oh and because they sat on possible evidence for 9 years and are covering their asses for being awful journalists.

I love how Vince Doria and ESPN FINALLY admitted that Mark Schwarz indeed did give Zach Tomaselli’s phone number to Bobby Davis so that the two alleged victims could talk and share info and that it was the wrong thing to do. Mark Schwarz – seriously? You’re fired.

Agreed, but what I think is going on here is that Paterno is a bigger name and PSU was the first to be involved. The shock value is going to drop with each and every case. I am not suggesting that steroid use is equivalent to pedophelia, but as more and more steroid cases came out, people cared less and less each time. Bonds was the biggest name and he fell the hardest. Paterno and PSU is bigger than Syracuse. These stories are going to continue to come out, but like everything else, people will get tired of talking about it. Right or wrong, that’s what will happen.

Know who is more culpable in this situation than Boeheim? Mark Schwarz. He’ll be lucky if he has a job after this situation. Him and a few other people at ESPN. Heads are going to roll.

Not if Richard Deitsch has any say. Hate to agree with Whitlock, but Deitsch is really bending over for ESPN on this issue.

Whitlock has been causing a stink about this on Twitter for days. Went after Deitsch pretty hard, and I think he’s correct. Any thoughts TBL?

I disagree with Whitlock many times but his lambasting and crucifixion of ESPN is 100% accurate

This despite the fact Boeheim knew of THREE different investigations into Fine’s behavior

three investigations that went nowhere. There were no witnesses, grand jury statements, etc. at Syracuse. It’s not that hard to realize the situations are more different than similar. Hell, Bobby Davis (accuser #1) even said that Boeheim didn’t know anything and had never seen anything happen. If the fucking accuser is giving the coach a pass…

I thought such action would differentiate between an insensitive mistake, and broader knowledge of a situation like what happened at Penn State.

I still don’t completely understand the media’s indifference toward Boeheim on this issue compared to the PSU/Paterno case. For how quick everyone was to jump on JoePa, saying he should have done more, he should have known, etc. prior to his (rightful) firing, everyone seems to be giving Boeheim the benefit of the doubt other than some outrage toward his initial comments. This despite the fact Boeheim knew of THREE different investigations into Fine’s behavior. He goes on to be quoted as:

“I think that you have to understand as a basketball coach, I don’t get involved in that stuff. That’s not something I should be involved in.”

So it’s OK for him to ignore what’s going on relative to the potential pedophilia on his staff? It just seemed that after the media one-upmanship as to who can be more appalled relative to the PSU case the media seems to be taking a drastically more laid-back approach toward Boeheim/Syracuse on this matter. I still think the differences aren’t that vast. Both coaches knew their assistants were investigated for child abuse and neither made any internal changes to prevent possible occurrence. PSU’s laissez-faire attitude toward the initial investigations led to Sandusky’s continued behavior and the explosive grand jury findings, and Syracuse is lucky they aren’t in the same boat.