Friday, November 11, 2011
Higher education Allen Meadors just thought he had troubles at UCA
Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM
Growing questions are being asked about the reasons he wasn't charged with a 1998 molestation in which police reportedly heard Sandusky tell a mother he'd done something wrong with her child. He retired shortly after as a Penn State coach at the young age of 55 and never coached for pay again, though he'd once been considered a potential heir to Joe Paterno as a head coach. Was a deal struck?
Well, it turns out he briefly had another plan for staying in football, worked on with Paterno's assistance shortly before he "retired." It would have been as head of what would have been a new football program at Penn State Altoona. The head of that campus then was — here comes the Arkie —Allen Meadors, who later went on to glory at the University of Central Arkansas. An article written last April in a Pennsylvania paper tells the story:
Meadors, reached this past week, recalls meeting with Sandusky, Paterno and PSU president Graham Spanier about the possibility."Jerry called me and asked if I would be interested in having a football team at Penn State-Altoona," Meadors wrote in an e-mail. "I said 'Sure, if we had a way to pay for it.' He mentioned that he knew a gentleman who might be willing to provide the necessary funds. We visited with the gentleman, but he never committed the money, and a football-team project never got off the ground."
Meadors could not recall the name of the businessman.
Meadors read last week's story about the allegations and was surprised by it.
In looking back, he said there was no indication Sandusky was being pushed off the main campus.
"Absolutely none," Meadors, now the president of Central Arkansas University, said. "It was a very positive meeting so if something was going on, everyone kept very professional."
Knowing what we know now, the effort by Paterno and Spannier to provide a new home for Sandusky looks interesting, don't you think?
PS — Norma is right. This slamdown of arrogant jerk students at Penn State who put football above raped children by rioting the other night is a must read.
PPS — The accumulating facts are getting uglier and uglier. Pennsylvania paper is going to town on it.
PPPS — Debate grows on whether Penn State should cancel remainder of football season. That question is complicated by the hardship on the other side. I don't think there's any question they should not participate in a bowl game. And they might consider directing income from the remaining games to child protective services.
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Allen Barra of Salon lays to rest, once and for all, devastatingly, ANY lingering attempts by students, Paterno or anybody else trying to "defend" anybody connected with this display of collective and institutional pathology of excusing child rape -- including McQueary, the eyewitness who, amazingly, will still be on the field Saturday -- and Penn State itself (wait till you read Barra's take on what's in store for the school).
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/11/the_shame_…
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McQueary will not be on the field Saturday. I look for him to either resign or be fired.
Sounds like meadors was smarter than folks give him credit for, if the president and Joe Pa were backing this move and meadors said no. If you believe the adg, he would have spent the money even if he didn't have it.
Amazing how Nixon Style still persists in the Home of the Brave and Land of the Free.
The cover-up being as bad, or worse, than the crime. Michigan will be supplying us with future Nixons.
Tell you one thing, the Sandusky trial is going to be something to watch, unless they allow him to cop a plea, which wouldn't surprise me, given our two tiers of justice.
What benefit would canceling the football season serve for the 85 student-athletes at Penn State who have worked so hard through nine games? They didn't rape children. They didn't cover anything up. "Student-athlete" is an oxymoron at some universities, but not at Penn State where academics are still valued. I keep hearing that "it's should be about the victims." Well, how does punishing 85 young men who are not part of this scandal benefit those victims?
Confirmed, Cammack.
McQueary won't be there tomorrow. Apparently due to "threats."
As opposed to, you know, Penn State doing the right thing.
All of these folks should do society a big favor and put bullets through their own heads. They are lousy pieces of shit who have no business breathing the same air as all the innocent kids on this earth. I can't imagine how difficult life has been for these victims. You never get over being abused as a child. No matter how much medicine, how much counseling -- you never get over it. These bastards who did this and let this happen deserve to rot in hell. That includes you, graduate assistant and Joe Paterno.
There are reports that McQueary has now been placed on administrative leave.
Other rumors coming in are even more unreal:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/p…
I wonder how many of you, in all of your righteous anger, went to bat for Heath Stockley, chief victim of the Lonoke boy scout abuser, when Stockley was charged with murder.
At 4:19 PM ET it was announced that McCreary was JUST placed on "Administrative leave."
Stunning, how obtuse Penn State continues to be in the face of overwhelming evidence of longstanding crimes and witnesses to them -- SOLELY because they involve football revenues.
The entire administration and Board of Trustees looks uglier with every passing hour. By their self-protective inaction and slowness to accept responsibility, they've extended the victimization from Sandusky's boys to, now, the ENTIRE FACULTY, STUDENT BODY and ALUMS.
NO ONE YET has done the right thing. EVERYONE THERE, SO FAR, has acted only AFTER the fact of getting caught.
ALL are revealed as seriously unfit, even sociopathic.
Is there NO ONE qualified who can step in, step up, take over, wipe the entire lot of them off Penn State's slate and start over? NO ONE ANYWHERE?
Are there NO other alums, potential Board members and administrative officers to take the places of these criminal enablers?
NONE?
Actually, says one outraged well-connected source, there are . . . .
Patience, we're told . . . .
Fine.
But with each passing hour the damage grows exponentially more devastating and irreparable to a once fine, once proud university.
Mr. Nickel --
I'm not familiar with the case you mentioned. I'm not a long-time Arkansawyer. However, as someone who has dealt with abuse in a very personal way, I can tell you that victims carry a tremendous weight on their shoulders for the rest of their lives. It's not uncommon at all for an abuse victim to find him/herself unable to face the realities of everyday life. In their attempt to make sense of their lives and their surroundings, many victims spiral downward into lives of addiction and violence.
You can make your snide remark about 'righteous anger' all you want. You're making assumptions when you do that, and in my case at least, your assumptions are flat-out wrong. I will always side with the victim, with the oppressed. When the victim victimizes another, then we have two victims. And I pray for and empathize with them both.
When Heath Stocks was tried for murdering his family, no one had any idea about the truth about Jack Walls. It was after Heath's conviction that one of the many victims of Jack Walls finally told his family the truth and all hell broke loose. So it would have been a little hard for anyone to go to bat for him at the time of his trial, no one, including his defense attorney knew what had been going on.
Mr. Green is absolutely right. Abuse is a heavy, heavy weight. Heath did not have a trial. He was pressured into taking a guilty plea by small-town leaders who had protected Walls for 30+ years. Considering his 6th amendment right to unprejudical processes ceased to exist it is very possible that the state may eventually be persuaded to acknowledge how his case was handled, along with the mitigating factors. Walls and his father the judge had far too much power in Lonoke for Heath to ever receive a fair shake there. They wanted the secret of their "golden boy" to remain one and that was easier with Heath was out of the way.
Well, there you have it, folks: Someone who hates Jerry Sandusky yet is utterly despicable himself.
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