"Paterno and his so-called bosses deserve all the blame we can muster for allowing this atrocity to occur, but the rest of us deserve blame for lionizing coaches like Paterno in the first place. We turn these mortal men into irreproachable icons. We do it with articles portraying them as something more mystical than people who happen to be good at their jobs. We do it by camping out for tickets in tent villages named in their honor. We do it by building statues of them while they're still on the job."
And coaches fail us by enabling talented jocks who keep getting into trouble and should, in fact, be kicked off the team. I put Oregon on this list of failures.
And coaches fail us by enabling talented jocks who keep getting into trouble and should, in fact, be kicked off the team. I put Oregon on this list of failures.
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