The new football coach is giving a press conference. Pretty much, "We've got to understand that this team has put a lot of hard work in … they deserve to have this day" on questions about the game on Saturday, and "no comment" or "that was not my decision" on everything else.

I need to post a fun trivia fact before I have a rage blackout in my office.

The word cucumber was spelled and pronounced "cowcumber" in the 17th & 18th centuries until it rapidly and inexplicably changed to cucumber!

from twitter.

How many ten-year-old boys go home and tell their parents they were raped?

Exactly! These kids are so afraid of doing something wrong that when wrong is done to them, they have nowhere to turn. We talk about stranger-danger in classrooms, but we don't address what do you do when someone you trust abuses you.

Frankly, I think that the whole football program should be shut down.

Never going to happen. It brings in something like $50 million to the university. Though their "brand" is now tarnished.

I am glad that the Trustees seem to understand that this isn't just a PR move to fire people. They do seem to have a sense of outrage and moved quickly.

The students of Penn, however, need mandatory classes in ethics and volunteer work with abused children.

You know, it's not even about getting Sandusky into police hands as much as it would have been about making sure that kid was okay. Who knows if he was ever examined? How many ten-year-old boys go home and tell their parents they were raped?

This.

Someone elsewhere pointed out that the incident happened at 9:30 at night and the building was basically deserted. The degree to which he was leaving a young child so totally at the mercy of his attacker is hard to fathom.

McQueary should have called 911. AFTER he pulled Sandusky off the kid and beat the shit out of him.

IJS Seems the natural reaction. I can't imagine struggling with what to do when you see a child assaulted.

but we don't address what do you do when someone you trust abuses you.

Thus begins the stabination.

Exactly! These kids are so afraid of doing something wrong that when wrong is done to them, they have nowhere to turn. We talk about stranger-danger in classrooms, but we don't address what do you do when someone you trust abuses you.

Yeah. One of the kids who did report it, what happened was he came home and said to his mother something like, "If you're wondering why my hair is wet, it's because Coach and I took a shower together." Then he went to his room. And the mother was like, "What?!?!" and talked to him enough to get him to tell enough details to realize that she needed to call the police. Not many kids will actually go find someone to directly tell.

I need to post a fun trivia fact before I have a rage blackout in my office.

Yeah. I'm a nasty funk today already, Penn State aside. I think I need to go watch something ridiculous. Or look at pictures of cute animals or something.

McQueary will be coaching Saturday, but it will be a "game-day decision" whether he's actually on the field or somewhere inside.