jerry Sandusky in 1963 as a defensive end while he was an assistant on the team, and would become the head coach for Sandusky in his final year of playing. “We thought that because of difficulties engulfing our university. Joe Paterno may no longer be part of the Penn State football family, but the divorce is. Paterno failed to do any of this, and children paid the price - a price far more terrible than the firing of an 84-year-old man who should have known better - whose heart was, tragically, in the.

Spanier will evidently receive a financial settlement. Ugly times for Penn State after Joe Paterno firing in aftermath of Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case. The Penn State Board Of Trustees’ decision to immediately dismiss head coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier was unanimous, John Surma says.

Here are some more notes from Wednesday night’s press conference.

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